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21 Articles on Circumcision Which Have Appeared in the Press

Journal of Social History: The masturbation taboo and the rise of routine male circumcision: A review of the historiography.

CIRCUMCISION: A SPECIFIC APPLICATION OF THE CONSENT DOCTRINE
-THE JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HEALTH LAW AND POLICY, Volume 17: Pages 61-133, Fall 2000.

Routine Circumcision - Why US
Several slide shows and explainations from a doctor out of University of Florida

Informed Consent? Why Parents Choose to Circumcise Their Sons
by Jennifer Gardner

June 1st, 1999:MN Parent Magazine "The Final Cut".

FROM RITUAL TO SCIENCE: THE MEDICAL TRANSFORMATION OF CIRCUMCISION IN AMERICA
by David Gollaher. (Covers many of the topics in this site.)

June, 2002: An article has just been published by the Journal of Health Psychology entitled "Male Circumcision: Pain, Trauma, and Psychosexual Sequelae." The authors are Gregory J. Boyle of Australia's Bond University, Ronald Goldman of the Circumcision Resource Center, J. Steven Svoboda, and Ephrem Fernandez of the Department of Psychology of Southern Methodist University in Dallas. It is in the May 2002 issue, Vol 7 (No. 3), pp. 329-343. As far as I know, it is not available on the Internet. This may be the first academic article to be published which focuses on surveying the psychological harm caused by circumcision.

Female Circumcision Comes to America