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A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain

By Robert Darby. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 2005, 374 pp., $35.00.

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Drenth, J.J. A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain. Arch Sex Behav 37, 346–348 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-008-9313-5

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