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A surgical temptation: The demonization of the foreskin and the rise of circumcision in Britain

Robert Darby. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 374 pp., $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-226-13645-0

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Glick, L.B. A surgical temptation: The demonization of the foreskin and the rise of circumcision in Britain. Sex Res Soc Policy 3, 50–52 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1525/srsp.2006.3.1.50

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