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- CLAIMS OF REASONS FOR CIRCUMCISION IN THE USA (history):
- 1832: prevents nocturnal emissions
- 1845: prevents masturbation
- 1855: prevents syphilis
- 1865: cures epilepsy
- 1870: cures epilepsy
- 1870: prevents spinal paralysis
- 1871: Jews are immune to masturbation
- 1873: cures bed wetting
- 1875: cures curvature of the spine
- 1875: cures paralysis of the bladder
- 1875: cures clubfoot
- 1879: cures nocturnal seminal emissions
- 1879: curse abdominal neuralgia
- 1881: cures eye problems
- 1886: prevents crossed eyes
- 1888: prevents masturbating
- 1890: cures blindness
- 1890: cures deafness
- 1890: cures dumbness
- 1891: “foreskin constitutes a harbor for filth”
- 1891: “foreskin is a constant source of irritation”
- 1891: conduces to masturbation
- 1891: adds to the difficulties of sexual continence
- 1894: circumcising Blacks prevents them from raping White women
- 1894: cures urinary incontinence
- 1894: cures rectal incontinence
- 1900: needed to desensitize the penis
- 1901: needed to desensitize the penis
- 1902: foreskin causes epilepsy
- 1914: Dr. Abraham L Wolbarst demands compulsory circumcision
- 1914: prevents tuberculosis
- 1926: prevents penile cancer.
- 1930: Dr. Norton Henry Bare claims that he has cured a boy of epilepsy by circumcising him
- 1932: prevents penile cancer
- 1935: promotes chastity
- 1941: blunts sexual sensitivity
- 1941: foreskin must be forcibly retracted and scrubbed daily
- 1942: prevents prostate cancer
- 1949: prevents venereal disease
- 1949: prevents cancer of the tongue
- 1949: elimination of circumcisions in the United Kingdom
- 1951: Abraham Ravich invents the falsehood that circumcision prevents cervical cancer in women.
- 1953: creates immunity to all mental illness
- 1954: prevents cervical cancer in women
- 1969: cures masturbation
- 1969: cures nervousness
- 1971: prevents cancer of the bladder
- 1971: prevents cancer of the rectum
- 1973: “all who disagree with circumcision are mentally ill”
- 1985: prevents urinary tract infections
- 1986: prevents AIDS
- 1988: prevents strept throat
- 1989: Edgar J. Schoen declares circumcision is necessary
- 1991: Edgar J. Schoen tries and fails to convince European countries to institute mass circumcision.
- 1991: Aaron J. Fink declares mass circumcision is necessary to prevent sand from getting under soldiers’ foreskins.
- 1993: Gerald N. Weiss declares that Langerhands cells in the foreskin lead to HIV infection.
- 1997: Edgar J. Schoen tries and fails once again to convince European countries to institute mass circumcision.
- 2003: Edgar J. Schoen steps up pressure on American Academy of Pediatrics to reverse its policy on circumcision, claiming that circumcision prevents AIDS.
- More claimed cures:
- alcoholism
- arthritic hips
- asthma
- balanitis
- bedwetting
- blindness
- boils
- cervical cancer
- chicken pox
- epididymitis
- epilepsy
- gallstones
- gout
- headaches
- hernia
- HIV
- HPV
- hydrocephaly
- hydrocoele
- hypertension
- insanity
- kidney disease
- kleptomaina
- leprosy
- moral depravity
- paraphimosis
- penile cancer
- plague
- phimosis
- posthitis
- prostate cancer
- rectal prolapse
- rheumatism
- schistosoma
- spinal curvature
- stomach infection
- tuberculosis
- urinary tract infections
- yeast infections.
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