THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HARM
OF MALE CIRCUMCISION. [2]
In medical circles, neonatal male circumcision was long assumed to be psychologically and emotionally benign.
It was believed that newborn infants had "poorly developed" neurologic systems; that newborns could not feel pain; or, if they did feel the pain, they would not remember it.
According to that orthodoxy, the experience of neonatal circumcision could never have any lasting effect on a child and could not traumatize a child.
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