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This article explores articles about circumcision that appeared in Sexology: Sex Science Magazine, with particular attention to how the debates shifted and changed over a forty-year period. The articles on circumcision in Sexology begin in November 1934 and end in the May 1973 issue, with every decade of publication includes articles on circumcision, corresponding with growing debates about the medicalization of routine neonatal circumcision. The first article sought to understand "circumcision among savage peoples," which was quickly followed by an article on "Circumcision among the Jews," and then "Medical view of circumcision." In its earliest issues, Sexology advanced arguments in favor of routine circumcision, but in its final article on the topic, Sexology asks, "what's so good about circumcision?"

Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 History of Sexology and Theories of Sexuality: An Introduction -- Sexologies: Between Global and Local -- From Sexuality to Sexology and Back -- The Circulation and Hybridization of Epistemic Paradigms -- De Certeau on Psychoanalysis and Historiography -- Foucault and Medicalization -- Lantéri-Laura and the Medical Appropriation of Sexual Perversion -- The Sexual Sciences: Popular Opinion, Pornography, or Science? -- References -- Part I Political and Ideological Translations and Appropriations -- 2 Sexology's Unexpected Progressiveness in the Cold War East: Shaping People's Sexual Selves, Creating Socialist Societies -- Female Orgasm in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s -- Abortion in Poland -- Open Marriage in Hungary -- In Conclusion -- References -- 3 "Humanitarian Hedonists" as Sex Educators: The Medical and Political Work of Fritz Brupbacher (1874-1945) and Paulette Brupbacher (1880-1967) -- Sex Education and Sexual Reform as a Medical and Political Program -- The Socio-Hygienic Motive for Sex Education -- The Role of Sexuality in Human Life -- Humanitarian Hedonism as a Guiding Concept -- References -- 4 'Healthy' Relationships: Feminism and the Psy Disciplines in the Political History of Sexual Violence in Contemporary America -- The Feminist Politicization of Sexuality-And Its Discontents -- Rape as a Strategy of Oppression -- Redefining Rape -- A Mental Health Approach to Violence-And Its Efficacy6 -- Feminist Psychological Knowledge -- Feminist Care -- The Numbers of Violence -- The Price of Institutional Success -- References -- 5 Saving Sexual Science: Kinsey and American Religious-Conservative Politics -- Religious Conservatism and Sexual Science -- Kinsey's 'Homosexual Agenda' -- Attacking Kinseyan Sexual Science.