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on a national scale the commonwealth of nations are some of the remnants of the country's that were once part of the British empire and on a more cultural scale circumcision is still practiced for non religious reasons in English speaking country's because English doctors during the Victorian era claimed that it would reduce boys tendency to masturbate an activity the said was responsible for any number of diseases from syphilis to insanity.

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