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[moocowmoo]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/14/us-health-male-circumcision-idUSBRE91D1CO20130214

(Reuters Health) - Men circumcised either as children or adults report less intense sexual pleasure and orgasm than their uncircumcised counterparts, according to a new study from Belgium.

"We're not saying less sexual activity or satisfaction, but sensitivity," said the study's senior researcher Dr. Piet Hoebeke, from Ghent University Hospital.

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Currently, about half of U.S. baby boys have their foreskin surgically removed at birth, and about 30 percent of men around the world are circumcised.

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The researchers also found circumcised men were more likely to report more pain and numbness during arousal than uncircumcised men, which Hoebeke said is likely due to scar tissue.

Tobian, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said the findings are missing important context.

"The medical evidence and the benefits of male circumcision are abundantly clear," Tobian told Reuters Health.

"If there was a vaccine out there that reduces the risk of HIV by 60 percent, herpes by 30 percent and the penile cancer causing HPV by 35 percent, the medical community would rally behind it," said Tobian.

Abstract of the study:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2012.11761.x/abstract

[LibidoMax]

I was just about to make a thread on this. Nothing surprising though.
"Genital Mutilation Has Negatives"
I mean who knew

[penguinofhonor]

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[Loud Whispers]

I brought it up in the last thread about FGM. It's been known.

[moocowmoo]

Many say that circumcision has zero effect on sexual pleasure. This is only the second scientific study to challenge that claim.

[LibidoMax]

It REALLY is just common sense.
It seems like were mutilating genitals for the sake of mutilating genitals.

[Xantalos]

I think we've had a derail on the WTF thread about this already.

[Cthulhu]

I've heard studies saying both.  Interestingly, it's always circumcised people saying it's okay, and uncircumcised people saying it's terrible.

What other people's dicks look like is serious fucking business.

[moocowmoo]

Interestingly, it's always circumcised people saying it's okay, and uncircumcised people saying it's terrible.

The same is true of female circumcision. I don't see how that observation is relevant.

[kaijyuu]

I'm circumcised and I think it absolutely horrific.

Anyway, my response to the thread's topic is "well, duh."

[Euld]

My penis is cut (using that word instead of circumfashdufihwtfbbqsaucecized 'cause it's faster) and my boyfriend's is uncut.  It's become abundantly clear that he gets way more pleasure than I do.  Makes sense because he technically has more surface area on his penis than mine since his foreskin allows for more nerve endings in the area.

[Leafsnail]

I have been aware of this for a long time.  That is why I always pre-emptively circumcise everyone I meet, in order to strike terror into them and physically dominate them before they emotionally manipulate me into suicide.

[Loud Whispers]

I have been aware of this for a long time.  That is why I always pre-emptively circumcise everyone I meet, in order to strike terror into them and physically dominate them before they emotionally manipulate me into suicide.

Yahweh approves +1

[Fenrir]

What other people's dicks look like is serious fucking business.

When people cut pieces off of other people’s dicks because they think it is part of a pact with an eldritch creature from beyond space and time, it’s perhaps not serious fucking business, but serious business enough to discuss.

But I don’t think this topic will do any better than last time.

[Xantalos]

What other people's dicks look like is serious fucking business.

When people cut pieces off of other people’s dicks because they think it is part of a pact with an eldritch creature from beyond space and time, it’s perhaps not serious fucking business, but serious business enough to discuss.

But I don’t think this topic will do any better than last time.

Trust me, it doesn't work out well. First the foreskin, then they remove TGE genetalia, then the skin, then the limbs, and then they all die from being a bunch of limbless skinless torsos rolling around everywhere.