A new study in the British Journal of Urology International shows that men with normal, intact penises enjoy more sexual sensitivity – as much as four times more – than men who have been circumcised. Circumcising slices off more of a male’s sensitivity than is normally present in all ten fingertips. Circumcision removes the most sensitive portions of the penis. Thi news study demonstrates what we have suspected for decades, that circumcision’s result, if perhaps not its intent, is reduced sexual pleasure for men. As such, it is a violation of a male’s right to bodily integrity. In large part, female circumcision does the same: even the mildests forms remove the most sensitive portions of the female genitalia. Females in the USA and many other countries are protected by law from all forms of genital cutting. Because circumcision has such a drastic effect on sexuality later in life, no infant or child should ever experience a non-therapeutic circumcision. Parents should not be allowed to control their son’s level of sexual sensitivity, just as no parent should be allowed to request for their son or daughter any other sensitivity-reducing surgery; for example, eye surgery that would limit vision from color to black-and-white.
In addition, circumcised men, with one-fourth the sensitivity of intact men, might decline to wear further-desensitizing condoms, increasing their and their partner’s risk to infectious diseases.
Adult men who want circumcision for themselves should be advised per proper informed consent that penile sensitivity will be reduced on average by a factor of four.
Sorrells ML, Snyder ML, Reiss MD, Eden C, Milos MF, Wilcox N, Van Howe RS. Fine-touch pressure thresholds in the adult penis.
