Study suggests circumcision does not reduce pleasure

[circangel]

I am posting this link for parents considering circumcion.

http://www.accessibility.com.au/news/circumcision-doesnt-reduce-sexual-satisfaction-and-performance-says-study-of-4500-men

[Roopee]

Mmmmm considering no one person can know how another person feels or what they feel then ????

I mean I dont deny a circ'd man enjoys sex (my dh is circ'd) but how do we know he feels the same feelings as an uncirc'd man? And Vice versa for that matter?

ETA- If I lived in Uganda/Africa under those conditions then I would probably look into have my child circ'd too.

[mrsstapleton]

interesting - thanks for sharing that.

[circangel]

An excerpt from <http://72.14.235.132/search?q=cache:DPLWeHH8CWEJ:www.newhope.bc.ca/94-08-07.htm+circumcision+bible&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=13&gl=au> that may be worth reading

II. Three Health Benefits of Circumcision.
We live in an age where knowledge is expanding rapidly in all the major disciplines of life.
We are discovering that many of the laws God gave to the Children of Israel had beneficial consequences for their physical and emotional health.
This is true of circumcision.

Until 1970, circumcision of newborn boys was common in North America.
The sexual revolution of the 1960's attacked circumcision.
One of their arguments was that circumcision decreased a man's sensual pleasure.
I have read in other places that young uncircumcised boys have a greater penial preoccupation than circumcised boys.
Could this partially account for the pre-occupation our society has with sex today?

1. Circumcision decreases penile cancer. After reviewing the data from 50,000 cases in the past 50 years, Dr. Thomas E. Wiswell, a neonatologist noted that less than 1 percent of these cases were found in circumcised men. (U.S. News and World Report, May 30, 1988, page 68)
It was further noted that the 1% of circumcised men who developed penile cancer had been circumcised later in life.

2. Circumcision protects a future wife from cervical cancer.
In 1988 approximately 7,000 women died of this disease.
The American Academy of Perdiatrics has cited that there was a significant decrease in cervical cancer when the male partner is circumcised.
A report by J. Aitken-Swan and D. Baird indicated that among non-Jewish women whose husbands were uncircumcised, there was a 2,000 percent greater incidence of cervical cancer than in Jewish women.
(Circumcision and Carcinoma of the Cervix, Aitken-Swan, and Baird, D., Br J Cancer 19:217, 1965)

3. Circumcision helps prevent urinary tract infections.
The American Academy of Pediatrics published a report in 1971 stating, "There is no absolute medical indication for routine circumcision of the newborn."
This motivated the pediatricians to join the campaign against circumcision.
By 1983 the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology also agreed there was no value in circumcision.

Meanwhile, urologists continued to deal with the reality of urinary tract infections, cancer and other conditions among the uncircumcised.
This resulted in the pediatricians reversing their opposition to circumcision in 1989.
They published a "Member Alert" on March 10, 1989, stating, "Newborn circumcision has potential medical benefits and advantages . . . . "

Studies conducted at U.S. Army hospitals involving more than 200,000 males showed a greater than tenfold increase in urinary tract infections in uncircumcised male infants. Moreover, as the rate of circumcision declined over the years, the incidence of urinary tract infections in male infants increased." (See T.E. Wiswell, Pediatrics, May 1985, Mar. 1987)

[meme]

interesting that it was men circumcised as adults. and the follow up was for 24mths.

i wonder if the results would be the same 30 or so years after circ's.

[WorkingClassMum]

Thanks for the info. If a man wants to get circumsized, this will make him feel somewhat better about that decision - have you posted this info on an adult male forum where men are considering being circumsized?

I reckon the best way to answer this debate for once and for all would be to put the foreskins back on the circ'd men, and then in 12 months ask them what they preferred.

[sockstealingpoltergeist]

Thanks for the info. If a man wants to get circumsized, this will make him feel somewhat better about that decision - have you posted this info on an adult male forum where men are considering being circumsized?

I reckon the best way to answer this debate for once and for all would be to put the foreskins back on the circ'd men, and then in 12 months ask them what they preferred.

:iagree:

[mrsstapleton]

Just a reminder that this is a pro circumcision thread - a space for people that are for circumcision. circangel is just offering some info and is not thrusting thier opinion on anybody or even trying to talk people into it. If you are aginst circumcision could you please keep it to Anti-circumcision threads and the discuss it threads. We should be able to feel free to express our opinions in here without being scrutanised for our beliefs of what is best for OUR children.
Thanks.:)