[pandoraou812]

Very interesting info. My daughter's husband is not circumcised and she prefers it that way. I don't like foreskins myself. I still say its a matter of choice. When my 2 sons were born it was just assumed they would be circumcised. As my Doctor, ex husband and my mother pushed for it, I really never gave not doing it a thought. My grandson isn't and thats fine by me. As for evidence has shown that circumcised men tend to partake in more deviant sexual behavior than intact men to compensate for the decreased sensitivity. I really don't buy that at all. You have links to back that up? I would like to see it. My husband is circumcised and he is in not deviant in any sense.

[Shade2]

Of course individuals vary, but studies show a greater tendency in general. Also, there is a lot of info on the subject and note that often times circumcised men will defend their own circumcisions in much the way that an intact man will defend being intact. People naturally try to justify their situations. Most victims of the widely condemned female circumcision support and defend what has been done to them. As for what is preferred by women, consider that the giant lip plates that stretch out the bottom lips of women in primitive tribes are preferred by the tribe's men. It doesn't change the fact those women are mutilating themselves. In cultures where women are circumcised, that is the way that the men of that culture prefer their women. In China, men have traditionally preferred women whose feet were disfigured by foot binding. Here are some good links:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/12/prweb316865.htm

“Attempts to control HIV by imposing mass circumcision on populations will be unsuccessful,” says Geisheker. “Circumcision can change sexual behavior in a way that promotes the spread of HIV. Circumcised men have a greater tendency to engage in riskier, 'more highly elaborated' sexual practices. Such behavior often includes unsafe sexual practices – less frequent use of condoms, which deaden sensation even more for circumcised men, unprotected anal sex, or sex with multiple partners. This may contribute to the high rate of HIV infection in the United States, where circumcision rates are still of epidemic proportions.”

http://www.cirp.org/library/sex_function/

Sexual behavior. The alteration to the sexual organ causes many circumcised males to change their sexual behavior. Foley reported that circumcised males are more likely to masturbate.10 Hooykaas et al. reported that immigrant (mostly circumcised) males have a greater tendency to engage in risky sexual behavior with prostitutes as compared with Dutch (mostly normal intact) males.23 The U. S. National Health and Social Life Survey found that circumcised males have a "more elaborated" set of sexual practices, including more masturbation, and more heterosexual oral sex.30 The British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (2000) reported that circumcised males were more likely to report having a homosexual partner and more likely to have partners from abroad as compared with normal intact males.56 Circumcised men are significantly less likely to use condoms.

http://www.circumcision.org/studies.htm

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that circumcision provided no significant prophylactic benefit and that circumcised men were more likely to engage in various sexual practices. Specifically, circumcised men were significantly more likely to masturbate and to participate in heterosexual oral sex than uncircumcised men.

http://www.cirp.org/library/birth/marshall1/

As suggested by Lipsitt, even without memory of the specific circumcision event the painful experience might affect the infant's subsequent behavior, which in turn may determine other's responses to the baby and thus affect subsequent environmental inputs to the child. [CIRP Note: Later research verified long-lasting changes in behavior. See Effect of neonatal circumcision on pain response during subsequent routine vaccination.]

http://www.circumcision.org/aap.htm

It fails to acknowledge that there is much about circumcision that we do not know. For example, it does not answer or even ask about the potential connection between circumcision and impotence. This connection has been noted in the medical literature.

http://www.med-fraud.org/ http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/gunnar/ http://www.circumcision.org/response.htm http://www.circumstitions.com/Nursing.html http://www.noharmm.org/advantage.htm

[Shade2]

http://www.med-fraud.org/

http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/gunnar/

http://www.circumcision.org/response.htm

http://www.circumstitions.com/Nursing.html

http://www.noharmm.org/advantage.htm