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The relationship of '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' has not been well explored. Violence is defined as "behavior or treatment in which physical force is exerted for the purpose of causing damage or injury".<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=https://www.thefreedictionary.com/violence
 |title=Violence
 |publisher=The Free Dictionary by Farlex
 |date=2016
 |accessdate=2022-11-05
}}</ref>

The human prepuce is highly innervated tissue<ref name="cold-taylor1999">{{ColdCJ TaylorJR 1999}}</ref> and has long been known for its erogenous quality.<ref name="ErogenousZones">{{REFjournal
 |last=Winkelmann
 |init=RK
 |title="The Erogenous Zones: Their nerve supply and significance"
 |journal=Proceedings of the staff meetings of the Mayo Clinic
 |volume=34
 |issue=2
 |pages=39-47
 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/winkelmann/
 |quote=
 |pubmedID=13645790
 |pubmedCID=
 |DOI=
 |date=1959
 |accessdate=2022-05
}}</ref> Falliers (1970) commented on the "sensory pleasure induced by tactile stimulation of the foreskin."<ref name="falliers1970">{{REFjournal
 |last=Falliers
 |first=
 |init=CJ
 |author-link=
 |etal=no
 |title=Circumcision
 |trans-title=
 |language=
 |journal=JAMA
 |location=
 |date=1970-12
 |volume=214
 |issue=12
 |article=
 |page=2194
 |pages=
 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/general/falliers1/
 |archived=
 |quote=
 |pubmedID=5536586
 |pubmedCID=
 |DOI=
 |accessdate=2022-11-05
}}</ref> Excision of the foreskin by [[circumcision]] necessarily reduces the pleasurable sensations emanating from the [[foreskin]].

[[James W. Prescott]], Ph.D., a developmental neuropsychologist, related loss of sensory body pleasure to increases in violent behavior.
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As a developmental neuropsychologist I have devoted a great deal of study to the peculiar relationship between violence and pleasure. I am now convinced that the deprivation of physical sensory pleasure is the principal root cause of violence. Laboratory experiments with animals show that pleasure and violence have a reciprocal relationship, that is, the presence of one inhibits the other. A raging, violent animal will abruptly calm down when electrodes stimulate the pleasure centers of its brain. Likewise, stimulating the violence centers in the brain can terminate the animal's sensual pleasure and peaceful behavior. When the brain's pleasure circuits are 'on,' the violence circuits are 'off,' and vice versa. Among human beings, a pleasure-prone personality rarely displays violence or aggressive behaviors, and a violent personality has little ability to tolerate, experience, or enjoy sensuously pleasing activities. As either violence or pleasure goes up, the other goes down.<ref>{{REFjournal
 |last=Prescott
 |init=JW
 |author-link=James W. Prescott
 |url=http://www.violence.de/prescott/bulletin/article.html
 |title=Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence
 |journal=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
 |date=1975-11
 |volume=
 |issue=
 |pages=10-20
 |accessdate=2022-11-05
}}</ref> 
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