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Moses Maimonides, a Jewish rabbi and physician, stated in the 12th century:
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According to the Rabbi Isaac ben Yedaiah, who lived in Southern France in the late 13th century:
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''She too will court the man who is uncircumcised in the flesh and lie against his breast with great passion, for he thrusts inside her a long time because of his foreskin, which is a barrier against ejaculation in intercourse. Thus she feels pleasure and reaches an orgasm first. When an uncircumcised man sleeps with her, and then resolves to return to his home, she brazenly grabs him, holding on to his genitals and says to him, "Come back, make love to me." This is because of the pleasure that she finds in intercourse with him, from the sinews of his testicles—sinew of iron—and from his ejaculation—that of a horse which he shoots like an arrow into her womb. They are united without separating, and he makes love twice and three times in one night, yet the appetite is not filled.''<ref name="saperstein1980">{{REFbook |last=Saperstein |first=Marc |year=1980 |title= Decoding the Rabbis: A Thirteenth-Century Commentary on the Aggadah |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/cultural/yedaiah1/ |pages= |isbn= |accessdate=2019-10-22}}</ref>
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As previously reported, the foreskin reduces the force required for penetration of the female partner's vagina by as much as ninety percent.<ref name="taves2002" /> The gliding action of the foreskin reduces friction and abrasion, while conserving vaginal lubrication.<ref name="warren-bigelow1994" />
In a first of its kind, O'Hara & O'Hara (1999) carried out a retrospective surevy of 138 women with experience of both intact and circumcised partners. The women overwhelmingly concurred that the mechanics of coitus was different for the two groups of men. Of the women, 73% reported that circumcised men tend to thrust harder and deeper, using elongated strokes, while unaltered men by comparison tended to thrust more gently, to have shorter thrusts, and tended to be in contact with the mons pubis and clitoris more, according to 71% of the respondents. Women with intact partners had a higher rate of orgasms than women with circumcised partners. O'Hara & O'Hara concluded:
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Morten ''et al''. (2013) surveyed a very large group of men and women in Denmark. They concluded:
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"Circumcision was associated with frequent orgasm difficulties in Danish men and with a range of frequent sexual difficulties in women, notably orgasm difficulties, dyspareunia and a sense of incomplete sexual needs fulfilment."<ref name="morten-lindholm2013" />
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