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|year=1948
|title=Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
|url=https://ia801508.us.archive.org/33/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.187552/2015.187552.Sexual-Behavior-In-The-Human-Male_text.pdf
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|location=Toronto, New YorkBoston |publisher=BantamLittle, Brown, and Company
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|first=William Keith C.
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|author-link=William Keith Campbell MorgaMorgan
|etal=No
|title=Penile Plunder
|DOI=10.1111/joa.13481
|accessdate=2021-11-15
}}</ref> <ref name="garret2024-02-17>{{REFweb
|url=https://intactamerica.org/what-do-the-eyelids-lips-fingertips-the-intact-penis-have-in-common/
|title=What Do The Eyelids, Lips, Fingertips & The Intact Penis Have in Common?
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|first=Connor
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|author-link=Connor Judson Garrett
|publisher=Intact America
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}}</ref> Proponents of [[genital integrity]] have cited these studies, which report on the sensitivity or innervation of the foreskin, claiming a sexual role based upon the presence of nerve-endings in the foreskin sensitive to light touch, stroking and fluttering sensations.
Circumcision affects ejaculatory function in different ways. In some men, excision of the [[foreskin]] causes hyperstimulation of the corona glandis, resulting in [[premature ejaculation]]. In other men, excision of the foreskin and its [[Foreskin sensitivity| nerves]] seems to decrease PE.
Waldinger et al. (2005) recruited 500 men (98 [[circumcised]] and 261 not-circumcised) from five countries: the Netherlands, [[United Kingdom]], Spain, Turkey, and the [[United States]] and studied their ejaculation times during [[sexual intercourse]]. They found that the [[circumcised]] men in the study took on average 6.7 minutes to ejaculate, compared with 6.0 minutes for the [[uncircumcised]] men. This difference was not statistically significant. The comparison excluded Turkey, which was significantly different from the other countries studied.<ref name="Waldinger2005">{{REFjournal
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In a study of 255 [[circumcised]] men and 118 [[intact]] men, Kim & Pang (2006) reported no statistically significant difference in [[ejaculation]] or ejaculation latency time between [[circumcised]] and [[intact]] participants.<ref name="kimpang2007"/>
In a study of men [[circumcised]] for benign disease, Masood et al. (2005) reported that of those who stated they had prior premature ejaculation, 13% reported improvement after [[adult circumcision| circumcision]], 33% reported that it became worse, and 53% reported no change.<ref name="masood2005"/>
In a study of 22 men [[circumcised]] as adults, Cortés-González et al. reported that 31.8% suffered from premature ejaculation before the procedure; this diminished to 13.6% afterwards.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Cortés-González |first= |init=JR |author-link= |last2=Arratia-Maqueo |first2= |init2=JA |author2-link= |last3=Martínez-Montelongo |first3= |init3=R |author3-link= |last4=Gómez-Guerra |first4= |init4=LS |author4-link= |etal=no |title=[Does circumcision affect male's perception of sexual satisfaction?] |trans-title= |language=Spanish |journal=Arch Esp Urol |location= |date=2009-11 |volume=62 |issue=9 |pages=733-6 |url=https://www.aeurologia.com/EN/10.4321/S0004-06142009000900008 |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=19955598 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.4321/s0004-06142009000900008 |accessdate=2024-08-19}}</ref>
== Sexual practice and masturbation ==
|date=1976
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}}</ref> (There were very few [[intact]] males in Georgia in 1976 because of the prevalence of non-therapeutic infant [[circumcision]] so it is quite likely that few of the subjects tested had any experience with an a [[intactforeskinned]] male.)
Williamson et al. (1988) studied randomly selected young mothers in Iowa, where most men are [[circumcised]], and found that 76% would prefer a [[circumcised]] penis for achieving sexual arousal through viewing it.<ref>[http://www.circs.org/library/williamson/index.html Williamson ML, Williamson PS. Women's Preferences for Penile Circumcision in Sexual Partners.] J Sex Educ Ther 1988; 14: 8</ref> There were very few [[intact]] males in Iowa in 1988 because of the prevalence of non-therapeutic infant circumcision so it is quite likely that few of the subjects tested had any experience with an intact male.)
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}}</ref> so the lack of the foreskin in the [[circumcised ]] partner renders the female experience less satisfactory.
In a first of its kind, O'Hara & O'Hara (1999) carried out a retrospective survey 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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Tye & Sardi (2022) concluded that parents must consider "psychological or psychosocial effects of circumcision,"<ref name="tye2022"> {{REFjournal
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|author2-link=Lauren Sardi
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|title=Psychological, psychosocial, and psychosexual aspects of penile circumcision
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|journal=Int J Impot Res
|date=2023-05
|volume=35
|issue=3
|pages=242-8
|url=https://www.galdef.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Tye-Sardi-Psycho-Aspects-of-Penile-Circumcision-IJIR-2022.pdf
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{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Circumcision]]
* [[Circumcision: Effect upon erectile function]]
* [[Dyspareunia]]
* [[Foreskin]]
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* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/garcia/
|title=What exactly is circumcision and what is it not?
|last=Garcia
|first=Francisco
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|publisher=Circumcision Information Pages
|date=1995-12-11
|accessdate=2025-06-29
}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://intactamerica.org/lousy-sex/
|accessdate=2024-06-21
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* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/FriendsOfTheFrenulum/comments/1ma5zqc/the_data_is_in_the_silence_is_broken_a_first_look/
|title=The Data is In. The Silence is Broken. A First Look at Our Survey's Staggering Results.
|last=Intactivist
|first=Accidental
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|publisher=REDDIT
|date=2025-07-26
|accessdate=2025-07-27
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