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{{Construction Site}}'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is a term that appears to have been coined by the late [[James W. Prescott]], Ph.D., in 1975. Dr. Prescott related deprivation of physical pleasure to expression of physical violence.<refname="prescott1975">{{REFjournal
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The term "body pleasure" is understood to be pleasure experienced from stimulation of the erogenous areas of the body. Winkelmann (1959) identified the foreskin (prepuce) to be a "<i>specific erogenous zone</i>",<ref name="winkelmann1959=>{{REFjournal
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|title=The erogenous zones: their nerve supply and its significance
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|journal=Proc Staff Meet Mayo Clin
|date=1959-01-21
|volume=34
|issue=2
|pages=39-47
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/winkelmann/
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}}</ref> so it is a major source of body pleasure. [[Amputation]] of the [[foreskin]] by [[circumcision]] results in a deficiency of body pleasure in [[circumcised]] males.
Lloyd de Mause (1996) also observed the aggressive, more violent-prone personality that is more common in [[circumcised]] men, but he attributed the cause to early childhood [[trauma]], which must include [[pain| painful]] [[circumcision]],<ref name="demause1996">{{REFjournal
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|title=Restaging Fetal Traumas in War and Social Violence
|journal=Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Journal
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|date=1996
|volume=23
|issue=4
|pages=344-92
|url=http://www.mattes.de/buecher/praenatale_psychologie/PP_PDF/PP_08_2_deMause.pdf
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}}</ref> however, the men also experienced loss of body pleasure, which may have been the true cause of their personality change. The personality of [[circumcised]] men may be affected by both early childhood [[trauma]] and loss of body pleasure.
==International Relations==
The Middle East is populated by both Jews and Muslims. Both [[Judaism]] and [[Islam]] require boys to be [[circumcised]]. The nearly ubiquitiousness of [[circumcision]] of boys may help to explain the frequent wars in the Middle East.
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Circumcision and violence]]
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|init=JW
|author-link=James W. Prescott
|url=http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/Sixteen_Principles.pdf
|title=Sixteen Principles For Personal, Family and Global Peace
|journal=The Truth Seeker
|date=March 1989
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|issue=
|pages=33
|format=PDF
|accessdate=2022-11-02
}}</ref>{{REF}}
[[Category:Circumcision term]]
[[Category:Male sexuality]]
[[Category:Parental information]]
[[Category:Physiology]]
[[Category:Psychology]]
[[Category:Term]]
[[Category:Violence]]