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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' has been made by several researchers.
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== Evidence ==
* [[Hermann Nunberg]], a New York based psychoanalyst, had a male patient who had been [[circumcised]] at the age of five. Moreover, the patient's son underwent [[circumcision]] during the course of the psycho-analysis. Nunberg wrote an extensive discussion of the findings from his psychoanalysis of this patient. The patient's [[circumcision]] caused some homosexual feelings.


Schmideberg (1948) reported the case of a boy who had a traumatic [[circumcision]] at the age of eight and became a homosexual.<ref>{{REFjournal
Nunberg (1947) said in part:
<blockquote>Homosexuality which constantly crosses the path of heterosexality complicating and yet in its struggle enriching the life of man may be distinguished as one of its biological foundations. […]
 
It is not easy to find a patient who was circumcised at an age allowing psycho-analytic study of the reactions to the operation. […]
 
The best cases are provided by circumcisions performed between the years of four and six. Yet, some very interesting material was also obtained from a patient whose son was [[circumcised]] while the father was in analysis. […]
 
On the basis of many facts, such as his behaviour in analysis, his attraction to his father's [[penis]] and other recollections, we assume that he had felt attracted to the father even before the [[circumcision]]. Circumcision increased the homosexual drive, but as a result of its frustration, he increased his sexual wishes to his brother. […]
 
The end of his analysis produced in him the attitude he had felt in childhood toward his circumcision, namely, that he was prepared to accept the loss of his [[foreskin]], if by this loss he would become equal to his father and be permitted to play with him sexually. […]
 
We may, therefore, conclude that the patient felt homosexually tied to his father (the doctor) by the [[circumcision]]. Does that mean that he could not finish his analysis until he regained his foreskin? I may add, in anticipation of further material that he hoped through undoing of the circumcision to free himself from his homosexual ties and become heterosexual again.<ref name="nunberg1947">{{REFjournal
|last= Nunberg
|init=H
|author-link=Herman Nunberg
|url=https://pep-web.org/search/document/IJP.028.0145A
|title=Circumcision and problems of bisexuality
|journal=The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
|date=1947-01-01
|volume=28
|issue=
|pages=145-79
|pubmedID=12994301
|accessdate=2023-10-04
}}</ref> 
</blockquote>
 
* Schmideberg (1948) reported the case of a boy who had a traumatic [[circumcision]] at the age of eight and became a homosexual.<ref>{{REFjournal
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Foley (1966) reported:
* [https://theamericansun.com/2021/02/23/mkultra-and-cia-circumcision-research/ CIA (1961)]
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* {{REFjournal
|last=Cansever
|first=Gocke
|init=G
|author-link=Gocke Cansever
|etal=no
|title=Psychological effects of circumcision
|journal= Brit J Med Psychol
|location=
|date=1965-12
|volume=38
|issue=4
|pages=321-31
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/psych/cansever/
|quote=
|pubmedID=5322308
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1111/j.2044-8341.1965.tb01314.x
|accessdate=2023-10-01
}}
 
 
* Foley (1966) reported:
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More recently, a study was made of admissions to a large Naval hospital. Of all admissions, 32% had been circumcised. Of all admission with the diagnosis of "overt homosexuality," ''100% had been circumcised''.<ref>{{REFjournal
More recently, a study was made of admissions to a large Naval hospital. Of all admissions, 32% had been [[circumcised]]. Of all admission with the diagnosis of "overt homosexuality," ''100% had been circumcised''.<ref>{{REFjournal
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* Laumann et al. (1997) reported "that [[circumcised]] men engage in a more elaborated set of sexual practices." The authors provided a table which showed that circumcised white and hispanic males were more likely to engage in both active and passive oral homosexual relations.<ref name="laumann1997">{{REFjournal
|last=Laumann
|first=
|init=EO
|author-link=
|last2=Masi
|first2=
|init2=CM
|author2-link=
|last3=Zuckerman
|etal=no
|title=Circumcision in the United States. Prevalence, prophylactic effects, and sexual practice
|trans-title=
|journal=JAMA
|location=
|date=1997-04-02
|volume=277
|issue=13
|article=
|page=
|pages=1052-7
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/general/laumann/
|archived=
|quote=NHSLS results reveal a clear pattern in that circumcised men report a more highly elaborated set of sexual practices.
|pubmedID=9091693
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|doi=
|accessdate=2023-10-10
}}</ref> 


Dave et al. (2003), working in the [[United Kingdom]], reported that relative to [[intact]] men, [[circumcised]] men are more likely to report homosexual partners.<ref>{{REFjournal
* Dave et al. (2003), working in the [[United Kingdom]], reported that relative to [[intact]] men, [[circumcised]] men are more likely to report homosexual partners.<ref>{{REFjournal
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The [https://www.pewresearch.org/ Pew Research Center] (2021) reported the incidence of homosexuality in 2020 among U.S. males, who vary in circumcision status, was 3 percent, however among Jewish males, who are nearly 100 percent [[circumcised]], the incidence of homosexuality was 4 percent.<ref>{{REFweb
* The [https://www.pewresearch.org/ Pew Research Center] (2021) reported the incidence of homosexuality in 2020 among U.S. males, who vary in [[circumcision]] status, was 3 percent, however among Jewish males, who are nearly 100 percent [[circumcised]], the incidence of homosexuality was 4 percent.<ref>{{REFweb
  |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/05/11/jewish-demographics/
  |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/05/11/jewish-demographics/
  |title=Jewish demographics
  |title=Jewish demographics
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  |last=Anonymous
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* Wikipedia has published an article entitled ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation Demographics of sexual orientation]''. It reports regarding [[Israel]], where both Jews and Muslims circumcise boys for religious reasons, that 11.3 percent of men in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation#2012_2 2012] reported same-gender attraction. The article cited an article from ''Archives of Sexual Behavior''.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Mor
|first=
|init=Z
|author-link=
|last2=Davidovich
|first2=
|init2=U
|author2-link=
|etal=no
|title=Sexual Orientation and Behavior of Adult Jews in Israel and the Association With Risk Behavior
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal= Arch Sex Behav
|location=
|date=2016-08
|volume=45
|issue=6
|pages=1563-71
|url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-015-0631-0
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=26754157
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1007/s10508-015-0631-0
|accessdate=2023-09-20
}}</ref> This was the highest reported percentage from any nation.
* Wikipedia reports that Tel Aviv is "the best gay city in the world", where approximately 25 percent of the population identifies as gay.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv#LGBT_culture
|title=LGBT culture
|last=
|first=
|init=
|publisher=Wikipedia
|date=
|accessdate=2023-10-07
}}</ref> Jews, who circumcise for religious reasons, constitute 89.9 percent of the population, and Arabs, most of whom are Muslims who circumcise boys constitute 4.5 percent.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv#Religion
|title=Religion
|last=
|first=
|init=
|publisher=Wikipedia
|date=
|accessdate=2023-10-07
}}
</ref>
* An anonymous young male (2023) posted this comment on REDDIT in the "circumcisiongrief" sub-reddit:
<blockquote>
<big><b>Circumcision Turned Me Gay</b></big><br>
I was so distraught from my [[circumcision]] even at a young age and I always knew something was missing. As a result I was always looking at my own disfigured member and would always think about other peoples’ as a result. I would think about my intact peers and I would gain envy of what was taken from me. I guess from this mental trauma at a young age and my obsession with the human penis fucked with my brain chemistry because I became sexually aroused by it. As a result I would start sneaking peeks in my adult gymnastics locker room as the other men would change or shower just to get a glimpse of a true unaltered man in the flesh. I’ve never had sex (probably wouldn’t even feel anything) but I can only get aroused looking at [[intact]] men and its all my perverted doctor’s fault. I hate myself and I hate doctors, I jerk off to gay porn 4 times a day every day because of them. Fuck you doc!<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/CircumcisionGrief/comments/16yciip/circumcision_turned_me_gay/
|title=Circumcision turned me gay
|last=Anonymous
|first=
|init=
|publisher=REDDIT
|date=2023-10-02
|accessdate=2023-10-10
}}.</ref>
</blockquote>
== Discussion ==
[[Rosemary Romberg]] (2021) commented:
[[Rosemary Romberg]] (2021) commented:
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[[Intact]] men also develop homosexuality, but apparently a greater percentage of [[circumcised]] men develop homosexuality.
While many [[intact]] men develop homosexuality, it appears that a greater percentage of [[circumcised]] men may develop homosexuality. [[Circumcision]] may be an additional factor, among others, that contribute to the development of a homosexual orientation.
 
It is emphasized that association does not prove causation, but may indicate a subject for further investigation.


{{NOTE}} It is emphasized that association does ''not'' prove causation, but may indicate a subject for further investigation.
{{LINKS}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/CircumcisionGrief/comments/1pkskvo/i_hate_being_gay_because_of_this/
|title=I hate being Gay because of this
|last=Anonymous
|publisher=REDDIT
|date=2025-12-11
|accessdate=2025-12-12
}}
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