Association of homosexuality with male circumcision: Difference between revisions

[[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.  

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

Schmideberg (1948) reported the case of a boy who had a traumatic [[circumcision]] at the age of eight and became a homosexual.<ref>{{REFjournal

Foley (1966) reported:

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

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

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

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

An anonymous young male (2023) posted this comment on REDDIT:

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>Anonymous. Circumcision Turned Me Gay. REDDIT 2023-10-02.</ref>

[[Intact]] men may also develop homosexuality, but apparently a greater percentage of [[circumcised]] men develop homosexuality. [[Circumcision]] may be an additional factor, among others, that contribute to the development of a homosexual orientation.