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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

|accessdate=20222025-11-0230}}</ref> 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 |last=Winklemann |first= |init=RK |author-link=R. K. Winkelmann |etal=no |title=The erogenous zones: their nerve supply and its significance |trans-title= |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/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=13645790 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |doi= |accessdate=2025-12-01}}</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 |last=deMause |first=Lloyd |init= |author-link= |etal=no |title=Restaging Fetal Traumas in War and Social Violence |journal=Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Journal |location= |date=1996 |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=344-92 |url=http://www.mattes.de/buecher/praenatale_psychologie/PP_PDF/PP_08_2_deMause.pdf |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=11609155 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2025-12-01}}</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 in the Middle East may help to explain the frequent wars in that part of the world.