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=== Sexual effects ===
=== Sexual effects ===


Circumcision and frenectomy remove tissues with heightened erogenous sensitivity.<ref name="winkleman1959">{{WinkelmannRK 1959}}</ref> <ref name="cepeda2023">{{REFjournal
Circumcision and frenectomy remove tissues with heightened erogenous sensitivity.<ref name="cepeda2023" /> <ref name="winkleman1959">{{WinkelmannRK 1959}}</ref>  They concluded, "Evidence has also started to accumulate that male circumcision may result in lifelong physical, sexual, and sometimes psychological harm as well."
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|title=Immunohistological study of the density and distribution of human penile neural tissue: gradient hypothesis
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|journal= Int J Impot Res
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|date=2023-05-02
|volume=35
|issue=3
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|pages=286-305
|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41443-022-00561-9
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}}</ref> Boyle et al. (2002) wrote, "the genitally intact male has thousands of fine touch receptors and other highly erogenous nerve endings&mdash;many of which are lost to circumcision."<ref>{{REFjournal
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|first=Gregory J.
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|author-link=Gregory Boyle
|first2=Gillian A.
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|last2=Bensley
|title=Adverse Sexual and Psychological Effects of Male Infant Circumcision
|journal=Psychological reports
|volume=88
|issue=3, Part 2
|pages=1105–6
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/psych/boyle5/
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|DOI=10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.0830s1085.x
|date=July 2001
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}}</ref> They concluded, "Evidence has also started to accumulate that male circumcision may result in lifelong physical, sexual, and sometimes psychological harm as well."


The [[amputation]] of the prepuce results in the loss of the majority of fine-touch neuroreceptors found in the [[penis]], leaving only the uninhibited protopathic sensibility of the artificially externalized [[glans penis]]. The imbalance caused by not having the input from the now ablated fine-touch receptors may be a leading cause of the changes in sexual behavior noted in [[circumcised]] human males.<ref>{{REFjournal
The [[amputation]] of the prepuce results in the loss of the majority of fine-touch neuroreceptors found in the [[penis]], leaving only the uninhibited protopathic sensibility of the artificially externalized [[glans penis]]. The imbalance caused by not having the input from the now ablated fine-touch receptors may be a leading cause of the changes in sexual behavior noted in [[circumcised]] human males.<ref>{{REFjournal