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[[Gregory J. Boyle| Boyle]] (2004) reported significant adverse effects of [[circumcision]] both for the [[circumcised]] male and his female partner.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Boyle
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|init=GJ
|author-link=Gregory J. Boyle
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|title=Circumcision in Adults: Effect on Sexual Function
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|journal=Urology
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|date=2004-12
|volume=64
|issue=6
|pages=1267-8
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/sex_function/boyle2004/
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|quote=Circumcised men also expressed significantly greater dissatisfaction with their sex lives than did genitally intact men.
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|DOI=10.1016/j.urology.2004.03.060
|accessdate=2025-04-14
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Solinis & Yiannaki (2007) concluded; "[t]here was a decrease in couple’s sexual life after circumcision indicating that [[Adolescent_and_adult_circumcision|adult circumcision]] adversely affects sexual function in many men or/and their partners, possibly because of complications of surgery and loss of nerve endings."<ref name="solinis-yiannaki2005">{{REFjournal
The foreskin in childhood is fused with the glans penis by a [[synechia]].-->
==Comparison with other primates==
The results of a fascinating study conducted by Dr. [[Christopher J. Cold]] and Dr. [[Ken McGrath|Kenneth A. McGrath]] demonstrate that the human foreskin is an evolutionary advancement over the foreskins of other primates. The human foreskin is far more sophisticated and responsive, as their comparative anatomy studies prove. This is seen most clearly in the evolutionary increase in corpuscular innervation and simultaneous decrease in corpuscular receptors in the human [[glans]] relative to the innervation of the foreskin and glans of lower primates.<ref>Cold CJ, [[Ken McGrath|McGrath KA]]. [https://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/cold-mcgrath/ Anatomy and histology of the penile and clitoral prepuce in primates: an evolutionary perspective of the specializes sensory tissue of the external genitalia]. In: Denniston GC, Hodges MF, Milos FM (eds). ''Male and female circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice''. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999. pp. 19-29</ref>