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Male circumcision is a surgical [[amputation]] of the [[foreskin]] from the penis that severs nerves and blood vessels that provide blood to the [[penis]].
==Reports of impotence after circumcision==
The first case report is from 1929. Edward Glover, a psychoanalyst from London, was conducting an analysis of a patient who suffered from erectile dysfunction. Eventually it developed that the patient was [[circumcised]] between the age of three and one-half years and your years of age. The boy cried out after the surgery, ""Why did you let him cut it off?"<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Glover
|init=E
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Foley (1966), a West Virginia physician , stated, :
<blockquote>
"One possible result of circumcision is impotence: Impotence seems to be frequent in circumcised men, but rare among the uncircumcised."<ref>{{REFjournal
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</blockquote>
Stinson (1973) presented five case reports of loss of erectile function in United States Air Force personnel after [[adult circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Stinson
|first=
|init=JM
|author-link=
|etal=no
|title=Impotence and adult circumcision
|language=
|journal=J Natl Med Assoc
|date=1973-03
|volume=65
|issue=2
|page=161
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/complications/stinson/
|archived=
|quote=While this report cannot claim to show a causal relationship between circumcision and impotence, adult circumcision is the one common thread ill the five patients presented.
|pubmedID=4691678
|pubmedCID=2608864
|accessdate=2025-09-25
}}</ref>
Fink et al. (2002) surveyed 132 men [[circumcised]] as adults. The authors stated, "Adult circumcision appears to result in worsened erectile function…"<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Fink
|first=
|init=KS
|author-link=
|last2=Carson
|first2=
|init2=CC
|author2-link=
|last3=DeVellis
|first3=
|init3=RF
|author3-link=
|etal=no
|title=Adult circumcision outcomes study: effect on erectile function, penile sensitivity, sexual activity and satisfaction
|trans-title=
|journal=J Urol
|location=
|date=2002-05
|volume=167
|issue=5
|pages=2113-6
|url=https://phimosisjourney.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cicumcision-study.pdf
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=11956453
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|doi=
|format=PDF
|accessdate=2025-09-25
}}</ref>
Shen et al. (2004) reported a study in China of 95 men who had undergone [[adult circumcision]]. Of the 95 men, 28 had "mild or moderate erectile dysfunction after circumcision" (29.4%), and 33 "had weakened erectile confidence" (34.7%). Unfortunately, the study was reported in Chinese, so no further information is available.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Shen
|first=
|init=Z
|author-link=
|last2=Chen
|first2=
|init2=S
|author2-link=
|last3=Zhu
|first3=
|init3=C
|author3-link=
|last4=Wan
|first4=
|init4=Q
|author4-link=
|last5=Zhaodian
|first5=
|init5=Z
|author5-link=
|etal=no
|title=[Erectile function evaluation after adult circumcision]
|trans-title=
|language=Chinese
|journal=Zhonghua Nan Ke Xue
|date=2004-01
||volume=10
|issue=1
|pages=18-9
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/sex_function/shen1/
|quote= Adult circumcision has certain effect on erectile function, to which more importance should be attached.
|pubmedID=14979200
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|doi=
|accessdate=2025-09-25
}}</ref>
==Summary==
One case report that reports a single case of erectile dysfunction and impotence after [[child circumcision]] has been identified and four papers that report erectile dysfunction and impotence after [[adult circumcision]], including 232 cases of erectile dysfunction and impotence in adult males, have been identified.
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Erection]]
* [[Erogenous sensation of the foreskin]]
* [[Foreskin]]
* [[Sexual injury of circumcision]]
{{LINKS}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/uncircumcised_talk/comments/1o4kvc4/comment/nj3bkac/
|title=Learning to love my foreskin
|publisher=REDDIT
|date=2025-10-12
|accessdate=2025-10-13
}}
{{REF}}
[[Category:Circumcision]]
[[Category:Circumcision complication]]
[[Category:Education]]
[[Category:Male genital mutilation]]