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* [[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.  Nunberg (1947) said in part:<blockquote>Homosexuality which constantly crosses the path of heterosexality complicating and yet in its struggle enriching the life of man may be distinguished as one of its biological foundations. […] It is not easy to find a patient who was circumcised at an age allowing psycho-analytic study of the reactions to the operation. […] 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 |last= Nunberg |init=H |author-link=Herman Nunberg |url=https://pep-web.org/search/document/IJP.028.0145A |title=Circumcision and problems of bisexuality |journal=The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis |date=1947-01-01 |volume=28 |issue= |pages=145-79 |pubmedID=12994301 |accessdate=2023-10-04}}</ref> </blockquote> * Schmideberg (1948) reported the case of a boy who had a traumatic [[circumcision]] at the age of eight and became a homosexual.<ref>{{REFjournal

* [https://theamericansun.com/2021/02/23/mkultra-and-cia-circumcision-research/ CIA (1961)]<center>* https://theamericansun.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/1.png</center>* {{REFjournal |last=Cansever |first=Gocke |init=G |author-link=Gocke Cansever |etal=no |title=Psychological effects of circumcision |journal= Brit J Med Psychol |location= |date=1965-12 |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=321-31 |url=https://www.cirp.org/library/psych/cansever/ |quote= |pubmedID=5322308 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1111/j.2044-8341.1965.tb01314.x |accessdate=2023-10-01}}  * 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

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* 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

}}</ref>This was the highest reported percentage from any nation. * Wikipedia reports that Tel Aviv is "the best gay city in the world", where approximately 25 percent of the population identifies as gay.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv#LGBT_culture |title=LGBT culture |last= |first= |init= |publisher=Wikipedia |date= |accessdate=2023-10-07}}</ref> Jews, who circumcise for religious reasons, constitute 89.9 percent of the population, and Arabs, most of whom are Muslims who circumcise boys constitute 4.5 percent.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv#Religion |title=Religion |last= |first= |init= |publisher=Wikipedia |date= |accessdate=2023-10-07}}</ref> * An anonymous young male (2023) posted this comment on REDDIT in the "circumcisiongrief" sub-reddit:<blockquote><big><b>Circumcision Turned Me Gay</b></big><br>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>{{REFweb |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/CircumcisionGrief/comments/16yciip/circumcision_turned_me_gay/ |title=Circumcision turned me gay |last=Anonymous |first= |init= |publisher=REDDIT |date=2023-10-02 |accessdate=2023-10-10}}.</ref></blockquote> 

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

{{NOTE}} It is emphasized that association does ''not '' prove causation, but may indicate a subject for further investigation.