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The human [[prepuce ]] is highly innervated tissue<ref name="cold-taylor1999">{{ColdCJ TaylorJR 1999}}</ref> and has long been known for its erogenous quality.<ref name="ErogenousZones">{{WinkelmannRK 1959}}</ref> Falliers (1970) commented on the "sensory pleasure induced by tactile stimulation of the [[foreskin]]."<ref name="falliers1970">{{REFjournal

Developmental neuropsychologist [[James W. Prescott]], {{PhD}}, (1975) connected loss of sensory body pleasure to increases in violent behavior.According to Dr. Prescott:

''As a developmental neuropsychologist I have devoted a great deal of study to the peculiar relationship between violence and pleasure. I am now convinced that the deprivation of physical sensory pleasure is the principal root cause of violence. Laboratory experiments with animals show that pleasure and violence have a reciprocal relationship, that is, the presence of one inhibits the other. A raging, violent animal will abruptly calm down when electrodes stimulate the pleasure centers of its brain. Likewise, stimulating the violence centers in the brain can terminate the animal's sensual pleasure and peaceful behavior. When the brain's pleasure circuits are 'on,' the violence circuits are 'off,' and vice versa. Among human beings, a pleasure-prone personality rarely displays violence or aggressive behaviors, and a violent personality has little ability to tolerate, experience, or enjoy sensuously pleasing activities. As either violence or pleasure goes up, the other goes down.''<ref>{{REFjournal

The performance of a circumcision operation takes minimal physical force, but it makes up for the lack of force by the great damage to the [[penis]] and its many protective, immunological, sensory, and sexual functions,<ref>{{REFweb

}}</ref> and also by the extreme [[Pain| pain and trauma]] that it inflicts. Ramos & Boyle (2001) studied the psychological effects of [[circumcision]] on Filipino boys. They reported that sixty-nine percent of traditionally circumcised boys and fifty-one percent of medically [[circumcised]] boys subsequently met the criteria for a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder ([[PTSD]]).<ref name="ramos-boyle2001">{{REFbook

}}</ref> ==Adult reenactment==Famed trauma expert [https://besselvanderkolk.net/index.html Bessell van der Kolk, M. D.] (1989) reported that traumatized persons tend to repeat the trauma on themselves or others, resulting in harm to others, harm to self, or being re-victimized. He writes:<blockquote>Some traumatized people remain preoccupied with the trauma at the expense of other life experiences and continue to re-create it in some form for themselves or for others.<ref name="vanderkolk1989">{{REFjournal |last=van der Kolk |first=Bessell |init=B |author-link= |etal=no |title=The compulsion to repeat the trauma: re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism |journal=Psychiatr Clin North Am |location= |date=1989-06 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=389-411 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/ |quote= |pubmedID=2664732 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2019-12-08}}</ref> </blockquote>

Lloyd De Mause (1996) argued that early trauma results in aggressive adult behavior.==Religious circumcision and violence==<blockquote>===Judaism===That America has arranged to have more people on welfare – Gingrich’sdreaded “underclass” – than any other industrialized country It is a clue to whynations need poor people to punish for their prosperity. Since it not clear when the Jews started circumcision, but is prosperity andthreats of intolerable individuation clear that trigger the restaging of trauma, it makespsychohistorical sense that America today – the most prosperous and freest nationof any was done in history – has more women and children living 1406 BCE at [[Gilgal]] in poverty than any otherindustrialized nationwhat must have been a highly traumatic event. Nor is it coincidental Michael Glass (2003) observed that the world’s wealthiest country has the highest child homicide rate circumcisions at Gilgal were to create warriors. He saw a connection between circumcision and the most newborn boys [[circumcised]], both indices of society’s hostility towards childrenviolence.<ref name="demause1996glass2003">{{REFjournalREFweb |url=http://www.cirp.org/pages/cultural/glass3/ |title=What the Bible Reveals About Circumcision and Sexual Violence |last=deMauseGlass |first=LloydMichael

|author-link=Michael Glass |etal=no |title=Restaging Fetal Traumas in War and Social Violence |journal=Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Journal |locationpublisher=Circumcision Reference Library |date=1996 |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=3442003-92 |url=http://www.mattes.de/buecher/praenatale_psychologie/PP_PDF/PP_08_2_deMause.pdf |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=11609155 |pubmedCID= |DOI=04 |accessdate=2022-11-0511}}</ref></blockquote>

==Religious circumcision and violence=====Judaism===It is not clear when the Jews started circumcision, but is clear that it was done in 1406 BCE at [[Gilgal]] in what must have been a highly traumatic event. According to Professor [[Leonard Glick]], Chapter 17 (containing the alleged [[Abrahamic covenant]]) was not added to the book of Genesis until after the Babylonian captivity, which ended in 538 BCE.

Although [[circumcision]] is never mentioned in the Qur'an, male circumcision is deeply rooted in the Muslim tradition. Muhammad is reported to have prescribed cutting the [[foreskin]] as a ''fitrah'', a measure of personal cleanliness. Modern Muslims see circumcision as essential to their faith, although they have also come to lean on arguments of "medical benefits." A conference of Islamic scholars in 1987 stated that modern circumcision studies “[reflect] the wisdom of the Islamic statements”.<ref>{{GollaherDL 2000}}</ref>

[[Islam ]] has a long, violent tradition of using the sword to advance Islam. The ''jihad'' is a so-called "holy war" to advance Islam against "infidels".<ref>{{REFweb

}}</ref> We should not forget that the violent attack on the [[United States]] on 11 September 2001 that caused 2,996 deaths and about 25,000 injuries was allegedly led and orchestrated by a [[circumcised]] Saudi Muslim named Osama bin Laden.<ref>{{REFweb

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