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Male [[circumcision]] is a surgical amputation of the [[foreskin]],which contains more than one-half of the erogenous epithelium of the [[penis]]. The amputation most frequently carried out on infants and small boys who cannot and do not give consent for the loss of so much of their penis. There are many '''psychological issues of male circumcision''' that arise from the involuntary loss of the part of the penis with the erogenous tissue that provides much sexual sensation.
Moses Maimonides wrote in the 12th century:
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Similarly with regard to circumcision, one of the reasons for it is, in my opinion, the wish to bring about a decrease in sexual intercourse and a weakening of the organ in question, so that this activity be diminished and the organ be in as quiet a state as possible. … In fact this commandment has not been prescribed with a view to perfecting what is defective congenitally, but to perfecting what is defective morally. The bodily pain caused to that member is the real purpose of circumcision. … For if at birth this member has been made to bleed and has had its covering taken away from it, it must indubitably be weakened.<ref name="maimonides1190">{{REFbook
|last=Maimonides
|first=Moses
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|year=1963
|title=The Guide of the Perplexed
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/cultural/maimonides/
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|editor=Slomo Pines
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|publisher=University of Chicago Press
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|accessdate=2019-12-04
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