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Moses Maimonides states that the purpose of [[circumcision ]] is to weaken the male organ, without preventing the functions necessary to reproduction, but reducing pleasure and desire. Sages at the time had recognized that the [[foreskin ]] heightened sexual pleasure. Maimonides reasoned that the [[bleeding]] and loss of protective covering rendered the [[penis ]] weakened and in so doing had the effect of reducing a man's lustful thoughts and making sex less pleasurable. He also warned that it is "hard for a woman with whom an [[uncircumcised]] man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him."