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== Evidence ==
[[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.<br>
…<br>
It is not easy to find a patient who was circumcised at an age allowing psycho-analytic study of the reactions to the operation.<br>
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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 …
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Schmideberg (1948) reported the case of a boy who had a traumatic [[circumcision]] at the age of eight and became a homosexual.<ref>{{REFjournal
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