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→The certain harm of circumcision: Add text and Wikify.
The excision of skin by circumcision makes painful erections more likely. [[Circumcised]] males may experience tight and/or painful erections when there is insufficient residual shaft [[skin]] to permit full expansion and extension of the shaft of the [[penis]] during [[erection]].
Maguire & Parkes (1998) stress the need to grieve loss of body parts and functions,<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Maguire
|first=
|init=P
|author-link=
|last2=Parkes
|first2=
|init2=CM
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|etal=
|title=Coping With Loss: Surgery and Loss of Body Parts
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=BMJ
|date=1998-04-04
|volume=317
|issue=7137
|pages=1086-8
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/psych/maguire/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=9552917
|pubmedCID=1112908
|DOI=10.1136/bmj.316.7137.1086
|accessdate=2025-01-31
}}</ref> and there are many other [[Psychological issues of male circumcision| psychological issues]].
==U.S. Government policy on circumcision==