Circumcision

[asterroc]

B/c some people on my friendslist have discussed this in the last few months, here's a CNN article on the dropping rate of infant male circumcision. Surprisingly, only around 57% of male babies are circumcised at birth in the US, and we're more than most of the world.

Comments

yay anecdotes

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Huh. If you followed the links from that page, there was a study that apparently the most sensitive parts of the penis are removed with the circumcision - that one's non-anecdotal, but not sure if it was repeated or not.

For another anecdote on circumcision horrors, see the John/Joan case.

Re: yay anecdotes

[dirkcjelli.livejournal.com]

I was leaving "reduces mens sexual pleasure" out of the discussion, but I understand that to be factual.

Re: yay anecdotes

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

While I had assumed so as well, it never hurts to have evidence. Meanwhile, I wonder if greater sensitivity would mean guys want sex more often b/c it's so good, or less often b/c they're so satisfied. A study of *that* would be highly amusing - and really difficult to do w/o biases.