Does circumcision in any way affect a person psychologically?

Answer 1

Violence at the time of birth has definitely been shown to correlate with anxiety throughout life. This is due to the interuption of the imprinting responses a baby is trying to have for recognition of his mother's face and scent. Neonatal circumcision also makes successful breastfeeding less likely, which can have it's own affects on the maternal bond and by extension the infant's level of self-assurance.

80% of the world does not circumcise and has no special health or hygiene problems. The places where genital mutilation is practiced are the most violent cultures on earth.

-Ron

Answer 2

HPV in women from intact partners was a myth that is still being spread but has long been cast aside by the medical community. Just to clear up anything else, child sacrifice went out years ago, and menstuating women don't have to burn turtledoves.

Just read about the people who were affected by circumcision, and trying hard to gain some semblance of a foreskin. Or look at a few pics of the scary penis with "normal" circ jobs. Lots of men don't even know that these things are a result of circumcision. Maybe you should talk to a former bf who couldn't have sex w/out excruciating pain because of his nice tight circ. Would that help?

Answer 3

As someone who was circumcised at age 38, I can tell you that even though it wasn't a pleasant experience, that I can't say that it was psychologically damaging.

Answer 4

Obvioulsy, yes.
How(in what way) and more or less, depends on the person and on the circunstancies.
It must not be allowed by law!!!

RELIGION--If God intended boys to not have "skin" He would have made them so.
http://www.nocirc.org/religion/

HYGIENE--Use a new invention, soap and water!!! Women produce much more smegma because of physiologic and anatomical reasons, and how would you feel if they cut your vulva lips??? Women, why don’t you answer my question, are you afraid? Baby girls are more likely to get urinary tract infections and no one suggests we surgically alter them at birth to reduce the risks! Just one of many double standards and laws that always treat men worse.

MEDICAL REASONS--No medical reasons. A extremely small chance of a complication do not justify the removal of the foreskin, if so, why don't we remove the tonsils and the appendix when a child is born, and the chance of complications of the tonsils and the appendix is much greater. Talking about complications, in fact many baby boys die each year from circumcision and related complications.
EVEN if phimosis occurs, instead of chopping it off like barbarians!, use Conservative Treatments like:
-Topical Medication(non-traumatic and non-destructive)
-Dilation and Stretching(non-traumatic and non-destructive)
-Combination treatment(non-traumatic and non-destructive)
-Preputioplasty is the medical term for plastic surgery of the prepuce or foreskin(many methods).
If you want more detail on Conservative Treatments, go here:
http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/

SEX--Foreskin actually enhances the sexual experience for men because it constantly moves over the head of the penis causing more friction and pleasure. Men will also lose much sensitivity to the glans if circumcised.
Circunsized men will have to deal with disconfot and dry glans.
The foreskin have those functions: protective, erogenous, sensory, and sexual physiologic. After all, why would you want to lose all of those “Meissner corpuscles”, the same nerve complexes which provide fine touch to the fingertips?
It is there for many reasons, that is how a man should be(it is natural).
If women like it better circumcised because it looks better(strange, not natural) or gives them more sexual pleasure(strange, not natural), then too bad, they do not have the right! All men do not like mutilated vulvas, and all men like breasts with nipples, they do not like mutilated breasts, etc, etc, etc, because that is the way those organs are supposed to be, it is natural. Interesting, isn’t?!!!

If that was a common practice to do that to baby girls, all the women would be in a big uproar about it(and men too!, men are not like women), but it’s ok to mutilate little boys. The great majority of the ones that agree with circumcision are women for their stupid selfish reasons. Even court cases reported in which mother and father fight because the mother wants to mutilate the son, it is always the mother!. You women should be ashamed to that to your son. Men that are not circumcised, will not get circumcised when adults, they would scream, kick, fight and run, if someone tries to mutilate their privates area, just like you women would run too if someone tried to do that to your labia. Men that where circumcised do not realize what they lost because never had one, and most of them that do realize try to justify it so they do not feel bad about it. Many circumcised men feel very bad emotionally because of what was done to them to such a private area.
It is mutilation of defenceless children in the most private spot, genital mutilation.
It is cruel and barbaric.
It is a human rights violation.
It is not the parent’s decision; it is the parents decision if they want to abuse him, rape him, or to kill him?.
I do not even agree that it is ok if an adult man wants to get circumcised. I think it is wrong, because if a man wants to lose a finger, the Doctor can not do that to him. Think about it, think, think. And by the way, adult men that decide to get circumcised, do it because they know most women like it, they just do it to be more accepted by women.
I think it is just like slavery and all other barbaric acts of the past, it was accepted because it was common practice or tradition, everyone accepted slavery without questioning the facts, but it is not accepted anymore in a modern and fair and civilized society. Circumcision must not be allowed, BY LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many other reasons not to do it, check it out:
http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/
http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/
http://www.circumcisionquotes.com/boydies.html

Answer 5

Being circumcised leaves some feeling like they are incomplete. It is understandable considering that a natural functioning protection for the penis was diced off at birth. Please check out the following links for infomation

www.cirp.org
www.foreskinrestorationchat.com

Answer 6

Not if done properly and safely. Maybe positively because of cleanliness and lower rate of cervical cancer in women who "interact " with circumcised partners.

Answer 7

Only if it bothers them. It didn't me (but then who am I to say). It is more hygenic. Does having one's appendix or tonsils removed affect a person psychologically?

Answer 8

Usually not, as it happens before concrete memories are formed in infancy.
However, it could affect someone who gets circumsized in their adult lives.

Answer 9

I imagine that it could if the man feels insecure about being circumsized/not circumsized.

Answer 10

I believe it does which is why I would never have unnec surgury on a healthy person.