In my view, the effects of circumcision are extensive and arguably causing aggression and conflict on a global scale. I am going to shed some light on perspective and argue that circumcision may be having some seriously negative impact on not just on the individual's life but also one of the main factors haveing an impact on the widespread aggression of certain societies.
Biologically speaking the foreskin plays an important role in covering and protecting the nerve endings of the penis. It’s a double-layered covering that rolls along the head of the penis like a rolling pin, rolls over bread dough. It’s a perfect symbiosis of the two biological pieces and cutting off the skin removes that rolling mechanism. The foreskin makes the sexual experience for the much more intense for the man than without it. This results in what I would argue as men being left sexually dissatisfied. How does this impact the man, his partner, and society? well, let’s first start with its impact on a romantic.
Talking from a heterosexual point of view, If the woman feels more, in terms.of subtle touch, which can be more tantric and exciting, compared to the man, she will experience a whole range of pleasure from the first touch to the final climax. Her experience will be much more complete and satisfying than men's. This can be very unhealthy in a committed relationship, because the woman will give much deeper importance to her sexual experience than the man. I will use an analogy to represent the situation. Picture this; at some point in your life, your taste buds were burned with a hot iron, to the point where permanent damage was done and you lost your ability to taste food. So you go out to eat with your loved one, to have some delicious Indian food, maybe a chicken masala or a delicious chocolate cake, whatever you like. Your loved one, loves her food, she’s really enjoying it and after she eats, is overwhelmed by the satisfying flavors in her mouth. Now, you were hungry because you hadn’t eaten in 6 hours. You were working all day at the office, printing out TPS reports. You ate, because you were hungry, but obviously din’t enjoy the food in the same way as your partner did. That may cause you to become addicted to food because you never really feel satisfied with what you’re eating, or you may develop a type of aversion to food because you aren’t satisfied or maybe you continue eating normally but one thing is certain; you won’t ever have the same experience of pleasure and food ecstasy as your partner. Do you catch my drift? This can affect your relationship in a very profound way. As your partner has a very intense and satisfying sexual experience, you are left bored, almost. Yes you do take pleasure in her pleasure, but it still leaves you dissatisfied, like “c’mon, I want to feel that too” maybe in the initial part of your relationship it’s a great thing, but as time goes on you realize you’re not having the same experience (in any case arriving to orgasm will take a lot more effort and concentration on your part) She will be finished before you ever arrive. So there’s your first sexual disconnect. After a while that will affect your relationship. You will become much more important for her than she will be for you. Which in one perspective may be a good thing because the man will have to learn to appreciate the woman in almost a purely emotional, spiritual and intellectual way but there will always be the first layer of connection missing; physical.
If you are more important to her than she is to you, than in any moment you may throw her away, seeing her uselessness if she doesn’t satisfy your spiritual, emotional, or intellectual needs; which can be a hard task to complete. Especially the intelectual and emotional. First the intellectual, requires great attention and understanding of the left hemisphere of the brain. The woman will have trouble completely understanding your ideas. At some point she simply won’t understand you. It takes a special kind of intelligence for a woman to intellectually understand a man and vice versa. So it’s an easy place to create misunderstanding and frustration. And from the emotional perspective, men are sort of disconnected by the very nature of man to man relationships. We aren’t so in tune with our emotions, especially since we don’t intellectualize them as women do in their social circles. We’re sort of lost in that area of defining emotions. Women are the experts in that area. Now with a fully intact man and woman, the sexual experience will fill in the gaps for those missing parts of the emotional and intelectual needs. It’s the grease in the hinges, if you will, of the man-woman romantic connection. Without the foreskin and the complete mutual sexual experience, those missing spaces in the intelectual and emotional connection may become cracks in the foundation and may cause a total breakdown of the romantic relationship. The man will be more inclined to throw away the woman at the moment of frustration. She will become worthless to the man. Which is dangerous because in an emotional tantrum, the man can lose touch with his feelings and give away his emotional support system. Not to mention the intelectual organizational system which is mutual understanding of ideas and concepts. He will lose his companion, the relationship will take some hard hits, there will be much suffering and heart break especially if the woman was completely satisfied in her sexuality.
Ever since being circumcised five years ago at the age of 24 I have experienced all of these changes first hand. I believe the ones who have the procedure done as babies won’t understand exactly what is missing and how the skin should work. In that period of 5 years I noticed a correlation on a macro scale between societies where circumcision is prominent and their involvement in large scale conflict, conquest and the acquisition of material wealth, land & power. Try not to misinterpret what I am about to say as being anti-anyone or anti-any country or religious group, it’s just an observation of large scale behavioral tendencies. Starting with the United States, until the turn of the 20th century, circumcision in the US was still a pretty rare practice but after the first two world wars, it became a much more popular practice for a few different reasons; first, during World War I the military started doing it to young and sailors against their will, claiming it will make them less vulnerable to diseases, however one could suspect ulterior motives behind this US military practice. Anyway, as soldiers returned home they were more inclined to have their newborn babies circumcised thinking of the pain they endured as adults and not wanting their kids to go through the same procedure as adults. Also the medicalization of childbirth in that era led to doctors to insist on the procedure for monetary reasons and finally it became widely popular by the end of WWII in part because of the development of hostility towards masturbation. The tradition has continued and today in America, newborn babies aren’t circumcised because of religious tradition but rather because of social tradition passed down through the previous two generations.
The next two peoples who predominantly practice circumcision are for religious reasons. It’s been a strict requirement of Judaism and Islam ever since the Abraham over 4,000 years ago. In my opinion Abraham was schizophrenic: Genesis 17-9 “Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised”. God also “told” Abraham to murder his youngest son, but then changed his mind after seeing Abraham’s obedience and stopped him. You can also see a correlation between circumcision and Jewish slavery in the ancient Egyptian times. Doesn’t it appear odd that circumcision appeared among the Jews conveniently at the time when they were enslaved by the Ancient Egyptians? Perhaps an evil ruler wanted to create male workers, servants, not to be distracted by passionate, loving and satisfying relationships. Actually, Abraham did not even invent circumcision, it was previously an ancient Egyptian practice to control the sexuality of servants. I also find it curious that Moses, being educated by the Egyptians and obviously must have known of it’s original purpose, did not circumcise his own son. This Abrahamic tradition has continued today through Islam as well as Judaism. And as you can see these three fore-mentioned groups have not exactly been the most peaceful groups on the planet.
I hope people become educated on the topic and recognize it’s negative impact on romantic relationships and society as a whole. World peace will be harder to achieve if we continue this practice. It’s a cruel mutilation of the perfection that nature has created. Doctors may argue that it’s more hygienic, which may have been true way back in the day when people didn’t have access to SOAP but nowadays you can buy a good antibacterial (I heard those weren’t good to use for some reason) but anyway, a good soap and clean yourself. You don’t see doctors saying that the vagina should be manipulated for hygiene do you? And There is hope, as a Roman in 20 BC developed a surgical technique to restore the foreskin. He did that to integrate into greek society as the foreskin was very important for greek society. For example when the olympians competed in the games, they were completely naked and showing the penis glans in public was, of course, offensive.