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<\/a>This is one of only a few studies of the sexual consequences of male circumcision, and in one area in particular it is groundbreaking:<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cPrevious studies into male circumcision have looked at the effects it has on the men. But scientists have never really studied the effects this has on the women’s sex lives,\u201d says Frisch.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cIt appears that women with circumcised men are twice as likely to be sexually frustrated. They experience a three-fold risk of frequent difficulties in achieving orgasm, and an eight-fold risk of feeling pain during intercourse \u2013 also known as dyspareunia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nCircumcised men prefer it rough<\/strong><\/h5>\nThe study has received international attention. Politicians from California, for example, have been in contact with the researchers because they want to ban circumcision in their federal state.<\/span><\/p>\nThere appears to be a very simple reason why circumcised men and their partners are having problems with their sex lives.<\/span><\/p>\nThe circumcised man develops a thin layer of hard skin on his penis head, which decreases the sensitivity. This means that in order to reach an orgasm, he needs to work harder at it, and that can lead to a painful experience for the woman.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cWe conducted a survey, but the data does not explain why <\/em>these problems occur. There are, however, some good suggestions in the scientific literature,\u201d he explains.<\/span><\/p>\nWhen the penis enters the vagina, the foreskin is pulled back. And on its way out again, the foreskin goes back to cover the penis head. This way the foreskin stimulates both the man and the woman.<\/span><\/p>\nThe gliding in-and-out movement of the foreskin, combined with the in-and-out movement inside the vagina, constitutes what is known as \u2018the gliding movement\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cWhen a circumcised man moves in and out of a woman without ‘the gliding movement’ caused by the foreskin, it can have a painful effect on the woman’s mucous membrane. This could explain the pain and the tendency towards dryness that some women with circumcised men experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nSources of error were filtered out<\/strong><\/h5>\nA vast majority of the circumcised men in the study were circumcised based on a doctor’s estimate.<\/span><\/p>\nIn the U.S. some 50 percent of all boys are circumcised.<\/span><\/p>\nCircumcision is \u2013 or rather has been \u2013 common in many English-speaking countries. This is due to a trend from the Victorian age where doctors recommended that boys should be circumcised as this would make it more difficult to masturbate.<\/span><\/p>\nAt the time, masturbation was thought to lead to a long list of problems, including mental illness and typhus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cOnly five percent of all Danish men are circumcised, yet we have statistically valid evidence that male circumcision can be associated with sexual problems.<\/span><\/p>\nThe study did not involve many religiously circumcised men \u2013 Jews and Muslims, for example. But even with these factors taken into account, the data pointed in the same direction. The statistical analyses also took a long list of additional relevant factors into account, including:<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Age<\/span><\/li>\n
- Cultural background<\/span><\/li>\n
- Religious background<\/span><\/li>\n
- Marital status<\/span><\/li>\n
- Levels of education<\/span><\/li>\n
- Household income<\/span><\/li>\n
- Age at first intercourse<\/span><\/li>\n
- Number of sex partners<\/span><\/li>\n
- Frequency of sexual activity with one partner in the past year<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u201cWe adjusted for all these factors in an attempt to ensure that circumcision is the actual cause, and that the link isn\u2019t attributable to other factors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n