PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT
OF CIRCUMCISION ON MEN.
"I feel violated and abused."
FEELINGS OF DISSATISFACTION AND HAVING BEEN HARMED.
The dissatisfaction of some circumcised men can be described in detail.
It has been expressed in an increasing number of letters from men all around the country to the Circumcision Resource Center and to several other organizations that educate the public about circumcision.
Moreover, in an issue of a major medical journal, twenty men signed a letter saying, “We are all adult men who believe that we have been harmed by circumcision.”
We do not know how widespread the discontent is, but that these feelings exist at all is a noteworthy development and reason for concern.
We do not know how widespread the discontent is, but that these feelings exist at all is a noteworthy development and reason for concern.
Following are some statements about circumcision excerpted from letters written by dissatisfied circumcised men and received at the Circumcision Resource Center:
- I have felt a deep rage for a long time about this.
- My penis feels incomplete, deformed, maimed.
- Circumcision has given my life a much diminished and shameful flavour.
- The single most traumatic event of my life with the greatest psychological damage was my circumcision as an infant.
- Circumcision: it’s taught me how to hate.
- Being circumcised has ruined my sex life.
- anger, resentment, revenge, rage, hate
- sense of loss, deficiency, diminished body image
- disbelief, lack of understanding, confusion
- embarrassment, shame
- sense of having been victimized, cheated, robbed, raped,
- violated, abused, mutilated, deformed
- fear, distrust, withdrawal
- grief, sadness, pain
- envy, jealousy of intact men
Over 80 percent of respondents cited emotional harm.
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