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OVERVIEW OF THE CURRENT SURVEY RESULTS
- continued -Description of Harmful Behaviours (page 50 of PDF) (multiple answers possible)
"Thinking about my circumcision causes/has caused me to engage in":
Smoking ........................................................................... Alcohol ............................................................................. Prescription Drugs (stimulants, tranquilizers, etc)................... Non-prescription/social/illegal Drugs..................................... Food (overeating) ............................................................. Compulsive Sex (because sex is only temporarily satisfying and I always feel I need more) Laumann .................................... Infliction of self-harm (pinching, cutting, biting, etc)............... Suicidal attempts .............................................................. Other ............................................................................... None of the above ............................................................. Open Comments: (115 received)
Compulsive masturbation (many such responses) Laumann
Avoiding intimacy/avoidance of sex (many such responses)
Social isolation (many such responses)
Foreskin restoration (many such responses)
Intactivism (many such responses)
Negative thoughts, downward mental spiral
Compulsive study of circumcision literature
Punching walls, smashing objects, screaming, sobbing
Laumann: NHSLS data indicate that circumcised men engage in a somewhat more elaborated set of sexual practices than do men who are not circumcised. For each of the practices examined, lifetime experience of various forms of oral and anal sex and masturbation frequency in the past year, circumcised men engaged in these behaviors at greater rates. The difference between circumcised men was greatest for masturbation - ironically, a practice that circumcision was once thought to limit. A total of 47% of circumcised men reported masturbating at least once a month vs 34% for their uncircumcised peers.
Circumcision in the United States: Prevalence, Prophylactic Effects, and Sexual Practice (Laumann/1997)
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