OVERVIEW OF THE CURRENT SURVEY RESULTS
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Description of Physical Harm (page 22 of PDF) (multiple answers possible)

Partial/total loss of penile shaft...........................................
10%
Partial/total loss of the foreskin...........................................
100%
Partial/total loss of the frenulum..........................................
72%
Little/no mobility of shaft skin (tightly circumcised)................
56%
Gouges/missing parts from the glans....................................
8%
Skin tags..........................................................................
20%
Skin bridges......................................................................
10%
Prominent scarring.............................................................
63%
Drastic skin tone variance...................................................
46%
Meatal stenosis.................................................................
24%
Twist/bend in shaft............................................................
25%
Hair mid- to upper-shaft.....................................................
45%
Other...............................................................................
13%

Open Comments: (131 received)

Tethered erections due to insufficient remaining skin

Tears when erect/ripping along circ scar

Damaged glans

Crooked scar

Considerable pain and constant irritation/chafing of exposed glans with meatus highly painful to touch

Scars on the glans from the tearing of the foreskin from the glans before circ

Almost complete numbness on circ scar

Scar tissue attached to remnant frenulum/pain where frenulum was/pain around edges of glans

Photo Galleries of Harm

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