Results of circumcision on women's sexual pleasure.

DownSoFar · 2011-03-17T07:08:15+00:00

Women having sexual experience with both circumcised and anatomically complete partners were recruited through classified advertisements in magazines and an announcement in an anti-circumcision newletter.

Prescreening bias? Self-selection bias?

Of the 284 surveys, 139 were completed and returned

How statistically significant are the results with such a small sample size?

Not all questions were answered by all respondents. Contradictory answers showed that not all respondents understood the questions; the responses and unanswered questions were excluded from the analysis.

So the sample size for each question is even smaller? They don't even mention how many respondents were excluded or non-answering!

While this study shows clearly that women prefer the surgically unaltered penis, it does have shortcomings. The respondents were not selected randomly and several were recruited using a newsletter of an anti-circumcision organization. However, when the responses from respondents gathered from the mailing list of the anti-circumcision organization were compared with those of the other respondents, there were no differences.

And this guards against self-selection how?

This selection bias may be compensated to the degree that each respondent acted as her own control, using her subjective criteria on both types of penises. The findings cannot be completely attributed to selection bias.

Jesus Christ, what a mess. No, that's wrong in ways I can't even begin to wrap my head around. How did this get through peer review? This goes a long way to explain why BJU had such an incredibly low impact factor in the late 90s.

Chowley_1 · 2011-03-17T04:12:17+00:00

Can I get a TL;DR?

BolshevikMuppet · 2011-03-20T08:42:03+00:00

The thing that's interesting for me, is that most women orgasm clitorally, not vaginally. In fact, most women have not experienced "vaginal" orgasms. So, this study could just as easily be read as "women who prefer vaginal orgasms prefer uncircumcised penises".

Here's what I'm curious about:

Their circumcised partners were more likely to have premature ejaculation

Isn't circumcision supposed to "keratinize" the penis and make it less sensitive? Boy, either the anti-circumcision folks are talking out of both sides of their mouths, or the penis works in a way counter to every expectation (less sensation makes you ejaculate faster)

rantgrrl · 2011-03-17T04:16:05+00:00

TL;DR = half as many vaginal orgasms.

Title	Results of circumcision on women's sexual pleasure.
Author	thetrollking
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Date	March 17, 2011 1:44 AM UTC (15 years ago)
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