I have a hypothesis, that if it can be proven, will show that
circumcision is actually bad for the human race, as a cultural practice.
The science of psychology, knows the existence of many neurotransmitters, the important thing about neurotransmitters is, they are deeply implicated in terms of behaviour.
A good example for this is, people who are bipolar, basically they live on something like a dopamine/serotonin seesaw.My hypothesis concerns one particular neurotransmitter, that being,
oxytocin. This is a remarkable neurotransmitter, because it's effect, is
different for males to females. Basically if you get a room full of
females and spray oxytocin in the air, the females all start being nicer
to each other. Do the same thing to a room full of males and the
reaction is different, the males start competing more. And we know from
an amazing discovery, concerning male prairie voles, that certain voles
have a mutation that means they produce less oxytocin, the astonishing
thing is, the males that have the mutation, are polygamous, whereas the
males without the mutation, have more oxytocin, which makes them more
monogamous!
When a mammalian baby is suckling, the nerves in the mother's nipple, cause her brain's limbic system, to excrete more oxytocin into her brain's cerebral fluid, this affects her behaviour. My hypothesis is, the around 20,000 nerves that are excised during circumcision, connect to the limbic system in roughly the same area as the nerves of the female nipple.
My hypothesis is, that the circumcised male brain, produces slightly less oxytocin and thus causes slightly different behaviours, to the male brain that connects to a foreskin. This can't be seen in the individual, but can be seen in national demographics, gun owner ship in Canada, is almost as high as in the USA, but gun crime in the USA is far higher. Source - Michael Moore's film 'Bowling for Columbine'. The majority of males are
circumcised in the USA and not in Canada.