Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Circumcision: Trauma, Pleasure, and Confusing Realities #shorts

15 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this short dialogue, Josh Trent questions how society can accept the practice of circumcising newborn boys, describing it as a form of sexual trauma inflicted within the first days of life. The co‑speaker expands on this by highlighting the paradox where an act of violence is imposed on a body part meant for pleasure and safety, creating deep confusion about the role of pain in sexual anatomy. He notes that many men later in life express regret, feeling the procedure was wrong and wishing it had been different, emphasizing the need for a space to process these experiences.

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How is this even reality, where we need to describe to people that traumatizing a boy sexually in the first day of his life or week of his life is something that we even must describe? Is there anything else that you see happening that is so heinous in the birth space and the birth world besides the mutilation of a boy's sex organs?
And I will say this last piece about circumcision is when I've talked to men, you know, we talk about this intersection. It's like the first intersection where violence comes into contact with pleasure and how deeply confusing that is, right? Because this part of the body that should only experience pleasure, right, and safety is being intersected with this extremely violent act. And what kind of groundwork is being laid, you know, moving forward? But a belief that pain should even be involved when it comes to this part of the body, right? There's many, many men who show up years later saying, uh, this is not— this was not right, and I wish it would have been different. So yeah, it needs to be a space for processing.