We know that inflicting severe trauma on infants and children can result in dissociation.

We know that the effect of dissociation is to freeze part or all of the psyche at the age at which the trauma was inflicted.

It seems a reasonable supposition that strapping an infant down to a table and chopping the end off their penis without anesthesia, might constitute a trauma sufficient to cause dissociation.

It would follow that circumcision without anesthesia might be a contributing factor in the development of pedophilia (Not to mention a permanent feeling of victim-hood), as the circumcised person is locked into an infantile psyche and is naturally drawn to sexual partners of the same perceived age.

The question for research is whether or not there is a statistically significant incidence of pedophilia in men who were subjected to ritual circumcision?