[ ARC forum 2 ]
Written by Paul B. at 10 Oct 2001 23:54:23: Good Advice
As an answer to: Re: Advice written by AJ at 10 Oct 2001 15:45:58:
> We both know that's not true, don't we PaulB.
It depends on your point of view; my comment was tongue-in-cheek, merely pointing out that surgery in the form of circumcision will cause far more damage, quite deliberately, than a preputioplasty, and that in turn more damage than progressive dilatation.
Inappropriate surgery is damage, even if it was the most expert surgeon (though that is an obvious contradiction and absurdly unlikely; a surgeon who offers unnecessary surgery thus defines himself as a hack and they do exist!). Damage is measured in loss of function - if our poster has no foreskin, then he has lost a significant sensory area. If he instead proceeds with progressive stretching, he retains that sensory area and gains normal function of the foreskin - "win-win" on all counts. If he could find a competent surgeon to perform a preputioplasty, then he might achieve almost the same result.
We've really struck a nerve with you, though as Jim points out, it's no surprise given your known position. The absolute desperation in your writing to try and panic the original writer further than he already was, (as I pointed out,) into seeing one doctor, a second doctor and "having something done", is palpable, even though he clearly states, no infection, no pain, no anatomical abnormality, simply a tight foreskin which he has taken the first tentative steps to rectify. Where's your evidence for the dire consequences with which you threaten him if he does the stretching?