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Re: Problems and appropriate advice.

Written by halfclip at 23 Dec 2001 02:45:23:

As an answer to: Problems and appropriate advice. written by Paul B. at 22 Dec 2001 14:26:26:

>Interesting that you are. I was on the other hand, originally limiting myself to discussion of achieving optimum foreskin function in regard to sexuality.

Who are you to define what an optimum foreskin is to someone else ? Let each individual decide what he prefers as optimum foreskin length. If a person with a long problematic foreskin personally prefers the look of a shorter foreskin and is presented with the option to shorter his foreskin to a desired length at the same time as removng his phimosis, what is wrong with that ?

re: cutting the nerves. You know, very often I wish that it did "mutilate" my penis because 18 years after my partial circ, I am still limited in my choice of underwear because my penis is still sensitive to rubbing in underwear and I wear underwear that not only reuces rubbing, but also keeps the remaining skin over head.

This is quite the opposite of the anti-circ crowd that claim that the vicinity of a scalpel to the foreskin instantly makes your penis numb and insensitive.

A recent study in africa that was AIDS related found something most interesting: the glans is just as keratizined in the uncircumcised as it is in the circumcised adult. keratinisation is a question of age, not circ status. The difference they found was in the inner foreskin


And I can tell you this: as a young lad, it hurt like hell to wipe a towel over my glans in a bath because the glans was so sensitive. But by the time I was 11-12, it became less sensitive and stimulation was no longer painful, but I still couldn't rub head directly. Now, 18 years after a aprtial circ, the glans is just the right sensitivity. I can play directly on it, or use the skin to stimulate it.


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