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Written by Roger at 07 May 2004 16:13:18: Re: Undergo or not surgery?
As an answer to: Re: Undergo or not surgery? written by Ralesk at 07 May 2004 07:40:45:
Thank you so much for all information you have provided me with.
I must admit I was quite worried and lacked information . I was thinking it would be inevitable a surgery but at the same time I felt that some other possibility was somewhere waiting for me. I mean, as I understand now, if my problem or "issue" is that I have the pinhole phimosis and that I'm not so abnormal because all over the world there are other guys this way, I'll certainly prefer being so which , if I understood right won't cause me any further trouble. I was kinda scared with a possibility of any sort of complications in the future but as you said even this "paraphimosis " isn't my case anyways. I'm happy for having got to this site which helped so much.
>>What do you mean by staying whole? Sorry but english is my second language !
>Whole, is what you said: you said you prefer to avoid circumcision.
>And your English is better than you’d think, don’t worry about it ;)
>>You also say all I 'll need is my two hands...you mean masturbating?
>http://f19.parsimony.net/forum33578/messages/11243.htm should give a basic idea about it.
>>About the exact condition, I saw in the site and identified as the pinhole phimosis which is then the total impossiblity for me to retract the skin and so I've never seen the "glans". So far I never had nay infections or pain and besides, as I have already mentioned I don't have intention to have intercourse as I consider myself a passive homosexual guy.
>*nods* I see.
>>I thank you very much for ansering these post because this has been my only way for understanding it all better. I've read some e-mail in the site and I didn't really know that there were so many people with this problem ...
>>At the moment I 'm paying no health plan and so it would be difficult to get to a good doc but as I'm not having any trouble as infection or so.... I'll prefer to stay as I am. You said it would be complicated if I had intercourse but I don't think I will for the reason metioned above and so using my "two hands" I can get myself a treatment , right?!
>If you have a “pinhole” phimosis as you describe it, it’s quite unlikely that you’d encounter the paraphimosis problem anytime soon (if ever), even if you had sex.
>Someone mentions cancer below — you should perhaps look at statistics for it to get a better picture. In both cases, it’s quite a small number, but a circumcision definitely doesn’t give a full protection against it (furthermore, no-one really knows what causes it, but just as with other cancers, you don’t get them “because” you have the whatever body part (you can get lung cancer if you have lungs, but lung cancer is definitely NOT caused by your lungs — if you see the point)). He also mentions that people who do stretching exercises, end up dissatisfied — this is a matter of perception. Some people don’t seem to be happy with they could/can achieve with their foreskin, and are happier without it — this is nowhere universal.