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"The foreskin is not the candy wrapper, it's the candy."

Written by tmtanec at 06 Apr 2002 17:52:54:

As an answer to: Glans sensitivity is one thing. Foreskin sensations are another. written by tmtanec at 06 Apr 2002 17:40:35:

And here’s an odd thing (it’s from Pleasures of the Foreskin ):

“Many foreign writers maintain … that the chief source of sexual pleasure resides in the glans penis. That this organ has a considerable share in the sensations experienced is very true, but, from certain cases that have come under my notice, I cannot help thinking that it has less to do with them than is generally supposed. Some time ago I attended an officer on his return from India, who had lost the whole of his glans penis. The patient, completely recovered his health, the parts healed, and a considerable portion of the body of the penis was left. I found, to my surprise, that the sexual act was not only possible, but that the same amount of pleasure as formerly was still experienced. He assured me, indeed, that the sexual act differed in no respect (as far as he could detect) from what it had been before the mutilation.”

William Acton, The functions and disorders of the reproductive organs in childhood, youth, adult age and advanced life, 3rd London edition, Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston, 1865, pp. 114-15.


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