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Re: ". the foreskin is not the candy wrapper, it's the candy & quot;.

Written by Jim at 11 Apr 2002 00:51:05:

As an answer to: Re: ". the foreskin is not the candy wrapper, it's the candy & quot;. written by rjk at 11 Apr 2002 00:39:03:

>>>>“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.
>>>This is certainly a remarkable report. Whether we accept it entirely & uncritically, it may have a genuine basis in the indisputable fact that the pudendal nerve, which serves penis, colon and anus, has endings distributed throughout the penis, not just in the glans and foreskin.
>>>It may also help explain why some men circumcised as adults report no significant loss of sexual pleasure.
>>>Concerning the opening sentence of the quote, to the effect that 'the chief source of sexual pleasure resides in the glans penis', numerous modern writers have pointed out that the brain is a vital sexual organ; it's where orgasms are experienced, of course. [Obviously they need to be triggered by activities elsewhere.]
>>>To sum things up, for the normal male whether or not he has a foreskin, completely satisfactory sex demands healthy functional testicles, prostate and penis at one end, a healthy receptive brain at the other, and a loving enthusiastic partner.
>>>Interesting information you've presented.
>>You are discounting the testimony of those who were mutilated as babies, only to find that by the time they were forty there was no more sensation.
>I find this statement bizarre [and unbelievable] inasmuch as I am well over 40 and have experienced no such loss of sensation.
>I am not discounting anyone's testimony, anecdotal or otherwise, only responding to the presentation of William Acton's thought-provoking paragraph.
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>After having restored their skins, the sensitivity in the glans was restored, thus allowing sexual relations again as they had in their twenties. This has happened to thousands of guys.
>You contend that this has happened to 'thousands of guys', but a factual comparison reported by Laumann in the Journal of the American Medical Association [Circumcision in the United States, available on the Internet at http://www.cirp.org.library/general/laumann/] confirms that in men between 40 and 60 the circumcised have fewer problems ('dysfunction') with sex than their uncut peers.
>In any case it would be as strange to lose sensation in the glans or penile shaft as in the fingertips, which of course are never covered with foreskin at any stage of life and whose sensitivity is essential to many human activities.
>A man's perception of sexual satisfaction certainly involves an element of subjectivity, but it's still true that the male orgasm, triggered in the brain by signals from the penis, has never been demonstrated to differ in the circumcised or uncircumcised. If you've got healthy testicles, prostate, penis and brain, you're well set for healthy sex.
> Contact NORM if you want more information.
>And by all means read Laumann's unbiased technical report.

Before you go off like a loose cannon, it would be adviseable for you to investigate what I have suggested. You can find links at www.norm.org.


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