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Re: Circed???

Written by RJK at 12 Apr 2002 00:25:28:

As an answer to: Re: Circed??? written by Jed at 12 Feb 2002 11:31:15:

>>Why worry? You have the glans available there in its most functional way!
>>Actual definition doesn't matter. The circed are not deprived if that is a concern of yours. There is no way that circumcision would have started in so many divergent parts of the world if it were capable of ruining sex!
>>If you are uncirced with an exposed glans that is also fine as the glans does well exposed to air and stays cleaner and less prone to infection'
>I'm afraid your information is way out of date. According to the Circumcision Supplement to the prestigious British Journal of Urology, the so called benefits of circumcision are illusory. Instead evidence of the damage, both physical and psychological which can affect the circumcised is overwhelming.

You may not have availed yourself of all the current information on circumcision's benefits or lack thereof. The Journal of the American Medical Association (a reasonably prestigious publication) has a study of circumcision in the US by Laumann et al. (hhtp://www.cirp.org/library/general/laumann/) that suggests there are some benefits from circumcision, notably in reduced sexual dysfunction in circumcised men between ages 40 and 59, but this is only part of what is presented.


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