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Further comments (2)

Written by Paul B. at 21 Apr 2002 00:09:04:

As an answer to: Re: Further advice (2) written by rjk at 18 Apr 2002 23:17:40:

>> And if you asked your ladyfriend ... proposed she needed to "keep it retracted" to "fix" that, what do you suppose she'd tell you?

> Beyond any need for supposition, sensitivity within the interior of the vagina was studied carefully and extensively, and thoroughly discussed by Masters & Johnson in their Human Sexual Response (1966), a classic report that is still accepted 36 years after publication.

Accepted, insofar as it revealed many insights into sexual functioning. Its accuracy is by no means guaranteed however, and it has many known limitations, such as I detailed elsewhere in a discussion about sensitivity of the glans.

But why mention it here? I cannot see any connection between M&J and simple observations about clitoral sensitivity? I certainly am not aware of anything in M&J which suggests that women wish their clitoris to be exposed. Can you explain?

> Personal experience has taught me that my bare glans is sufficiently sensitive that I can detect the existing degree of lubrication

Then good for you! You manage with what you have left as indeed many circumcised (partial or "complete") men do, which is commendable. But that does not impinge on the generality on which I commented.


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