[ ARC forum 2 ]
Written by Ralesk at 27 Jul 2002 16:39:25: Re: From the horses mouth...
As an answer to: From the horses mouth... written by AJ at 27 Jul 2002 13:34:00:
>Circumcision is not always neccessary, but is considered by virtually every medical body in the developed world that it is the most common and best way to resolve phimosis and related conditions.
Interesting. I'd like to doubt the "most common and best way" part. Especially in Europe.
>However, there's a huge difference between lengthening the foreskin and stretching phimosis.
The difference is that by one (restoration) you have to lengthen MORE. That's the difference.
>The desired results of functionality from stretching run from no change to full retraction with the possible reversion to prior state after a while, to bizarre extremes of just making a longer foreskin (like people that "restore" have).
If you don't use your foreskin, it shall get phimosed -- If I stopped using my foreskin, even I would get phimosed. It's like that. If you lose weight, after a while -- *quite* long tho -- the skin will fit again. If you get a stroke and half of you gets totally unusable and your muscles degrade from not being used -- your skin will follow your contour. It is the very same thing. It's not that you were phimosed and stretched and it'll whoops in whatnot days return to phimosed, and if you were not, it won't. If you leave it alone for some ten years, both will, again. (less time for the phimosed and he-gave-up-stretching-further, obviously, because it's not as loose as for others (solved phimosed and normal)).
>It is inaccurate and often unhealthy* for unqualified individuals to suggest that they are better versed in suggesting "cures" for these conditions.
Well, unless someone is a masochist or some kind of brainless idiot, they won't do any damage to themselves. Wait... mentally deprived have more instinctual control. They won't either. I don't want to think on this paragraph more. Not now.