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Re: Yes and No...

Written by Ivan at 19 Dec 2002 18:37:37:

As an answer to: Yes... written by AJ at 19 Dec 2002 18:01:23:

>>I can just about see the hole it doesent go back futher than that.There has absolutly no problem with it so far except that the inner part feels really funny when i touch it.Will it affect sex?
>It will limit the sensation you feel. If it doesn't cause you pain then an non retracting foreskin will limit the amount of sensation you will feel, since it denies access to the head. A good test: Get someone to tickle your hand. Then put a glove on and see how different it feels. It's the same kind of thing with a non retracting foreskin - it stop you feeling what you should. Regardless of what people here would like you to believe: The foreskin should retract. If it doesn't you have a problem which at worst could cause you pain or at best limit the sexual sensation that everyone gets.

Not exactly - First, the glans, being an organ whosh primary purpose is to be sensitive is extraordinarily sensitive when it has been kept entirely covered. AJ himself describes ad nauseum how sensitive his glans was after his circumcision until it became more deadened (a process already well under way as to his other head). By contrast, your hand is always exposed to the cold, cruel world, and its sensitivity has adjusted based on the amount of rubbing and irritation it gets from the outside. Thus your palm is already far less seensitive than your glans, and it is made less so depending on the physical and chemical exposure it gets, which your glans has never had. FurtherA glove is not a foreskin: the foreskin transmits pressure and other contacts extremely well, that's oart of what it is for, while a glove is dead. AND the foreskin is an extraordinarily sensitive organ itself, more so on the inside than the outside, for the same reasons observed above, but contact with the foreskin while it is over the glans moves both of those highly sensitive surfaces against each other. Ooh-la-la. Many men conduct their entire sex lives without ever retracting their foreskins, very happily. Retraction is preferable, both because it helps you and because it helps the woman you are with (read Sex As Nature Intended It).

>There are several ways to resolve the issue surgically. Or you could try stretching, though this only works for some people. See Jake Booth a contributor here who has been successful in stretching his phimosis and may have some pointers.
>Hope this helps.

Now here's what I was saying in a previous post, AJ: your first suggestion is to surgery, the radical alternative. And when you suggest the medically conservative course of stretching, you make it sound far more iffy than it is. I am not personally involved with it enough to say it is 100% (not on my own observations), but from the testimony of those on the message boards, it appears to be near 100% anyway - the reported failures seem to be from lack of will or patience, not from the method or the body's ability to respond. Any good doctor is going to tell you to take the least invasive and most easily rectified alternative first; only the knife-happy quacks AJ would have you going to will cut first (in all fairness to the docs - they very reasonably assume that you have attempted self-help with most problems before you come to them. If they were less busy, and perhaps less interested in the bigger-dollar work, they would explore the more conservative options, but in the real world, they'll give you the medical option, surgery). Don't trust people whose self-interest is at odds with your interest, and your interest is maintaining bodily integrity. Good luck with your stretching (and AJ is also right about reading through Jake Booth's progress, but take what he says about AJ with a grain of salt - and above all, think for yourself).


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