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Written by chImp at 19 Apr 2003 16:02:53:

I know three things for sure:

1) No intact male here in Europe would ever circumcise himself because he is "unhappy" with his present state (i.e. we're all happy about having a foreskin). The reason so many Americans voluntarily undergo this procedure for no medical reason, is pressure from the society they live in (whenever I see an American sitcom, girls go "eeeewww" whenever they see an uncut person. We don't have any such phenomena in Europe).

2) Routine infant circumcision produces a number of total nut cases, like Jim and Rood here. You have tens of thousands of such people in USA. They feel they are victims and cry every night about their loss (and spend years "restoring" their foreskins). Do you want your children to be like that?

3) Foreskin was developed by millions of years of evolution. If you have really tried sex being both cut and uncut, and you say that cut is more pleasurable, I'm not accusing you of lying. But I have read many other such stories, where the individual involved clearly regrets having been circumcised. The loss of sensation is a FACT. The glans has to adjust itself to the rubbing against the underwear by losing sensitivity (sensitivity works both ways: it can be very pleasurable and very painful). It's wishful thinking to assume that sex doesn't get worse by desentising the glans (plus losing all the nerves in the foreskin itself).

I want members of the CIRClist community to comment my points.


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