UNDER CONSTRUCTION
At the other extreme, in large parts of Europe, Canada, Australia
etc., problems are usually treated after they have arisen, following
experiences of pain, difficulty or discomfort during masturbation,
or after the first unsuccessful attempts with love-making.
There are two clinical complications which occurr often during
masturbation at the beginning of puberty due to a mild phimotic
ring. This can get stuck behind the glans (paraphimosis), or repeated
abrasion against the glans can lead to infections.
During the first steps to manhood genital pain or difficulty can
have far reaching consequences. Quite apart from the physical problems
a young boy experiencing pain or difficulty during masturbation
will be worried. Even the bravest young warrior on the first steps
to manhood, confronted with a problem with his penis will be scared.
He will be embarrassed, confused and worried.
He may reassure himself thinking everyone is normal, without really
understanding that normal men can see and touch their entire penis.
Alternatively he will develop a growing awareness that something
is permanently wrong with his penis or with touching his foreskin
or with masturbation - He may even accept taht something is permanently
wrong with his penis, and he simply has to live with it. Worry and
confusion will often take unrealistic dimensions ...
As human nature is, he will put off confronting the problem. He
will then often simply prefer not to talk about this with his parents
preferring to wait until of an age to ask a doctor.
However, in some cases our brave explorer simply does not realise
that retracting his foreskin is possible, normal or desirable. He
intuitively avoids any approaching pain and he adapts to his limitation
without experiencing it as a difficulty. He grows accustomed
to his body as it is, never questioning nature. His sexual behaviour
becomes anatomically inhibited.
If he is lucky he will discover his condition following failure
or pain during first intercourse. However, often he will simply
enter adulthood adapting his self image and behaviour to accommodate
his anatomical inhibition, thus providing a basis for confusion
and distress in all his intimate relationships.
When boys are left alone with such problems it means that a considerable
percentage are going to have a fully distorted first impression
of sex and manhood. An absurdly mismanaged passage to manhood, arguably
more bizarre than any primitive custom.
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