The only real advantage I see to having an intact foreskin other than its being a great extra sex toy is in anal intercourse: I'm almost always a top because I really don't enjoy getting fucked in the ass; however, I've discovered that being fucked by a guy who is intact provides a whole different experience. Essentially, the cock slides within its skin sheath, reducing the "burn" while allowing full motion and sensation -- a much more enjoyable experience.

~ GaySatyr (ABB)

Edited by - GaySatyr on 1/18/2005 10:17:35 PM

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Men circumcised at birth regard their loss of sensation as "normal", and a few appear to be in a permanent state of denial about it.

Those circumcised as adults know exactly the level of sensitivity they had while intact. High enough that it would be impossible to wear clothes with the glans uncovered.

All circumcised males wear clothes. Quod erat demonstrandum.

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Not trying to flame - just posting my experience.

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My foreskin retracted just fine. It wasn't tight at all and wasn't limited by a tight frenulum. I lived in a warm climate and I picked up a few infections under there. I saw one doctor who advised me to get it cut off, but I didn't want to so I shopped around. The next guy I saw said I could use steroid cream, but in the end he said my choice was either walk around with cream oozing from the end of my dick whenever I had an infection (not that often BTW, but still too often for my liking), or lose it.

I'd heard about this loss of sensitivity and I didn't want to get circumcised at all, but eventually I gave in. The past 12 years I've been like "What the f...? Jesus, what have I been missing out on..."

Like I said, and like you've no doubt noted from other posts here, my experience isn't shared by everybody. I have talked about this with a friend of mine though - who is also a GP (we met after my surgery), and she told me that she knows many men circumcised as adults who experience greater sensation like I did after the surgery. Horses for courses I guess.

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Yes many are against it being done on a helpless child. Whereas in your case you made an informed decision as an adult.
So while I think you may have considered more hygenic practices, I do not know the nature of your environment. And I would support your decision if that was the best choice for you as a consenting adult.

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I hear you. I had to front this last week, which is what urged me to post again on this topic. A good friend of mine is about to become a single mother, and had asked me for my opinion on circumcision. All I could say was that it was the best money I'd ever spent and I wished I'd been done at birth, but I had a very hard time working out if this was a decision anyone should make for a young child without reason. Either it's just one of the many many choices parents make for their children on a regular basis, or it isn't - and that depends entirely on your point of view.

Working in an allied health field myself, I'd be much more concerned about vaccinating my children than circumcising them, considering some of the research that is coming out recently. Permanently altering the immune system and possibly the nervous system is pretty big decision to have to make on someone else's behalf as well.

BTW - if you think choosing to have a baby circumcised is cruel, you should have seen what my parents chose to dress me in in the 70's!

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Wanna thank the surgeon. Hope to meet him someday. Did a real pretty job, exceptional. LOL

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I can't help thinking that those posters that claim to like being circumcised are simply trying to rationalize their situation to themselves in order to avoid some otherwise rather very unpleasant conclusions.

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~ GaySatyr (ABB)

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I'm damn proud of my one eyed torpedo , you guys are just jealous .

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Also, in this thread, both you and the other pro-circ poster admit to having an injured or unhealthy foreskin before the cut, so claiming to have "had both" is perhaps a little misleading.

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I have no problem with circumcision, per se. There are certainly a number of reasons and situations where it is a reasonable option. However, I do think that it should be an informed choice made by the individual and his doctor -- not an automatically tabulated item added to the cost of birth as it usually is here in the USA. I think it should be limited to those whose religion requires it or where there is medical need. Social convention is not a reasonable justification for the procedure.

~ GaySatyr (ABB)

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Circumcission, like religious education, should be left out of childrens lifes untill they are able to think and make the decission for themselves.

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i think only some people who get circumcised lose sensation. it depends on how the nerve endings are arranged on the penis when you are young. the end of the nerve endings are the most sensitive, nerves grow slightly differently from person to person....and it just depends if these endings were sliced off or not in the circumcsion process.

my 20 cents

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i've heard of cases like i described anyway

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I have intimately known two men who were circumcised as adults. Both were much happier with their sex life post operation. That doesn't mean I believe in circumcision at birth. I see valid arguments both ways.

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Just a few key words here I think......barbaric, unnecessary, and mutilated..

How any loving parent can subject their perfect, healthy baby boy to this procedure is beyond my comprehension.....if it becomes a medical necessity or an operation of choice later in life, so be it. At least then some form of anesthetic is used.....but to strap down or pin down these babies and cut off living, healthy flesh and to claim that it doesn't hurt as they scream .......just don't get it!!!!!

Add to that lovely mental image that I just left you with, the fact that I am now with the first un-cut man in my experience and am loving his foreskin every chance I get...

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Do I think circumcision is unnecessary? Sure. Do I think it's barbaric mutilation? No.

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Funny thing is, I feel VERY lucky to be uncut, but people who are pro-circumcision tell me I'm missing out on something.

Yeah I'm missing out on the knife to my knob part. No thanks.

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"...Also, in this thread, both you and the other pro-circ poster admit to having an injured or unhealthy foreskin before the cut, so claiming to have "had both" is perhaps a little misleading...."

Licker - if you're referring to me you're mistaken. My foreskin functioned perfectly. It wasn't tight, it retracted easily and quite spontaneously upon erection, it felt good during sex. As for "unhealthy" - well thanks for that. I lived right on the tropic of Capricorn where the weather was consistently humid and the temperatures very high pretty much every day. I showered twice a day, and was (and still am) scrupulously clean. For whatever reason I developed an infection under (actually - on the inside of) my foreskin, which returned several times. It was uncomfortable and I sought treatment for it. Read my post again.

I did not want to get circumcised.

I never considered myself or parts of my body as "unhealthy".

I had heard about this loss of sensitivity, and my God, sex felt pretty damn good to me already. I didn't want to lose the sensations I was feeling then. Circumcision was suggested by the first doctor I saw and it freaked me out enough to go and get a second opinion.

My circumcision made an enormous improvement to an already fantastic sex life. I'll say it again - I didn't want to get circumcised. I'm so very glad I did. The pleasure my circumcised penis gives me is something I will never stop marvelling at.

I'm just sharing my own very positive experience. It's a shame that people will try and twist it into something negative just because it differs from their own.

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In fact, Mrs. C's oral skills would likely kill me if my sensation were any greater.

Besides, why fret over something one cannot change?

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