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Originally Posted by billege
However, I do believe they’ve made the wrong choice. They’ve chosen to permanently modify their son’s penises from their natural condition, because they felt like it. The boys will not live healthier lives now because of it, nor will they experience the type of sexual pleasures they would have pre-mutilation. Their glans will not be protected nor nourished by the foreskin and its benefits.
It’s true that the rest of their sexual and genital functions will happen, and enable someone to say “there’s no side effects.” Similarly, if I surgically cut off a finger, close after birth, I could say there were no side effects; or, sliced off the female’s labia majora. The fact is a large portion of the penis’ functional structure has been arbitrarily cut off. The penis functions without the hood, but not as nature intended. As it’s done without consent at birth, very few mutilated men can make the basis for a comparison cut/uncut.
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But see, this cannot conclusively be proven. I feel quite a bit of sensitivity during intercourse. If a man has a circumcision after the age at which he begins to have sex, it likely won't feel "as good" to him, just like most right handed men wouldn't enjoy masturbating with their left hand as much. It a lot like how some woman get "hooked" on use of a vibrator... if they do it enough, they don't feel as good with normal sex. But BEFORE, they felt it just as well, and that was with no changes to their physiology. I don't believe there is any way to conclusively prove that uncut men are more sensitive or enjoy sex more than cut men. It's like saying men or women feel it more than the other. How could you know? Average endorphine release? Too variable. Brainwave? Well, men and women respond differently to a LOT of things. You just can't say one or the other.
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I understand the urge to prepetuate this uneccessary proceedure upon our kids. Believe me. I am circumsized and when we had my son I had to think about it. Did I want my son to look different from me? In my mind, all I know is the circumsized penis.
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Then you don't understand my reasoning at all... he's a different person than me, he may NOT look like me. This had nothing to do with my decision to circumcise my son. I honestly believe, through what I've read, what I think and what common sense I can muster towards the topic, that I made the correct decision.