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Men
Circumcised as Adults
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men circumcised as adults
can experience the difference a foreskin makes. In the
Journal of Sex
Research, Money and Davison from the Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine reported on five such men. Changes included
diminished penile sensitivity and less penile gratification. The
investigators concluded, |
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Erotosexually and cosmetically, the
operation is, for the most part, contraindicated, and it should be
evaluated in terms of possible pathological sequelae.( 1) |
| Other men circumcised as
adults regret the change. |
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I play guitar and my fingers get
callused from playing. That’s similar to what happened to my penis
after circumcision.( 2)
After the circumcision there was a
major change. It was like night and day. I lost most sensation. I would
give anything to get the feeling back. I would give my house. [This
man’s physician persuaded him to be circumcised by warning he could
otherwise get penile cancer. When the man complained of the result, the
physician replied, “That’s normal” and would not help him.]( 3)
Slowly the area lost its sensitivity,
and as it did, I realized I had lost something rather vital. Stimuli
that had previously aroused ecstasy had relatively little effect. . . .
Circumcision destroys a very joyful aspect of the human experience for
males and females.( 4)
The greatest disadvantage of
circumcision is the awful loss of sensitivity when the foreskin is
removed. . . . On a scale of 10, the intact penis experiences pleasure
that is at least 11 or 12; the circumcised penis is lucky to get to 3.(
5)
The sexual differences between a
circumcised and uncircumcised penis is . . . like wearing a condom or
wearing a glove. . . . Sight without color would be a good analogy. . .
. Only being able to see in black and white, for example, rather than
seeing in full color would be like experiencing an orgasm with a
foreskin and without. There are feelings you’ll just never have without
a foreskin.( 6)
After thirty years in the natural
state I allowed myself to be persuaded by a physician to have the
foreskin removed—not because of any problems at the time, but because,
in the physician’s view, there might be problems in the future. That
was five years ago and I am sorry I had it done. . . . The sensitivity
in the glans has been reduced by at least 50 percent. There it is,
unprotected, constantly rubbing against the fabric of whatever I am
wearing. In a sense, it has become callused. . . . I seem to have a
relatively unresponsive stick where I once had a sexual organ.( 7)
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NOTES
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Money, J. &
Davison, J., “Adult Penile Circumcision:
Erotosexual and Cosmetic Sequelae,” Journal of Sex Research 19
(1983): 291.
- Letter to CRC
office, 1993.
- Telephone
conversation with CRC office, 1993.
- Milos, M. &
Macris, D., “Circumcision: A Medical or
a Human Rights Issue?” Journal of Nurse-Midwifery 37
(Supplement 1992): 93S.
- NOCIRC Newsletter,
Fall 1990, 3.
- Edell, D.,
Circumcision report for television news, KGO, San Francisco, 1984.
- “The Unkindest Cut
of All,” letter to the editor,
Playgirl, July 1979, 108.
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