Circumcision Removes Most Sensitive Bits

[Lemur]

I know, if lemur isn't posting about torture or debt, it must be about circumcision. Couldn't find the old monster thread, so we'll just have to start a new one.

Anyway, there's a new study that shows how vital the bits removed are. "Researchers prodding dozens of male penises with a fine-tipped tool have found that the five areas most receptive to fine-touch are routinely removed by the surgery."

I feel vindicated in my decision to leave my littlest lemur unchopped.

Study: Circumcision Removes Most Sensitive Parts

By Ker Than, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 15 June 2007 12:53 pm ET

How much does circumcision alter what a man ultimately feels? Scientific studies aiming to answer this question have been inconclusive.

Now researchers prodding dozens of male penises with a fine-tipped tool have found that the five areas most receptive to fine-touch are routinely removed by the surgery.

The finding, announced today, was detailed in the April issue of the British Journal of Urology (BJU) International.

Circumcision surgery involves the removal of the skin that covers the tip of the penis, called the foreskin. Infant male circumcision is the most common medical procedure in the United States, with an estimated 60 percent of male newborns undergoing the surgery.

Morris Sorrells of National Organization of Circumcision Information Resources Center and colleagues created a “penile sensitivity map” by measuring the sensitivity of 19 locations on the penises of 159 male volunteers. Of the participants, 91 were circumcised as infants and none had histories of penile or sexual dysfunction.

For circumcised penises, the most sensitive region was the circumcision scar on the underside of the penis, the researchers found. For uncircumcised penises, the areas most receptive to pressure were five regions normally removed during circumcision—all of which were more sensitive than the most sensitive part of the circumcised penis.

Circumcision is a procedure practiced in several countries for medical as well as cultural reasons. Most scientists agree that the surgery confers some protection against infection and the risk of contracting sexual diseases. Recent studies have also shown that circumcision can lower the risks of HIV infection by as much as 60 percent in sex between males and females.

But Robert Van Howe, a study team member at Michigan State University, thinks such claims are somewhat overblown. “The [health benefits] that have been consistently shown are very small, and there are less aggressive, less invasive, less expensive ways of dealing with the problems [circumcision] is supposed to address,” Van Howe told LiveScience.

Other practices, such as choosing sexual partners wisely and using condoms consistently, are far more effective in protecting against diseases, he added.

Circumcision is opposed by some groups on the grounds that it is painful and not a life-saving procedure, and that it also makes sex less pleasurable by exposing and numbing the tip of the penis, called the glans. Some have gone so far as recommending foreskin restoration.

Some previous studies found that circumcision led to little, if any, decrease in penile sensitivity, but Sorrells and his colleagues say such findings are suspect because many are based on self-reports from men who were circumcised to correct medical problems.

[Strike For The South]

I hate my mum

HATE!

I honestly think Im missing out on so much

[CountArach]

*Shakes head*

All that wasted skin... Its just so hard to think about.

[Strike For The South]

*Shakes head*

All that wasted skin... Its just so hard to think about.

swing....and a miss.

[CountArach]

Intentional.

[Strike For The South]

Intentional.

How convienent

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[Gawain of Orkeny]

"Researchers prodding dozens of male penises with a fine-tipped tool have found that the five areas most receptive to fine-touch are routinely removed by the surgery."

I would think it to be an advantage when you are young and inexperienced

It also explains why Christians do it. People masturbate too often already. Lets not encourage them



From Robin Hood Men in tights

Rabbi Tuckman: [referring to a circumcision] The ladies love it!
Rabbi Tuckman: I am Rabbi Tuckman, purveyor of sacramental wine and moyel extraordinaire.
Robin Hood: What's a moyel?
Rabbi Tuckman: Moyel? He's a very important guy. He makes circumcisions.
Robin Hood: And what, pray tell, sir, is a circumcision?
Rabbi Tuckman: It's the latest craze. The ladies love it!
Achoo: I'll take one.
Little John: I'll take two!
Robin Hood: I'm game, how's it done?
Rabbi Tuckman: [pulls out a carrot and a miniature guillotine, and sticks the end of the carrot into the hole] I take my machine here, I take your little thing, I put it through this hole, and then,
[releases the blade, cutting the end off the carrot]
Rabbi Tuckman: I nip the tip! Whose first?
Little John: I changed my mind!
Blinkin: Christian!
Achoo: I forgot, I already got one!

[Rodion Romanovich]

I know, if lemur isn't posting about torture or debt, it must be about circumcision. Couldn't find the old monster thread, so we'll just have to start a new one.

Anyway, there's a new study that shows how vital the bits removed are. "Researchers prodding dozens of male penises with a fine-tipped tool have found that the five areas most receptive to fine-touch are routinely removed by the surgery."

I feel vindicated in my decision to leave my littlest lemur unchopped.

Study: Circumcision Removes Most Sensitive Parts

By Ker Than, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 15 June 2007 12:53 pm ET

How much does circumcision alter what a man ultimately feels? Scientific studies aiming to answer this question have been inconclusive.

Now researchers prodding dozens of male penises with a fine-tipped tool have found that the five areas most receptive to fine-touch are routinely removed by the surgery.

The finding, announced today, was detailed in the April issue of the British Journal of Urology (BJU) International.

Circumcision surgery involves the removal of the skin that covers the tip of the penis, called the foreskin. Infant male circumcision is the most common medical procedure in the United States, with an estimated 60 percent of male newborns undergoing the surgery.

Morris Sorrells of National Organization of Circumcision Information Resources Center and colleagues created a “penile sensitivity map” by measuring the sensitivity of 19 locations on the penises of 159 male volunteers. Of the participants, 91 were circumcised as infants and none had histories of penile or sexual dysfunction.

For circumcised penises, the most sensitive region was the circumcision scar on the underside of the penis, the researchers found. For uncircumcised penises, the areas most receptive to pressure were five regions normally removed during circumcision—all of which were more sensitive than the most sensitive part of the circumcised penis.

Circumcision is a procedure practiced in several countries for medical as well as cultural reasons. Most scientists agree that the surgery confers some protection against infection and the risk of contracting sexual diseases. Recent studies have also shown that circumcision can lower the risks of HIV infection by as much as 60 percent in sex between males and females.

But Robert Van Howe, a study team member at Michigan State University, thinks such claims are somewhat overblown. “The [health benefits] that have been consistently shown are very small, and there are less aggressive, less invasive, less expensive ways of dealing with the problems [circumcision] is supposed to address,” Van Howe told LiveScience.

Other practices, such as choosing sexual partners wisely and using condoms consistently, are far more effective in protecting against diseases, he added.

Circumcision is opposed by some groups on the grounds that it is painful and not a life-saving procedure, and that it also makes sex less pleasurable by exposing and numbing the tip of the penis, called the glans. Some have gone so far as recommending foreskin restoration.

Some previous studies found that circumcision led to little, if any, decrease in penile sensitivity, but Sorrells and his colleagues say such findings are suspect because many are based on self-reports from men who were circumcised to correct medical problems.

I'm hardly surprised. Circumcision is a religious-sadistic ritual to suppress the male sexuality, just like female circumcision is a ritual to suppress female sexuality. Good that the study has been presented, so that at least medical research can finally start devising an alternative surgery (that doesn't remove the senses) for those who do it for non-religious reasons. Also, that it will finally not be considered any better than Clitoridectomy. Perhaps this will be the start of a campaign against the oppression of men in the cultures that use circumcision.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Circumcision is a religious-sadistic ritual to suppress the male sexuality, just like female circumcision is a ritual to suppress female sexuality.

Very much so.

It originated as a religious-sexual ritual to emphasize male sexuality. Like female mutilation, it belongs to the Nile / Red Sea basin. Where men used to be able to walk around naked, proudly swinging their exposed red knob at other men to emphasize their masculinity.
Circumcision has no place in societies where men don't routinely flaunt their willy to impress other men. (Yes, it's to impress men, not women).

It is a religious, not a medical practice. The Jews and many Muslims do it, along with some scattered stone-age tribes, and the Americans. The puritan Americans started this brutal practice at the end of the 19th century. The object is to remove the sensitive, moving parts so boys would be less inclined to play with their toys.

Circumcision can lead to many medical complications during the circumcision itself, and often creates later problems, while the hygienic and preventative benefits are non-existent for first-world peoples with access to condoms and clean water.

[Lorenzo_H]

This conversation is gross and making me shudder uncontrolably.

It reminds me of this one guy who's circumcision went wrong; the whole thing got cut off, so his parents decided to raise him as a girl.

I'm fighting not to vomit as I (try not to) think about it.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

I don't have a problem with that.

Well maybe you could still do better You will never know until you try it . Then if your married you can get an unbiased opinion from your wife.

[doc_bean]

Well maybe you could still do better You will never know until you try it . Then if your married you can get an unbiased opinion from your wife.

I'm not worried, sex can be exhausting for the woman too, you know and they don't always want it to go on forever.