Posted on 08/03/2007 2:09:44 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
Controversial new research casts doubt on the long-held belief that circumcision reduces sexual sensitivity for men who have undergone the procedure.
Circumcision, a procedure performed throughout history for reasons ranging from the fulfillment of a biblical covenant to a means of curbing masturbation has received both praise by those who tout its supposed medical benefits and scorn from those who claim it has traumatic aftereffects.
Now, in a Canadian study appearing in the most recent issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, researchers found that the glans, or head of the penis, is just as sensitive on a circumcised man as on an uncircumcised one.
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There are a few threads on Free Republic that can cause fireworks. These are, IMHO:
1. Breastfeeding
2. Circumcision
3. Harry Potter
I like it when they’re all on the same thread.
They used to say “Those shorts were so tight you could tell a chaps religion”; because the majority of Gentiles were uncut.
Yes, the poor guy who some psycho psychologist decided was his test case for the idea that gender was entirely a social construct was a botched circumcision who they attempted to turn into a girl. The psycho lied, the poor guy figured out what happened and tried to live as a man without his penis rather than being what he was not and never would be...a woman.
I did wonder a bit if there was a correlation but decided to just drop the whole chain of thought.
Well I for one am convinced that Harry Potter wouldn’t have had to go what he did if he’d have been a circumcised breastfeeder.
Heh heh heh...
Thanks for the comments. I appreciate it. Some of the writings in the New Testament do open up interesting ground for discussion.
LOL! There went the Dr. Pepper!
Yeh - not sure we wanna go there even on a Friday...
You forgot any thread where the URL ends in “/posts”...
LOL, have a great weekend...
I’ve seen more genital emergencies with uncirc tykes than those with circumcission.
Circumcission heals in a fews days and rarely gets infected. In fact I never saw an infection.
Uncircumcised babies or their hygene motivated mothers pull the foreskin back, there is some swelling, the foreskin gets stuck in the retracted position and cuts off blood flow to the glans. I’ve never seen amputation as the result but I’ve seen some severely inflamed members and a few emergent surgeries.
The funny thing is that I had never seen this condition prior to moving to California and serving a largely immigrant population. Circumcission rates where I trained was about 100%
There is risk to having an intact foreskin in the early pediatric years.
Interesting...
Me too. Ick.
It looks like a martian. It has no face; no personality.
However, the "my little girl isn't a slut and therefore won't ever be exposed to HPV" argument is utterly idiotic.
There are a few threads on Free Republic that can cause fireworks. These are, IMHO:
1. Breastfeeding
2. Circumcision
3. Harry Potter
You forgot
4. Tattoos
Elaine, is that you? So, how’s life treating you?
I never heard about it curbing masturbation, but then again you couldn’t have a lot of young Israelites wandering around in the desert wasting time masturbating. A Rabbi told me once that circumcision was a sign of the optimism of the Jews - “before we even know how big it’s gonna be, we cut an inch off”.
Did I miss anything?
Tell the truth now, was that a lapsed Rabbi? LOL, pretty funny.
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