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Sensitivity or Sensualtivity?
What do we expect to 'feel' from our sexual organs ether as male or female?
The
answer has to be that of a pleasurable sensation, one that we will want to
repeat again and again throughout our life. That is natures way of
ensuring the species on this planet survive, if sex was not a pleasure what
would drive any creature to have sex and thus continue the species?
Unfortunately
the human animal is so obsessed with it's own importance that it will invent
ways of controlling or influencing others, Male Genital Mutilation
(circumcision) being one such control device.
Jews and Muslims practice MGM as
a human blood sacrifice, purity or identity mark of their religion and culture,
originally as a tribal identity. Countries such as the USA and Canada
adopted the practice as a means of reducing sexual pleasure as drive to stop masturbation. The inventor of Kellogs cornflakes advocated MGM as a
punishment for boys that were caught masturbating. Unfortunately the USA
is not only stubborn about this form of child abuse, it actively promotes it
within countries such as Africa. Canada is less culturally suppressed and
so there is a fast decline in the practice.
So MGM does degrade sexual feeling
and there is a desperate search by some to find a reason to continue the abuse.
Let us also take note that money is made from circumcision and it is a very
lucrative business either in private practice or government funded. Even
ritual circumcisers are paid for their services one way or another.
We
can in some instances restore enough penile skin to form a new foreskin that
will behave similar to, but, never the same as the one that was amputated.
The
question on everyone's lips regarding foreskin restoration is will
I get a more sensitive penis? The answer is probably yes!
We
need to look carefully into what we mean by sensitivity and where we expect to
feel it.
A cut or graze on our skin is sensitive and one stage further is
downright painful. Sore gums are often described as 'sensitive' along with
teeth that react to sugar or hot and cold, but, none of these sensitive
situations give us pleasure. So do we want sensitive or sensual feelings?
What
we want and would get from an intact penis would be feelings of pleasure,
sensitive to stimulation that gives pleasurable sensations, those sensations
being 'sensual' in nature. Could the feelings we want to get back be
better described as SENSUAL? Could we
better describe those sensitive and sensual feelings by a new word
Sensualtivity?
The Glans
We know that the glans is an internal organ that has been forced to be
EXTERNAL. We also know that it is tissue known as 'mucosa', meaning tissue
inside the body so if we revert this tissue to being internal once again it will
regain some of it's natural functions including that of feelings.
The glans is mainly a
friction stimulated organ and has been used to a high friction existence on
clothes, pubic hair and rough sex (masturbation, vaginal, anal, oral). The
glans has spent it's life dry when it should have been continually moist.
Covering the glans and keeping it moist will make it more sensitive and make the
feelings from it more sensual. It will gain 'sensualtivity'.
Inner Foreskin
This tissue is again mucosa and like all mucosal tissue is devoid of hair, is
soft and pliable. The inner foreskin starts just under the coronal ridge
of the glans and merges into external shaft skin at the tip of the flaccid penis
forming an opening just in front of the glans. This skin keeps the glans
protected from stimulation as it hugs the glans of the flaccid penis, it also
keeps the glans moist. The foreskin being a double fold of very mobile
skin has a unique way of protecting its own inner layer and the surface of the
glans, both are cushioned and insulated from friction by the soft tissue between
the two layers of skin. The foreskin inner layer is full of stimulatory nerves and is sensitive
to temperature and pressure. When the foreskin is amputated in
'circumcision' it is estimated that 15,000 to 20,000 nerve endings are lost that
is contained within the amputated skin. During sex the feelings from the
inner foreskin react with those from the glans to give feelings of pleasure.
Ridge Bands
(Frenar Bands)
The ridge bands are not a separate structure but an area of the foreskin
which forms the opening and junction between the inner and outer foreskin.
In this area are some constrictive fibrous tissue under the skin which act as an
elasticated area to keep the foreskin closed in front of the glans. At the
area of the ridge bands on the inner foreskin are specialist receptors that give
sensation when they are stretched as the foreskin moves over the glans
during retraction. Moving the foreskin back and forth over the glans by
hand is a method of masterbation and a lot of stimulation will come from the
repeated expansion and contraction of the ridge band tissue.
Outer Foreskin
The outer foreskin is simply an extension of the shaft skin of the penis and
combined with the inner foreskin forms a double fold of very mobile skin.
The hair on the shaft skin rapidly changes from the course pubic hair to fine,
short and straight hair; the further up the shaft (away from the pubic area)
towards the inner foreskin you look it will be noticed that the hair becomes so
fine that it looks hairless. Through 'circumcision' this skin is amputated
leaving the skin nearer to the base of the penis which often creates what many
circumcised males refer to as 'hairy shaft skin'. This will be an irritant
to the vagina as it is abrasive to the delicate vaginal tissue; couple this with
the extended time and more vigorous sex of the circumcised male and vaginal
discomfort is common. This abrasive sex is thought to make the female
partner more susceptible to 'thrush', an irritating yeast infection. The
'gliding' action of a penis that is intact as it moves within the 'slack'
created by the ample foreskin prevents female dryness and frictional soreness.
Mutilation (circumcision) types and life stage
Circumcision means to 'cut round' and can be regarded in polite terms as
'circumcision' if done to an adult that has consented or for medical necessity.
If done to a child it is a mutilation and sexual abuse as it removes healthy and functional
tissue without consent of the child or the adult the child will become. It
is almost impossible to justify drastic measures such as amputating the foreskin
to a baby on medical grounds and the medical justification only becomes slightly
more as the child gets older. The facts are clear that there are effective
ways of treating problems with the foreskin that does not involve it's
amputation so make the case for 'circumcision' almost negligible. The
amputation of the foreskin of a child (circumcision) is in fact Male Genital
Mutilation (MGM).
There is a wide variation in the 'style' and 'type'
of circumcision. Style and type can be one of the same or used to
distinguish certain features of what the penis looks like after the amputation
(style) or the method of amputation (type).
This does have a bearing on the
sensations felt by the male during sex because it affects the way the penis
responds after its mutilation.
The great problem of baby 'circumcision' is
that the penis is so tiny that it is almost impossible to give any certainty to
the outcome in relation to how it will look or function. Another problem
with a baby or child is that the foreskin is very long to start with and often
will have a very long 'trunk' like appearance hence the term redundant
foreskin. Of course there is no such thing as 'redundancy' of a child's
foreskin as the penis grows into this extra length as he grows to
maturity. This feature of long foreskin in infancy is probably natures way
of achieving two things.
1 - Keeping any infectious material away from the glans and urinary opening
by this long overhang of skin.
2 - Ensuring that the glans are protected
from stimulation during early years to curb adult like sexual desires for
female penetration. The long foreskin ensures coverage all of the time,
even during erections and gives ample means of masturbation if the child feels
a sexual need. This will give such a lot of pleasure and obviate the
need for a female coupling which would probably give less pleasure at that
stage of life. 'Circumcised' children are more aware of their sexuality
as they are continuously being stimulated as would the intact child that has a
short foreskin which would be subject to unintended exposure from time to
time.
When all growth has stopped it is then easy to predict the outcome of
foreskin amputation for three reasons.
a) - There is a fully developed organ that will not change in size due to
growth.
b) - The penis is larger so it is easy to decide what is to be
removed or left and where.
c) - The owner of the penis can report on what he
considers to be desirable for his own mental and/or physical preference.
Possible styles are largely based on the amount of skin amputated and what
proportions of inner or outer foreskin are left remaining. At one extreme
all of the inner foreskin and frenulum is removed and the shaft skin stitched
under the coronal ridge of the glans. At the other extreme all of the
inner foreskin is retained and only shaft skin is removed and that can lead to
the erect penis being covered with inner foreskin most of it's length, the
frenulum can be retained or amputated. Up to 3 feet (900mm) of blood
vessels can be lost to circumcision but it is possible to retain all the major
blood vessels in an adult circumcision. These details are not open to a
baby mutilation and not practical for children.
Types of MGM can be a
reference to the method used, scalpel (freehand), shield, plastibel, or gomo
clamp are the main methods used. The first two are methods producing a cut
edge as in any surgical operation but others are so called 'bloodless' methods
that use the crushing force of two surfaces to make the tissue fuse together
through sheer mechanical force. Blood vessels, nerve fibres and tissue are
simply crushed and sealed, the amputation is made on the 'dead' side of the
crush line, it is a very primitive method.
Mechanical Damage
It is perhaps obvious that the amputation of delicate tissue from the penis
will cause mechanical damage but the extent and way in which it is caused may
not be so obvious.
When a baby is circumcised the first step has to be to free the inner
foreskin from the surface of the glans as it is unlikely to separate for some
weeks or even up to 5 years. This is done by forcing a blunt probe between
the foreskin and the glans to rip the skin from the glans surface, this
inevitably leads to the glans being raw and loosing body fluid or blood.
Infections because of this first step are a great danger and beside the
mechanical damage there is more damage if an infection does set in. This
damage can be slight or seriously denude the sensitivity of the remaining
tissue, in all cases there is damage of some degree.
Brain Perception & 'Threshold Theory'
Let us consider here the case of those who suffer constant pain of one part
of the body or multiple parts, how do they cope with constant pain.
One common source of pain is in the lower back area of the spine.
Damage to the spine (often commonly referred to as a 'slipped disk') causing a
disk to prolapse, the sponge like interior bulges the tough wall of the damaged
disk and so bruises the nerves exiting the spine to various parts of the
abdomen, most commonly the legs. Great pain can be experienced as far down
the leg as the foot, this is known as referred pain.
Many sufferers get all
their relief from strong pain killing drugs whilst others do gentle exercise to
strengthen the muscles that control the spine and alter their lifestyle to
manage the pain by more natural means. This latter approach means only
when the pain becomes unbearable do they take sometimes moderate pain relief
such as paracetamol. In this case what appears to happen is that what
becomes a normal level of pain is regarded by the brain as something to be
rejected, background stimulation; a threshold is set up in the brain and only
pain stimulation that rises near to or above that threshold is felt to any conscious
extent.
A similar threshold would be set up in the brain of the circumcised
male with the constant stimulation of clothes etc. Add to this the other
forms of damage like dry skin, the circumcision damage to the glans and the loss
of the inner foreskin and it is clear to anyone with a thinking brain that a
great deal of damage has been done.
Šelks2004
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