
Circumcision reduces sexual pleasure
Submitted by MikeJH on Sat, 2013-02-16 10:26
Article here. Excerpt:
'Men who are circumcised are in for some bad news - it puts them at a disadvantage in the bedroom, according to experts.
A study found those who've had their foreskin removed as children or adults experience less intense sexual pleasure and orgasm than their peers.'
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yeah
i'm afraid to read and see what test was used to determine just who was having the most fun. they got a meter for that or something like that? where do they attach the ... ahhh, never mind.
explains why i have always concentrated on quantity and longevity. don't know about you, but my really best moment 'doing the deed' is usually right at the very end. foreskin got something to do widdat?
You'll never know
"...my really best moment 'doing the deed' is usually right at the very end. foreskin got something to do widdat?"
Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't. But you'll never know, will you? That's because the ability to make any such distinction was taken from you without any consent from you.
Sexual pleasure is not "just" about orgasms. If "the deed" lasts, say, 10 mins., but the man's orgasm lasts about 2-3 seconds, then that's 9 min. and 57 secs. of, we assume, a pleasurable activity that may not be nearly as pleasurable as it would have been if he had had his foreskin. So yeah, that matters.
But no matter what, it's about human rights. Boys and men have the right to bodily integrity. No one has the right to decide that an otherwise healthy piece of his tissue just is not, for whatever reason, "necessary" or desirable, and just cut it off. After all, we have no trouble decrying it when it's done to girls-- why the exception when done to boys? Answer: they're boys.
Who's plaeasure?
The main criterion - according to virtually all "sexperts" and people with a professional interest or even opinion - of what constitutes a pleasurable sexual experience is the quality and number of orgasms experience by the woman. Men are supposed to put the woman's pleasure first and last, and men's experience matters little. Why is all the focus on male "performance"? Why do men only judge themselves on their ability to please a woman sexually? All of society's focus seems to be on women's pleasure; there seems little wonder at the casual attitude we have to mael genital integrity. Indeed, one of the arguments I've heard in favour of male circucision is that it helps men to "last longer", a tacit admission that despite all the denials male circumcision does make a difference...
We need to get away from our gynocentric definition of "good sex" and realise men have a right to pleasure too.
Very good points
Yep. "All for woman!"
Men as providers/protectors. Nothing in there says men ought to be looking after their own interests. If women do, it's empowerment. If men do, it's selfishness, or worse.