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Re: I've got blisters on my.....penis!



	>From: Alan McKendree 
	>Subject: Re: I've got blisters on my.....penis! 
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	>No, I'm suggesting that the skin in question is thicker and less sensitive in circumcised >members. 

Perhaps, but it's not on the level of "The increase in sensitivity is reportedly remarkable".

That's a huge distortion, and when you write "reportedly", in all my research (a bunch by me and even more by my wife), we found only one account of "increased" sensitivity, or actually "loss" of sensitivity after having to be circumcised in adulthood.  But, it wasn't anything *near* your exaggerated account as quoted above.  *AND* that account was found on the most militant of anti-circ. sites.

>You could call it militant, I could call it having an informed opinion.

Condescension alert!  You could, I'll stick with militant.  Any web site or person who tries to make a person feel like a criminal on this very personal and difficult decision, and who takes a tone of "you're stupid", to me, is militant.  The word was used, because it fits in certain situations.  It's ..... not.....that.....big....of....a....deal.  Most of the militant sites distorted facts, and tried to draw parallels to female clitorectomy.

>and *is* regarded as bizarre by Western cultures in the case of female circumcision. Meditate >for a moment on just why it should be that routine circumcision for a female seems repulsively >backward and barbaric, but for a male is accepted without a second thought.>

Whoooop!  There it is!   Distortion alert!
Come on Alan.  There's just a *little* difference in cutting off a woman's clitoris (as still seen in some African cultures), a viable organ, than the removal of a tiny piece of unused skin.  We're not cuttin off the entire penis! 
 Don't forget that there are still *many* adult males that are having to have adult circumcisions due to infections, etc.

>Too bad your information source didn't mention it's <smegma> easily prevented.

Assumption alert!  Alan, you really seem to get up in arms on this.  First off it's source-*s*.  Secondly, it's still a factor.  So, what's the smegma factor after a long day at the office, and then you go to a bar, and a hot chick picks you up?  You hang with her all evening, and then at around 1am, she wants to pleasure you.  Hmmmmm, I'd be wondering how much smegma was down there.  Will she notice?  Will it smell?  Will it cause me to be distracted??  Hmmmmm?  Hmmmmm? And, more Hmmmmmmm?

> Sort of like surgically removing the skin of your armpits at birth because they will develop an >offensive smell. Oh, unless you wash occasionally? Yes, I guess you could do that instead...

It might happen, if in adulthood people had to go through a painful pit skin removal.

>I'm trying to imagine just why a man would actually medically *need* to get circumcised,

Guess you've got more journal reading to do, since your initial research didn't go into that part.  Or, is it the web sites you're relying on try to ignore this medical *fact*.  I know they do.  I read many that did. 

>and then how miniscule the probability of that event would be.  

Again, do more research.  It's not as "miniscule" as you might think.

> As for violently painful, it's clearly painful for an infant.

Well, I don't know what you've *read*, but my boy only cried at being laid out under a light.  He calmed quickly down, and even the injection of painkiller didn't upset him.  Not a peep for the rest of the procedure.  Now, daddy, on the other hand was doing the pee-pee dance!  "Did that hurt, it *looked* real painful." (Eddie Murphy in 48hours.)   Oh, and I don't remember a thing before the age of about 3.......or after college.  ;-)
>I'll leave it to specialists in brain development to compare the experience in a 6-day-old brain >vs. that of a grown man.

See depiction of *actual* experience above.

>Try wearing jeans with no underwear every day for a week or so.

I do all the time. 

>You'll notice the difference the first day

Not.

Kevin in VT