WHY WE CHOSE NOT TO CIRCUMCISE OUR SON.

Why We Chose NOT to Circumcise Our Son.

 

 

I’m a bit depressed. Our midwife gave me a book about circumcision.
I’ve started the book and can’t put it down.   I’m not sure that I’ll ever fully recover.

The book tells me that the foreskin is like an eyelid protecting the sensitive mucous membrane underneath.
Circumcision removes this protective skin, so the skin underneath keratinizes, meaning it hardens and desensitizes, like a callus.

 

Therefore, the book posits, circumcision removes length and girth from the penis and decreases enjoyment of sex.
You do not say these things to a man. I’m trying to climb out of the hole.
I tell myself that most men in the United States are circumcised, so it’s a level playing field.

It just means that uncircumcised men are heroes and that we are at a disadvantage when we leave the country.
Now, keep in mind that whether or not sex is less pleasurable without a foreskin is, of course, very difficult to test.
Nobody is lining up for a double-blind controlled study: Have sex. Rate it on a scale from 1 to 10.

 

Then lose the foreskin, heal, have sex again with the same partner, and rate it again from 1 to 10.
Any takers? So it’s difficult to test the reduced-pleasure hypothesis. And people don’t talk about it much, so we don’t gather much anecdotal evidence, either.

 

Unless you are a professional sex worker or my friend Adeline, you probably rarely talk about sex, especially the specifics.

I don’t even know which of my friends have a foreskin and which don’t.
Maybe I’ll ask the question on Facebook: “Share or Like if you have a foreskin.”

 

 

 

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