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and i'd like a serious response from NeoPhono in regards to this:
1.A. If you lose a lot of youre penis' nerve endings
1.B. You will experience less pleasure from sexual acts
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"Loss" of nerve endings does not necessarily translate into a loss of sensation, at least seuxally. When the tissue is removed at such an early age in development, there is more than enough time for the surviving nerves to make up for the lost ones in terms of sensation. The growing individual's nervous system is able to make up for a loss, albeit a small one, of any nerve tissue. And when I said "at least sexually" I am referring to the fact that sexual gratification occurs primarily at the level of the brain, namely the nucleus accumbens, more than at the site of arrousal (the penis). As long as the message gets from the penis to the brain stimulating sexual arrousal and then release, that's really all that is needed.
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2.A. If you wear your penis' glans (which is said to be the equivalant of a clitoris, wikipedia for one supports the hypothesis that the glans is homologous to the clitoral glans)
2.B. You will experience less pleasure from sexual acts
is this biased information?
is it false information?
are the B statements not the obvious results of the A condtions??
if not, and the circumcision procedure involves cutting off a part of the skin that has a lot of nerve endings aswell as seving to protect the penis' glans from wear (as many sources i've read state), then by pure healthy logic - you will experience less pleasure from sexual acts. |
First, the clitoris is homologus to the penis, or more accurately the phallus. The glans penis is simply the distal end of the phallus. Removing the glans penis is not the same as removing the clitoris. You should also note the the glans penis is what the foreskin covers. The foreskin itself is not the glans penis. Cutting off the entire penis would the the same as removing the clitoris.
It should be noted that there are several forms of female circumcision. The most "mild" and probably most similar to male circumcision is called a "clitoral circumcision" and this is when the skin surrounding the clitoris is cut or removed, not the clitoris itself. This is done often in Western medicine when there is a natural descrease in clitoral sensitivity, when the patient has what is called a "hidden clitoris," or when the skin surrounding the clitoris does not allow it to be stimulated. In this case the circumcision is actually used to increase sensitivity.
On the opposite end of things, and where most people become upset, is when the clitoris, libia minora and libia majora are removed. This is called a "pharaonic circumcision." It's the one that gets all the attention from rights organizaitons. If you were to remove the homologous parts in a male, you would remove the penis, scrotum and part of the urethra.
I would hardly call that procedure equal to removing the foreskin.
And the reason I would equate male circumcision with vaccination/immunization is that it is a long-percieved health benefit that has come into question over the years with different groups saying that vaccinations can cause anything from sudden infant death syndrom to autism.
If you'd like the source for my diatribe above on the male and female genitalia, you can check out Langman's Medical Embryology, Ninth Edition. It was my text book Embryology this fall. Just as an FYI, not an "I'm greater than everyone else," I'm a Master's student in Anatomy.
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