There's no way to prove that... sex for me is fantastic... I give it a 8 zillion :thumbsup:
And even if you could regrow it... you wouldnt be regrowing nerves... you'd just be regrowin a flap of skin.
-Max
if you really wanna know lol...
The following is a list of the known functions of the natural (intact) foreskin. With a circumcision, most or all of these functions are lost. Depending on the severity of the circumcision, foreskin restoration can restore some of these functions, at least in part. From this list, you can see that the foreskin is not just an extra piece of skin. It is a highly specialized part of an important organ. It's the desire to regain at least some of these functions that motivates men to spend time and effort in restoring their foreskins.
1 Protection: If unfolded and spread out flat, the average adult foreskin (which comprises 50% or more of the mobile skin system of the average penis), would measure more than 15 square inches - the size of a 3 x 5-inch index card. This highly specialized tissue normally covers the glans like an eyelid covers the eye, protecting it from abrasion, drying, callusing (keratinization), and contamination of all kinds. The effects on male and female sexuality from the loss of the natural foreskin are just now beginning to be studied.
2 Sensitivity: Discovered in 1996, the ridged band of the inner foreskin is a half-inch wide band of soft, irregular, accordion-like corrugations which make up the most intensely innervated erogenous zone on the male body. It is thought to control and trigger the male orgasm. The loss of this densely innervated, sexually reactive, and pleasure-producing foreskin tissue reduces the full range and intensity of a man's sexuality.
3 Pleasure: The pleasure provided by his foreskin's 'gliding action' to both the man and the woman is the hallmark synergistic mechanical feature of the natural human penis. This non-abrasive gliding of the penis in and out of itself (also known as evagination-invagination) facilitates smooth, easy, pleasurable movements for a man and his partner during masturbation or vaginal thrusting. (You can think of this gliding action like a sweater sleeve on your arm. If you hold the end of the sleeve, and alternately move your hand in and out of the sleeve, this shows the action of a natural foreskin, where the very sensitive inner foreskin is stimulated each time the glans moves in and out of the foreskin ?sleeve?.) Without this remarkable gliding action, sex as nature intended it is impossible, and the corona of the surgically altered penis malfunctions as a one-way valve, scraping natural vaginal lubricants out and making artificial lubricants essential for mutually pleasurable intercourse. In short, loss of the foreskin makes normal sexual kinetics impossible.
4 Specialized erogenous nerve receptors: The foreskin contains thousands of coiled fine-touch mechano-receptors called Meissner's corpuscles, the single most important sensory component of the natural/intact penis. (They include encapsulated Pacinian, Vater-Pacinian, Ruffini, and Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscles, Merkel's tactile cells, nociceptors, and branches of the dorsal and perineal nerves.) Altogether, the foreskin contains between 10,000 and 20,000 specialized pleasure-producing nerve endings of many types, which can feel the slightest movement, pressure, stretch, changes in temperature, and nuances of texture. All these are lost on circumcision.
5 The frenulum: The frenulum, a highly erogenous V-shaped web-like tethering structure on the underside of the glans, is generally either lost along with the foreskin or severed during circumcision. In either case, its subtle and important mechanical function and its capacity for giving pleasure are destroyed. The frenulum forms two sides of the area called the frenular delta, which is the most intensely innervated part of the ridged band. The frenulum naturally pulls the foreskin over the glans when the penis is non-erect. (There are other frenulum-like structures in other parts of the body which also help mechanical positioning: inside the upper lip, and under the tongue.) The ?sweet spot? just below the ?V? on the bottom side of the glans for circumcised men, is actually the small remnant left after the frenulum was cut and destroyed during circumcision.
6 Temperature-responsive tissue: The foreskin contains more than half of a man's temperature-responsive peripenic smooth muscle sheath called the dartos fascia, which is thought to play a part in maintaining the scrotum at the ideal temperature for sperm production.
7 Immunological secretions: The smooth mucosa of the inner foreskin produces both plasma cells that secrete immunoglobulin antibodies, and antibacterial and antiviral proteins such as the pathogen-killing enzyme lysozyme.
8 Lymphatic vessels: The foreskin contains lymphatic vessels in which lymph flows within the genital area. This enhances the protection of body's natural immune system, and probably also affects immunological secretions.
9 Estrogen receptors: The foreskin contains estrogen receptors. Their biological/sexual purpose is not understood and needs further study.
10 Apocrine glands: The apocrine glands of the inner foreskin secrete pheromones, nature's powerful, silent, invisible behavioral signals to potential sexual partners. We know their effects on human sexuality can be profound, but the consequences of their absence have never been studied.
11 Immune-protective cells: The specialized epithelial Langerhans cells of the foreskin are the first-line element in the body's natural immune system in a whole penis.
12 The development of a normal glans and inner foreskin : The connective tissue which protectively fuses the natural foreskin and glans together while a young boy's penis develops prior to puberty, is ripped apart during circumcision, damaging the glans and the foreskin remnant, leaving them raw and subject to infection, scarring, pitting, shrinkage, and eventual discoloration. This compares to the natural state of the undamaged glans, with its healthy pink to red to dark purple natural coloration.
13 Unobstructed full penile extension: The foreskin permits full extension during erections, and provides unobstructed natural penis length and penis circumference. This extension occurs because of the double-layered wrapping of loose and usually overhanging foreskin. Loss of half of the skin on the penis tends to make the shaft skin very tight during erections, tending to pull it inward to the body. Most men who have restored report seeing some increase in length and girth.
14 Natural full penile blood flow: The loss of the rich vascularity of several feet of penile blood vessels, including the frenular artery and branches of the dorsal artery, interrupts normal blood flow to the shaft and glans of the penis, altering development of the penis and damaging its natural function.
I acknowledge the fact that I am likely very prejudiced against people with different penis configurations than mine. Fact is I have no clue which is more sanitary... so I was simply talking out of my ass. However I can say that my penis is perfectly fine in it's current form, and I couldn't possibly see any reason to grow back a new flap of skin.
-Max
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.circinfo.com/myths/myths_and_lies1.html">Foreskin Structure and Development
The foreskin doesn't separate fully from the glans until puberty.
As stated by Dr. Gairdner in his 1949 anti-circumcision article in The Lancet, the foreskin is often still adherent to the glans at birth but is normally fully mobile by the age of about 5.
A few boys do still have adhesions remaining into puberty, but these are a sign of improper development of the penis. They need to be broken down long before the boy reaches puberty so as to allow for proper cleanliness and a normal development into puberty.
A fully retractable foreskin is necessary for proper cleansing and sexual development.
Parents shouldn't try to retract their son's foreskin.
Boys have to be taught to wash under their foreskin when bathing - it doesn't come naturally to them. This can only be done by the parents gently retracting the foreskin as far as it will easily go and washing under it at every bath time.
It is true that no force should be used so as to avoid tearing the thin skin of the foreskin, but this doesn't preclude gentle retraction. Early gentle retraction also helps to break down adhesions, however it is desirable for parents waiting until after the boy is a year old before starting this gentle retraction at bath time.
As an alternative to retraction in the early days, a parent can gently stretch the foreskin forwards to help break down adhesions.
Phimosis cannot be diagnosed in an infant.
Phimosis is the condition in which the opening in the tip of the foreskin is too small. It has nothing to do with the presence or absence of preputial adhesions.
In infants it is too small if urine cannot be passed freely. Any ballooning of the foreskin during urination indicates that the opening is too small to allow proper voiding. When the opening is too small, a back pressure is created by the trapped urine. Not only is this painful for the child but it puts a strain on the young bladder and sometimes back to the kidneys. If the condition is very severe then serious kidney damage can be done with dire consequences for the boy in later life.
In older children, adolescents and adults the foreskin can be too tight to expand over the coronal ridge (at the back of the glans) and thus the foreskin cannot be retracted even though there are no adhesions remaining. This interferes with proper hygiene as well as making sex more difficult and potentially very painful.
The foreskin acts as a rolling bearing during sex.
For the majority of men the foreskin has retracted behind the glans during erection and plays no part in penetration, contrary to the assertion implicit in this lie. Once full penetration is achieved the action of the foreskin depends on its original length and how loose it is.
If the foreskin does not retract on, or before, penetration then it tends to stick to the walls of the vagina and the man virtually masturbates himself within his foreskin whilst giving no stimulus, and thus no sexual pleasure, to his partner.
In these days of almost universal condom use, however, all this is irrelevant as the retracted foreskin is kept in place by the condom and can play no part in the action. Many uncircumcised men have noticed that the foreskin makes condom wearing much harder as it tends to bunch up and get in the way, or to push the condom back off the penis.
Smegma is the natural lubricant of the foreskin.
Natural oils are secreted by Tyson's Glands under the rim of the glans and from the inner surface of the foreskin. These are necessary to prevent the foreskin from sticking to the glans and to allow it to retract freely. The oils are produced constantly and are thus replaced very quickly after washing.
Smegma consists of surplus oil, dead skin cells, stale urine, stale semen and miscellaneous dirt which have collected under the foreskin. Smegma is a 'waste product' and serves no useful purpose. If not cleaned away regularly it becomes hard and smelly. It is also a breeding ground for bacteria, which can lead to balanitis. Smegma has also been implicated in penile cancer.
Circumcision removes half the penile skin.
The amount of skin removed varies from little more than the constricted tip of the foreskin to an amount just slightly longer than the glans. The glans is rarely more than a quarter of the length of the entire infant penis (and proportionately much less in an adult). The lie comes from counting the foreskin length twice 'because it has an inner and outer layer'. This fact is really irrelevant because coverage is only provided once.
Circumcision removes hundreds of miles of blood vessels.
'Hundreds of miles' is a gross exaggeration which most people can clearly see through but even so, the blood vessels in the foreskin serve only the foreskin itself and hence their removal with the foreskin is of no further consequence.
The foreskin contains specialized nerve endings.
All nerves are specialized. There is nothing more or less special about those in the foreskin compared with those elsewhere in the body. The glans also contains nerves which don't usually get fully stimulated when sex is experienced through the foreskin.
Circumcision removes Taylor's ridged band.
Taylor 'discovered' this 'ridged band' at the tip of the foreskin by studying less than a dozen dead bodies! This was by no means a scientific study. On the basis of these few observations he postulates (ie guesses) that there is a band of tissue at the tip of the foreskin with an erotic purpose. He fails to recognise that these men might, like so many uncircumcised men, have been suffering from phimosis or that rigor mortis, which would have already set in, might itself be the explanation.</a>
The foreskin doesn't separate fully from the glans until puberty.
As stated by Dr. Gairdner in his 1949 anti-circumcision article in The Lancet, the foreskin is often still adherent to the glans at birth but is normally fully mobile by the age of about 5.
A few boys do still have adhesions remaining into puberty, but these are a sign of improper development of the penis. They need to be broken down long before the boy reaches puberty so as to allow for proper cleanliness and a normal development into puberty.
A fully retractable foreskin is necessary for proper cleansing and sexual development.
Parents shouldn't try to retract their son's foreskin.
Boys have to be taught to wash under their foreskin when bathing - it doesn't come naturally to them. This can only be done by the parents gently retracting the foreskin as far as it will easily go and washing under it at every bath time.
It is true that no force should be used so as to avoid tearing the thin skin of the foreskin, but this doesn't preclude gentle retraction. Early gentle retraction also helps to break down adhesions, however it is desirable for parents waiting until after the boy is a year old before starting this gentle retraction at bath time.
As an alternative to retraction in the early days, a parent can gently stretch the foreskin forwards to help break down adhesions.
Phimosis cannot be diagnosed in an infant.
Phimosis is the condition in which the opening in the tip of the foreskin is too small. It has nothing to do with the presence or absence of preputial adhesions.
In infants it is too small if urine cannot be passed freely. Any ballooning of the foreskin during urination indicates that the opening is too small to allow proper voiding. When the opening is too small, a back pressure is created by the trapped urine. Not only is this painful for the child but it puts a strain on the young bladder and sometimes back to the kidneys. If the condition is very severe then serious kidney damage can be done with dire consequences for the boy in later life.
In older children, adolescents and adults the foreskin can be too tight to expand over the coronal ridge (at the back of the glans) and thus the foreskin cannot be retracted even though there are no adhesions remaining. This interferes with proper hygiene as well as making sex more difficult and potentially very painful.
The foreskin acts as a rolling bearing during sex.
For the majority of men the foreskin has retracted behind the glans during erection and plays no part in penetration, contrary to the assertion implicit in this lie. Once full penetration is achieved the action of the foreskin depends on its original length and how loose it is.
If the foreskin does not retract on, or before, penetration then it tends to stick to the walls of the vagina and the man virtually masturbates himself within his foreskin whilst giving no stimulus, and thus no sexual pleasure, to his partner.
In these days of almost universal condom use, however, all this is irrelevant as the retracted foreskin is kept in place by the condom and can play no part in the action. Many uncircumcised men have noticed that the foreskin makes condom wearing much harder as it tends to bunch up and get in the way, or to push the condom back off the penis.
Smegma is the natural lubricant of the foreskin.
Natural oils are secreted by Tyson's Glands under the rim of the glans and from the inner surface of the foreskin. These are necessary to prevent the foreskin from sticking to the glans and to allow it to retract freely. The oils are produced constantly and are thus replaced very quickly after washing.
Smegma consists of surplus oil, dead skin cells, stale urine, stale semen and miscellaneous dirt which have collected under the foreskin. Smegma is a 'waste product' and serves no useful purpose. If not cleaned away regularly it becomes hard and smelly. It is also a breeding ground for bacteria, which can lead to balanitis. Smegma has also been implicated in penile cancer.
Circumcision removes half the penile skin.
The amount of skin removed varies from little more than the constricted tip of the foreskin to an amount just slightly longer than the glans. The glans is rarely more than a quarter of the length of the entire infant penis (and proportionately much less in an adult). The lie comes from counting the foreskin length twice 'because it has an inner and outer layer'. This fact is really irrelevant because coverage is only provided once.
Circumcision removes hundreds of miles of blood vessels.
'Hundreds of miles' is a gross exaggeration which most people can clearly see through but even so, the blood vessels in the foreskin serve only the foreskin itself and hence their removal with the foreskin is of no further consequence.
The foreskin contains specialized nerve endings.
All nerves are specialized. There is nothing more or less special about those in the foreskin compared with those elsewhere in the body. The glans also contains nerves which don't usually get fully stimulated when sex is experienced through the foreskin.
Circumcision removes Taylor's ridged band.
Taylor 'discovered' this 'ridged band' at the tip of the foreskin by studying less than a dozen dead bodies! This was by no means a scientific study. On the basis of these few observations he postulates (ie guesses) that there is a band of tissue at the tip of the foreskin with an erotic purpose. He fails to recognise that these men might, like so many uncircumcised men, have been suffering from phimosis or that rigor mortis, which would have already set in, might itself be the explanation.</a>
It's a GREAT show, and a topic that needs addressing, as it's a really stupid thing to do to a kid..
screw that! unles syou had it done when you were 20 and for some reason miss it, move on with our life!!
Who cares? Prostate stimulation is 100x more intense then any piece of skin on your penis could ever achieve.
Its funny that since circumcision is prevalent in a few cultures (united states, jewish culture, islam) that all sorts of reasons come up for that practice. The bottom line is that culturally the hebrew people and muslims have practiced it because of their common geographical origins, and then eventually for religious identity. It doesn't change the fact that the rest of the world refrain from this practice because there is no valid reason except for conformity. An interesting study would be to find out how and why this practice has become so prevalent in the states. Probably something to do with the puritans and their taboo on sex.
Personally, I think that if you can brainwash people into thinking its ok to mutilate their children, you probably can get them to believe or do anything....
why is it that people who are horrified by female circumcision think male circumcision is ok... both are wrong in my book...
Also for people who think that personal freedom and choice is so important, why is it that they take that same freedom and choice from their own children...
Personally, I think that if you can brainwash people into thinking its ok to mutilate their children, you probably can get them to believe or do anything....
why is it that people who are horrified by female circumcision think male circumcision is ok... both are wrong in my book...
Also for people who think that personal freedom and choice is so important, why is it that they take that same freedom and choice from their own children...
yes, you can grow it back. do a google search for t-taping and/or the 'tugboat' method. it just grows back skin and [blood]vessels, but this can be quite a boon to those who have circulation problems from the circumsision.
Umm...I don't know if I speak for myself on this one, but I have never ever gotten a callous on my wang.
Hm I'm not qualfied to say much about the types of nerve endings but I do know that regardless of whatever type are found in the foreskin, a significant amount are cut off during a circumcision. You have the nerves removed from the foreskin itself and then as a double whammy, you have the glans developing a scar over the nerves(kernalization?) in response to being exposed all the time. The glans are not meant to be exposed.
Another thing...about that article you posted. Sex is not experienced through a foreskin...the foreskin retracts during arousal.
http://www.sexasnatureintendedit.com/
Do you know why circumcision is so popular in america? A few nut cases during the early 19th century were seeking to abolish masturbation through removing what makes masturbation pleasureable (which would be the foreskin). John Harvey Kellogg(the inventor of corn flakes) was one of these people advocating both mgm and fgm. He favored using no anethesia during the procedure in males...and he advocated buring off the clitorises of females who masturbated with acid. I **** you not.
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