SEXIS WRONG

Circumcision and Sex
Diane Petryk-Bloom
Want her to totally want it, totally need it, and totally love it?
Want to have her thinking of you instead of thinking of England?
Men who want more sex, listen up. She needs to like it better,
and she’ll like it better if you realize what’s missing—your
foreskin.
As you read this, at least 100,000 men across America are
taping, tying, and tugging their penises to stretch new foreskin.
1 Most lost their foreskins in infancy when they were
circumcised, but somewhere along the line they discovered
that sex without a foreskin just isn’t what nature intended.
In the uncircumcised man, the sexually aroused penis peeks
from foreskin, then bursts full-out, sending ripples of skin
back on the shaft. Those waves of stretching and retreating
foreskin give the male one the most exquisite sensations in
all sexual experience.
That’s because the foreskin is the most important sensory
tissue of the penis. 2
Pleasurable sensations provided by a foreskin are “so incredibly
great,” in fact, that “no man should miss out on them,”
says author Jeffrey O’Hara, a circumcised-but-restored—as
far as can be—male.
That, in itself, isn’t enough to motivate most men to worry
about developing new foreskin. Here’s what is: She needs it.
It’s the key to pleasuring your woman. Get it, get her more
often.
Here’s why: Circumcised men have lost considerable sensory
tissue. Important nerve endings—gone. Some hate the idea.
But many still say they have all the pleasure they can stand,
so what’s the problem? They have perfectly serviceable erections.
They have orgasms and ejaculations. The problem is
how they get there. Researchers have recently discovered
that the mechanism of arousal and intercourse is entirely different
for the circumcised man and the foreskin-intact man.
Whether or not a circumcised male has any problems, recent
anatomical studies show that his partner probably will.
In 1996 Dr. John Taylor and colleagues in the Pathology Department
at the University of Manitoba decided to assess
the type and amount of tissue missing from the circumcised
adult penis. (Incredibly, humans have been trimming penises
since 2000-something BCE 3 and no one had yet assessed
the damage!)
Taylor found an elastic-like band of mucosal tissue at the tip
of the foreskin. He calls it the ridged band. 4 It teems with specialized
nerve endings—similar to those on the fingers and
lips. The head of the penis, or glans, by contrast, and contrary
to popular belief, is fairly insensitive.
When the penis is relaxed, the ridged band narrows over its
tip like a drawn duffle bag. Sexual arousal dilates the band,
sliding it back past the glans and onto the shaft, where it rolls
up and down during intercourse. The rolling and stretching
stimulates the erogenous nerves in the band to fire off sensations
of pleasure. 5
From an evolutionary perspective, the object of sexual stimulation
in the male is to build up contractions in the genital
musculature. Kristen O’Hara, with her husband Jeff O’Hara,
explains in her 2001 book, Sex As Nature Intended It, that
it is these alternate tensing and relaxing actions that lead to
orgasm and ejaculation of sperm.
They point out that Josephine Lowndes Sevely’s seven-year
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