[Banana]

do guys with their foreskin intact get you off any better than circumsized men?

I guess you'll never know. And I can open that can of worms too.

That circumcision decreases sexual pleasure is a charge commonly levelled against it, as sexuality is often an integral part to the human existance should the allegations levelled by the anti-circumcision movement be correct then it is certainly something worthy of taking into consideration.

1. Normal sex involves stimulation of the nerves of the ridged band.

2. Normal sex involves stimulation of the nerves of the frenulum.

3. Normal sex involves stimulation of the fine touch nerves of the normal amount of mucuosal membrane.

4. Normal sex involves stimulation of the nerves of the glans.

5. Normal sex involves FULL functional stimulation of ALL of these nerves because they are not covered over with layers of keratinized tissue.

1. Circumcised sex has no ridged band to be stimulated.

2. Circumcised sex has no little or no frenulum left to be stimulated.

3. Circumcised sex has LESS fine touch nerves to be stimulated.

4. Circumcised sex has the glans to be stimulated.

5. Circumcised sex has PARTIAL functional stimulation of the existing nerves due to being covered with layers of keratinized tissue.



And another from widely respected and revered Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides:

The bodily pain caused to that member is the real purpose of circumcision. None of the activities necessary for the preservation of the individual is harmed thereby, nor is procreation rendered impossible, but violent concupiscence and lust that goes beyond what is needed are diminished. The fact that circumcision weakens the faculty of sexual excitement and sometimes perhaps diminishes the pleasure is indubitable. For if at birth this member has been made to bleed and has had its covering taken away from it, it must indubitably be weakened. The Sages, may their memory be blessed, have explicitly stated: It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.

In addition I would like to draw attention to the existance of the "Gliding Motion", a mechanism whereby the foreskin glides smoothly along the glans during intercourse, eased by natural male lubricant. Many intact men state this as their principal source of pleasure. This is of course absent in circumcised men who generally have to use artificial lubrication or saliva to supplant evolution's bounty and must stimulate the glans directly.

This considered I would suggest that as an operation of, at very best, negligible benefit circumcision should never be performed upon the unconsenting, such as infants.