New study: Circumcision doesn't reduce sensation

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Circumcision doesn't reduce sensation: study
Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:59PM EDT
By Naomi Kim

TORONTO (Reuters) - Uncircumcised men receive no more sexual sensation than circumcised men, according to a new study that contradicts the widely held belief.

Researchers from McGill University in Montreal found that circumcised men felt the same amount of sensitivity to touch and pain in various states of sexual arousal as those with foreskins.

"This study suggests that preconceptions of penile sensory differences between circumcised and uncircumcised men may be unfounded," the study's principal author Kimberley Payne said in a release.

The study, published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, looked at a group of 40 men, half of them circumcised. Using sensory testing, the men were monitored at two points on the penis and the forearm while viewing erotic films. Thermal imaging was used to measure sexual arousal.

The effect of circumcision on sexual sensitivity has long been debated and the team hopes its finding will prompt further research on the topic.

Coo beans, mang. Good find willy.

You are so funny with your obsession with circumcision.

Without being able to compare myself, I picture it working as the penis adapting sensitivity on how much it's exposed to. So sure, an uncircumcised penis may be more sensitive, but that would make it oversensitive if stimulated as directly as a circumcised are. So in the end it becomes kind of similar. I mean, from how you can desensitize the penis from frequent and rough masturbation (the "death grip") and it can re-adapt if you stop doing that, that's at least what makes most sense to me.I mean, being circumcised myself, I can only say it feels "just right" for me, but I have a strong feeling it's all the same for circumcised men...

I can't believe they are actually paying people to do this type of research. There are definitely more important uncertainties in this world that should be given the priority of research over this type of nonsense.Who really cares? I think for the most part, cut guys are happy with what they got and uncut guys are happy with what they got as well(unless there is something medically wrong).

my brother is working for a guy a uc davis prof who got a 2 million grant to do research to try to out how low desert palm trees are different from high desert palm trees.

MY question, how do they REALLY know if it is better or not, or the same?Didn't read the study, but, do they use guys who were circumcised AFTER having had sex? AND did they have their forskin stretched BEFORE the circumcision?I have a tear in the boat, it happened BEFORE my first orgasm...and I LOVE my orgasms...

And then a little while back there was this thread with the opposite conclusion.http://www.afraidtoask.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/277937/page/1#Post277937I think people just need to mind their own F'n business and do something productive.

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I think people just need to mind their own F'n business and do something productive.

Here here. We could be using all that money for so many different things.

I wonder how many people out there care.. besides the people who are seriously obsessed over it for no real reason.

I would like to know what two points on the penis they tested. There is no way the glans of a circumcised penis is exactly the same sensitivity as the glans of an uncut penis with the foreskin retracted. There is also no way the sensitivity of a circumcised penis with the frenulum removed is the exact same sensitivity as an uncut penis with a fully intact frenulum. Sensitivity at the base of the shaft? yeah, that's the same. Sensitivity at the inner foreskin area? yeah, that's the same too. Just an example: I'm cut, and I can touch and rub the glans (head) roughly and feel hardly anything when flaccid. My glans only gets sensitive to touch when I'm fully erect and close to orgasm and for a few minutes after I orgasm. Most uncut guys I've chatted with report that their sensitivity to touch on the glans is very high with the foreskin back, even when flaccid - many report its so sensitive that its uncomfortable to touch the glans directly. My glans isn't even close to that.

Hi Guys!! :smile:

I hope you - and your penis - are OK!! lol

Whether or NOT it's true - that there is no difference in sensitivity between a 'cut' and 'uncut' penis [Which I find a little hard to believe] I still wish I had my foreskin so I wouldn't have to keep buying 'Astroglide' every couple of months. And it must be great to be able to masturbate whenever and wherever you want to. [You know - like at a movie theatre or grocery store!! lol J/K]

GREAT BIG HUG
Craig!! :smile:

Originally Posted By: CraigHi Guys!! I hope you - and your penis - are OK!! lolWhether or NOT it's true - that there is no difference in sensitivity between a 'cut' and 'uncut' penis [Which I find a little hard to believe] I still wish I had my foreskin so I wouldn't have to keep buying 'Astroglide' every couple of months. And it must be great to be able to masturbate whenever and wherever you want to. [You know - like at a movie theatre or grocery store!! lol J/K] GREAT BIG HUGCraig!! wait when your cut u cannot masturbate whenever?

Sure you can. Some people prefer to use lube though.

Originally Posted By: 25 Gunzwait when your cut u cannot masturbate whenever? Hi Gunz!! I hope you're OK. Some circumcised guys are 'cut' very tightly. In other words - a considerable amount of their foreskin was cut off when circumcised. For most of these guys - that means that when their penis is erect - the skin on the shaft of their penis is quite tight and can not be moved up or down the shaft. This makes it very uncomfortable [If not impossible] to masturbate without some sort of lubrication. Other 'cut' guys are able to move at least some of the skin on their shaft and can - sometimes - masturbate 'dry'. But even then - most would prefer some sort of lubrication. [Like 'spit' or 'Astroglide' or whatever] I can move the skin on my shaft up or down about an inch - so I can - if I have the time to do so - masturbate without any 'lube' - but I can't move the skin up to and/or over the head of my penis. The idea - therefore - of a 'quickie jack-off session' is impossible for me. Without 'lube' it can take me up to an hour to reach an orgasm. And it really doesn't feel all that great. Oh how I envy those of you who can masturbate using your own skin!! [Whether or not 'you' have a sensitivity advantage]GREAT BIG HUGCraig!!

I don't think he's implying that. Just that sensitivity that they are reporting is suspect.

Originally Posted By: Craig

Originally Posted By: 25 Gunz

wait when your cut u cannot masturbate whenever?
Hi Gunz!! :smile:

I hope you're OK.

Some circumcised guys are 'cut' very tightly. In other words - a considerable amount of their foreskin was cut off when circumcised. For most of these guys - that means that when their penis is erect - the skin on the shaft of their penis is quite tight and can not be moved up or down the shaft. This makes it very uncomfortable [If not impossible] to masturbate without some sort of lubrication. Other 'cut' guys are able to move at least some of the skin on their shaft and can - sometimes - masturbate 'dry'. But even then - most would prefer some sort of lubrication. [Like 'spit' or 'Astroglide' or whatever] I can move the skin on my shaft up or down about an inch - so I can - if I have the time to do so - masturbate without any 'lube' - but I can't move the skin up to and/or over the head of my penis. The idea - therefore - of a 'quickie jack-off session' is impossible for me. Without 'lube' it can take me up to an hour to reach an orgasm. And it really doesn't feel all that great.

Oh how I envy those of you who can masturbate using your own skin!! [Whether or not 'you' have a sensitivity advantage]

GREAT BIG HUG
Craig!! :smile:

ahhh i see thanks :P personally i can do it when ever i feel the need to. The reason im uncut cause my parents think you should be like how god made you.

My circumcised penis is similar to Craig's. I can jack off without lube, but it is uncomfy to do so. And if I JO without lube, some of the skin below the glans (head) swells up and gets puffy when flaccid afterwards from the irritation of too much friction. Feels much better to JO with lube, but of course good lube isn't always available whenever and wherever you want to JO. It would be nice to not need lube, and is one of the many reasons I think uncut is better.

I think I lose sensitivity from not being naturally lubed up. The difference between dry and lubed is huge and uncut people almost always have a natural lube so they're usually more sensitive.