foreskin: pros and cons?

@darwin, thank you for shifting the discussion. I hope devajones will post. Her previous comment was very interesting and it would be good to get more info.

Cons: I haven't experienced any

Pros: If I pinch the tip and piss into it, it fills up like a little balloon.

Those who are intact will not know any pros/cons as they've never been cut. It's like asking someone what death is like. Your far better off asking this question of those that decided to have a circumcision imo.

There are no pros to the precrdure besides aesthetics, it's like cutting your eyelids off. 0.02

Trei,

I understand your logic. But maybe we'll here from some intact guys who report problems they have encountered. Or maybe they can tell us that they love the feeling of the foreskin sliding on the glans, etc.

I don't think we who got cut at birth have much to add, except that lube is kind of a pain, and that we can imagine how it might feel to have our cock sliding in and out of the foreskin, and that might be quite fine.

Darwin

@darwin,I believe you raise an excellent point that has not been discussed before.

I was cut at birth and my wife used to find intercourse uncomfortable until we began to use a lube for intercourse. Agreed, having to lube up before intromission is a pain and it tends to create an interruption to the proceedings that reduces spontaneity.

Am I correct in assuming that uncut men would find it unnecessary to use artificial lubrication for successful intercourse?

I have for skin.

Don't really know about the lube part have no skin. Depends more on how wet the woman gets I think.
I have to say that with skin, if she is to dry. Getting in is hard to and there is a chance that you cum way faster, skin pulled all the way back is really sensitive. So I often lube to.

A friend of mine had the problem with his for skin being to small/narrow. He is quit a hung guy but the skin did not grow with him...
Thy managed to make the skin bigger at some point. If this would not work he would lose his skin. But it's still there.

Don't know by experience but I thing that without fore skin you stay way cleaner...

@Pommie, not sure about that, at boarding school (communal cold showers - ugh) many uncut boys had their glans poking out with an erection. They soon lost it in the cold showers. Also I have notice on some videos the uncut guys have all their glans out. I suppose it depends on how much foreskin there is and also how much labia on the partner as it too may allow a semi dry entrance.

I had a circumcision at age 42, due to a persistent yeast infection that just wouldn't go away, in spite of meticulous personal hygiene on my part.

My foreskin was probably too long, it overhung the tip by over a 1/2 inch. Even though the head was more sensitive, the foreskin sliding back and forth over it during sex greatly reduced any enhanced sensations that might occur.

After circumcision, the sensation/sensitivity in the head was reduced, but the frictional sensation during sex was enhanced greatly.

In spite of an unexpected complication post-surgery, I still prefer circumcised to uncircumcised; however, I do miss the ability to easily "squeegee" any remaining urine from the urethra with the floating foreskin.

@Badger, thank you extremely helpful. Not often is there an objective summary on this subject.

@isvara and @Badger,Thanks for your comments.
Makes one wonder why some cut men go to all that trouble to have their skins restored.

By the Way: There are statistics out of Africa demonstrating that cut guys have a lower chance of catching AIDS. Somehow the virus is able to lodge under the foreskin and penetrate the skin. If this is so it would appear that over a time Islam and Judaism will win out over Christianity and non believers not through faith but over survival. Just worth considering.

didnt they find a cure for aids? Or a treatment at least that prevents death?

@ineverknew, I don't know, but I do know it takes a long time to get any serious medication out to the masses, so anything that lessens the chance of infection should be considered. It is a frightful situation.
We are finding some fly out workers are bringing AIDS back to their homes from short holiday overseas. Medication may stop death but it is not much of a life.
I am more than happy to stand corrected.

I think most people are safe from HIV or AIDS if you practice safe sex and, if your concerned, have proper testing done before engaging in sexual activities. Statistically heterosexuals have the same chance of getting struck by lightening as they do of getting HIV from unprotected sex here in the US. Homosexual activity and intravenous drug use are the most susceptible to getting the disease. So circumcision in my opinion doesnt offer a realistic prevention. If I were to live in Africa, I would probably have a different viewpoint. I guess it depends on where you live.

Like many men of my generation, I was circumcised as a neonatal shortly after my birth in late March 1949. My brothers and I, along with all my classmates, were all circumcised in those years. I didn't see my first uncircumcised penis until I was a sophomore in college in North Carolina. It belonged to a star football player at my college. He was well-hung and he had a huge, mushroom glans covered by a veiny foreskin! I saw him oblivious from my admiring eyes in our dorm showers on a Sunday morning.

Yet I am happy that was I circumcised as an infant. From early boyhood, I have enjoyed stimulating my glans.

However, recently on Xtube I see mostly uncut guys in the jerkoff section. Seeing an uncut guy masturbating and his foreskin sliding smoothly back and forth over his glans is downright erotic!

Yes, I think that adult circumcision programs in Africa to combat the spread of HIVAIDS are admirable. However cut vs uncut is debatable to say the least.

I would be interested in hearing from uncut Anerosers if the foreskin enhances their Aneros experience.

Thom./BigGlansDC

I would be interested in hearing from uncut Anerosers if the foreskin enhances their Aneros experience.
My foreskin doesn't feature in my aneros sessions at all. It's that whole "penis, not" approach. I can see how it would be considered an interesting erogenous zone, but if you've been whacking off your whole life with the foreskin intact, then it's just another part of the penis-centered pleasure pathway.

It might be an interesting experiment to try and wire the foreskin somehow to the prostate, like people have done with their nipples, but I don't know if it could work any better than trying to rewire the entire penis that way. The frenulum runs into the foreskin, so you can cum by just rolling it, if you can stay flaccid (ie. keep the foreskin in its covered position). At least I think you can, it's been a long time since I tried it. 😕

I heard somewhere on the Forum that it is quite possible to hard wire the nipples with both the prostate and glans penis. I would think that you would even hard wire the nipples with your frenulum (if you still have one) and other areas of the glans, along with prostate. 😉

On Reddit the debate between cut vs uncut is never-ending. I like having my frenulum completely exposed at all times. But to each his own.

Anyway, I always had a question that I haven't found an answer to. Maybe some of you experts can enlighten me. It is often said that cutting the foreskin removes thousands of pleasurable nerve endings. My question is whether this is actually true. When the foreskin is cut, doesn't it SHORTEN the nerve endings? I would think removing them altogether would mean one had to cut out the nerve all the way throughout the penis. In this case, aren't we just removing a half inch of nerves, and don't the nerve endings that are left behind still work? My shaft is amazingly sensitive, and I just feel like those nerves are still there. But the anti-circumcision crowd just seems to say the nerves are cut out completely. Fellow Anerosers, please set me straight.

I heard somewhere on the Forum that it is quite possible to hard wire the nipples with both the prostate and glans penis. I would think that you would even hard wire the nipples with your frenulum (if you still have one) and other areas of the glans, along with prostate. 😉

yes, i am wired those ways.

On the whole nipple thing, i've been wanting to mention that some time ago there was a member here who has a url on nipple orgasms. i was looking for the search on here to see if i could find it, but i can't figure out how to do a search on here anymore.

Hi @aneros_user13872,

The member who is into nipple orgasms who occasionally posts on the Forum is Wuerstchen.

See: Multiple nipple/breast orgasm and serial nipple orgasm.

Wuerstchen also has a Yahoo group devoted to the subject of breast and nipple orgasms.

Thom./BigGlansDC

Unforftunately @Wuerstchen has ended his yahoo group for nipple orgasms. I was a member and he ended the group to persue other activities. Just a FYI.

That is a terrible shame, @ineverknew. I wanted to join @Wuerstchen's yahoo group several months ago, but a glitch in Yahoo prevented me. 🙁

But @aneros_13872, one of my goals of my Aneros sessions is to achieve not only the Super-O and MMO's but also a full-fledged orgasm in my GLANS through the Aneros!!! 😉 😀 😀

Thom./BigGlansDC

As far as nerve endings in the foreskin as mentioned above, I am uncut and have a fair amount of foreskin. The foreskin has meissner corpuscles distributed in it. These are the same neurological pleasure cells that are located in our frenulums.

At times when P waves are enveloping my penis, I can distinctly feel my foreskin light up with great pleasure and the P waves sort of pulsing in an encircling type fashion in my foreskin. It is delightful when it happens. I am not rewired YET, but look forward to my foreskin becoming increasingly pleasurable when I get there.

You can google meissner corpuscles and read up on these pleasurable aspects of a foreskin which hopefully will become more pleasurable with the rewiring.

To a limited extent, I've had it both ways--a raggedly done half cut job as an infant that in later life, when I got tired of the rolling and pinching and sweaty secretions from the unevenly half cut skin, I got up the courage--announcing to my wife that the playground was going to be closed for repairs a few weeks--to get revised into a neat, "high tight" style cut. In my case though, I still have a full inch of the inner foreskin that's now rolled back onto the shaft when erect, as it's more of the the outer foreskin that's removed with this style, and I can feel no difference in sensitivity and now the tightness and exposure to any touch and stimulation when erect is really enjoyable. The only downside is the time taken to lube up when planning any activity with it now.

To those who for some medical reason ever have to face this, don't be afraid. There was minimal discomfort and although it was weeks before I could allow an erection to occur with the tightness of this style, it was worth the trouble.

I'm uncut. typically I leave my foreskin over my glans so it's not rubbing against my clothing. this can make me less aware of my penis (unless I'm aroused) but it seems to make my glans and especially the frenulum more sensitive when I have the foreskin down. I can edge for hours while riding and not ejaculate but have a constant flow of precum and orgasms. it's really very nice and with no refractory period. I don't have any problems with hygiene because I bathe every day. my nipples are directly wired to my prostate, anus, penus and frenulum.. so that's all I need to get dry orgasms. I'm gay so I use lube for intercourse. my foreskin has never been a problem.

I have foreskin.Exposing the head actually helps in bringing out the sensations of the Aneros and prostate - especially when standing. Saying that, I do have phimosis (maybe even paraphimosis) - so the tightness might be the cause.
In regards to the condition however, I can't retract based on whether the skin in a tightened/swelled up period. Trying to do so otherwise causes the skin to tear/rip a little.

I've been blessed with a supple foreskin my entire life. On only two occasions have I known painful complications. Once when I was about seven years old, my mother took me to the doctor's ; and, he forcebly retracted my foreskin for the first time. The second occasion, I had been on a course of antibiotics for several weeks; and, a yeast infection developed. Otherwise, my foreskin has been a constant source of pleasure. The gliding action my foreskin provides during intercourse and masturbation results in a friction-free experience and allows my glans to maintain a sensory surface that is simply exquisite. When I leak precum, my foreskin overhang provides a glistening recepticle that fills and runneth over; and, few things compare to sliding ones thumb in between a precum-moistened foreskin and glans and sliding it around in circular motions! Aneros use has only multiplied the pleasure possibilities afforded by my foreskin. During both aneros and less sessions, my prostate starts to slowly pulse, then my sac and balls start to experience waves of radiating joy AND then the inevitable tingles ride up my raphe to the very tip of my foreskin --- over and over again --- always the same. I often give thanks that my parents allowed me to keep, cherish and enjoy my foreskin throughout my boyhood! Now at age 64, I appreciate it no less than when I first truly discovered its potential in puberty!!!

You have to worry more about hygiene and I think it makes you oversensitive to stimulation until you learn to push it back for masturbation or sex. It is a bit painful when you are a kid to push it back, but you become somewhat accustomed to it, or desensitized to it.

That being said, I am glad I have mine and there is extra pleasure you can get from the foreskin as others have mentioned. I have not had any serious issues with hygiene, and as long as you regularly peel it back and clean I don't think you should. Besides the extra pleasure, I just feel that leaving the boy intact and teaching him about hygiene is better for him. My two cents.