The Battle of the Foreskin: Can You Measure Pleasure?

By John Calendo / Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Plain or with Extra Topping?

So they did this experiment, they being a battery of PhDs for The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Forty guys — 20 cut, 20 un — were tested to see which group was more sensitive to “genital sensory stimulation” — that’s lab-speak for “pleasure.”

So the 40 dicks were stretched. The 40 dicks were pulled. The 40 dicks were tickled until they blushed a violet crimson.

And what did the 40 dicks yield?

“Research theory, and popular belief, all suggest that penile sensation is greater in the uncircumcised as compared with the circumcised man.” the researchers wrote, stating their premise, then noting that previous testing had always been done on flaccid dicks. By contrast, they would study the upright penis in all its unfurled glory, ones that had been hardened using erotic stimuli such as porn films — as well as non-erotic control stimuli. (Young men, God bless ‘em, can get hard staring at blank walls!)

“Touch and pain thresholds were assessed on the penile shaft, the glans penis, and the volar surface of the forearm.” (The forearm? Dicks have forearms? Actually, touching the arm, as opposed to the penis, seems to be the control.) “Sexual arousal was assessed via thermal imaging of the penis.”

Guys checking each other out The result: everybody got hot, but uncut men got hotter. What you expected, right?

But not so fast.

This, it turned out, was not the definitive finding it seemed at first. The only reason uncut men got hotter was because they started at a “significantly lower penile temperature than circumcised men.”

Final answer: “No differences in genital sensitivity were found between the uncircumcised and circumcised groups.”

Obviously gay men did not design such a useless use of 40 erect dicks. If there were any gay men on that research team, comprised of three women and two men, they were certainly not Nightcharm readers or in touch with their inner feelings.

You see, boys and girls, nobody cares how uncut cocks feel, poor misunderstood darlings though they may be, huddled in their hoods. It’s how they fucking look! Fact is fucking feels great for everybody, cut or uncut — except, of course, for certain religious conservatives who, we understand, immediately bite off the head of their mate.

When it comes to the Sheathed abd the Shorn, there really is no contest. While we’ve all met guys who are beyond crazy for folds and folds of foreskin, have you ever met anyone who obsessed on circumcised peter?

Neat, perky, forthright head of penis simply has no fan club of its own, no websites with thousands of galleries, no dedicated niche in the porn market. The pandemonium is all on the other side.

The Sheathed and the Shorn Maybe it’s an American thing, this obsession, because our boys are routinely and scrupulously circumcised. Most countries don’t do this, certainly not as a matter of policy.

But then most countries weren’t founded by Puritans. Most countries don’t have the Undead of Plymouth Rock coming back on them generation after generation in the form of — oh, just off the top of our head — the hygiene films of the 1950′s that were showed in high schools well into the 1980′s, the cult of the YMCA with its rows of showers, the general practice of modeling American boys on the military aesthetic (briefly interrupted by the woolly nature children of the 1960′s) seen in crewcuts and, of late, shaved heads (so like the cut dick.)

Clean as a whistle is our thing.

To good patriots like ourselves, drooling foreskin seems foreign, mysterious … dirty. (Not that that there’s anything wrong with dat!) A bit of the Dawn of Man, perhaps, untouched by science. Oh, very hot in the Neanderthal division of hot — but can we make a terrible confession that you promise you won’t hold against us. Uncut dicks — well, they always reminds us a bit of that classic road-trip menu item: pigs in a blanket.

Lets hear it for the all-American penis. For the streamline silhouette and swept-back lines of the exposed cap. Nine out of 10 horndogs agree: cut dicks needs love too.

ATTENTION FELLOW SCIENTISTS AND FORESKIN RESEARCHERS:

Interested in a really good, substantial discussion on foreskin, filled with facts and first-person experience? Check out the commentary left by Nightcharm readers on two previous pieces.

Uncut Men: Boys in the Hood
Remy: Blue Skies Over Dreamland

The in-depth analysis will blow you away. It did us.

Joel

Just ’cause the law doesn’t ban it doesn’t mean it’s *right*… There’s a difference between making sure your child gets suitable nutrition during its formative years, and chopping off a piece of his dick ’cause “it’s not against the law.”
Cameron

I understand where you’re coming from, really i do. But be reasonable. By that argument, it doesn mean its wrong either.

In real life, ethics are unclear & can be debated one way or another. Whats “wrong” for one individual or culture is not universally wrong for others.

So unfortunately, it really does all boil down to what is and isn’t against the law, otherwise its just something that is frowned upon. And who gives a shit about a frown.
Cameron

For God’s sake, medical professionals can’t agree on this, so whats gives you the authority or the right to decide thats its wrong?
Cameron

Its odd to me that you will almost NEVER find a group, person, or website that absolutely is Pro-routine circumcision but while searching for con-circumcision, it is ABSOLUTELY effortless to find un-objective people, groups, opinions, activism, websites, & various other propaganda Here are a few links of interest that i promise are not completely fanatical.

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Well, there is one other site, but honestly, it is occasionally biased. When it isn’t though, it has some good points. (link)
SAM

I LOVE THE FORESKIN! I DON’T KNOW WHY BUT IT SEEMS SEXY TO ME!
John

Moms! Stop destroying you boy babies’ penis by having him cut because his daddy is..thats the awful past..yes, once doctors smoked while attending there patients, seatbelts were unheard of..lets stop this left alone crime of circumcision..its wrong..AND not convinced yet MOM? Go find a natural man, make love with him..now you will understand..SAVE your SON.
Adam

I think charlotte from sex and the city was right, uncut looks like a sharpei cut is the best
1

i think theyre all fuckable
Keus

As one who chose to be circumcised when I was 20 yrs old (Am now 23) I can assure everyone that being circumcised is great. I never had a problem with phimosis or anything, I’m the older of 2 other brothers and one sister. I’m from Sydney, Oz, and both my younger brothers were circumcised at birth, I was not because we didn’t have the moeny to get me “cut” at the time. I chose to get circed because of looks more than any other thing. And now that I have researched it, it comes with many advantages. I’m sorry, but my most sensitive spot has always been my brain. No piece of skin is more sensitive. They say we have more nerve endings in our foreskin than our fingers…my cock head is more sensitive than that, sorry! I can tell you that even though I shower every day, after one piss I would smell the foresking building up the smegma, what was I to do? Clean myself in the restaurant? The 4skin always got caught in the zipper, and it was always moist, no matter what, whih I guess was a great place to build up bacteria. The 4skin is basically the labia of the men (since we are all females at first when embryos). I masturbate without lubrication and my orgasms are insane, it is a myth that we now need spit or other lubricants to get satisfaction. Also, that clothes rubbing against the head is uncomfortable…at first it’s a weird sensation, but you forget about it in the first 15 minutes. I get more oral pleasure I can say that, my sexual partners that experienced with me while both cut and uncut love it more, because my cock head is bigger, “plump”, it reckon it is. Living in Oz (Australia) I can say that neonatal circs plumetted int he 90′s…but babies getting circed after leaving the hospotal rocketed because of problems with foreskin. Now in the 2000′s neonatal circs are on the rise again in my country, going from 9% i national statistics in the 90′s, to 30% recently in the last year, and teen and tween circs are getting more exposure. See our Medical voice comes from a man from Tasmania, a region that is 0% circumcision, but they also have many incestual problems and things like that. It is not barbaric, I can say it hurt and am only pissed because my parents did not do it when I was born like my borthers. I can see why in the USA it is declining, large amounts of immigrants from Latin America (Catholic brainwashed) aand Orientals whohave more births than any other sector, and a declining economy, where parents have to pay to get their children circed. But we also do other things that may seems barbaric to tohers, such as putting on braces and taking out wisdom teeth which when you see those operations you would faint! Now I can see why in England they would think such things are barbaric, c’mon mates, looka t their teeth and hygenie…it’s not the best in the world, well all Europeans. Taking it from religion, Christians are to be circumcised by law being a Jewish sect, and children of Abraham who was told by God that all his male descendants are to be circumcised as a covenant, Jews and Moslems do it being sons of Abraham, Christians don’t for in order for them to convert quickly European monarchs who were more barbaric and primitive than anything, took away that law along with prohibition of alcohol and pork consumption and Kosher foods among other things. We all still follow the Catholic Pope in Rome, all Christians do like it or not, whatever he says goes. Moslems and Jews and other Arabs have had millenia of being great in medicine, more so than Celts, Vikings, Greeks, Slavs, Aryans and Latins, and they knew the benefits of circumcision before, thousands of years before, there are cases of boys being born without a 4skin, evolution getting near us, we DON’T NEED IT TO SURVIVE sorry 4skin pigs. Been with American men and I can say they are very clean men… been with Euro boys and even though they look clean cut…their cocks smelled and tasted horrificly…I have been with a few uncut that I could stomach an had much fun with, but I will always prefer the cut look for it looks more aesthetically pleasing, uncuts tend to have deformed cock heads and the purple look is just like a lipstick dog’s dick, very primitive. Seriously, being from the West, there is no need for foreskins, for I wear clothes and that is all the protection I need against nature… when being nude outside I have less of a chance of accumulating bacteria in my penis unlike if I were still uncut! I’ve asked my siblings if they remember when they were circumcised at birth and they just laugh for asking such a stupid question, it’s like remembering having your umbilical cord cut off and getting spanked by the doctor in order to cry or getting my immunization shots as a baby…who the Hell remembers that? I do remember getting an infection in my foreskin, which was minor, but it was painful to urinate and the tip of the skin was blood red, horrible. My children will be cut, make that sure!But it’s all opinion, and if you guys do not want to listen to WHO and UNAIDS who are the experts and listen to charlatans on the web go ahead. Free speech, luck and long live the beautiful cut cock!
UKGUY61

All i have to say is i was uncut until May this year(2008) i was 46 when i finally got circumcised andthe difference is unquantifyable!!! sex before the cut… good, ok, enjoyable and all i knew!
sex after the cut…..WOW!!! mindblowing stuff! the stimulus i get now is amazing!!!! its the best its ever been im now heading for 47 with a newly revived and increased sex drive.

the world should rid its men of the foreskin!
Ian

I was circumcised at age 23 it is 100% better now ! I was sore most of the time before now I am not . I would recomend getting circumcision to any one it is like night and day .
Ron

I am aged 24 and for 22 years of my life I had an uncut cock. During the years that I was uncut the sensations on jerking off were sublime, out of this world and like being in heaven. Friends of mine kept urging me to get circumcised as they were.
I had the procedure carried out and I had to suffer the stress of bleeding complications immediately after the procedure.

When I was fully healed the sensations on jerking off and ejaculation were a poor substitute to the feelings I had with my uncut cock, and although two years have gone by the feelings are just the same and not so exciting as when I was uncut, man, the feeling of the foreskin rubbing against my cock was awesome when I was uncut.
At least I can easily get a hard on thinking of my uncut cock and my highly erotic experiences during those years.

So guys, if you are considering having the procedure carried out think very carefully before you go ahead.
Mike

An uncut dick is just so damn sexy. It’s the way nature designed us…
Pup

Jeez guys, how about just accepting that everyone is their ownself. Sure cut may be fine for some guys but for others intact is the better option. You can’t make peoples’ decisions for them.

If you want to share your opinion that’s fine, but respect that everyone has their own. Just say what you think and forget the fascist “I think everyone should think the same as me” bollocks.
Lou

Male routine circumcision ( unless medically warranted) is cruel and backwards
and in my opinion a form of mutilation. A country like the US which prides itself on being progressive is backwards on this issue. A baby boy cannot give consent.
It is plain wrong. Now that this procedure has become a tradition in America,
it seems to be warranted, and it makes people believe it’s okay, it’s the norm.
It is big business for the MD’s and hospitals in America and for the baby
oil industry, and in that sense of greed this country is without a doubt progressive. I am in favor of making routine circumcision unlawful.
Ricardo

i think it is disgusting what they do to your dick after you are born if your parents choose to. God gave you your cock, no one can decide weather or not a part of it is cut off afer you r born. let the boy choose the status of his dick for Gods sake. imagine being brought into this world, and as soon as you come out, they chop a part of you right offff. NOT A BRIGHT IDEA…. babies cant talk. you cannot put them in so much pain just cause. if it is your religion go ahead. but if it is just cause, you are saying the kid you are going to raise is too stupid to decide how his fucking cock will look like.
edward

Uncut penis’s are so sexy, even the smell is sexy. I love pulling it over my lovers forsin and licking sweet naturally occuring smegma. Smegma is natures way of lubercating this organ and has been for millions of years.
Anonymous

EWW! k un circumsized dicks are fucking disqusting! they make me wanna throw up. EVERY ! GET UR DICK FIXED!
leonard

i like cut. i cut and its look so sexy man.
anon

circumcision should be illegal. if someoone wants to cut off a part of himself heÂ´s a bit sick and can go to the doctor as an adult. uncut looks and feels so good. the cut lovers are into scars, shriveled skin and dicks who change their color halfway? lol, thats so dumb. saying uncut is disgusting is like saying natural breasts are disgusting and silicone is the way to go.
TINO

EISH MAN , THESE GUYS ARE HOT , I WISH I WITH THEM . TATA
kc

I like an uncut cock more personaly. It is sensative and sexy. I have found that some men do not have good hygein habits cut or not and u can have cleanliness issues regardless.
joe black

hi guys i got circumsized for my wifes 30th birthday and she loves it so do i that was 10 years ago all men should get circumsized.
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how bout you fags get off here and stop this foolish talk
http://hillst139@aol.com Michael

I must say that I love all cocks, especially those of older men to whom I am the most attracted to. But the taste of an uncut cock presents a miriad of flavoers that I just love. Especially when my man cums and the smell and aroma of his cum and the sent of his sweaty cock and cum mixes within his foreskin and I have a slurppy time of eating and swallowing, mmmmmm, baby.