This is a touchy subject I know. It is typical for males to be circumcised at infancy or childhood so usually the 'patient' had no say and probably has no conscious memory of being uncut. It's not pleasant to think about what was taken away. So if you are a 'cut' male and don't want to read on I understand. But I don't plan to hopelessly drone on about the perceived evils.
So I won't open the floor to debate the merits/demerits of male circumcision here. What there can be no doubt about is that circumcision removes body parts that served a purpose. Maybe it can be debated whether the job of foreskin is beneficial. Once again, I don't wish to debate that. I'll just say what they are:
1)Protects and lubricates the glans penis (head). It is almost never exposed.
2)Provides additional skin on the shaft during erection
3)Stimulates the glans by its motion during intercourse/masturbation
4)Inner foreskin lining contains sensitive nerve endings smilar to the fingertip
5)Retracted foreskin has folds which stimulate labia during intercourse
6)Triangular region of foreskin just below urinary opening (frenulum) is highly erogenous zone
All of the above function is lost when cut away due to circumcision. The analogy I like to make is to the eyelid. If your eyelid were removed you'd be unable to close your eyes and parts of your eyeball that would normally be covered would be permanently exposed. Now this is a personal opinion: that kind of sucks.
Since most guys who were circumsized did not opt for the procedure it would be nice if there were a way to reverse it. There are some techniques which involve stretching the remaining skin. That may cover the glans and give some benefit but it can't reproduce the structure of foreskin.
That's when I discovered a charity (started in Italy, I think, and recently registered with IRS) that was working on raising enough money to fund a clinical trial of foreskin regeneration using regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. These techniques have been used to generate fingertips (complete with the original fingerprint) and even a whole penis (in an animal).
http://www.acell.com/files/Acute_Finger_Amputation.pdf
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MensHealth/researchers-regrow-functional-penis-rabbits/story?id=9016303
It relies on the fact that your body already knows what should be where and saw to it when you were developing in the womb. While some other animals can regenrate many body parts even as adults, adult humans simply form non-functional scar tissue when injured. Regenerative medicine involves getting the body to activate those functions again at a site of injury or amputation.
So if this technique could prove successful when applied to foreskin it would completely reverse non-consensual or non-religious foreskin removal. There have been proposals but no clinical trial because of lack of funds. Now I figure there are a number of people here who were born in the 80s when infant circumcision was a common medical practice in many parts of the world. So I just thought I would share this interesting approach.
The site is http://www.foregen.org
I contacted them and someone did get back to me to answer my questions.
I'm comfortable with the responses I got and plan to start donating.
Cheers
So I won't open the floor to debate the merits/demerits of male circumcision here. What there can be no doubt about is that circumcision removes body parts that served a purpose. Maybe it can be debated whether the job of foreskin is beneficial. Once again, I don't wish to debate that. I'll just say what they are:
1)Protects and lubricates the glans penis (head). It is almost never exposed.
2)Provides additional skin on the shaft during erection
3)Stimulates the glans by its motion during intercourse/masturbation
4)Inner foreskin lining contains sensitive nerve endings smilar to the fingertip
5)Retracted foreskin has folds which stimulate labia during intercourse
6)Triangular region of foreskin just below urinary opening (frenulum) is highly erogenous zone
All of the above function is lost when cut away due to circumcision. The analogy I like to make is to the eyelid. If your eyelid were removed you'd be unable to close your eyes and parts of your eyeball that would normally be covered would be permanently exposed. Now this is a personal opinion: that kind of sucks.
Since most guys who were circumsized did not opt for the procedure it would be nice if there were a way to reverse it. There are some techniques which involve stretching the remaining skin. That may cover the glans and give some benefit but it can't reproduce the structure of foreskin.
That's when I discovered a charity (started in Italy, I think, and recently registered with IRS) that was working on raising enough money to fund a clinical trial of foreskin regeneration using regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. These techniques have been used to generate fingertips (complete with the original fingerprint) and even a whole penis (in an animal).
http://www.acell.com/files/Acute_Finger_Amputation.pdf
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MensHealth/researchers-regrow-functional-penis-rabbits/story?id=9016303
It relies on the fact that your body already knows what should be where and saw to it when you were developing in the womb. While some other animals can regenrate many body parts even as adults, adult humans simply form non-functional scar tissue when injured. Regenerative medicine involves getting the body to activate those functions again at a site of injury or amputation.
So if this technique could prove successful when applied to foreskin it would completely reverse non-consensual or non-religious foreskin removal. There have been proposals but no clinical trial because of lack of funds. Now I figure there are a number of people here who were born in the 80s when infant circumcision was a common medical practice in many parts of the world. So I just thought I would share this interesting approach.
The site is http://www.foregen.org
I contacted them and someone did get back to me to answer my questions.
I'm comfortable with the responses I got and plan to start donating.
Cheers
