As an uncircumsized man, I could never know when it feels like to be circumsized. But, given that an uncircumsized penis has twice as many nerve ending as a circumsized one, I'd say with 100% accuracy that sensation is lost. Just because it's not enough to stop a man from having an orgasm doesn't mean the sensation is or isn't greatly lessened.
As (I believe) the only person in this thread who has experienced both, I feel it incumbent upon me to at least weigh in on this. Look, I'm not a doctor. I don't know how many nerve endings were in that little piece of skin or whatever, but I do know how it felt before, and how it feels now. I can say without an ounce of hesitation that there has been no loss of sensation whatsoever when it comes to sexual pleasure, and in fact the penile pleasure that I derive from intercourse has only gotten better since being snipped. Like, by
leaps and bounds, better. I don't remember who said it, but someone earlier in the thread compared the feeling of circumcised sex (without ever having experienced it, IIRC) to having a condom on. My experience has been the exact opposite. Having sex without foreskin has been like finally doing it without a condom. Now, there
has been some dulling of sensation, I guess, but only as far as
pain goes. For example, when I first got circumcised, taking a shower was really painful because I was so sensitive down there that every drop of water from the spray was like a razor blade to the dick. That went away after a couple months. So did the pain and discomfort of my clothing rubbing against it. That's it, though. None of that loss, or
adjustment of sensation, (a more accurate word, imo) has carried over into sexual pleasure. Again, in that department, I can only testify to improvement. VAST improvement.
Now, maybe it's different for a man who has been circumcised all his life, I dunno. I won't make presumptions. I only know what I know.
Also, to the guy who said he was mad at his parents for circumcising him as a baby, I just want you to know that that door swings both ways, my friend. The month that I spent recovering from my circumcision, at 25 years old, was an absolute nightmare. I honestly hope that none of you turtleneck wearers here will have to go through that in your lives, but unfortunately some of you will. Imagine having
stitches all the way around the shaft of your dick, right under the rim of the head. Imagine being afraid to go to sleep, because you wake up in agony, because you have gotten a hard-on in your sleep. This happened to me almost every night. Think of the trauma of that, lol! Luckily the pain always killed my erections before I got hard enough to pop a stitch. I can only imagine how
that would have felt, eesh. Imagine the feeling of your underwear or the shower spray feeling like a belt sander. And this is not even to mention the terrible year leading up to it when my foreskin was giving me all kinds of problems. It reeeeeally sucks, guys. And I have to admit, there is definitely a part of me that is resentful of my parents (more specifically my stubborn mother) for their choice. It's hard not to be a at least a
little bit bitter knowing that they could have easily spared me all that, by simply getting it out of the way when I was too young to remember, or to think about it, too young to get erections, young enough that stitches wouldn't have been required, and when there would have been extra health benefits involved that apparently you don't get having it done later in life. All I'm saying is that parents could be damned if they do, and they could be damned if they don't. You never know.
All I know is that, having gone through what I went through, there is no way in hell I'll choose not to circumcise my son. And I don't care what anybody thinks of it.
Just my two cents.
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