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Almost total loss of glans sensitivity following circumcision

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Islay
Islay

I had to be circumcised in adulthood after severe phimosis - the eventual result of penile abuse as a boy (but that's only relevant to the cause of my problem now).

Soon after the surgery wound had healed and I could masturbate, my then permanently exposed glans (head) was almost painfully sensitive, making ejaculation far too fast and therefore unsatisfying. Sexual intercourse was equally unsatisfactory.

But now there is NO sensation left other than applied pressure. I have even experimented by pouring very hot water, then icy water over my glans - and there was no difference. But doing the same on the shaft and I recoiled! I was shocked.

Very sadly, I can't have my foreskin back again. So my question is twofold:

1. Is there anything I can do to retrieve even a modicum of glans sensitivity back again - without the lengthy and tiresome act of foreskin 'restoration' which can never give me back it's fine-touch nerve endings?

2. How can I effectively masturbate and achieve a full & lasting erection, as I used to with a foreskin? It's a learning curve I'm still struggling with. After much effort I can ejaculate but my penis is only half erect. - and that's no use in the act of sexual intercourse. I don't even wake up with 'morning wood' anymore. sad

At least we thankfully don't routinely circumcise our little boys, as the USA still does to this day. A circumcised penis is a crippled penis - believe me!

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  • archemedes
    archemedes Islay

    Posted

    This is a sensitive/ highly personal issue that I feel can only be resolved by referring your problem to your doctor and/or a specialist, which you should do.
    • Islay
      Islay archemedes

      Posted

      Thank you for your reply. I had hoped for advice from men who suffer as I do, but of course you're right about seeking medical help.
  • lawrence63489
    lawrence63489 Islay

    Posted

    The glans is non-erogenous; it's protopathic like the eyball--sensing pain and pressure. The foreskin contains effectively all the erogenous nerves, which are fine-touch receptors adapted to stretch. I was unnecessarily circumcised at 14 and it took away all my pleasure.  That's what circumcision does.  Histological analysis has proven this, but the medical community lie and ignore this.

    Most men who're cut were cut at birth and don't know that they are sexually dysfunctional.  Most , even if they know deep down, will not admit they have been harmed due to pride/ego.  IT's a coping mechanism.  Even after being cut, you seem to think the glans is the primary erogenous tissue. This is a folk theory with no basis in science.  The foreskin is the primary erogenous organ.  

    • Islay
      Islay lawrence63489

      Posted

      Hi Lawrence - thank you very much for your reply. And of course I agree with much that you said. However, nature designed the foreskin and glans to work in tandem with each other; isolated, neither have any value, as I'm sure you accept.

      But as you may remember (even when 14 years old), the glans does retain intense sensitivity - until its soft and malleable surface dries out and keranitises.

      Meatal stenosis is a further complication from circumcision which I suffered. I hope you were spared that very unnerving condition and it's invasive treatment.

      Christopher

    • lawrence63489
      lawrence63489 Islay

      Posted

      Actually no, the glans isn't sensitive in an erogenous sense.  It is sensitive to pain, though, like the eyeball. IT has no significant erogenous value. Also, when it comes to sex, the foreskin retracts behind the glans and doesn't necessarily move over the glans during the sex act.  The foreskin stretched back and forth behind the glans in most cases.  IT varies slightly depending on length of foreskin and the tightness of what it's going into, but generally, no , the glans doesn't come into it. The glans is a physical structure that allows penetration, but there is no neurological evidence it contributes significantly to erogenous sensation.  This is simply a folk theory.   

      Even the claim the glans clitoris is the pleasure hub of the female , is another folk theory. As far as I'm aware, there's no neurological evidence of this.   

      My glans was never pleasurable.  The pleasure you got was from your ridged band, frenular delta and frenulum.  The amount of pleasure a cut man has left is directly proportional to how much of these structures are left.  Most circumcisions are periah style and remove them all.  

    • Islay
      Islay lawrence63489

      Posted

      ".... and doesn't necessarily move over the glans during the sex act."

      But it does. It's designed to act this way. If it was not, then there's no point in a natural/normal penis for sexual intercourse. It's the very action of a sliding foreskiin back and forth within a vagina that gives both the woman and the man so much pleasure.

      Compare this with the 'jackhammer' action needed by a circumcised man to bring himself to climax when having sex. The difference is as chalk from cheese. And the loser is not only him but his partner too.

      I have lost almost every vistage of erotic sensual touch to my glans. But the act of genital touch is inexorably intwined in human experience, and I still have my frenulum.

      The same is true of you. Be us both circumcised, we can do no more than make the best of what we have - a crippled penis.

      I will PM you before long.

      Christopher

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