So what goes missing during circumcision? Excised is about half the penile skin that grows to a postcard-size sheath in adults. Also removed is the mucosa, the foreskin’s supple underside that shields the head while producing an odorous, and possibly antibacterial, secretion called smegma.
What is also lost, insist the anticircumcisionists, is a significant amount of sexual sensitivity. In 1987, a Canadian researcher found 12 ridged bands inside the tip of the foreskin, dense with specialized nerve endings akin to those found on the ends of fingertips. The glans has similar receptors along the corona, or edge, though the head itself has poor sensitivity. During intercourse or masturbation, the bands touch the corona, sparking receptors on both surfaces.
“During circumcision, the majority of the dartos muscle is removed; [this is] a thin band up along the shaft and in the foreskin that’s heat-sensitive,” says Christopher Cold, M.D., a pathologist with the Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, Wis. Cold says that similar “vibratory and pressure receptors” exist in the foreskin and along the clitoris. Touch receptors are also dense along a male’s frenulum, which, like the underside of the tongue, attaches the foreskin to the head.
“The entire penis is designed as a sensory platform for sexual pleasure, just as the vulva is in females,” says Cold. “Just as you can’t draw the exact line where the G spot is in women, I don’t think it’s possible to point to one portion of the penis and claim it’s more important than the rest.”
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