Effect of circumcision on the glans penis?!
Question: my dad is circumcised but I'm not and I've noticed the helmet of his penis is a very pale colour and more wrinkly than mine, which is pink and smooth. I'm 16 and he's about 40, is this all normal results of circumcision?
Answers: my dad is circumcised but I'm not and I've noticed the helmet of his penis is a very pale colour and more wrinkly than mine, which is pink and smooth. I'm 16 and he's about 40, is this all normal results of circumcision?
Its a probable effect of circumsizion, because your father's penis has been subject to a lifetime of permanent exposure to air and rubbing against underwear which is probably why his glans has deteriorated in color and texture. Interesting that despite him being cut, he left his son intact.
Stop looking at your dad's penis.
Correct. People(MEN) are not encouraged to be circumcized anymore.
S.G. Yes this is normal. Some of it is age related, but penises are all shapes sizes, colors, and the heads can be just a different. I still have foreskin though I've been cut for surgery many time. And mine is like yours. The biggest difference is mine is sensitive when my foreskin id pulled back. That's because we have had ours protected and sheathed against underware and rubbing, so it make it much more sensitive. You still have more maturing yet, and may see a deepening in a tanner lookin color in the testicles and penis also. Some do some don't! Good Luck! hope this is of value to you.
You are the lucky one. Yours will be more sensitive and healthier due to not being exposed to the elements and not spending years becoming tough by rubbing against your clothing. Just wash it, dry it, and rub it down. You are normal and lucky to have been left uncut.
That sounds about right. On circumcised men, the head of the penis is always exposed, so it's always rubbing with something (clothes) and thus dry. On uncircumcised guys the foreskin (which is moist like your eyelids on the inside) keeps the head protected, so it looks smooth.
There's other advantages that you have, too.
Circumcision has become less common, though. Circumcision rates were as high as 90% back in the 1960s and 1970s (that's partly why today's adults are so... brainwashed, I supposed you could say, about thinking that circumcision is better) but they have fallen to as low as 14% in some states. Here are the statistics:
http://www.cirp.org/library/statistics/U...
The USA is the last developed nation doing it to a large number of newborns without religious or medical needs. (Europeans, Latin Americans, Japanese, and most Australians, Canadians, and Asians don't circumcise):
http://www.circumstitions.com/Maps.html
Why?
In a medical study, it was found that females are more likely to hit orgasm with an uncircumcised man:
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/408/...
The lubricated foreskin (on the inside... like your eyelids) slides up and down during sex and masturbation to stimulate the head (which is why you don't hear of uncircumcised guys needing lube to masturbate).
http://www.cirp.org/pages/anat/
Studies have found that circumcision reduces sensitivity (this article also mentions how it has lost popularity in the USA in recent times):
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2855...
And despite being more sensitive, uncircumcised guys still last in the same six minute range (average) that circumcised guys do:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs...
Circumcision makes masturbation more difficult:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs...
Which makes sense, that's how circumcision was promoted in the USA:
http://english.pravda.ru/science/health/...
Increases erectile dysfunction rates:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez...
If too much skin is removed in circumcision, it can make the penis smaller since the penis needs some skin to expand during an erection:
http://drgreene.org/body.cfm?id=21&actio...
http://www.altermd.com/Penis%20and%20Scr...
Circumcision does not completely stop penile cancer. The American Cancer Society has already confirmed the myth that circumcision = no cancer.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/conten...
If circumcision did stop penile cancer, then penile cancer would not be more common in the USA (most circumcised adults) than in some European nations, where circumcision is not practiced other than for medical/religious reasons.
http://www.circumstitions.com/Cancer.htm...
And a new study found that circumcision does not reduce your chances to get HIV/AIDS. Unlike other studies, this one was done in a developed nation; the USA.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22096758/