# Reversing circumcision? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 26, 2006, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reversing-circumcision/366063 "2006-07-26T07:32:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reversing-circumcision/366063/21 "2006-07-26T18:15:13Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > Mine does. Makes masturbation a whole lot easier. Other than that, probably a wash. I know what you mean, but it seemed like **Dusty** thought that nerves in the foreskin itself are a source of pleasure. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reversing-circumcision/366063/22 "2006-07-26T18:30:06Z")
> [@Dusty](#): > > It’s greatly troublesome to know a part of you is missing, that it was taken without cause and against your will. … and your willy. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reversing-circumcision/366063/23 "2006-07-26T18:39:18Z")
> [@awldune](#): > > I know what you mean, but it seemed like **Dusty** thought that nerves in the foreskin itself are a source of pleasure. Are you sure they’re not? I’ve certainly heard the claim that they are, though usually in the context of this particular argument (and then there’s the plausible if not necessarily true claim that the tougher skin on the glans penis of a circumcised man reduces his sexual pleasure.) I don’t think I can separate the sensations well enough to say which nerves make sex feel so nice, so I couldn’t guess whether the nerves in the foreskin make a difference. > [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Whaaa…huh…? How long ago was that?I was in lurkyland for years before I joined, and I sure as heck would remember _that_. Link, por favor 🙂 I’m pretty sure I got the name right; just do a search on him. Off the top of my head, I don’t know which threads are the real classics, as it was before my time. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reversing-circumcision/366063/24 "2006-07-26T18:43:20Z")
YAAAAHHHH!!! They’re gone! ALL GONE!!! :: breaks down sobbing :: They removed them all . . . I feel like the Straight Dope was just circumcised against its will! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reversing-circumcision/366063/25 "2006-07-26T18:57:34Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > YAAAAHHHH!!! They’re gone! ALL GONE!!! > > :: breaks down sobbing :: > > They removed them all . . . I feel like the Straight Dope was just circumcised against its will! You know what this means, don’t you? It means he was _right!_ There _is_ a **conspiracy** to continue to force circumcision against unwilling males! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reversing-circumcision/366063/26 "2006-07-26T19:09:09Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > YAAAAHHHH!!! They’re gone! ALL GONE!!! > > :: breaks down sobbing :: > > They removed them all . . . I feel like the Straight Dope was just circumcised against its will! _You’re_ sobbing? I didn’t even get to read about the power-sucking of the nipples! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reversing-circumcision/366063/27 "2006-07-26T19:47:40Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Google “tug ahoy” from some place you won’t be embarrassed when photos of wangs show up on your PC. Thank you for the link. Now I know how to carry a couple gallons of milk while leaving my hands free. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reversing-circumcision/366063/28 "2006-07-26T19:56:51Z")
How does one miss something they never had ? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reversing-circumcision/366063/29 "2006-07-26T20:02:56Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > How does one miss something they never had ? I was going to ask the same thing, but I didn’t want another beatdown. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reversing-circumcision/366063/30 "2006-07-27T04:49:18Z")
He also insisted that circumcision were what caused rapists to rape, I believe. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reversing-circumcision/366063.md?page=1)