I'm pretty happy to still have my foreskin, and definitely agree that it oughtn't be cut off as a matter of course.
It does have its drawbacks. Most practical of which is that guys often have no idea what to do with it and think that if they just skin it back, they can just treat me like any cut guy, completely unaware of the heightened sensitivity that tends to make oral sex in particular unpleasant.
Medically speaking, my doctor at one point just told me to be sure to keep my foreskin clean, since she'd done a rotation in a urology ward and saw something she called a 'fungal mass'. Essentially, athlete's foot fungus in your foreskin.
She said there's also a greater risk of penile cancer, but essentially that's just because snipping it off means you won't get cancer in it (not that they'd recommend removing a kidney at birth to reduce the risk of kidney cancer).
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It does have its drawbacks. Most practical of which is that guys often have no idea what to do with it and think that if they just skin it back, they can just treat me like any cut guy, completely unaware of the heightened sensitivity that tends to make oral sex in particular unpleasant.
Medically speaking, my doctor at one point just told me to be sure to keep my foreskin clean, since she'd done a rotation in a urology ward and saw something she called a 'fungal mass'. Essentially, athlete's foot fungus in your foreskin.
She said there's also a greater risk of penile cancer, but essentially that's just because snipping it off means you won't get cancer in it (not that they'd recommend removing a kidney at birth to reduce the risk of kidney cancer).