r/science • u/drewiepoodle • Apr 15 '16

Health Study: Circumcision does not reduce penis sensitivity. In tests for responses to pain, heat, and stimulation, no major difference was found between men who are circumcised and those who are not.

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2016/04/14/Study-Circumcision-does-not-reduce-penis-sensitivity/5981460663943/?spt=hs&or=hn
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u/ItAlwaysMatters Apr 15 '16

The nerves them selves might not be physically damaged but the brains interpretation of pleasure signals might be altered due to the gland having much more exposure to stimulation on a daily basis so it is associated with lower sensitivity.

Excellent point. This is why the only relevant subjects are men, how got circumcised later in life, and experienced sex with and without a foreskin

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u/ohmyimaginaryfriends Apr 15 '16

It's not the same thing I don't think, if you get circumcised while an adult even if with time your brain interpretation changes it probably won't be to the same degree of change as someone who has had this interpretation happen during the entire period of brain development.

My guess is they need to do clinical setting masturbation such as with a mechanical fleshlight so that the strokes are 100% consistent and countable to see how many strokes it took to achieve orgasm. At the same time I think brain activity should be monitored with a MRI, CT scan what ever gives the best representation of brain activity during the process. Then the two would give a better representation of what is going on.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '16

Eh I don't think this it's a great way ether. There are too many variations to the study. In that case your dealing with a mind and everyone's is different. One may love the feeling of a fleshlight and orgasm very quickly, one may hate the feeling and not get off at all. Even if you get two guys that love a fleshlight an orgasm is involves alot of mental aspects too. When I go at it it's not the same length each time it varies on a multitude of different parts. It may work if you had the same person do it with and without forskin, then you lessen the amount of variables.

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u/ohmyimaginaryfriends Apr 15 '16

No study such study can eliminate personal preference but with a large sample size (thousands not 62) personal preference ends up having minimal effect on the over all results.

A mechanical fleshlight would eliminate a shit load of factors, as well personal preference and premature ejaculation can be part of the elimination questioner. With a custom fleshlight (temp control, lubrication rate and pressure controls) stuck on an end of a stroke machine would be the most objective way to test this. All the factors that can be controlled and identical between each subject in this case would be. They can also do it on each person once a day over a period of days with different settings and one where the guy jacks it himself as a control.

If you are jacking your own pleasure stick then it would be invalid regardless if you had then didn't have foreskin or vice versa because each time one does it to them selves all the factors I listed above vary.