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• SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That is non-figuratively impossible. You can’t feel anything with nerve endings that have been removed.

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  • mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nerve endings in the foreskin are not that sensitive to sexual stimuli, I would consider that as much loss of sensitivity as amputating a leg is loss of sensitivity.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Even the glans loses sensitivity. On an uncircumcised penis, that whole area is basically a mucus membrane. On a circumcised penis, it becomes dry an rougher, like the skin on your knuckle. It absolutely does reduce sensitivity.

      Also,

      I would consider that as much loss of sensitivity as amputating a leg is loss of sensitivity.

      You wouldn’t say doctors should amputate babies’ legs to reduce risk of gangrene, would you? How is that even an argument? “Oh, those nerve endings don’t matter cause it’s just like losing a leg, nbd.” What the fuck?

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  • CannonFodder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The brain is weird and whacky the way it works. It has a sort of auto-gain. The less nerve stimulus over time leads to a higher sensitivity of remaining nerves. Often when people lose a limb, they still feel pain in it - the lack of nerve signals causes the remaining nerve endings to be amplified so much that despite not even having pain receptors, the noise signals are perceived as pain. So a human growing up with a cut forskin simply adapts and the brain perceives more sensitivity from the other nerves to produce the same levels of sensation.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      So a human growing up with a cut foreskin simply adapts and the brain perceives more sensitivity from the other nerves to produce the same levels of sensation.

      That is just false. You sound like someone who isn’t circumcised.

      Without the foreskin intact, the glans is subject to friction throughout the day as it’s in contact with the inside of one’s clothes. This reduces sensitivity over time and builds thicker, drier, and rougher layers of skin. Whereas the glans of an uncircumcised penis is basically a mucus membrane, on a circumcised penis it’s more like the skin of a knuckle, but thicker.

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    • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That, uhh, sounds nice and all, but I don’t believe it. This doesn’t even make sense on the face of it: Why does removing one body part lead to phantom pain signals, but removing another body part lead to improved sensation? Do people who lose fingers develop better sensation in their remaining fingers to compensate? Wouldn’t it stand to reason then that some men would get phantom foreskin pain?

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      • CannonFodder@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There’s plenty of signals coming from the nerve bundles in the area. Phantom pain seems to need larger sets of nerve bundles removed/unstimulated. Is s not fully understood, but that seems to be how it works. People who lose fingers often do get increased sensitivity on other fingers and they can also get phantom pain.

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• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How does that even make sense?

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• dreamy@quokk.au ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Source?

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