Talk:genital mutilation

"The ridged band is the primary area of male sexual sensitivity. The ridged band has a high concentration of meissners corpuscles (a type of neural receptor in the skin), which cause said sexual sensation. In cases of prepuce amputation, the absence of the ridged band causes greatly decreased sexual sensitivity, as well as qualitative changes in the sensation. In the absence of the ridged band, there is the loss of most male sexual sensation other than that which occurs during erection and ejaculation." This is simply false, in spite of the "meissners corpuscles". I was circumcised for medical reasons at an age at which I was able to compare, and did not lose my sensitivity a single bit. Also, it has been found that male circumcision reduces significantly the risk of AIDS infection: http://www.thebody.com/content/art48907.html || http://www.malecircumcision.org/

I removed that paragraph, and consider that arguably the terms "genital mutilation" and "penis mutilation" do not apply to the practice of male circumcision, since it doesn't have the dramatic disadvantages that the word "mutilation" connotes, but I decided to leave it open to further discussion, if any.