I come from a different angle. Technically, I circumcised myself against my will. The goal was to remain uncut but have shorter foreksin that left tip of head exposed wheh soft and fully retracted and be sklooth on shaft when hard. (I had not seen erect cut guys at that point so this desire was really a cosmetic preference). Since I didn't wnat to be circumcised, there was no though of touching frenulum or inner skin.
It was a HUGE improvement. Had about 2"3 cocvered wheh soft, and smooth when erect, but could still cover about half on upstroke. For many years, I continued to consider myself uncut and remained against circumcision. Took many many years of erectiosn in underwear as the foreskin wante dto retract often.
During that time, the anti-circer movement started. Remember, I was still aainst circumcision. But saw their exagerations on circumcision removing all inner foreksin and frenulum. I knew it didn't have to. And I saw their fglorifcation of the foreskin with muscles, smegma being lubricant that shoudl be left on glans, and some saying phimosis was natural and shoudl be kept as it ensures glans remains covered eren during erection. (I was brought up with a definition of the normal penis as having foreksin expoed glans automatically during reection and leaving tiip of glans exposed when soft). I knew what it was like to be an ant-eater which the anti-circers glorified and I knew they were dead wrong. And I was anti circumcision.
Eventiually accepted that I was no longer uncut and while not fully circumcised was circumcised. Ironically, it was the look when hard which did it: smooth skin on shaft, circumcisin line visible and the frenulum, while retained, met and ended at the circ line ended up being very different than the frenulum of and uncut that widens into those "ridgles" of wrinkles where the shaft skin turns into inner skin.
As going from long skin to short skin had been a win win for me with only improvements and no sense of loss, I had to admit that for me, circumcision had been an improvement. At that time, I still thought I shad all my uncut sensitivity since I hadn't considered/noticed any loss.
gast forward many years, and the desire to have bare head in underwear and have a "true" circumcisiion grew to a poimt where I kept thinking about it. One fear was loss of sensitivity once I had bare head. Some guys told me it takes 2 years to find out how much yu lose, others told e 10 years. Eventually did it. I was comfortable in underwear from day 1. As semi cut I had learned to wear tight underwear to keep remaining foreskin over glans, and those underwear, now that I was cut, prevented glans movement.
At the 2 year mark, I looked back, and didn't feel any loss. Wearing looser underwear still made me very aware of glans during the day. Then came the 10 year anniversary, and same thing. I came to the conclusion that by the time I ggot full circ, I was already circumcised and my glans had already lost whatever it woudl have lost, hence why I didn't notice change once I became permanently bare.
As semi cut, my gans spent enough time bare at night, and never really get very moist unde rthe partly covered portion that it really had become circumcised over the roughly 25 years of being semi.
Some things I noticed:
After my 1995 re-snip, I noticed the skin on shaft was tight enough when erect to cause frenulum to pull down the glans. It was a no brainer for me to do a little snip to detach the frenulum from glans. I still remember the instant when the "clip" happened (nail clippers) and felt the shaft sikin move down and glans move up.
What I noticed in the change? in the down stroke, it no longger tugger down on glans.
After fully cut, what was left of frenulum was not cosmetically pleasing so it all went. At that point didn't noice a change.
Going from semi to full: I lost the sensation of foreskin self restracting during onset of erection (well before penis would staart to rise, especially as it rolled off the rim). But now that I am cut tight, I notice the skin tightening up and there is a constant sensation of tension which really makes erection feel stronger.
And obviously, I can't really move skin up/down anymore, must rub head/shaft. So that is quite different.
But the fact that if I wear loose underwear, some 14 years after going from semi to full tells me that my glans is still sensitive.
BTW, one thing I discovered going from uncut from semi was my inner foreskin. As uncut, I just slid the skin up/down without the skin getting stretched in either direction.
Once I became semi, on the downstroke, I would tug skin down tight, and that was a totally new sensation for me especially at the circ line and inner skin, as was fgently rubbing inner skin which I had never really played with as uncut.
The one thing I have lost going from semi to full was movement of skin to j/o.
I *had* to get a full circumcision because the desire to get bare head in underwear was too strong. I liked being semi. So if I woke up semi again, I couldn't dislike it. But I might wear the skin back all the time or get recut fully because seeing cut guys in underwear still gets the same emotions that made me want to get full cut.
