Now, sorry, let me disagree with that. I do not think that all this skin flapping around is particularly attractive. I understand that you would like to have your foreskin back, but with regard to esthetics, many people in central and southern Europe think that a convered glans is typical of children and the uncovered glans (also by retraction, not necessarily by circumcision) is typical of adult males. A sort of exception seems to be the UK with its huge mass of low class people that obviously don't care how it is down there. Thus the many tight foreskins thanks to the NHS.
I understand that different people have different tastes , but I want to emphasise that prefering an intact penis is prefering a natural penis , while prefering a circumcised penis is prefering a surgically modified penis ...but who am I to judge ?
Also I feel that the glans is an inner organ that should be seen only by your sexual partner to show readiness for intercourse (= in erection ) , not during social life ( gym locker rooms , nude beach ...) where the prepuce provides a kind of natural clothing to protect your modesty .
Finally , the ancient greeks , who's civilisation has always been reputated for it's sophistication and their good taste concerning male physical beauty ( look at their statues :
http://www.google.be/search?hl=fr&s....,cf.osb&fp=37aa99c887f844f0&biw=1366&bih=643 ) , valued the beauty of very long foreskins :
Acroposthion.com - Greeks 1
quote :The ancient Greeks certainly knew better and were against the barbaric practice of circumcising their males and possessing a generous foreskin was a significantly important part of their culture. Many pieces of ancient Greek artwork depict scenes of naked men endowed with quite lengthy foreskins. More importantly they practiced the cultivation of the prepuce and the longer the foreskin the more desired it seemed to be whilst a mega [Greek: mega = large] prepuce or very large foreskin was the epitome of a desirable penis. As previously mentioned the term for the generous abundance of foreskin at the end of the penis is called the acroposthion
In his publication for ‘The Bulletin of the history of medicine’ entitled ‘The Ideal Prepuce in Ancient Greece’, Frederick. M Hodges’ documents the preputial aesthetics of the Ancient Greeks, who valued and prized the prepuce on its own merits while simultaneously associating it with other aspects of male beauty. They valued the longer, tapered foreskin as a reflection of a deeper ethos involving cultural identity, morality, propriety, virtue, beauty and health. They also characterized a penis with a short or inadequate foreskin as deficient or defective, especially one that had been surgically removed under their disease concept of lipodermos [Greek = lacking skin].
Preventing unwanted exposure of the glans was a sign of the modesty and decency expected in particular of the older participants in the symposium and the unseemly externalization of the glans in public, that a deficient or loose lipped prepuce was unable to prevent was seen as a disgrace and was the main reason for wearing a kynodesme. The kynodesme, then is a means by which any male so affected can maintain his dignity with in the nude. For those who continuously wore the kynodesme, the resulting traction on the ‘akroposthion’ would have the benefit of permanently elongating it. It is conceivable, then, that the lengthening of the prepuce could have been the primary object, at least in some cases as aesthetics would be improved, and morals preserved.
The intensity with which the Greeks esteemed the prepuce was equalled by the intensity with which they deplored its ablation as practiced in certain communities scattered throughout the south eastern fringes of the known world. The Greeks were highly sceptical about any of the religious rationales used by certain foreigners in an attempt to justify their blood rites of penile reduction through the practice of genital mutilation of various degrees from circumcision to more severe penile mutilations such as amputating the glans to the even more horrifying amputation of the entire penis. They also highlight the association between the circumcised penis (and, therefore, the exposed glans) and the linked concepts of primitiveness, barbarity, backwardness, superstition, and oppression.
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