Glia
11-14-2011, 10:57 PM
Notice that this article (3rd of a 6-part series) appears in a Canadian journal. It is likely that an American medical/scientific journal would not run it.
This sentence chapped my hide: "Still, the medical community has mostly dismissed such men when they seek the help of physicians, says Griffiths. “Most doctors tell people who want to restore their foreskins to go see psychiatrists.” " Why is it considered crazy for a man to want to restore/reconstruct a part of his body that was amputated against his will? If a woman wants a breast reconstruction after a mastectomy, is she criticized and told to see a psychiatrist? The sexism and bigotry around this issue, especially on the part of the bungling American medical industry (it stopped being a profession about 30 years ago) is just unacceptable.
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November 14, 2011
https://www.cmaj.ca/site/graphics/ico_adobepdf.gifView PDF (https://www.cmaj.ca/site/earlyreleases/14nov11_the-practice-of-foreskin-restoration.pdf)
Whole again: The practice of foreskin restoration
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</td></tr></tbody></table>Wayne Griffiths was standing in the doorway of an associate's office one day in the spring of 1991 when he felt the tape on his penis come undone. The 7-ounce weight that had been attached to the tape slide down a pant leg and hit the floor. Griffiths quickly stooped and picked up the weight, shoving it in his pocket. His associate asked if something was wrong. No, he had merely dropped something, Griffiths assured him.
It is understandable why Griffiths didn't go into greater detail about what that something was. After all, it would only have raised more questions if he had told his associate that a device of his own making, a small dumbbell he calls Foreballs, consisting of two ball bearings joined by a stainless steel rod, was attached to his penis to stretch his foreskin. Well, at least it had been attached before the tape gave way.
Griffiths is the founder and executive director of the National Organization of Restoring Men, or NORM for short, a group that helps circumcised men restore their foreskins. The organization was launched in San Francisco, California, in 1993 and now has members across the United States and in other countries, including Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. Some men, including Griffiths, restore their prepuce to improve their sex lives, hoping the glans of their penises will become more sensitive once it is covered. Others do it for emotional reasons, wanting to get back what they believe was wrongly taken from them as infants.
“A good portion of them are extremely angry at doctors and hospitals and their parents,” Griffiths says.
He does not include himself in the latter group. Born in San Francisco in 1933, Griffiths was circumcised just as his father and older brother were before him, and he holds no ill will toward his parents. Even his own sons are circumcised. It wasn't until he was 56 years old that he began stretching his foreskin, hoping it would remedy the decline in physical enjoyment he was experiencing during sex.
Before he created Foreballs, Griffiths used tape to attach two stainless steel ball bearings to the skin on his penis, allowing gravity to do its work. He wore the weight under his Levis at his job as a construction inspector. Eventually, he had enough loose skin to not only cover the glans of his penis when flaccid, but to overhang it by three-quarters of an inch. And it did indeed increase both the sensitivity of the glans and his enjoyment of sex, he says.
Other men have reported similar benefits, physically and emotionally, from restoring their foreskins. Still, the medical community has mostly dismissed such men when they seek the help of physicians, says Griffiths. “Most doctors tell people who want to restore their foreskins to go see psychiatrists.”
read the rest at https://www.cmaj.ca/site/earlyreleases/14nov11_the-practice-of-foreskin-restoration.xhtml
This sentence chapped my hide: "Still, the medical community has mostly dismissed such men when they seek the help of physicians, says Griffiths. “Most doctors tell people who want to restore their foreskins to go see psychiatrists.” " Why is it considered crazy for a man to want to restore/reconstruct a part of his body that was amputated against his will? If a woman wants a breast reconstruction after a mastectomy, is she criticized and told to see a psychiatrist? The sexism and bigotry around this issue, especially on the part of the bungling American medical industry (it stopped being a profession about 30 years ago) is just unacceptable.
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November 14, 2011
https://www.cmaj.ca/site/graphics/ico_adobepdf.gifView PDF (https://www.cmaj.ca/site/earlyreleases/14nov11_the-practice-of-foreskin-restoration.pdf)
Whole again: The practice of foreskin restoration
<table> <tbody><tr> <td>
</td></tr><tr><td style="background-color: #E1E1E1; text-align:right; margin:0; padding:0;">
</td></tr></tbody></table>Wayne Griffiths was standing in the doorway of an associate's office one day in the spring of 1991 when he felt the tape on his penis come undone. The 7-ounce weight that had been attached to the tape slide down a pant leg and hit the floor. Griffiths quickly stooped and picked up the weight, shoving it in his pocket. His associate asked if something was wrong. No, he had merely dropped something, Griffiths assured him.
It is understandable why Griffiths didn't go into greater detail about what that something was. After all, it would only have raised more questions if he had told his associate that a device of his own making, a small dumbbell he calls Foreballs, consisting of two ball bearings joined by a stainless steel rod, was attached to his penis to stretch his foreskin. Well, at least it had been attached before the tape gave way.
Griffiths is the founder and executive director of the National Organization of Restoring Men, or NORM for short, a group that helps circumcised men restore their foreskins. The organization was launched in San Francisco, California, in 1993 and now has members across the United States and in other countries, including Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. Some men, including Griffiths, restore their prepuce to improve their sex lives, hoping the glans of their penises will become more sensitive once it is covered. Others do it for emotional reasons, wanting to get back what they believe was wrongly taken from them as infants.
“A good portion of them are extremely angry at doctors and hospitals and their parents,” Griffiths says.
He does not include himself in the latter group. Born in San Francisco in 1933, Griffiths was circumcised just as his father and older brother were before him, and he holds no ill will toward his parents. Even his own sons are circumcised. It wasn't until he was 56 years old that he began stretching his foreskin, hoping it would remedy the decline in physical enjoyment he was experiencing during sex.
Before he created Foreballs, Griffiths used tape to attach two stainless steel ball bearings to the skin on his penis, allowing gravity to do its work. He wore the weight under his Levis at his job as a construction inspector. Eventually, he had enough loose skin to not only cover the glans of his penis when flaccid, but to overhang it by three-quarters of an inch. And it did indeed increase both the sensitivity of the glans and his enjoyment of sex, he says.
Other men have reported similar benefits, physically and emotionally, from restoring their foreskins. Still, the medical community has mostly dismissed such men when they seek the help of physicians, says Griffiths. “Most doctors tell people who want to restore their foreskins to go see psychiatrists.”
read the rest at https://www.cmaj.ca/site/earlyreleases/14nov11_the-practice-of-foreskin-restoration.xhtml