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Summary: If I could recommend only one book on circumcision...
Review: After reading several books on circumcision, if I could recommend only one book on the "c" word, this would be the one. There are several good books out dealing with circumcision, but this book deals with the "why" question better than any of them, completely answering the question "why" you should try to reverse your circumcision / restore your foreskin and "why" your infant circumcision should never have happened in the first place. Written by a woman whose husband was surgically restored years before her book was printed, it spells out how the restoration was the greatest thing they ever did, both for him and her. Included in the book are several interviews and quotes from women, which are often absent from other anticirc books. The book also presents the advantages of the surgical option of restoration, which much of the anticirc subculture has rejected (in favor of a nonsurgical restoration), but is still an option many of us trying to reverse our infant circumcisions are still interested in researching. The authors, now in their sixties, have an active website and seem more than happy to answer questions and help out those undergoing restorations. I can't say enough good things about this book. If you are underdecided about either circumcision or restoration, you won't be after you read this book. Amazon.com will only let you give a book five stars. I would have gladly gave it 100 stars. BUY THE BOOK!! AMWrefugee@msn.com
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Summary: Good for prospective parents, but...
Review: At last a narrative for women and men about how we have handicapped our sexuality through circumcision. Sex As Nature Intended It is one of my best allies in educating our culture on the harm of circumcision, how it effects
couples and what to do about it. I have been waiting thirty years as a childbirth educator to have a book which covers the
physiology of circumcision as well as the psycho-sexual impact on both genders. Mothers - take note. Our job is to protect our sons from harm. Our future daughters-in-law will thank us for it, especially when this issue later gains national recognition and becomes common knowledge. Fathers - be aware: Your sons are here to look like themselves, not you. Show your magnanimity and love by allowing your son to retain the full genitals endowed by nature. Grandparents - I hope you give this book to your expecting children and help sustain the wholeness of your family. Libraries and friends of babies - order copies of this remarkable book and share widely.
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Summary: The best explanation of 4skin's value I've ever seen
Review: I wish I had seen this book years ago. Aging is not an easy event for any of us but the fact that there is a continuing loss of sensitivity without a 4skin makes so much more sense to me now. I have to work so hard to get "over" the edge and my poor wife has to put up with my effort to get somethng out of what used to be a much more pleasurable side of our relationship. O'Hara's book really explains what is happening and why. I am now restoring my 4skin in an effort to regain as much as I can of something that was taken from me without my having a choice.
My wife is now very supportive (after she read Kristen O'Hara's book)of my restoring effort and agrees with me that we would never have allowed our own sons to be circumcised if we had had this kind of information many years ago.
I will buy several more copies for my own sons who were put through the same meatgrinder that I was. Too much misinformation out there about what a 4skin is for and I now envy guys who didn't get mutilated at birth. Sure a few guys with 4skins have problems and need help later on, but 99% don't. I'd rather have at least had a say in what was done to me. I'm sorry it was perpetuated and done to my own boys. Frustrated but now restoring.
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Summary: Bad news for those who favor male circumcision......
Review: Many have hitherto assumed that the male prepuce is an extraneous flap of skin that serves no physical or sexual purpose. This has been proven to be wrong. The foreskin constitutes a significant amount of erogenous tissue comprised of thousands of specialized sexual nerves. Moreover, to remove this tissue is to fundamentally alter the structure of the male organ. The sexual effect that results from this "altered structure" is the topic of this book. Much has already been written about the medical aspect of circumcision; its benefits have been largely debunked. However, this is the first publication to go in to depth about the sexual toll that comes with slicing off foreskins. Alas, its revelations are rather devastating.
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Summary: The argument against circumcision, and hope for men who are
Review: SEX AS NATURE INTENDED IT is a manifesto for the anti-circumcision movement. It's an argument that most certainly hits below the belt, claiming that one of the greatest advantages of being "intact" (i.e., not circumcised) is that sex feels better because the penis remains more sensitive. The authors also claim that women tend to prefer an intact partner. If you are circumcised and this sounds discouraging, don't worry: chapter 12 describes how to go about foreskin restoration, complete with the personal stories of men who have succeeded at this unusual endeavor. SEX AS NATURE INTENDED IT will be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about the pros and cons of circumcision. The argument presented is so convincing that it makes me wonder why the procedure is so common in the USA.
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Summary: A Great Revelation
Review: The O'Hara's make it clear that the foreskin is the most erogenous, sensual and sensitive part of the male sex anatomy. They also make it clear that the foreskin also increases sexual pleasure in the female partner during sex. Circumcision started in this country as means to stop male sexual pleasure through masturbation. It continues as a means to control male sexual pleasure by reducing a man's sexual pleasure in all aspects of sex. It is now known that circumcision has no medical benefit. No medical organization in the world recommends routine circumcision. This book lends support to the concept that the male's foreskin is the functional homolog of the female's clitoris. Any circumcised man that thinks he is not missing out on better sex should think of what sex would be like for a woman without a clitoris. Sex for a man without a foreskin is like sex for a woman without a clitoris. (...)P>The O'Hara's should be commended on broaching a subject that few would choose to take on. Their book should be required reading in every sex education and child birth class in this country. I hope that the culture of cutting off a piece of our new born boys genitals will end soon.
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Summary: A Great Revelation!
Review: The O'Hara's make it clear that the foreskin is the most erogenous, sensual and sensitive part of the male sex anatomy. They also make it clear that the foreskin also increases sexual pleasure in the female partner during sex. Circumcision started in this country as means to stop male sexual pleasure through masturbation. It continues as a means to control male sexual pleasure by reducing a man's sexual pleasure in all aspects of sex. It is now known that circumcision has no medical benefit. No medical organization in the world recommends routine circumcision. This book lends much support to the concept that the male's foreskin is the functional homolog of the female's clitoris. Any circumcised man that thinks he is not missing out on better sex should think of what sex would be like for a woman without a clitoris. Sex for a man without a foreskin is like sex for a woman without a clitoris. The O'Hara's should be commended on broaching a subject that few would choose to take on. Their book should be required reading in every sex education and child birth class in this country. I hope that the culture of cutting off a piece of our new born boys genitals will end soon.
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Summary: Disturbing But Enlightening
Review: The truth is finally here. Couples in a circumcised relationship that are young and in love and having great sex, will find this book hard to relate to. For women like me, in a wonderful marraige for 20 years, and having had great circumcised sex for the first 12, (with only slight discomfort),it finally put into words, the logic and reasons for my lack of interest, and sometimes distress, about sex. Every woman should read this book. I'm sure some men will take issue with it, as no man wants to believe he is lacking anything sexually, for other men, it will stir in them well deserved anger for what was done to them. It makes so much sense to me now, as I always assumed my lack of desire was all my problem. A lot of wives out there have sex for their husbands sake, and I'm sure they wonder why they don't "feel like it" anymore. I am so sorry my husband and I have been robbed of our ability for fulfilling, NATURAL sex. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: The uncomfortable truth about circumcision's effects...
Review: There is a lot of anxiety and social prejudice that stand in the way of this book's acceptance. This book is the first of its kind to fully explain exactly why the human male is born with a foreskin. The fact that millions of men in America have had their foreskins violently cut away from them is what makes it so disturbing. I highly recommend this book, either if you are going to have a son, or if you are curious about why circumcision goes on today- and why it needs to be stopped.
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