From: rh@smds.com (Richard Harter)
Newsgroups: soc.women
Subject: Re: penises
Date: 5 Nov 92 09:47:11 GMT
Reply-To: rh@ishmael.UUCP (Richard Harter)
Organization: Software Maintenance & Development Systems, Inc.

I swear I must be crazy to comment on this!

lnewton@pvec.bridgewater.ns.ca (LEE NEWTON) writes:
>	This is a very serious and mature quetstion. What to women think in 
>general on the issue of circumsized penises vs. uncircumsized penises?

If this is a serious and mature question you might do better to pose it
in a more serious and mature fashion!  Too vague, by half.  Which issue?
Is circumcision medically desirable or undesirable (either for men or for
their partners)?  Do women perceive one variety or the other as sexually
more satisfying?  Is this a matter of utter indifference for all women,
for some, or for none?  Are you contemplating a certain operation?  In
short [you should excuse the expression] some hint as to the type of
information desired and the reason for seeking might produce better results.

In article <1d7vrlINN72h@gap.caltech.edu>, peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
>I don't think women spend nearly as much time thinking about penises 
>as men do.

Almost certainly true, but not terribly responsive.

In article <7875@transfer.stratus.com> dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
>Thank you for the snide response.  How about giving him the benefit of the
>doubt and assuming he had a reason for asking (curiosity if nothing else).

It's not really a snide comment.  What micah is pointing out, in effect, is
that she and many other women don't have any opinion on the matter, haven't
really thought about, and aren't particularly interested in the matter.

In article <1992Nov4.125945.6906@news.cs.indiana.edu> alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu (Amy Young Leith) writes:

>He may have been snide, but I think he's also right!!!  I don't sit
>and fantasize after spending an hour contemplating every physical
>characteristic of the penis in question.  Color, texture, vein
>placage, etc.  

>I've been with an uncircumsized man.  It has an extra piece of
>skin.... is there some signifigance here that I'm missing?  

Speak for yourself.  I'm not circumsized.  One woman I lived with who
had never had an uncircumsized partner was fascinated by my foreskin;
she thought it was a neat piece of biological engineering.  In my, ahem,
limited experience, a fair percentage of women consider the penis to be
gross and unasthetic, a fair percentage are fascinated with them at one
point in their life but not permanently, and I haven't the slightest
idea what the rest thought.

________

As the saying goes, it isn't the wand that counts, it's the magician.

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Why does this topic remind me of the old line, "Well enough of talking
about me.  Let's talk about you.  What do you think about me."
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