James Finn
Jan 31, 2022

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I didn’t know anything about the video, so I’m not qualified to talk about the appeals to emotion centering around infant pain.

I will say, though, that I wish I had not been circumcised as an infant. As a gay man, I have a great deal of experience with circumcised and uncircumcised penises. As an older gay man, I have enough experience to know that penile sensitivity among circumcised men is significantly reduced. Foreskins are sensitive organs, sexual organs. They also protect the glans and keep it from developing calluses.

This effect is much more noticeable the older a man becomes. Men my age who are circumcised are notably less sexually sensitive than men who are not circumcised.

I view this as a real loss.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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