u/CarterSteinhoff — reddlx

Mechanoreceptors like Meissner’s Corpuscles are incapable of undergoing mitosis

I’m not knocking foreskin restoration, and it can clearly help profoundly. I’m doing it myself, and I won’t be stopping until full coverage. But it’s important to distinguish between skin cells and mechanoreceptors. Mechanoreceptors are specialized sensory nerve endings that detect touch, pressure, stretch, and vibration. In sexually sensitive tissue, they are a major part of how physical stimulation gets converted into pleasurable sensation and sent through sensory nerves to the brain.

Ordinary skin cells can multiply through mitosis during tissue expansion, but mature mechanoreceptors are not known to undergo mitosis. As a result, restoration expands the tissue around the existing mechanoreceptors rather than generating new ones.

The tissue you generate through mitosis is really just “extra skin” to me rather than the highly specialized, mechanoreceptor rich native foreskin. The majority of sexual mechanoreceptors are in the inner foreskin/fenuluar area, and they are just lost forever to amputation unfortunately.

u/CarterSteinhoff — 3 hours ago

▲ 77 r/Intactivists

Many infant boys in the United States were subjected to a severe form of male genital mutilation where around half the tissue on their penis was amputated, a majority portion of the erogenous tissue, and they partially or fully lost their frenulum. A straight up skinning of the penis.

Many infant boys in the United States were subjected to a severe form of male genital mutilation where around half the tissue on their penis was amputated, a majority portion of the erogenous tissue, and they partially or fully lost their frenulum. A straight up skinning of the entire erogenous penile sheath.

The functional and sensory loss is so severe that it presents as a sexual disability.

Intactivism doesn’t have many graphics/animations that capture this anatomical loss yet. I think it’s a major missing piece in presenting our argument.

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u/CarterSteinhoff — 6 days ago

▲ 96 r/Intactivists

More and more women are talking about how amputating the foreskin leads to sexual disfigurement and disability in men

u/CarterSteinhoff — 7 days ago

▲ 53 r/Intactivists

This is not an education problem

u/CarterSteinhoff — 8 days ago

▲ 109 r/CircumcisionJustice+1 crossposts

When doctors amputate only a limited amount of the foreskin from an infant, many parents are often frustrated

When doctors amputate only a limited amount of the foreskin from an infant, many parents are often frustrated with the cosmetic result and will schedule another amputation to have more of the foreskin removed leaving the child increasingly sexually disabled and causing further sensory loss and early infancy trauma/suffering

u/CarterSteinhoff — 8 days ago

▲ 97 r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates

The male foreskin is a foundational component of male sexual anatomy and has significant sexual function and erogenous capacity.

Restraining a neonate, intruding into their penis, and amputating the foreskin is flagrant felony sexual battery and a form of rape. There is lifelong sexual loss associated with this and it causes profound early infancy penile trauma that can negatively shape the trajectory of neurological development.

This is one of the most egregious human rights violations happening on men and it’s estimated that around 3000 male infants are being genitally mutilated every day in the U.S. alone.

I’m sincerely shocked this isn’t discussed more in this space and other men’s rights spaces given how wicked and damaging it is.

I’m curious to hear any feedback on why this still seems like such an underground topic even in spaces dedicated to men’s issues

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u/CarterSteinhoff — 2 months ago