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Contrary to your previous post, I am a man...I just know that the removal of a minor flap of skin that occurred when I was a few days old has not irrevocably ruined my sex life, nor my sense of physical well being, and pride in my trouser snake.
I do understand why other men might have issues with this surgery, especially when one is an adult. Goodness knows just the thought of genital piercing drives me batty, but I don't think men who do it are irrevocably destroyed as men, or women who ask their partners to do it are out to destroy their partner’s sexuality.
It is a sensitive area, but making too broad of an analogy just makes you look like an idiot.
Size matters (As I am sure you are painfully aware) with regard to issues of purpose and functionality in genitals. This bit of skin is a minor aspect of the penis and one that causes no long term physical side effects to its removal.
The only argument that can be made is that it does slightly alter the physical appearance of the penis, but that alteration is not detrimental to its functioning or its purpose.
There are men, and I am not saying you are one, who are so afraid of the power women have over them sexually, that any issue with regard to gender becomes about this same sexual dynamic.
These men have feelings stirred in them by women, and have no method to relieve these feelings without the permission of a female. These men come to resent this dynamic, and come to feel very negatively towards all women as a result. It is very sad, because this of course only exacerbates the situation.
Women are not the enemy any more than men are their enemy. When we all respect each other and work together, the world is a better place and we all get to have lots of sex.
