Soul-Devouring Worry
¤ Missing what I never had.

Up here we have news, and down below we have porn.  I mean a follow up to the circumcision stuff from yesterday, with a counterpoint from a man who still has his, and a rebuttal from a female. It's pretty explicit, so bear that in mind if you're reading from work.

¤ This is a weird article. It's not so much the article, which is just about a famous French restaurant serving up their one-millionth roast Caneton. What's weird about the article is how slanted it is in tone, while not being an editorial, and mostly just presenting the information. Check out the first paragraph:

PARIS (Reuters) - Select guests have gathered at a top Paris restaurant to sample the one millionth duck to be snatched from grassy marshland, carefully strangled and ritually cooked with its own blood.

Yummy!  I may never eat again!

That part sounds like a PETA press release, but then the rest of the article is very matter of fact.  Perhaps the horrified author thought the facts spoke clearly enough of the disgusting practice, and he/she didn't need to embellish? Here's the recipe.  You may want to skip this if it's lunchtime and you're eating say, Ravoli.

...famous for being served in a heady, cognac-laced sauce dosed with blood.

The secret, fans say, is in strangling the ducks, keeping the flesh succulent, rather than slitting their throats.

A former owner of the 421-year-old restaurant discovered the method over a century ago from a chef near Rouen who would buy cheap ducks that had been suffocated on the way to market. He tried the chef's succulent duck dish and was smitten.

At La Tour d'Argent today, carcasses of freshly strangled ducks are pressed to extract the blood which is mixed with cognac and port to make a rich, sizzling sauce.

Despite the gory and gruesome recipe, it's quite a celebrity favorite.

Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt ate duck No. 33,642 in 1910, Charlie Chaplin guzzled No. 253,652 some 45 years later, and celebrities like Elton John and Nicole Kidman and footballer Ronaldo have sampled more recent birds.

The Queen of England, as a princess, and Japanese Emperor Hirohito have both sampled a Tour d'Argent Caneton

¤ Must read article about the Patriot Act in action. Two people in NYC going to an Indian restaurant near Times Square, and just as they get their food and sit down:

All of a sudden, there was a terrible commotion and five NYPD in bulletproof vests stormed down the stairs. They had their guns drawn and were pointing them indiscriminately at the restaurant staff and at us.

After securing the premises, the cops seated the customers, waiters, and kitchen staff and kept them under guard while a bunch of INS agents with lap tops ran everyone's ID.

"You have no right to hold us," Asher insisted.

"Yes, we have every right," responded one of the agents. "You are being held under the Patriot Act following suspicion under an internal Homeland Security investigation."

When I asked to speak to a lawyer, the INS official informed me that I do have the right to a lawyer but I would have to be brought down to the station and await security clearance before being granted one. When I asked how long that would take, he replied with a coy smile: "Maybe a day, maybe a week, maybe a month."

We insisted that we had every right to leave and were going to do so. One of the policemen walked over with his hand on his gun and taunted: "Go ahead and leave, just go ahead."

They were eventually released, unharmed, though their evening was ruined and they missed the play they had tickets to. Feeling safer yet?  You might want to stay out of ethnic restaurants for the immediate forever.  As well as grow white skin and keep your hair short and face shaved, lest you look suspicious.

The future looks even brighter.

The Patriot Act is just the first phase of the erosion of the Fourth Amendment. From the Justice Department has emerged a draft of the Domestic Securities Enhancement Act, also known as Patriot II. Among other things, this act would allow the Justice Department to detain anyone, anytime, secretly and indefinitely. It would also make it a crime to reveal the identity or even existence of such a detainee.

ircumcision, discussed in some length yesterday, reappears today.

To start with, here's an email from a reader who probably wants to remain anonymous, describing his experiences with a foreskin.

I am part of the 25% of American males that are not circumsized.

My wife, as well as many of my former girlfriends, is or were fascinated by my uncut member. Most but not all would go down on me, and those that do/did seemed to like it. Oral sex is part of our usual foreplay in my marriage.

Some of the women in my life marveled at my uncut dick the first time we had sex, usually also commenting favorably on width of my penis (which I am told is as long as most but much thicker than many) however many waited until the 3rd or 4th sexual encounter. On occasion I have been the first one to bring it up, usually when they were giving me a handjob, upon which they always agreed with me that it is much easier to masturbate a cock with foreskin than one without.

I believe my foreskin keeps me from premature ejaculation. While having sex, my foreskin acts as a second layer, covering and then retracting over my penis as I pump in and out. If my penis were stripped of foreskin I think it would almost be painful during the "out" part of the old "in & out" motion. I have no doubt that the head of an uncircumcised cock gets desensitized by rubbing against clothes all the time, and a good thing that is, or the "out" motion would be almost unbearable. Other than my first sexual encounters when I was 16 or 17, I have always lasted until my partner was ready.

I would never ever ever get circumcised. I thank my lucky stars that I still have my dick intact. I feel bad for you guys that have been amputated. I am glad that you still can have a little bit of fun anyway.

It does seem that a penis would get desensitized without the foreskin over it, but according to that study I posted about yesterday, they do not.  My thought was that the foreskin itself was super sensitive, so any cock with one was just automatically far more sensitive than a cock without one.  Seems self-evident.

However, the guy commenting says that his foreskin actually sort of lessens the sensitivity, which seems odd. I can't comment, since I'm in the 75% who were cut when a baby, so I have nothing to compare it to.

Another guy who is not circumcised says that he loves his, for it's enormously sensitive and feels great to touch or have touched.  It's probably a sign of denial over our loss that men who have been cut bother to make up excuses about why it doesn't really matter that they have been mutilated.

For the rebuttal, here's what a female friend of mine said when I quoted here the above email:

What else is he going to say? Of course he is going to say that, but notice had he said HE had to bring it up, that it took the 3rd or 4th time, that women gazed at it in "wonder." I bet if I took a woman's poll (me taking the poll that is,) I'd say that most would have said that they were fascinated by it because 1) you don't see them often, 2) they are weird and ugly looking, like an elephant trunk, and 3) they probably were contemplating if they could do a hand job. Now, I realize that is MY opinion, but I am going to stick with it.

Personally, men usually smell like urine because they don't wipe nor do they REALLY clean down there. Its bad enough going down on a guy and smelling the urine and that musky ball odor. That is the only thing that I hate about BJ's. Its always a surprise down there. I would think that a man with all that skin is going to get stuff trapped down in there and smell even worse. At least that is the myth that goes around a woman's mind when it comes to not being circumcised.

And that's the other side of the issue, that most women don't like them, or at least they *think* that they don't like them.  Once they got used to it would they mind?  True, a penis is a lot less-attractive looking with a foreskin covering up the interesting looking part (assuming I can say that w/o sounding gay), but visual stimulation only goes so far, and maybe it's sexy when the head is peeking out from under the skin?  I don't really want to think about it, honestly.

I guess I'm glad I was circumcised, since I've never missed it and get plenty of sensation as it is, and I think I look a lot better without it.  But maybe I'm just in denial, missing what I never had.

Anyone else wants to comment, feel free.

<-- Yesterday  --  Tomorrow -->
Archives Page