About female circ in the US.

[Yulia_R]

Wow, it says that women need to retract their foreskin to clean their clitoris. I know circlist is full of misinformation, but how in the world would you retract it?! Unless I'm an exception, I would find it physically impossible even if I tried.

Another thing, do you guys think it is possible that some women who have troubles reaching orgasm due to intercourse may benefit from removing their foreskin?

I’m just blown away by all this info…I never knew some adult women would opt to get circ’d in the US…


http://www.circlist.com/femalecirc/anatfemale.html

[Claire and Boys]

I have wondered the exact same thing. I didn't know it DID retract until finding it out through this place.

[MaryLang]

Wouldn't it be similar to a male circ? I would think the clitoris would be more sensitive at first, but wouldn't your sensitivity diminish over time, just like circ'ed guys have decreased sensitivity?

[perspective]

Originally Posted by Claire and Boys

I have wondered the exact same thing. I didn't know it DID retract until finding it out through this place.

Really? I am a young guy and I knew for a while that the clitoral hood retracts.
Are there woman on this site who have a clit hood that cannot retract?

If so, maybe thats a lesson many women on here can take when they are worried their 5 year old son cannot retract!

[Marlet]

Originally Posted by perspective

Really? I am a young guy and I knew for a while that the clitoral hood retracts.
Are there woman on this site who have a clit hood that cannot retract?

If so, maybe thats a lesson many women on here can take when they are worried their 5 year old son cannot retract!

: Mine does. I assumed every ones did. Just depends on so much...I'm guessing those of us who can retract it have larger ones or our actual clitoris sits further back.

[Yulia_R]

Originally Posted by perspective

Really? I am a young guy and I knew for a while that the clitoral hood retracts.
Are there woman on this site who have a clit hood that cannot retract?

If so, maybe thats a lesson many women on here can take when they are worried their 5 year old son cannot retract!

I honestly have NO idea how in the world would it be possible! I mean we are saying that some intact babies have small holes, but this is nothing comparing to women's one (at least some women as I learned today). I mean, there is just nothing there, the opening is SO tiny, there is almost nothing to speak off, forget about pushing something through it...

Sorry if it's too intimate, I am just really SHOCKED that some women are able to retract! I just fail to see how it is even possible...

[MyBoysBlue]

I need to brush up on my female anatomy. I have no Idea what you are all talking about. Retract?

[chaoticzenmom]

.....off to go find my mirror......

[eepster]

I was quite far along in life, before I figured out which part exactly was the clitoris, but I've know for ages that the hood over it can be retracted. I have on a few occassions had little bits of toilet paper lint caught in it (which is very uncomfortable, even moe than this conversation ,) so I retract it and clean it out.

[prothyraia]

If my clitoral hood *does* get pushed back, it's incredibly uncomfortable to have the glans exposed. I *hate* having it touched, hate hate hate it. Which is one reason among many that male circ horrifies me so much. : I can't believe people get their hoods pierced!

Originally Posted by Yulia_R

I mean we are saying that some intact babies have small holes, but this is nothing comparing to women's one (at least some women as I learned today). I mean, there is just nothing there, the opening is SO tiny, there is almost nothing to speak off, forget about pushing something through it...

Hole? Huh? Pushing something through it?

[perspective]

Originally Posted by Yulia_R

I honestly have NO idea how in the world would it be possible! I mean we are saying that some intact babies have small holes, but this is nothing comparing to women's one (at least some women as I learned today). I mean, there is just nothing there, the opening is SO tiny, there is almost nothing to speak off, forget about pushing something through it...

Sorry if it's too intimate, I am just really SHOCKED that some women are able to retract! I just fail to see how it is even possible...

I have had only one sexual partner in my life so far (first girlfriend) and she was able to to retract her hood. How is it so shocking? Its a hood of skin, it can be retracted back. Is your hood just stuck to your clitoris?

Maybe clearing up some of the confusion can come from the fact that it retracts more like a hood then a turtleneck.

[outlier]

Originally Posted by eepster

I was quite far along in life, before I figured out which part exactly was the clitoris...

Don't worry, you're not alone! I taught human anatomy labs for several years, and one of my favorite structures to tag for tests was the glans of the clitoris. You would not believe some of the answers I would get. I swear women were just as likely to get that wrong as men!

[GoodNamesGone]

Originally Posted by noodsma

Don't worry, you're not alone! I taught human anatomy labs for several years, and one of my favorite structures to tag for tests was the glans of the clitoris. You would not believe some of the answers I would get. I swear women were just as likely to get that wrong as men!

LOL - I never gave it that much thought. I'd only have got the right answer through logical reasoning. "Hmmm.. if the head of the penis is the glans, then I guess that part of the clitoris can be called a glans too... "

Sort-of on topic here- my outter labia are kinda large and have to be parted, I have a hard time imagining doing all this retracting and cleaning without being a contortionist or getting another set of hands involved.

[calpurnia]

Originally Posted by perspective

it retracts more like a hood then a turtleneck.

hah! yes!

but i agree that it's rather uncomfortable to have the clitoris directly exposed.

[Yulia_R]

Originally Posted by prothyraia

If my clitoral hood *does* get pushed back, it's incredibly uncomfortable to have the glans exposed. I *hate* having it touched, hate hate hate it. Which is one reason among many that male circ horrifies me so much. : I can't believe people get their hoods pierced!



Hole? Huh? Pushing something through it?

Well, I'm assuming you are talking about retraction which is sumular to male's one, which is pulling the foreskin back, the sphincter opens up and the glans come out through the opening. Isn't that what retraction mean? And with all honesty I have NO idea how it is phisically possible to do such thing with female foreskin (at least it is totally impossible with mine )

After 33 years of life finding out that I'm defective down there is just what I need

[prothyraia]

Originally Posted by Yulia_R

Well, I'm assuming you are talking about retraction which is sumular to male's one, which is pulling the foreskin back, the sphincter opens up and the glans come out through the opening. Isn't that what retraction mean? And with all honesty I have NO idea how it is phisically possible to do such thing with female foreskin (at least it is totally impossible with mine )

Aaah I see. We're just thinking of it backwards from one another (pushing out vs. pulling back).

I wish mine couldn't retract, hah!

Which now makes me wonder, if male foreskin can stretch enough to cover what's lost during circ. (like in restoration), is there any way I can get some more clitoral hood so my glans is less likely to be exposed? Hmmm.....

[Yulia_R]

Originally Posted by prothyraia

Aaah I see. We're just thinking of it backwards from one another (pushing out vs. pulling back).

I wish mine couldn't retract, hah!

Which now makes me wonder, if male foreskin can stretch enough to cover what's lost during circ. (like in restoration), is there any way I can get some more clitoral hood so my glans is less likely to be exposed? Hmmm.....

Ok, I just found a good picture of female genitalia (WARNING, GRAPHIC!) http://www.coolnurse.com/anatomy.htm
While my clitoral hood has simular shape and all it does not nearly have this gap (hole) that I assume clitoris would come through. It just has this tiny tiny hole; therefore, there is no way my clotoris would ever be able to come through . So, I guess putting it in male's terms I probably have phimosis.

I suddenly got worried; if this is genetic, is there a chance my son's foreskin won't retract as well? His opening on the tip is tiny as well, he's turning 4 in June. I know that it is normal for a boy to not retract till after puberty, but what of this is genetic and his opening will never grt wider (just like mine hasn't???).

[prothyraia]

It's one thing if the foreskin is still attached, I can see how that causes problems.

But the size of the opening wouldn't worry me. I mean, foreskin/labia is STRETCHY stretchy skin. I can't imagine it wouldn't be flexible enough to retract no matter how small the opening was at first. There's a lot of more foreskin to work with than there is clitoral hood.

Just my uneducated opinion, though

[eepster]

I know we always talk of how analogous the clitoral hood is to thhe foreskin when we compare FGM to MGM, but there are some differences.
Though we use the term "retract," it is more accurate for male anatomy than female.

To begin with, I don't think there is a sphincter. When one retracts it, one only is exposing a very small area compared to a penis, about the sixe of a lentil (obviously variable.) Nothing really comes, it is just more exposed, and rediculously sensitive (this is why it's uncomfortable is anything gets in there.) I would compare it to an eye, like how uncomfortable it is to get a simple eyelash in there. It is more like opening it than retracting it.

[needhelpplease]

TMI - My clitoral hood has always been able to be pulled back to show the glans - except when I was little I think. I do actually wash under it most showers, just because otherwise it's possible for little white dots to get there occasionally (smegma?)

I guess not all women are like that, but it just makes me roll my eyes when people say guys will have to pull back and wash otherwise they'll get smegma, and that the foreskin should be cut off because they're too stupid to handle the washing, yet women can