My perspective on this is a bit different. I was not circumcised as a baby. I had it done at the age of 26.
I can tell you one thing-having your foreskin cut off hurts a great deal!!!!! When you are cut as an adult, you can really empathise with the genital mutilation argument against circumcision. There are a great deal of nerves in that small piece of skin, and having experienced both conditions as and adult, I can say that I lost sensitivity. However, at the same time the skin could sheild the glans from direct stimilation and contact so that you could last longer.
When you get circumcised as an adult, you are going to be out of action for a while and nocturnal erections are painfull!!!!
Now to the topic of female circumcision. It is a missuse of the term "female circumcision" to say that female circumcision is anything other than removing the clitoral hood so that it is more exposed. The clitoral hood is the direct coresponding anatomical structure to the male foreskin.
"Surgical" removal of the clitoris would be a clitorectomy. However, as Heather Rae pointed out, the bizzare, brutal, oppresive and ritual cutting and disfiguring the female vulva is female genital mutilation.
Many women do not know this and many do not want to admit this but smegma is formed and retained under the clitoral hood and other areas of the vulva . So if a woman is not diligent with her personal hygeine it is very possible that you might see some small cottage chese like particles up in there and coming out of those locations.
Smegma, a transliteration of the Greek word ?????? for soap, is a combination of exfoliated (shed) epithelial cells, transudated skin oils, moisture, and bacteria that can accumulate under the foreskin of males and within the vulva of females. It has a characteristic strong odor and taste. Smegma is common to all mammals, male and female
If woman does not clean that area, it will look just like a dirty penis but on a smaller scale. This is gynocology 101 and a good medical text will confrim this to be the case. So to avoid various infections, women too have to use a consistent comprehensive hygeine routine, from an early age. As should uncircumcised boys. Cleaning around the clitoris and cleaning around the glans are very similar activites.
I had a woman tell me that she would not have sex with an uncut man, and I thought she was rather shallow. She cited hygeine issues and what society has told her. I thought to myslef to be fair - i should get to see you open up your vag and swab it down with a wet wipe so that I know that you are clean down there too before deciding to have sex. However, I did not say anything as she would have just got pist and defensive.
The point that is being overlooked is that both genders need to practice good hygeine or else they can transmit bacteria, yeast infections, HPV and retain smegma, and it is reasonable to expect your partner what ever the gender to keep their equipment reasonably clean before they expect sex.
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