"I always experience vaginal discomfort with my circumcised partners—chafing—even enough to turn me off.  I've also heard this from other women."

"Circumcised intercourse feels like a friction burn.  With the natural penis, the extra skin makes it go smoother...my vagina doesn’t get sore."

"The circumcised penis often leaves me feeling chafed on the inside."

"I've never been with anyone uncircumcised, but I know I've definitely experienced some rawness/ soreness after a wild weekend [of circumcised intercourse]."

"My wife's biggest revelation from me restoring my foreskin is that SEX WASN'T MEANT TO BE PAINFUL.  She keeps saying that because I'm big "down there" she always felt sore after sex but thought that it was due to my size and she'd just have to live with it.  With my new foreskin, she says she now realizes what a rip-off male circumcision is for women too, and claims that if anything ever happened to me, lack of foreskin would be a deal-breaker in another mate.  I can't blame her.  Who wants to feel reamed out all the time?  Even if I go fast and vigorous, the loose skin is there to cushion and reduce friction."

"An absence of moisture and rubbing that leaves you sore are a real problem with circumcised penises."

"With my circumcised partners, I experienced irritation of the vagina due to friction because sex was too dry."

"With the circumcised penis, the vaginal tissues can get rubbed raw and sore from abrasion, painfully so. But with a natural penis, there is no abrasion—intercourse is so much more comfortable."

"I could never figure out the technique of touching a circum- cised man.  I recently found out the key was to keep a jar of massage oil by the bed. The man who I was with suggested this to me and asked me to keep his penis oiled. With the bottle of oil present, we could share more, but it seemed weird and unnatural.  I felt it got in the way because I had to keep this oil bottle in one hand while we explored together. It doesn’t make sense that a circumcised guy has to be kept oiled just to keep him turned on."

"It really articulates the frustration I have felt about this issue and how important this is to those of us who have been "rubbed the wrong way" and told it is US women who are the problem and not the mutilated, unnatural penises that hurt us."

"With my circumcised partners, just about all the time I had intercourse I experienced discomfort, even pain.  I was glad when it was over.  Back then, I didn’t know it could be any better.  But when I finally experienced intercourse with an uncircumcised man, I found out it was more gentle, more enjoyable, and less demanding. I could relax and get into it, once I realized that it wasn’t supposed to hurt."

"My husband is circumcised; we have only been with each other and have been married 7 years.  I have often faked orgasm, and wished, hoped, prayed, and hurried for sex to be over.  I would never in a million years want to hurt my husband so I have kept most of this from him.  During pregnancy, I can't stand sex.  It hurts so badly and I'm sore for hours, even days, afterwards.  My husband is a very loving person, sensitive to my needs.  I thought it was all my fault that I "didn't like sex better."  I thought it was my body letting me down when I had uncomfortable or painful sex.  I've mentioned restoration briefly to him.

I hope my uncircumcised sons' wives thank me some day for sparing them this!"