Christopher

Serious question, so please treat it as such. I had to be circumcised in March 2002 - as a paraphimosis emergency. (Dorsal slit initially to release the oedema, then a full circumcision later.)

1. I feel mutilated.

2. I'm embarrassed when using public urinals or swimming pool changing rooms; and any (rare) medical examination involving genital exposure.

3. Above all, I am losing so much penile sensitivity with a permanently bare glans as the months and years pass by, sexual satisfaction is deeply compromised - even masturbation has become a learning curve which takes so much more effort without foreskin.

I'm an Englishman. We don't routinely circumcise our boys. Almost all male circumcision, boy or man, is the result of medical necessity.

I need help to somehow accept the loss of my foreskin. It won't grow back. I have searched for private counsellors locally in the hope of finding one who might have a solution for me. But any counselling of this kind is for boys under 16 and is offered prior to the surgery, not after it's done.

Long post and I apologise. But since my home country seems unable to help, my last resort is to ask the world via Yahoo! answers.