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Can The Clitoral Hood Grow Back?
I'm curious. A male circumcision can be reversed to a degree by growing the skin of the foreskin back (not the phimotic ring and frenulum, naturally). This process is known as male foreskin restoration. The skin of the penis is brought up to an area where no skin exists and the body eventually remembers to grow new skin in these areas. Some cultures remove the clitoral hood on a female. Can this grow back using the same method used to restore a man's foreskin?
Top Source, your lack of knowledge astounds me. In the most basic female circumcision, only the clitoral hood is removed. This is the procedure I am asking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutila...
And yes, male foreskin restoration does exist, though you're right about the fact that the original foreskin cannot be restored, since much of it cannot be substituted with anything else.
Furthermore, a restored foreskin allows any unscarred part of the glans to regain sensitivity. That's the whole idea in the first place.
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- ConnorLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
I think you mean the ridged band. A phimotic ring is a medical condition where a ring of skin at the tip of the foreskin is far too tight for the foreskin to retract. It's not a normal part of the foreskin. It's an abnormal medical condition.
Also I'm really confused by how you are describing foreskin restoration but I think you have the wrong idea. The skin doesn't "remember" anything. Skin doesn't have a brain. Foreskin restoration uses tissue expansion methods through the use of tension. When you put tension on skin the skin cells get the signal to multiply in order to stop the tension. Cells are programmed to have a certain amount of space. This has nothing to do with "remembering to regrow". Our bodies are not designed like frogs, they don't have genetic material that tells them to grow when a part is cut off.
Physically, yes tissue expansion methods could be used to grow new skin in the same way foreskin restoration does. However it's a highly unrealistic expectation. #1 it would be really painful for a woman and #2 I will give you $1,000 if you could find a way to grip skin and then pull it forward, then find a device that would do so. Once that skin is gone... there really is not enough skin to grab onto in order to create tension.
-Connor
Source(s): Pre Med and I restored my foreskin - 10 years ago
I very much doubt in female circum they cut off only the hood.
The idea is to cripple the person sexually bc the major mid east religions hate sex & women and label them as sinful so at least the head of the clit would be cut off; probably as much as possible of it.
And I doubt very much whether in the case of male circum that any skin grows back.
The inside surface of the foreskin is richly endowed w/ erotic nerves. So cutting it off removes a large proportion of those nerves in male genitals.
The absense of the foreskin in a few yrs causes the head to lose much of it's sensitivity bc of its exposure and rubbing on clothing.
So circ males have only a small proportion of their tactile erotic nerves remaining.
- Anonymous10 years ago
no,this is why muslims like to lop it off.
