Penis Glans vs Clitoris.
I am going to lay out why this is a silly argument to make while discussing Female genital mutilation vs Male genital mutilation.
Vagina has about 1000 nerve endings, and the clitoris has about 8000.
Source —— I looked on many websites to find a exact number of nerve endings in the vagina but I could not find anything besides the original source of this. Clitoris has a lot of sources for the 8000 mark.
Foreskin has been listed at between 10,000 - 20,000 - 70,000. So I will be going with 20,000 to compare the two.
Source listing it from 10,000 - 20,000.
Source listing 20,000 - 70,000.
The glans and shaft have about 4000 nerve endings.
Now that the numbers and source information is out of the way, I can get into the body of my argument.
The penis fully intact has 24,000 nerve endings, when the foreskin is removed, 83% of the nerves are removed.
Vagina fully intact has 9,000, when clitoris is removed it is a loss of 89% of the nerve endings.
Now lets see how many clitorises, glans/shafts and vaginas would have to be removed to equal 1 foreskin removal.
- Combined - 1.58
- Clitorises - 2.5
- Glans/shafts - 5
- Vagina’s - 20
While it is factually correct that the removal of a clitoris is worse then glans/shaft of the penis, to leave the argument left at that is not telling the whole truth. From the data I have shown the removal of the foreskin is worse then removing all of the nerves of vagina, clitoris and glans/shaft.
This is why circumcision is not a medical act but mutilation of male genitals. And this is the reason to outlaw it with female genital mutilation, and fight just as hard against both and not just one.
