Originally Posted by STYLYUNG

When I began to consider being circumcised, the doctor told me that a benefit to being cut was that the the lack of the foreskin covering of the glans would toughen the tissue (skin) of the glans. Evidently, that was one of the ancient reasons for circumcision. It would make the glans skin impervious to the syphilis spirochetti being able to bore through the toughened tissue covering the glans. ...