Intact penises have very little or no hair on the shaft skin as at the ridge bands being outer foreskin and most of the outer foreskin is virtually hair free, those that do exist are very fine. As you look further down the shaft of the penis the hair gets thicker and more frequent until you reach the scrotum and pubic area where the hair has become fairly stout and wire like. The hair at this point changes its shape to hairs that have an oval cross section which gives most races curly pubic hair, some races seem to have straighter pubic hair mainly from the far east. During intercourse the foreskin peels back with the ridge bands behind the corona of the glans where it glides on the shaft, this reduces the friction at the entrance of the vagina as the penis can travel within the vagina (or any other orifice) to almost the entire length of the penis without the shaft skin proper moving at the point of entry. (about 75% of penile length assuming that the foreskin partly rolls over the glans during intercourse, if the ridge bands are fairly tight and the frenulum is shorter this will reduce this to perhaps 50% which in the average case would be a movement of between 2 to 3 inches?). The shorter strokes will not therefore cause hardly any friction at the 'entrance' area and overall combining the long and short strokes there will be far less friction altogether. As the sexual act with mutilated men involves mainly frictional intercourse for male stimulation involving prolonged sex and deeper thrusting the partner can get sore through drying up (even slightly) as MGM involves removing all or most of what will give any gliding action. This also has the effect of pulling the more hairy skin up the shaft to the glans. To take the analogy to the extreme it is like having sex with a woolly glove, imagine how uncomfortable that would be even if the glove was lubricated, but of course no penis would be that hairy. If you look closely at a single hair you see that they lay flat to the skin in one direction (forward towards the glans), this means that on the forward stroke the hairs will tend to fold back causing a more abrasive effect than on the backward stroke where they will lay flat and have a much lower profile.

When we restore we are trying to expand the skin to get coverage and those that have some inner mucosal tissue left try to expand this as a priority but we still have to expand the shaft skin to maintain the coverage so we are in effect pulling this more hairy shaft skin forward towards the glans. Even if the hair issue was ignored the restoration will at least get some gliding action back which will improve the comfort of both involved in sex be they gay or straight.

As far as complaints from the woman is concerned we have to take 'comfort' and 'discomfort' in proportion and sensitive to the situation. To explain this ask a man that has been mutilated as a baby if there is anything wrong with his sex life because of his penis and he will tell you no. Ask him if he is less sensitive than an intact man, he will say no. Ask him if women prefer an intact or mutilated penis and they will probably say they prefer his mutilated penis where in fact where women have tried multiple intact and mutilated the majority prefer the intact. The fact is unless you can compare you cannot know. Those of us that have restored are mostly very pleased with the increased sensitivity and gentler sex as we CAN compare the before and after. Now if we ask a woman what she feels during sex and what she finds the most sensual, stimulating, sensitive and pleasurable areas she will possibly say "I don't know" she will possibly tell you that it varies during sex and from one day to the next. Certainly there is a wide variation between women, and when it comes to discomfort that will depend on how 'wet' she is, how tight the vagina is, how much the woman can apply pressure during sex and how long she has as an emotional expectation for sexual duration as if the man has penetrative sex for half an hour or more and the woman climaxed at ten minutes then she will start to dry out (even slightly) after 15 minutes or so, by the time 30 or 35 minutes has passed she may not feel so sexy and start to feel something less than pleasure, she may not even know what it is that she feels but discomfort may be part of it.