Well my folks(I nor my parents are Jewish) had me chopped as well when I was a wee lad and I never felt one way or the other about it to be truly honest but have never felt that I was missing anything not having that little bit of skin.Though I have had girl friends in the past tell me they preferred one or the other(not my place to formulate opinion on that)
I always thought that there was no medical gain or loss from it but after reading this I am glad I was clipped because I'd do anything to avoid that cancer and if this is true I'd not want any son if I ever have any to have penile cancer either:
http://www.medicinenet.com/circumcis...ge5.htm#cancer
The link is on the fifth page of the site you can read more of it if you want to.
Also razark is wrong about not using anesthetic it is used in most cases might not have been that way in the past.
According to Wiki they use the fore skins to make skin grafts awesome.