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Removal of the male foreskin and the female clitoral hood (female foreskin) are anatomically equivalent.
However, neurologically speaking, removal of the male foreskin is as destructive to male sexual sensory experience as removal of the [[clitoris|clitoral glans]] is for females. This video discussion of [[penile skin]] and [[foreskin]] neurology explains why.
Contrary to popular Western myth, many circumcised women do report the ability to feel sexual pleasure and to have orgasm, albeit in a compensatory manner that differs from intact women (suggested reading: Prisoners of Ritual by [[Hanny Lightfoot-Klein]]). Similar compensatory behaviours for achieving orgasm are at work among circumcised men, who must rely on the remaining 50% or less of their penile nerve endings.