Circumcision Broo-ha-ha

I’m cut and don’t miss my “lost” skin. I guess the doctor in the delivery room knew what he was doing. I get plenty of sensation with my dick. So much so, I’ve had to practice ejaculation control which oddly enough teaches to desensitize the frenulum!

Those of you that have lost all feeling in the frenulum area from circumcision, the matter is an issue to discuss with the doctor who performed (botched) the surgery NOT with your parents- circumcision in the US has been and continues to be a longstanding medical and CULTURAL practice. Past generations did not question doctors and their decisions. Data at the time indicated that urinary infections, both in men and in women who had sex with circumcised men, were lessened through male circumcision. More recent studies have now disproved this longstanding bias so long as proper hygeine (regular washing) is taking place. There are plenty of guys out there that do not regularly wash their hands after urinating- the talk in the men’s room goes like this…”hey Bud, didn’t your mama teach you to wash your hands after taking a piss?”… “no, MY mama taught me how not to piss on my hand.” Well, I’m not squeamish, but I don’t relish the idea of grabbing a door handle after a guy that has transfered jock sweat and probably also pee, from his hands to the door knob!

In addition, many current child bearing women in the US are still in favor of the practice. It would be interesting to get some feedback from women who hold circumcision to be appropriate for their newborn son and why. Maybe many of them have fathers and brothers that they KNOW don’t wash their hands before coming out of the bathroom- shaken dry using a cut Willie is better than having evaporated dry pee underneath the foreskin of an uncut one?!

“I'm cut and don't miss my “lost” skin. I guess the doctor in the delivery room knew what he was doing. I get plenty of sensation with my dick. So much so, I've had to practice ejaculation control which oddly enough teaches to desensitize the frenulum!”

I’m in the same boat. Plenty of sensation and I like how a cut dick looks. But, it’s all I’ve ever known so I won’t say one way is better than the other. All I know is I’m happy. My G/F says she’s happy too and her husband of 18 years before me is uncut and says he’s been very unhappy with it. I think a lot of it is mental. He’s unhappy with his dick (probably for no good reason) so he got depressed and didn’t enjoy sex. I’m working on my dick to make it even better, but no one should discount working on their minds IMHO. Most important sex organ, right?

Regarding your comment
“Maybe many of them have fathers and brothers that they KNOW don’t wash their hands before coming out of the bathroom- shaken dry using a cut Willie is better than having evaporated dry pee underneath the foreskin of an uncut one?!”

Just a clarification - I am uncut and when I go the the restroom I pull my forskin back to ensure that pee does not cover my dick and end up drying.

My question regarding being cut is just how exactly do you masturbate? I love being able to have my forskin glide over my penis - feels absolutely great!

BTW - I am also happy you enjoy your penis also. Isn’t that the point?

Don’t be a germ freak. Your immune system needs practice.

Well actually it is quite easy!
However I don’t use the conventional method.
Instead I just fondle the part under the head (head too sensitive) then much like sptinkling salt between your first, second fingers and your thumb I stumulate the head.
Then I swap and change by stimulating in a different way.
Also I use the ‘peace’ symbol to press the skin around my dick sometimes with my dick going through the ‘peace’ sign as this adds some more stretch and tension causing more pleasure for me.

Well, you did ask :D

“Don’t be a germ freak”? Please, it’s a matter of sanitation, common courtesy and being a civilized human!!

Exactly when did this "longstanding" tradition start? Better yet, when did it become common? The beginnings of "non-religious" circumcisions were the late 1800’s when advocates promoted it as a cure for mental diseases such as masturbation. In 1928 an article in the AMA journal recommended circumcision for every male infant, but that didn’t cause the mass circumcision of the population. Circumcision reached it’s peak in the 1960’s and early 70’s when most doctors were routinely chopping off foreskins without even asking for the required consent. It peaked at 90% and is currently much lower.

"one serious complication-severe hemorrhage, infection, loss of entire penis, or death-occurs in every 500 circumcisions (approximately 3,700 in 1993)" Approximately 3 infant boys die in the US each year as a direct result of their circumcision. Many more are "converted" to females after their circumcision led to the loss of their penis.

I just found this list of articles regarding circumcision(all anti as far as I know). Some look interesting, like the last one which explains why intact men are better lovers according to a scientific study of women’s sexual enjoyment. Apparently, intact guys maintain contact with the mons pubis and clitoris much more than circumcized guys who generally just pound away harder and with longer strokes.

http://dmoz.org /Health/Child_H … ision/Articles/

I’m circumcized, but wouldn’t have choosen it for myself. My wife would definitely agree that maintaing contact with the mons pubis and clitoris is far better than longer strokes. My son isn’t circumcized, and I hope your future sons aren’t either.

Three times I misspelled “circumcised” and I missed the editing deadline by seconds. :(

Great post, MDC!!!!

One or more of us need a lesson in anatomy- “…beter contact w/ mons pubis and clitoris with an uncut.” I’m paraphrasing here, but I don’t get how having more skin at the HEAD of a dick facilitates this while inside the vagina. I can hip wiggle with the best of them with my cut dick so that I stay in CONSTANT contact with my partner if I so desire- which I don’t, my spouse doesn’t, nor as I can remember, any of my previous partners wanted either. Here again, it’s a personal matter and I like to thrust and haven’t received any complaints by doing so. Knowing how and when is the secret and comes w/ experience and being in-tune with your partner and her needs.

What I think is at issue here is that some guys that are cut have nothing else to whine about- “poor me, look what my parents and society has done to me”. Get over it if your cut dick is pleasuring you. It is wasteful energy thinking “how it might of been” and ulimately, an excuse for other issues in your life. If you’ve got sensation/function problems, see a Urologist.

I don’t know, except about me.

I don’t have a foreskin. I was never asked if I wanted one. My parents also didn’t ask me if I wanted to go to a certain church, or a particular school, offer me the option of eating asparagus, or give me any dick decisions.

Truly, I can see how guys could feel cheated and want foreskin back. Some guys here work on getting that. Other guys who have hair-trigger ejaculation and are cut or uncut are trying to overcome that handicap by making glans less exquisitly sensitive.

Prickle, if you don’t start thinking, I am going to start editing you. And I can do that. Ask anyone with any disease if it is fun to lose function.

Or get a disease and make a joke like that. (I’m being generous in assuming that was a joke.)

I didn’t do the study. They found that circumcised men generally used longer/harder strokes, while uncircumcised men maintained more contact with the woman’s clit.

I can’t imagine a woman telling you that she would prefer you not be circumcised even if she did think that since there’s nothing you or she could do about it. It’s just like women telling you that your penis is already big enough when she finds out you’re doing PE.

Avocet8,
I’m missing 20 square inches of my penis’ skin, and who knows what kind of sensations that would provide. Chopping off normal healthy body parts is very different than going to church or what food you eat.

MDC;

Point well taken.

However, what is, is.

Is it helpful to us to carry around trash bags full of resentment over parental decisions made decades ago when now, as grownups ourselves, we come from a more enlightened place? If so, I’d like to know how that carrying is beneficial.

If your (unwanted) circumcision was botched and you lost sensitivity, I can see feeling great anger.

If, though, you have satisfying sex and have erotic sensitivity, what is the point of wondering about the lost 20 square inches of skin when there is tissue under that just as sensitive, if not more, as that which was removed?

To me this is (sort of, bear with me) like my resenting my father, or his father, or anyone on my maternal side who did not give me Big Dick Genes. If I had had 6 more cubic inches of dick all these years, I could have had more fun, maybe. But the folks who gave me my dick genes are all dead. It’s on me to increase my sexual capacities, if I can do that, with or without a foreskin- is all I am saying.

I realize that I´m a bit late on this thread but I just read it now, the title didn´t seem to reach out to ME and I´m often pressed for time.

I´m uncut and I don´t understand the reasoning behind the hygien thing. You cut people do realize that we uncut guys are smart enough to pull back the foreskin when we shower or take a leak? If we didn´t we´d be spraying all over the place. How does hygien improve with being cut?

I even wash my dick under the faucet after a piss, if oportunity is given, feels fresher that way. Washing my hands is basicly a reflex, nothing I even think about. And I´m not a germ freak, just considerate and aware of my personal hygien.

Avocet8,
I’m not bitter over it, as that wouldn’t help me in any way. I enjoy sex just fine, and don’t have a “botched” circumcision. I’m probably luckier than many since most of my frenulum seems to be intact. I remember wishing I wasn’t circumcised when I was a teenager. At that point in my life, I doubt I’d ever even seen an intact penis, and wasn’t aware of any “debate” over circ.

The main reason I post on this subject is to help prevent circumcisions of infants. I’m certain that I’ve made some people think differently, and probably have convinced some to spare their sons the cruelty that circumcision is.