Circumcision: What is your opinion?

I appreciate your sympathy. I think that even if someone doesn’t agree with someone else’s viewpoint, they should still at least try to understand where they are coming from. Some of the people on this thread have completely dismissed the issue as unimportant which is irritating to me. My parents let a surgeon cut part of one of my most important organs off of my body without my consent. How is that not an issue that should be discussed?

I was also circumcised right after I was born, but because I had phimosis. I don’t feel bad for not having the foreskin and I’ve never had any sexual issues due to the circumcision. But I was always mocked a lot by other guys when I was younger, I don’t know exactly why. Maybe because circumcision is not very common in Brazil. To be honest, I think this was not good for my development. Though it was not extremely traumatizing, there were bad effects, due to some episodes, that I think have affected me.

No physical problems from the surgery. I’ve seen many guys complaining about deformation and stuff like that, but my dick’s shape is perfect. A mushroom head with no signs of something wrong.

If I had a son, I wouldn’t allow a circumcision unless it was for health issues, as in my case. I just don’t think it’s reasonable to submit someone to an unnecessary surgery.

Uncut he looks better!

Circumcision without medical indication is nonsense, I am glad that I still have my foreskin, it is great to masturbate with it. With the cleanliness I have no problems, because I wash the glans (glans) with retracted foreskin, twice a day and after use (masturbation, sex).

But the Frenulum Praeputii remove (frenulectomy) I can only recommend the benefits are:

1. The foreskin can be pulled further backwards, thus a larger stroke during masturbation is possible and the foreskin is more mobile.

2. The penis looks better, because the foreskin can be pulled back almost without creases.

3. The penis can be kept much better clean.

I completely removed the frenulum myself with three interventions. But every urologist does that too.

Male genitals come in great variety just like female genitals. If your situation was improved by excising highly sensitive tissue I’m glad for you, but most men would surely be disappointed with such a result. In the event the skin doesn’t roll back far enough, a non-amputative slice to the frenulum (frenotomy) can give relief.

There is a general idea that certain cultures adopted circumcision in order to stave off the spread of STIs prior to the prophylactic options available in modern times. In those times, having all males without a foreskin was the way to reduce the infectious disease spread, and the best way to get this done was during natal life, and to do it to all men. These days it is not necessary as there are other options. imo the only indication for circumcision in todays day and age are for conditions like phimosis, preputial adhesions, or inflammatory disease in the area, and even then as a final option after other therapy options have been exhausted. There is also a theory about the increase in the risk of contracting a UTI in the uncircumcised population.

On a different note, in the country i live in circumcision isn’t common. I had a nasty experience when I was a young teenager where my girlfriend at the time told her mates that I have a ‘weird looking dick’ (tbh, she wasn’t wrong - but not because of my foreskin) and one of those friends she told ended up telling me and that ruined my self esteem. Turns out that girl had just never seen a foreskin before (the only dick she had seen before that was in porn). If you search for ‘uncut’ on some porn sites you may be able to find some videos of (American) women who give their opinions on the matter. It seems most of them also find it to look ‘weird’, probably the same women who would also scream bloody murder about female genital mutilation, but are all on board when dudes are getting theirs cut.

A couple of years ago I was thinking of getting cut, thankful now that I didn’t!

Sources:
‘Save the Foreskin’ - https://www.ncb i.nlm.nih.gov/p … 1676363/?page=1
increased in HIV-1 susceptible cell populations in male foreskin - https://www.sci encedirect.com/ … 002944010642472
‘Circumcision reduces heterosexual HIV-1 acquisition in men by at least 60%’ - The biology of how circumcision reduces HIV susceptibility: broader implications for the prevention field | AIDS Research and Therapy | Full Text

The bacteria that accumulate in your mouth are probably more harmful than those that accumulate in the foreskin… I’ll still continue to clean both twice a day though! However, I don’t recommend flossing the foreskin

Circumcision of a minor without a valid medical reason has never been legal in the USA.

It’s always been an explicitly illegal practice, which is why most surgeons have always refused to perform it on a child without a medical reason.

The only reason SWAT teams don’t drop down on hospitals performing the surgeries is because of how medical malpractice is prosecuted in the USA, through the court system.

Until law enforcement receives an arrest warrant or there is a violation of a cease and desist order, a doctor can continue to cut off whatever they want in an operating theater.

I was told the average settlement for circumcision of a minor without consent is between 150k and 2 million USD and it is usually not necessary to take the case to court since the physicians doing this to children are aware it is medical malpractice. The doctor does not need to be currently practicing medicine or have the funds if they operated with malpractice insurance. If the doctor is deceased you can still sue their estate, the hospital, and whatever firm was stupid enough to insure them in the first place. This shouldn’t be taken as legal advice, I’m just casually discussing what I understand about it.

If you parents opted for the surgery to take place due to advice or false medical information from an organization or individual, they could possibly held responsible for damages in court also.

When I read things like that I am truly glad I was not born the USA. How utterly ridiculous.

This may make you feel better about having been “cut”;

Does Circumcision Reduce Men’s Sexual Sensitivity? | Psychology Today Canada

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Circumcised and have no memory of it. It functions just fine. No regrets. No resentment. No bitterness toward anyone. No inconvenience.

Better? No.

They cite that "The two best reports met the gold standard of research, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trials, both in southern Africa, where circumcision has become an extremely cost-effective approach to controlling AIDS."

Except that neither study measured anything. They were just surveys, done on men for whom circumcision was an important cultural coming-of-age ritual. All the self-selected men CHOSE to get circumcised for free (half had not yet been cut). Hardly the unbiased random placebo-controlled trial the article claims (placebo-controlled would mean the men they cut didn’t know they had been cut. No study of circumcision and sex will ever be placebo-controlled or double-blinded).

And in one of the studies, the men left intact actually reported HIGHER satisfaction, but because both the cut and the intact reported satisfaction was above 99% the study authors reported that circumcision caused no statistically significant degradation. Understand that these authors have an interest in perpetuating circumcision as a cure for AIDS because that is what they make their living doing. The 99% satisfaction report means only that they crafted a survey that was not at all discerning of anything relevant (sexual satisfaction surveys typically yield satisfaction figures in the range 50% - 75%). AND the men that were cut had only been cut for a short time, but we know the degradation that comes from lacking a foreskin is progressive through the years. Shortly after being cut a man will be extra ticklish during straight intercourse because the corona scrapes at the vaginal walls, so this new novel sexual sensation might seem like a fair trade-off for the loss of the foreskin, until the glans dulls and numbs with years of exposure.

My guess is that the studies were designed and reported to mask the downsides of circumcision to ensure the grant money for cutting all of Africa keeps flowing.

If the vagina is sufficiently lubricated, I don’t feel much of anything other than a slippery sensation. I am not especially thin so maybe I just excite the ladies too much 😉.

That feeling of “tightness” that is so prized by guys is something that I have only experienced by way of rear entry, which has been very rare indeed.

I had a frenulum breve that made wearing condoms very uncomfortable, and the urologist I saw offered a “frenuloplasty”, but I opted out for “frenulum tying” after I heard about it on tp.
It seemed much simpler and less invasive than the frenuloplasty that involved severing the frenulum, making a slit in the skin of the shaft behind it, and stitching the frenulum farther down.
Basically, you pierce the frenulum a couple of millimeters behind with a surgical needle and thread, and then tie the thread in a tight knot, which cuts off circulation. After a few of days, the tissue separates, and the frenulum is 2x the distance you tied off longer.

I don’t regret doing it because I really enjoy how free my foreskin is to move back and forth, and it has made cleaning even easier because there are no longer creases in the foreskin on either side of the frenulum when the foreskin is pulled back.

But, I would be lying if I said there wasn’t a slight loss of sensitivity/sensation on the underside of my glans where the frenulum used to be.

The actual frenulum which has now atrophied to a small flap coming out of the foreskin (barely noticeable unless you’re looking for it) is still sensitive, but is is in a new location farther down the shaft when the foreskin is in a retracted position.

I am very glad I had the frenulum breve corrected, but if I was doing it over, I might have tried harder to stretch the frenulum to correct the breve, rather than surgical means of correction which inevitably sever nerves. Or at least gave it a more serious try, because try I did. For years. I actually corrected phismosis and foreskin adhesion around the coronal ridge myself as a kid by stretching and basically playing with my foreskin.

As far as the OP, despite dealing with phismosis, adhesions, and a frenulum breve, I would never trade my foreskin for a lack thereof, unless there was a very pressing medical need. I love the sensations in it.
My favorite thing *ever* and I apologize I don’t want to seem like I’m gloating to people who aren’t able to have this experience because of choices others have made for them; is the feeling of my foreskin clearing the coronal ridge of the glans. Combined with the temperature difference the glans experiences simultaneously when exposed, it is heaven. The thought of not being able to experience that makes me profoundly sad.
On the other hand, I also enjoy the feeling of my exposed glans gliding back and forth inside a vagina, and I can simply achieve that by holding my foreskin back at the base of my penis with one hand.
As far as cleanliness, my wife has told me from the first time she gave me head that I’m the cleanest smelling and tasting guy she has ever been with, and this is here in the US. I was her first uncut guy.

Find a good ph neutral gentle body wash, pull back your foreskin in the shower, lather, since, repeat a second time (where the gentle part comes in).

When you urinate, get a tissue or a bit of toilet paper, and always pull the foreskin all the way back before you urinate, and dab the last couple of droplets with the tissue before you pull your foreskin forward.
I also keep waterwipes around at home for even better cleaning after urination.

You’ll be cleaner and better smelling than most circumcised guys.

And???

And it would be way too soon to assess. Give it 5 years to appreciate the deadening of the glans and surviving foreskin.