Speak Out: Should Circumcisions Be Stopped?
Image credit: circmovie Youtube page
The tip of one’s dick — and whether it has a foreskin or not — is always a touchy subject. It’s gotten such a prominent place in the lives of gay men that some of them even base their decision on who to sleep with on whether the foreskin is there or not.
Choosing not to sleep with someone circumcised, however, is an entirely different thing from totally advocating against circumcision itself. The new documentary, American Circumcision, argues against infant circumcision, and calls on the public to let the men of America decide whether they should undergo the surgery or not.
Watch the trailer for the documentary below:
There’s even a website for “intactivists”, who are working towards ending routine circumcision. On the site, some of the reasons these intactivists give against circumcision include the assertion that there is no medical reason for “routine” circumcision of baby boys and that the foreskin provides protection and sexual pleasure.
On the other side of the argument are medical professionals who say that getting circumcised comes with health benefits. The Mayo Clinic website, for instance, says that circumcision makes the penis easier to clean and decreases the risk of urinary tract infections, penile cancer, and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.
The question on whether circumcisions should be stopped or not is certainly a division one, and we want to hear what you Adam4Adam readers think. Do you agree that should be something that men get to decide later on in their lives? Or do you think there’s no harm in infant circumcision? If you recently got circumcised, is there really a huge difference when it comes to sensitivity? If you’ve been circumcised since you were a child, do you wish for your foreskin back? Share your thoughts and stories with us in the comments section below.
Keep the practice, done as an adult is very painful, just another money maker for doctors. Babies don’t get erections, therefore they heal fast. Men are lazy foreskin is easy to clean in a shower, not in a tub or at a sink. Drying under the foreskin is more important , bacteria love to grow in dark,damp and warm places.
You are wrong about circumcision preventing HIV and STDs. European countries that don’t circumcise have lower rates of HIV and STDs then the United States has. The so-called voluntary medical male circumcision projects in Africa are backfiring. Circumcised men in many of those countries now have higher rates of HIV than uncircumcised man because they think they can have sex without a condom. And they endanger their partners both male and female when they don’t wear condoms which makes the situation even worse. In any case so-called voluntary medical male circumcision is one of the most egregious examples of cultural imperialism that the United States has ever embarked on. It is absolutely shameful and wrong.
Gee, Adrian, ya think maybe different cultures have different attitudes towards sex, personal hygiene, and superstitions? I can’t believe you even brought up what Africans do. And Dean didn’t even mention HIV and STDs yet you tell him he’s wrong about it? Like head cheese much? Go ahead and admit it – you just wanted to slam the USA and this was an opportunity, right?
I am slamming bad science and cultural imperialism. That transcends slamming the United States. But if United States engages in bad science and cultural imperialism, it needs to be slammed. And what about my body belongs to me do you not understand?
Damn, Dude. Relax. You act like the gubmint is coming to git yer foreskin.
Also, try to develop an understanding of correlation, causation, confounding factors, randomization, and controlling for variables the next time you try to science everybody.
they did a few studies in African villages. Half of the volunteer men were circumcised in places where it usually is not done. After a year, those that were circumcised were 2/3 less likely to have HIV. So, it works for heterosexual men in a high prevalence HIV network. The lower rates for other std s are also a fact. obviously that’s not the only issue in the decision, but facts are facts. even in the US where facts have become “negotiable” lately.
While I have no physical preference either way. As a guy who very much enjoys giving oral I will say cut us much better for me. It’s a cleanliness thing.
Whenever I expose a cut penis to put in my mouth, I have a much greater confidence in the penis being clean . Like 98 percent of the time there are no weird smells, or lint, or pieces of hair, or the dreaded dick cheese.
Where as of say 50 percent of the time when I pull an uncut penis out, it is a nasty mess. Pulling the foreskin back is generally a moment of truth for me. And uncut dicks are the biggest reason I have not enjoyed a sexual encounter.
That being said, a nice clean, well taken care of uncut dick can be tons of fun.
But there is more to it than just cleanliness. I have played with uncut dick that was clean, but the foreskin was so tight that you couldn’t expose the head of a penis. Or it creates a choke point on the penis itself.
I for one am circumcised at birth and I love my dick. Circumsisions a preformed not because it looks good or performs better, but because foreskin can and will create very unclean circumstances in a hurry.
I don’t see anything wrong with a mother or father choosing to do it at birth. Its alot more painfully and risky to do the older you get.
I’m with you, I prefer circumcised, I love giving oral and when I meet a guy and go home with or take him back tp my place and I pull his cock out and it’s uncut sometimes I won’t go down on him, I think cut cocks look nicer
Not me, I love uncut cocks. I just make sure they’re clean before they go in me.
I know this is a gay sex-related site focused on gay sex issues, but the author here completely ignores a huge issue in even bringing up such a discussion/debate: For us Jews, circumcision is a way of life. In a ceremony known as a “briss,” newborns are the focal point of a very important religious gathering in which the parents and a close relative are directly involved along with what’s known as a mohel, who’s accredited at performing the circumcision. It’s a celebratory occasion, which involves the full extended family and friends, a meal, toasting with wine, etc. (BTW – it was mocked hilariously in a memorable “Seinfeld” episode, which was conceived by two Jews, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David – hey, we Jews are good at making fun of ourselves.) I’d stop short of calling this post’s subject anti-semitic, but the site should be a little more sensitive to this.
That all said, I can chime in about the sex issue here, which for me in bed has nothing to do with my religious beliefs: Personally, I’m turned off by uncut dicks. Stuff gets inside, the skin slides all over – just not my cup o’ tea. So when I do my adam4adam cruising, I generally don’t approach anyone who’s uncut. That’s of course just my personal preference.
For some perverse reason, ‘uncut’ is the new ‘norm’. This is the dumbfounding of America,,,that ‘kink’ should take precedence over hygiene. A ‘skinned’ penis does, indeed, bring health benefits…such as cleanliness and the less chance of harboring disease.
What is slowly being allowed to happen is that…as we become a more ignorant society, at large, the immediacy is replacing the long-term. Senior males are absolutely, positively more susceptible to urinary track infections because as they age, they do not pull-back their foreskin while showering, or CNA’s in either the hospitals or nursing homes, will not attend to such details in such a manner.
When what hangs between the legs usurps what lies between the ears, becomes a ‘harbinger’ to pure ignorance as was/is the continuing of ‘unsafe’ sex or ‘raw’ sex.
We remain our own worst enemies!
I hate to tell you this but “uncut” has been the norm for most of mankind’s existence. None of us would be h./ere if not for hundreds (thousands?) of years of uncut penises.
Foreskin is part of our bodies and it has been there for a purpose. Why some activist complain and try to punish African countries that mutilate little girls vaginas for religious reasons? Well snipping a part of a male anatomy when he can’t decide to keep it or not is mutilation also if not sexual abuse. Myself being uncircumcised I can tell you how well feels having sex or even just masturbating. If a baby is cut off and he decides he wanted to be complete when growing up well he is fucked up, but if he decides to be cut up at a later age, well that is easy to fix. 😉
I love the argument that it feels better. Uou say from experience that it feels better, yet you’ve never been circumsozed, thus you have absolutely no idea what sex feels like with a circumcised dick.
I find the most uncut guys are too sensitive and generally van only last about half the time as a cut guy.
Further more, there are a lot of body parts we have as men that we dont need anymore. Sure, at one point in evolution we did need them, but no longer. Foreskin is one of these. It was necessary before we were clothes and had access to soaps and regular cleanliness.
Now, it’s nothing but a disgusting mess. As I said above, I have never come across a cut dick that was as dirty as an uncut one.
Calling it mutilation is a bit over the top. I know a local radio show co host here in Boston mass who was uncut, and decided to get cut in hos 50’s. He still sings praises to how much better everything is now that hes cut. And he was one who used to advocate being uncut. Hos wife likes it better, he said it felt better, he had less health issues with it, and he even thought it looked better.
As a 50 year old gay man, I wish my parents would have left my foreskin alone and taught me the proper way to clean such uncut cock. I think an uncut cock is a beautiful thing. Although one needs to know how to keep it healthy and clean. In all my cock sucking days, I have never come across a cheesy and or dirty uncut cock. Love sucking them.
I’m with you. I wish to this day that my parents left me intact. I love sucking on a foreskin. Yes, he is more sensitive, but if you do it right sliding my tongue under his foreskin drives him WILD! I just love playing with the extra skin.
I have met two guys who circumcised at around 30 or so. they claim they don’t miss it, but I would have counselled against it if I had been with them.
So NO! to circ. Leave the boy intact!
There is ZERO excuse for having a nasty glans underneath a foreskin. I am an uncut 74 y/o. At age 10 my mother told me to start pulling back my foreskin gently, as it was adhered to the glans, a condition which, by the way, can happen to circumcised men. In two weeks I could expose the entire glans, and a month later I was happily masturbating. At every shower I pull it back, soap it well, rinse it off, and happily go on my way. No more difficult to keep clean than to use deodorant. I have never had anybody complain about it, either from a fantastic cock sucking Jewish girlfriend to equally fantastic cocksucking Jewish and Gentile fuck buddies. As I tell every potential playmate, I have all my intact original factory equipment, and I’ve never suffered rejections because of it – in fact, it is a great marketing “feature”. An uncut penis is no more difficult to keep clean than a cut one. No UTIs caused by uncleanliness either. And by the way, when you pull the skin back, uncut looks and works just as well, if not better, than cut. At a minimum no requirement for lube.
Circumcision is one of the reasons the United States has the highest infant mortality rate in the developed world. This procedure kills a hundred and twenty babies a year with infections and blood loss. And there are probably another 300 but die from shock that is attributed to other causes. And that doesn’t take into account the accident, the amputations, the hernias and the broken ear drums from screaming. My body belongs to me. European countries that don’t circumcise have lower rates of almost every sexually transmitted disease and HIV compared to the United States. On
At least most boys survive circumcision Few survive abortion and we’re ok with that?
Guess what? I am also pro-life. What about my body belongs to me do you not understand?
There are no health reasons for this. Baby girls get 10 times as many UTIs as intact baby boys. The US has the highest HIV infection rate in the developed world and is the only one that circumcises the majority of its baby boys. Baby boys should have the right to make their own decisions about body modifications. All of the medical justifications are fake.
Your argument about HIV is null and void. It doesnt matter if they are cut or uncut. That doesnt change how condoms work…. the idea that cut vs uncut is less or higher of a risk for HIV or other STDs is null and void.
The u.s. has higher rates than europe not because of the the presence or absence of foreskin, but rather because the u.s. sex culture is not having protected sex. Which has been directly linked to our opioid and other drug epidemics.
It’s not like having foreskin makes a person more likely to use proper protection. Plz stop attacking people for expressing their thoughts on this subject. And pls stop spreading false information that somehow being cut makes you more at risk for HIV and other sti.
I will continue to speak the truth on this subject. My facts are correct. Google every one of them. This is not an armchair discussion subject. Babies deserve the right to make their own choice about cosmetic procedures that have no medical value.
So my dad was circumcised as an adult in the Navy during WWII, and said it was the worst thing that happened to him. He said there was a noticeable decrease in glans sensitivity, and wanted to be certain that if he had sons, they would not be circumcised. My older brother was circumcised anyway, because the doctor just thought all boys should be and didn’t even ask. When I was born, my dad specifically told the doctors I was not to be circumcised. I am grateful to him for his intervention on my behalf. I’ll be 70 in a few months and my dick is still very sensitive and the source of great pleasure in my life.
While I appreciate that cleanliness is an issue, and an unclean dick head is an unpleasant discovery when things are getting erotically underway, that’s a hygiene courtesy issue, not the fault of the foreskin. (Do you think people who don’t brush their teeth and have stinky mouths should have their teeth removed to avoid places for bacteria to grow?) I have to play with it to keep it clean, so it’s kind of win-win.
If the foreskin is constricting the penis from full erection, that’s a medical problem that should be fixed, but I can tell you that at least in my case in normal operation, many guys I’m first meeting won’t even know I’m circumcised because it fully retracts when I’m engorged. I understand that circumcised men are at greater risk of contracting HIV and other STDs, but surely we aren’t promoting circumcision as a disease prevention method that replaces condoms, common sense or antibiotics.
Of course, I don’t know how much sensitivity I would have now if I had been circumcised and I never had a chance to talk to my brother to get his impression of whether his sensitivity had decreased, but my dad had a definite, first hand and negative experience with the practice.
You are wrong about circumcision preventing HIV and STDs. European countries that don’t circumcise have lower rates of HIV and STDs then the United States has. The so-called voluntary medical male circumcision projects in Africa are backfiring. Circumcised men in many of those countries now have higher rates of HIV than uncircumcised man because they think they can have sex without a condom. And they endanger their partners both male and female when they don’t wear condoms which makes the situation even worse. In any case so-called voluntary medical male circumcision is one of the most egregious examples of cultural imperialism that the United States has ever embarked on. It is absolutely shameful and wrong.
My point was that even if you had a lower incidence of STDs in circumcised men, circumcision would hardly be a disease avoidance mechanism. Do you have a citation to the disease rates comparing HIV transmission among circumcised and uncircumcised men? I think you raise an interesting point that the assumption that there might be some disease protection promotes very unsafe practices resulting in higher disease transmission.
Let every man remain natural. People say they dont like uncuts because of culture and stigma. Every cut and uncut man decides to clean their dick and balls, its unfortunate to segregate a group of people as unclean because of a natural trait all men are born with. From studies uncut men have more sensitivity and the foreskin actually protects the glad. You rarely hear uncut men wishing to cut their foreskin and you rarely hear men or women complaining about foreskin in societies where being uncut is the majority
Circumscision is child mutilation being forced on parents through scare tactics in the USA. If a finger was laid on an infant female, all hell would be raised but it is okay to strap a baby boy down and slice a piece of his body off? All you cut guys who responded about uncut dicks being unclean are just spewing the same nonsense we have hear over and over. I know how to keep my dick clean and I am sure the majority of intact men know too. I have never been with an uncut guy who smelled but I have been with a few cut guys who I could tell have not washed their cocks in a couple of days. Let men decide for themselves and I am sure few will. Parents, particularly mothers who don’t know what a penis feels like, should not decide this for their sons.
I am angry that you even bring this up. It is anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim campaign at its heart to stop circumcision, and it is outrageous. There are so many proven benefits to it, most of all that it limits the spread of deadly disease such as cervical cancer and AIDS, there is no rational excuse for banning it. Everyone I know who had it done by choice as an adult has been more than pleased with the results, finding increased pleasure, and their partners have certainly found their penises to be much cleaner. You can’t wash away the stink from a foreskin.
It’s not to ban all circumcisions it’s just too bad routine circumcisions, it’s not against Muslims or Jews or anybody it’s all about preserving a choice 4 a child to become an adult make that decision
99.9% of all American circumcisions are non-religious pseudo medical surgeries. The anti-Semitic spin is just wrong. Especially since Jews are over-represented in the intactivist movement. What about MY BODY BELONGS TO ME do you not understand?
hey dumbass Men dont have a cervix
Interesting comments and I can relate to all of them.
Myself and both brothers are all circumcised but I never knew the difference until I was probably 15 or so . And btw , I find uncut dick fascinating . Anything that’s different from me I seem to be interested in .
For the last few years my pops has had a number of urinary tract issues including prostate problems and last year he had to go in the hospital for the unspeakable operation , the dreaded circumcision. That’s when it occurred to me , who was responsible for the decision to have us all ‘cut’ at birth ? Momma ? Well , I won’t be asking her ..lol.
At any rate , it looks like part of pop’s problems , the UTIs have gone away . And none of my brothers or I have ever had any UTI issues .
So , is the ‘health reason’ fact or myth ? I know for sure though that I certainly would not want to have that surgery done now .
Cut, uncut … not a concern for me. If hygiene was to be an issue, I would have uncovered that fact long long before a cock went into my mouth.
I have found, however that uncut guys are more sensitive. That’s a bonus, actually. It means we slow down and take more time to get the job done.
There is no reason to force any infant into an unnecessary medical procedure. We ban female circumcision (even though some religions practice it), there is no excuse not to protect the sanctity of a newborn’s body as it was created so a religion or a cultural tradition can brand that child for life. We must protect the religious freedom of the individual such they can be free to mark themselves when they can make the choice to do so and not impose those permanent scars before they can crawl. We must also protect both sexes equally.
Further, we allow those who have been victimized with unchosen cicrumcision to advocate for more to be like themselves. We must stop the cycle of this abuse in order to protect the next generation from this unchosen, archaic scarification.
As for the hygiene issue, teach children how to clean themselves. Parents teach their kids how to wipe, how to brush their teeth and clean under their nails. We wouldn’t remove an infant’s fingernails at birth because it might get dirty under there when they are older.
Only at the point when an individual is capable of making their own decisions about their bodies should any permanent modifications be made. And made only with their consent.
Circumcisions in America were promoted by Dr. John H.Kellogg (of the corn flakes family)in the late 1800’s as a way to stop boys from masturbating. Google him and read his Wikipedia page. He was a religious nut whose money kept him in the public eye, and Medical Degree gave him a degree of authority. Prior to that anti-sex craze, only Jewish and Muslim boys were mutilated against their will, um, I mean, their parents had them circumcised according to ancient desert-dwelling religious tradition…
Call it what it is. Male genital mutiliation. There is NO reason for it. Health or Aesthetics – it is unnecessary and barbaric.
No I don’t believe it should be stopped . Being gay , I have always been attracted to a beautiful cut , hard cock . Probably 90% of the men I’ve been with in my life were cut , as myself . I’ve never wanted my foreskin back , although I do like docking with an uncut man . I have noticed I can last a lot longer than an uncut man without cumming .
I don’t have a preference of a sex partner being cut or not . I have had several uncut boyfriends in my life and none of them had hygiene issues with their penis .
As far as having it cut after birth , it’s probably the best time because the nerve endings haven’t grown to the tip of the foreskin yet . I wouldn’t recommend it being done after a few years in age though . Especially as an adult .
I do know the Jews and the Egyptians in ancient history practiced it , so there must have been a good reason . The ancient Romans and Greeks thought it was weird to cut the foreskin off a penis because it was part of a man’s ” strength ” or manhood . In fact in ancient battles , the winning warriors would find a dying enemy and jerk his cock off before killing him as this was a way in draining him of his ” strength ” . The Jews would circumcise their enemies and bring the bag of cut foreskins back to the winning leaders palace and give it to the king .
I had my son circumcised and he is very happy with his penis , as it is just like Dad’s ( in girth , length and he likes his big mushroom head like his Dad’s ) He said he has never had any complaints , only compliments . And his son is circumcised . So with me , it’s just a family tradition . No complaints here .
I am cut and prefer cut however I’d never turn away a clean uncut cock. I do think cut is generally cleaner and easier to maintain. But it’s like any hygiene/grooming thing. It has to be important to the individual to make the effort. I shave my body and get turned on by men who take the time to do the same. Some men just are plain lazy.
For the guys not liking uncut, don’t hook up with latin american men lol! Yes, these hot men you guys drool about with their accents and all of a sudden you say spanish nonsense such as ‘papi’.
I did some research before writing this and found that about 1 in 100,000 men (That’s 0.00001%) of men develop penile cancer. About 12% of all women develop breast cancer. Should we remove all girls’ breasts at birth to prevent cancer?
The penis should be left alone until the boy/man is of age to decide for himself-that includes religious groups where this is tradition, but NOT set doctrine.
The tip of my penis was damaged slightly as a result of circumcision. Still fully functional, but I pee at right angles, so usually sit to avoid peeing all over the floor. When my two boys were born, I left them intact. As mentioned above, many boys are damaged during the procedure. What happened to “Do No Harm”?
Keep it clean (have we forgotten how?), get the HPV vaccine and enjoy the extra sensation. Wish I still had mine.
Foreskin is what we were intended to have, most of the world is not circumcised, and there is no problem.
I am a circumcised gay male. I enjoy my penis that way and have always found my partners agree. I am not attracted to uncut penises. Cleanliness is certainly one issue. Sexual enjoyment is another. If I had sons I would have them circumcised and looking for a partner I much prefer a cut penis.
FOLLOW THE MONEY! No one is bringing up the primary reason circumcision continues to be routine in US: money. How many millions of dollars do doctors and hospitals make every year from circumcisions? And the hospitals make even more millions… the tissue “harvested” from the baby is not discarded… it is SOLD to companies who use it to grow skin for grafts and to produce drugs such as Interferon.
No, we want acceptance but want to force our was on everyone! How does that make any sense? Let parents decide what is best for their child.
Let the child decide what is best for him when he is old enough. His body belongs to him.
Data suggest that circumcision:
-prevents penile cancer (among 19th Century chimneysweeps);
– reduces UTI’s (equivalent to washing & voiding after sex);
– reduces HIV acquisition (among Central African long-haul truckers);
– is cleaner (than if the man cannot wash w water and occasionally, soap, either because of access to sanitary facilities, ignorance, or inability to retract the ‘skin);
-reduces STI’s (vs. men who do not or cannot regularly retract ‘skin and clean, check for new abnormalities like chancres, warts and discharge).
Like the nonsensical assertion that newborn boys do not get erections (clearly, anyone who adheres to THAT myth has never changed a newborn baby boy”s diaper…or seen an ultrasound of a male fetus w an in utero boner), or that men in nursing homes get more UTIs because they nor their caregivers properly attend to preputial hygiene (lije debility, loss of manual dexterity for personal hygiene, aging immune systems and inadequate fluud intake, not to mention chronic urinary catheters ) and almost all of the rationalizations cited in favor of routine circumcision of neonates are codified mythology based on persomal experiences and/ or biases, overly-broad and unsupported conclusions from junk science or pseudoscience taken out of context, with an unjustified degree of irrational emotion thriwn in to rsise the volume (but not the merit) of the argument.
Routine neonatal circumcision outside of a religious context was extremely rare in the US (as it continues to be in Europe and much of the rest of the world) until the 1950-60’s, when employer- sponsored health insurance plans “w colorful names” quietly began routinely covering it as part of the obstetric benefit, entirely w-o scientific basis or review. To this day, it remains the ONLY surgical procedure on a male for which an OBSTETRICIAN can be routinely credentialed, privileged and paid without anyone raising an eyebrow. If a neurosurgeon started implanting IUD’s, or your psychiatrist opened a pain management practice, this would certainly get regulatory attention. But every day, tiny baby penis tips are being skinned (frequently, the glans and prepuce have not even fully differentiated, so, yes indeed, the penis is essentially “scalped”) by medical practitioners who are not qualified to perform any other male urologic procedure. And this is considered routine, even though the patient is unable to give consent, the parents–particularly fathers–are not involved at all, or may not be provided adequate information on the risks, benefits, indications & alternatives to neonatal circumcision (the procedural permission form having been bundled with a sheef of paperwork put in front of a laboring mom2be at the time of admission, or thrust in her face to sign at 5 AM after her son was born, whether or notshe was awake or otherwise competent to tender informed consent on behalf of her newborn son). The procedure is 100% elective, non-urgent, and carries a list of expected complications that include mutilations ranging from foreshortened penile skin, to adhesions, excessive or abnormal penile scarring, to gangrene and amputation of all or part of the penis. And what is the most common reason voiced for circumcision by the parents? “So he’ll look like his father/the other boys/in the shower…”
Just because a practice may be touted on a big-name healthcare business’s website does not mean that it is based on medically-sound, critically reviewed and debated medical evidence. (Ask yourself, men: how much business would there be for urologists who revise botched circumcisions, if routine elective neonatal curcumcision had all-but disappeared 30 yrs. ago?)
Moreover, if universal HPV vaccination of primary & middle-school boys, and proper education and supervision of peripubertal boys” hygienic practices until they had learned preputial hygiene, received as much attention as the debate over foreskin amputation of newborns, then botched circumcisions & their repair, penile cancer, circumcision-related sexual dysfunction would be rarities, and female cervical cancer rates would also take a nosedive over the next 30 years.
But THAT would inject rationality and REAL Evidence-Based Medicine into this near-hysterical, visceral debate. Recent reduction in rates of neonatal circumcision in the US are not attributable to ignorance, as was claimed by one man above (entirely without a shred of evidence to back up this claim). Rather, it parallels the routine non-coverage of elective neonatal circumcision by major insurers, and the subsequent separate pricing of the procedure. When parents of a newborn boy are asked to whip out the Visa to pay for the circumcision (much as they often are to pay for the epidural for labor & delivery, since the anesthesiologist may be non-par with their insurance, even though their hospital and obstetrician are under contract), and as part of the informed consent process must watch a video (sometimes of an actual neonatal circumcision, sometimes an animation) of the procedure, as well as read before signing a surgical conset form just like that for any other elective surgical procedure, when they are NOT in pain, stressed, medicated, exhausted… THEN routine becomes not-so-much, and little boys leave the hospital with the penile protection they were born with.
I am a doc.
I have a Masters in Pubic Health w emphasis on Heath Care Financing.
I was gifted w daughters (well, untill puberty & PMS hit…then it felt like less of a gift…but eventually even that got better), not sons.
I am circumcised, as were most of my middle class white peers. My father was uncut, as were most men of his (“The Greatest”) generation. From the first moments of my wife’s first pregnancy, I discussed the pros & cons, limited science and flawed conclusions around neonatal circumcision, and let her know that unilateral consent to medically-unnecessary genital modification of our son, if we had one, would be an irreparable breach of trust. Luckily, I never had to fall on my sword on that point.
If as many new fathers were more fully- & properly-informed, and had some skin in the game, it wouldn’t take insurance companies to alter the pernicious practice that they propagated forty years ago in the first place.
I was circumcised as an infant, and have little to no feeling in the glans as a result.
My dad was uncircumcised, so not sure why I was, other than it was just the thing to do in the 60’s.
Let guys make up their own minds as adults. It’s not a difficult thing to teach young boys to clean their foreskin properly.
Circumcision of infant boys should DEFINITELY be banned! Aside from the risk of complications including mutilation or disfigurement, just comparing the glans of an uncut vs. a cut one, the uncut is moist, shiny and healthy looking. Being cut myself, in my decades of experience, the moist, shiny healthy looking heads seem more sensitive to my tongue. Besides, there’s nothing more beautiful than a fully erect uncut penis! It’s wrong to risk even one baby boy’s enjoyment of his penis from a botched circumcision!
Circumcision should be a choice
The video is pretty clear- the authors don’t care for the practice.
However, there are dozens of public health reasons to circumcise newborn boys, a quick internet search will turn up the dozens of valid health reasons that seem to be trivialized in the documentary.
Parents do have to make choices, to have your baby in the hospital or at home, to give your kid vaccines, to send them to school or teach them at home; plenty of hard decisions to make. Make them for emotional reasons, or religious reasons, or base your decisions on evidence-based medicine, you are the parents, you should decide. I’m not sure this should be a drama.
If you love the smell of hood cheese , sure end circumcision.
I was circumcised when a teenager. Very uncomfortable and embarrassing. The big problem with late circumcisions as opposed to infant circumcision is that when you are an infant, all your skin is very sensitive and as a result clothing is made and handled to address this fact. Not to mention that healing is much faster and the situation is part of caring for the infant. As a teenage boy, being very active, no one took into consideration that the head of my penis after being uncircumcised for 16 years was more susceptible to injury and possible infection. Long story short, I did have injury which lead to another operation. Everything eventually worked out with only some discoloration scares from past operations which were minor considering the mental angst and embarrassment I had as a teenager. Today I am doing quite well, however, no young man should have to experience what I went through.
I certainly don’t like the way they look. I met a bi-man on this very site, while living in Mpls., from the time I opened the door, this; I’m assuming Anglo-dude, stepped inside my door and that smell!
He had just come from work (tie-dress-shirt and slacks) yet he smelled to high heaven, then he opened his fly and it even got worse! “Man, you have got to get the hell up outta here smelling like that,” he wasn’t there more than two minutes, I literally, shoved his funky-rank ass out the damn door.
I mentioned Anglo, because a Latin man would, NEVER, allow himself to smell like that, being here, in So., Florida now, I’ve met a few and they tend to be uncut, usually.
Circumcision should be mandatory. Straight or gay. Worldwide. Period. If you have a prepuce, you have a 60 percent ( SIXTY PERCENT ) additional chance of passing on ANY std. Hear that again….60 percent. NO THANK YOU. And if you think your going to massage this, check out NIH.gov. Fact of the matter is, a whole lot of you got the wool pulled over your eyes.
Male circumcision is no different than a clitorectomy. It is mutilation period
I have been diagnosed with Peyronies syndrome and my penis has accordianed and curved. This has caused my cock to look uncircumcised. I thought this was a normal aging process and have since learned it’s not. The thing I first noticed was the odor, I’m thinking oh great “old man smell”, well it’s bacteria accummulating in the folds of my new “foreskin” and no matter how much soap and water I use it recurs daily from left over dribble urinating. And it ain’t a good smell. I also get like a rash/chaffing around the ring of the glans. Foreskin harbors all the nasties that keep a guy from being clean and hygenic. If I were to ever have my own son or give advice I’d say get it cut, the advantages of cut exceed whatever uncut offers.
The non-consensual mutilation of infant boys’ genitals must end. At least as a purely cosmetic procedure, as was the case with me. The only reason ANY infant should go through that is if they are jewish or muslim, and even then it is iffy because now we wear garments that actually keep sand out.
Read up on a company called Foregen. There is hope for those of us whose foreskins were forcibly stolen from us at birth. As I understand it, clinical trials of the procedure are only a few years down the road. I certainly hope to reap the benefits of this company’s research very soon.
AS an uncut man I truly enjoy my hooded penis. Keeping it clean is not a problem and there are many guys who prefer an uncut guy. What do we cut off a part of our body that is supposed to be there ? The only reason circumscion was proposed was to stop masturbation but that didn’t work. Today, it is a very lucrative business without regard for the 10,000 nerve endings that are amputated. This is male mutilation at its best.
Don’t be deceived by the poor and inaccurate reasons given to chop off this valuable part of human sexuality. The penis is easy to keep clean, hence the cleanliness issue is dead. Condoms were made to prevent STD’s, hence the HIV issue is dead. Let’s use some common sense here and fight to ban this stupid act and allow our boys to enjoy a natural penis and all its glorious benefits.
No one wants to see your snuffaluffagus trunk cock. Keep it trimmed up nice and tight!!!
At 70, my reaction to uncut dick is purely visceral. I find it totally unappealing. I realize that there are many men who prefer uncut but my issue is mostly hygienic and I guess that’s just my predilection. I think circumcisions should be available and strongly considered, both for religious and health reasons. I am circumcised and I have not lost any sensation as a result. It should be available for parents who want it and personally, I encourage it
I am outraged that my body was altered, even mutilated, against my will. In addition to to making medical professionals money (they are not unbiased on this topic), there is absolutely no regard to my reduce my sexual pleasure, possibly even motivating some puritanical anti-sex Americans to promote this modern but barbaric procedure. We should call it for what it is, male genital mutilation.
I’ve been circumcised since an infant, and while I’ve never felt at a loss nor had a desire to be uncircumcised I wouldn’t choose to circumcise my child if I were to have one. I don’t think it’s a decision that should be made by someone else, even withstanding the fact that it’s both irreversible and unnecessary.
As I read some of his comments were that was an uncircumcised -uncut penis
there’s Genuinely nothing wrong with being uncut or uncircumcised – they started doing that during the world wars esp moreso because of genuine cleanliness/ hygienic reasons moreso for the military men
People are so misguided about it Esp here in the US
All ya have to have to do is pull back and scrub and keep clean by drying it
It truly is not a big deal
people have this ridiculous uneducated attitude here in America about them
ridiculous
I’m have a very dear friend that I’ve known for years and has this absolute disgust for foreskin so be it he likes guys uncut . Hell we all have some preferences
But the fact matter is is we are all born with one it just happens to be in America they have taken this position to do circumcisions
& the rest the world in general
……in most cases doesn’t
There are people that have it done in different parts of the world & so be it , But most European most Asian most Middle Eastern or most Australian most African most most most of the worlds Men are generally uncut
I don’t know statistically and I could be wrong there might be more circumcised but over the course of years it’s only been since the wars that involve the US military men as circumcision come into play more so
but there’s nothing wrong with Uncut I find it extremely sexy to see a man how we are made and born genuinely
it’s ridiculous to make it out to be so disgusting and whatever else
it’s about hygiene, It’s no different then a woman cleaning her tits underneath them or all of us humans wiping your butt and keeping things clean and hygienic .
I actually wish I still had mine!
What a lot of people don’t realize for one thing in their disgust for it ….
if you’re an uncut – it’s more sensitive especially sexually there’s a lot more nerve endings in this foreskin and At the way most men are God wouldn’t you think that guys would bbefor that
as as boys are such horndogs
– the fact that matter being so ridiculous when most guys were uncut for years until the wars involving US men it’s a case of a guy just pulling back the hood and cleaning
Jesus get over yourselves! At the way most men are God wouldn’t you think that before that as funny as boys are
mutilating babies is just plain obscene and sickening. it’s abominable, and any “society” that practices such abominations is deeply sick and psychopathic (as murica so clearly is). this became the “norm” in murica because of religious fanatics, and their lunacy and not for any other “reason”. they “believed” it would “control” the “sin” of masturbation. just more backward religious lunacy, in a backward lunatic “society”. they try and say “oh the baby won’t remember the pain so it’s ok”, just look at some footage of them doing this abomination to a baby and talk about how compassionate and xristian our sick “society” is. you’ve never seen such suffering or heard such screams, they often go catatonic or pass out from it and you’re trying to say it’s “ok”. anyone who thinks this is “ok” needs to go into therapy or be on some psychiatric meds as you are clearly psychopaths.
Wikipedia? Really? What a bafoon you are.
Religious reasons are good enough for me. Too bad I didn’t see the cost being a additional reason, cowardly bunch! Stop allowing women to kill the unborn then perhaps I might consider
so called adult men worried about being cut, give me a break, poor fragile little things.
Go ahead and wait until you are an adult and get it down! Soooooooooo fucking painful I didn’t think I could stand it!!!!!! Wish they had done it when I was an infant.
I think circumcision is a barbaric practice, it can only rival the ones in Africa where they mutilate clitoris in women, whatever reasons you may have don’t weigh enough to the macabre practice of mutilating a child, that foreskin is meant to be there period, and I just feel so terribly sorry for all of you circumcised individuals you will never know what if feels to have what you have savagely taken from you, shame on your parents!
You don’t like uncut cock? Fine, we all have different tastes. But being cut should still be your personal choice, not a decision made others while you are a baby.
i believe in circumcision. Got Circumcised ten years ago. of my own choice. There is no smell and when my doctor examined me he noticed i had chronic foreskin irritiantions. Its the best thing i ever did. Sex is way better, no more infections or smells. Notice these anti circumcision nuts want to eradicate it completely. They dont want you to have a choice. They are even trying to get it not approved by health insurance. The only thing i regret was not having it done when i was in my teens. Adult circumcision is not as painful as all these experts would let you to beileve. Mine didnt hurt at all. it a was done under local anesthetic. The only ones it may hurt are those who have never retracted their foreskin. Now thats a recipe for Balanits and penile cancer. If my foreskin were to regrow, i would cut it off all over again. Circumcision is a wise decision. Interesting thought. Women can get an abortion anytime they want but men are not allowed to get circumcised if they want unless they are adults and have to pay big time for it.
Wow, what a spirited debate! As far as being cut or uncut, I wish I had never been circumcised, but that wasn’t my choice. What IS my choice is regrowing it. And I’m doing just that with a CATII device. I’m about 2/3 the way through the process and I love having my foreskin back! It is no more difficult to wash and dry it than not having it! My sex partners love it as well, and as far as my own preference, I would rather be sucking an uncut cock than a cut cock. I think it’s just a psychological thing. I like running my tongue under a foreskin.
I am cut but I like foreskin so much I streached mine out so I look uncut
However. I don’t have a frenulum. When I first streached it out it felt like I was always wearing a condom. I think it should be left for the boy to decide at any age above 6 years old. I think it should be allowed for the parents to decide for religious reasons only.
I am by no means a prize, but I would pass up Ryan Gosling if he were circumcised and wanted to have sex with me. The sight of those is ghastly, especially in porn when a person is doing blow jobs and the moment of ejaculation (and after). This negative outlook is not an individual attack and mainly derived by the fact that I am circumcised, which often means it’s difficult to consider others point of view. I find people fun and unique for the fact we have differences in religion, race or ethnicity; however, it’s somewhat unfortunately that not everyone will ever see eye to eye towards ANY debate in this world. Like the guy who kneels for the National Anthem, do YOU man of free will. I love Hispanic guys and I have to sacrifice the slim chance of meeting one that fits MY needs. I don’t hookup and whether or not I am a blow job type of guy, also influences my pickiness with the type of dick I or others want (especially entering a long-term relationship) . But since I am being honest and exercising my own free will and feelings, I give Z-E-R-O fucks if a size queen is butt hurt over my personal views. Additionally, I am only being selfish for my reason of circumcision, yet if I were in a monogamous relationship then it would eventually not matter to me at all to be honest. But people have free will and should do what they want. There are many reasons why people want it and don’t want it so the right thing to do is drop my opinion and accept other’s.
correction- I would pass up Ryan Gosling if he were UNCIRCUMCISED. It is not attractive nor appealing. My own opinion if that is allowed:-/ all uptight uncuts please save your hate mail…