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I'd like some of the TAM guys to give me their feelings on male circumcision. I want to add and STRESS that I am omitting religious circumsicion in the case of adult males or those adults that want to have it done. ALSO I am ommitting the operation because of medical reasons.. NOTE!! I'm not attacking anyone here.. I've just been talking about this in IC and I want some opinions on it.

1. I feel like I was born 'wrong' and had to have my foreskin removed to make me 'acceptable' to the opposite sex. It wasn't my decision and I feel mutilated for no good reason. If this was a female circumcision, they call it mutilation.. Why is it a societal accepted norm to cut our young boys without their approval. Incidently there is no real evidence for either side of the argument that says its either better to or better not too.. Both sides are pretty equal in their non-answers

2. Has anyone watched a newborn being circumcised? Its possitively BRUTAL!!. You can hear the poor kid screaming!! Why is this allowed, but there are laws condemning female circumcision..

3. If the man wants to get it done, I have no problem with that, but why are we allowing our young boys to go through a procedure that they may not have wanted? Shouldn't they have the final say over their bodies?? And if they are old enough and want to do it then let them.. But involentary circumcision is tantamount to mutilation!.

4. Does anyone's SO actually prefer a cut man over and uncut one, and why? If they prefer it, why do they feel men need to cut themselves to make others happy with their bodies.

5. Did you circumcise your son when he was an infant? and did you talk to him when he got older to see if its what HE would have done? If he says he would not have done it, how can you justify it?

My opinion about MY own circumcision is I WANT MY FORESKIN BACK!! I feel I was wronged and allowed to experience a diminished sexual experience, just for the aesthetic look. I've felt that I am not a complete man because I had someone who with all honorable and good intentions had my penis cut without my approval. I do feel resentment for being forced to live my life without a complete penis. I can't watch that video without breaking down and sobbing..


Please.. I'm not attacking.. I just want some personal input on what I feel is a traumatic event that has caused me to have a negative body image of myself.

Lon

I'm cut, my ex and I deliberated long over whether or not to circumsize our son - we had so much fear about infection, his future sexual health/relationships, medical opinions, not knowing what kind of hygienic practices to do etc...

I'm glad we didn't, though, now looking at it it doesn't make any sense why this is practiced other than religion and nihilism.

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Were you cut by choice or not.. and what do you feel about yours?

joe kidd

I was cut. I was a baby when it happened though. My son is too. Since I have not had a foreskin I have no idea how to maintain one. Didn't want him to have any problems.

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What do you feel about yours?

joe kidd

Never really thought about it. Every one I have ever seen was the same. Locker room at school and such.

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I guess me being a nudist and seeing alot of differences in men's appearance originally made me think about my own penis. I'm not going out staring at other guys wangs, but you can't help but see it when your all naked..

kag123

My husband is circumcised and we spent a lot of time researching the topic when pg with our son. We did decide to circ our son, we were both present for the procedure and it was not brutal or gory or traumatic for him. My husband is very happy with his own circ and does not desire it any other way. He obviously doesn't know what to compare it to having never felt it the other way. A few of the older men on his side of the family had to be circed as adults due to phimosis and I think that colored my husbands view when it came time to make the decision about our son. My husband prefers the circed look for himself and says he does not feel cheated when it comes to sensation loss or anything. I dunno...guess its all personal preference.
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that_girl

How would your husband know the difference? lol. We get used to what we have. No one knows what they have lost until they experience it.

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I can see the reasons here to do it, because of the family history of problems.. But why do a pre-emptive strike when there may not be a problem..

And it is most definitely brutal!

Lon

Me? I was cut as a newborn...

how do I feel about it? I don't feel like I miss out on anything, seeing flacid uncircumsized penises I guess I could understand why circumsized seems more interesting looking... though I've seen some porn with erect uncircumsized penises and they just look like they work better for some reason, atleast when the skin retracts fully yet is loose enough to move a bit.

I am completely unfamiliar with smegma, I suppose that is one thing I don't have to deal with... I've known kids who were uncircumsized that later when they are toddlers have gotten bad infections and were advised to circumsize, but now I realize there is just so much misinformation about this and the infections were probably in fact caused by improper hygiene (ie too too much washing and forcing the foreskin back resulting in tearing and tissue damage.)

that_girl

YES! People need to know how to clean a foreskin. You don't retract it or wash under it. No no no...

A flacid, uncut penis just looks like he's wearing a hood Then when it gets hard, it looks like a cut penis, but with a turtleneck. ha.

Lon

actually GD, now I think of it, I think there is one issue about being cut for me, when it's cold/damp and there is shrinkage going on it does get very uncomfortable when it "inverts" so to speak, I don't think this would be an issue for an uncircumsized penis... When everything is warm and loose I am pretty proud of what I got but when shrinkage is at play it just looks ridiculous... embarassingly so to the point where i would not be comfortable on a nude beach (and I think if I had the foreskin on it wouldn't be nearly as much of an issue).

intersting pro-foreskin website, which I actually find pretty informative

http://www.noharmm.org/advantage.htm

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I was circumcised when I was 33 years old. Don’t ask why….I can be objective here. First thing, it was that it was the most painful thing I have ever experienced at the time, especially several days later when I had an erection and it ripped the stitches off. OUCH!!!!!!!! Yes… there was blood!

Now, I am happy I had it done. It has really helped my libido and staying power. If I had a son instead of a daughter, I would of have had him circumcised as a baby. I didn’t like the locker room BS in H.S. "Hey Armadillo"