A couple explanatory drawings re circumcision

In discussions here with Americans I realized that many don't know what a "natural" penis looks like, or why/how boys may be circumcised for medical, non-religious reasons, past baby age.

Here are two drawings about later circumcisions and their medical motives :

* Possible reasons https://en.zity.biz/gallery/image/277338

* What happens https://en.zity.biz/gallery/image/277377

A more general explanation of inner/outer foreskin is here: https://en.zity.biz/gallery/image/277378

As an American born in 1947, I was in college before I first noticed an un circumsized penis. In spite of nude swim classes. That's how common trimming is in the USA, at least back then.

As an American born in 1947, I was in college before I first noticed an un circumsized penis. In spite of nude swim classes. That's how common trimming is in the USA, at least back then.

Yes, I agree. I was born in 1948 and by the mid-1950’s, I was swimming naked with all the guys at the YMCA. ALL my friends were cut. I thought being cut was “the natural” look! Then a few years later, a new kid joined us and he was “different”. I felt sorry for the kid and asked my parents if he had a deformed penis. They said “no”, his was natural and MINE —and all my other friends — were the ones who were deformed. I asked why I was deformed (circumcised) and was told it was done for hygiene reasons….

I'm Canadian born in the late 1940's but never saw an uncircumcised penis until I was in Junior High School when 1 boy in my gym class had a long floppy foreskin that he showed to the rest of us.

I was born in 1941 and uncut. Happy that I am!

Very true, many do not know the difference or even that they had surgery until they have children.

In Spain it happens the other way around, many think that you were born without a foreskin or with a very short one when you are circumcised