Do you recall being circumcised when young ?

When your foreskin was removed, do you know if it moved or if it was very tight or stuck to the glans?

No. I have no memory of that.

I have two sons. I never even entertained the idea of circumcision for them. One time, when my younger son was five or six years old, he complained of some irritation of his penis. I took him to the pediatrician, who examined him and gently pulled back his foreskin, only far enough to expose the meatus. He applied some medical cream around the tip. He told me, “There is no need to retract the foreskin. It will loosen enough for that over time, all by itself.” I never tried to retract the foreskin of either of my boys. I don't think I've seen my son's penis since that doctor visit. He's 19 years old now.

Infant circumcision is, in nearly 100% of all cases, a completely elective surgery. I highly recommend against it. Greedy doctors have promoted the practice. If your religious faith requires it, I don't judge you, but otherwise I'd only recommend it if a competent physician advises it for a real medical condition. To my knowledge, there was no such medical reason in my case.

I don't recall being circumcised, and am super greatful for that fact.

As when it comes to pain, I'm a total wimp.

I don't like pain, I have no tolerance to it.

The only pain I can stand - is when I'm using a large diameter vibrator, dildo, or if I really want to feel stretched, a cucumber, this pain I relish, and ONLY this pain.

I was circumcised before I left the hospital, at the time of my birth. 65 now and I have never had any regrets it was done.

@Bob_Bit Circumcision under anesthesia is painless. I've read that there can be pain later, especially in adults and adolescents, due to erections while the scar has not yet healed. A cousin of mine was circumcised at 7 and he did not mention any pain.

I had a circumcision when I was around 12, together with a surgery with an incision in the inguinal area for varices of the testes. This and a hernia surgery I had as a child led to my fetish. Somehow our mother let my two younger brothers and me go through circumcision in hospital on the same day, but I was the only one who had an additional procedure done in one go with it, and who had to stay for at least a week in hospital afterwards. It was done in general anesthesia, like the other earlier surgery I had when I was a child. Remember a really bloody bandage on the penis that was changed too late afterwards, so that it was really painful. And that other incision in the inguinal (left groin) area meant that I had a lot of pain standing up and walking for some time. Not a pleasant experience at the time, but I started fantasizing about this and the earlier surgery as I hit puberty, trying to remember as clearly as possible the sights before I was put to sleep for each of the two surgeries. But somehow this developed when I had access to other material on the Internet, to a sexual fascination for big open abdominal procedures involving the internal organs although my own surgeries were much more minor.

@Pecan Nutjob: It was definitely painful afterwards for me, and there was a strange irritated feeling at least a week afterwards until it had healed enough, you've felt it when wearing trousers.

I'm circumsized and have no such memory of it. I am also an atheist, and post to several atheist messageboards. I feel like the odd one out in that community. There's a general, and deep-seeded, consensus that circumcision is child abuse. Again, I have no memory of mine, so I can't corroborate anything. I feel (maybe wrongly) that I have been saved from certain minor medical issues by being cut, and I would lean towards having my son cut if I had ever had a son, but it's not a hill I would die on.

I recall being put to sleep with some kind of gas mask, then waking up with some kind of big "doll" of bandages around my penis, then being very surprised when I saw my penis again.

Absolutely no memory of it taking place or recovery thereafter. Not, surprised since pretty sure it was done before I came home from the hospital (mid-1940's). What does surprise me is that I have very little memory of having my tonsils and adenoids taken out when I was ?. All I remember is going to a hospital and being driven in a car - but nothing more. Would have thought I'd been given an enema beforehand...

@Jacana I'm not surprised you don't recall much of your tonsil surgery. I had three surgeries as a kid and have sparse recollections.

I'm not surprised you don't recall much of your tonsil surgery. I had three surgeries as a kid and have sparse recollections.

Same here. I was surprised in my teens to hear I'd had my tonsils out when around 2 years old. Not a single memory, but I do get sort of panic attacks whenever a doctor sticks something down my throat. Something residual I guess.

I remember sitting on a table at the hospital when I was 3 because I broke a window with my forehead, and my whole 5th grade class had spring vacation ruined by the tonsil/adenoid removal.

I wasn't circumcised as a child, but I vividly remember the examination and the following recommendation to circumcise me by my pediatrician.

I was circumcised as a baby, I don't remember anything THANK GOD! 😉

@FrankieT

Why did you have to get circumcised twice?

No, it was done before I remember.

At one point in my life as a child and when I started having sexual relations yes, But my dad was always explained me well. So I managed to overcome it and get the most out of it.

I was surprised in my teens to hear I'd had my tonsils out when around 2 years old. Not a single memory, but I do get sort of panic attacks whenever a doctor sticks something down my throat. Something residual I guess.

I'm getting a bit off topic since this doesn't relate to circumcision, but I had some kind of urologic procedure done when I was about 6 or 7 (I suspect a VCUG), which I have no memories of. I vividly remember my pediatrician telling my parents to take me to a "urologist", and I remember every detail of the waiting room at the urologist's, but I have no memories from inside the exam room. I was either anesthetized or I suppressed the memories of what they did to me. But even though I can't remember, it affected me greatly. I used to get major panic attacks any time a doctor touched my genitals, or even just having to lay down on an exam table. It bothered me for reasons I didn't understand at the time. And as an adult, trying to "access" those memories stresses me out. I used to get full on panic attacks from thinking about the moments leading up to the gap in my memory, and trying to recall what happened. It's weird how our memories work.

Sorry if this is off topic. But it sounds like user agracier is similarly affected by repressed memories, and I'm guessing that others are too, so I thought this was worth posting. It's likely that this experienced contributed to my medical fetish, as I don't remember being bothered by genital exams or medical procedures in general until after this happened. Makes me wonder if circumcision has had a similar effect on people.

@Raresp Before I was circumcised, adults (doctor, mother) tried to retract my foreskin by force. I don't recall any of that, but I was later told I used to cry. And still later I felt "weird" when a woman would wash me there and pull back the remaining skin, which I attribute to some kind of repressed memory.

I was done at birth so don't remember it. Which is sort of the point of doing it then