Explanation for circumcision

Wsjyah: How old were you? Was the surgery explained to you beforehands?

Susie said

There are hundreds of millions to billions of circumcised men in the world. If circumcision caused significant problems it would be very apparent.

Looks like Dr. Kellogg's idea kind of backfired on him, eh? 😕

I think if they had removed my foreskin when I was a preteen I would have been playing with that thing even more than I did, if that's possible. 😈

As for doing that to the girls too, based on the ones I dated at that age, they would have had the same reaction. 😜

I was not cut until i was in my 60s i had the foreskin shrink and i couldnt push it over the head .i would not do it again if i had to i dont get the same sensation i had before and now i cannot reach orgasm (any suggestions)

I was born in a muslim country, so cut at age about 9. It is a tradition here for all boys and a kind of ceremony. During my times, it was done without any local or general anesthesia, just cut with a razor.

A silly tradition !

"Interesting to compare rates in different parts of the world, I suspect UK rates will fall further.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision"

I had no idea that at between 20-29 percent of Mexican men are circumcised.

My regular physician recommended circumcision for hygienic and preventive reasons. He said that it would be much easier to wash the glans after circumcision, and foreskin would not need to be retracted when urinating. He said that the risks of bacterial infections is lower after circumcision, and that some diseases (phimosis) could even be totally prevented.

A European family who I know immigrated to the US with two sons. The boys were around 8-10 years old at the time. Their dad, who I knew, told me that before his sons were circumcised, he explained to them that it had to be done "to make their pee-pee easier to wash."

My regular physician recommended circumcision for hygienic and preventive reasons. He said that it would be much easier to wash the glans after circumcision, and foreskin would not need to be retracted when urinating. He said that the risks of bacterial infections is lower after circumcision, and that some diseases (phimosis) could even be totally prevented.

A European family who I know immigrated to the US with two sons. The boys were around 8-10 years old at the time. Their dad, who I knew, told me that before his sons were circumcised, he explained to them that it had to be done "to make their pee-pee easier to wash."

What? Is he circ'd or not? Maybe I'm just lucky, but at 67.5 I've never had any trouble washing my penis or any part of it, no phimosis, no infections, no hygienic problems, no cancer, and retracting the FS for urination, masturbation or any other reason is a) easy and b) totally irrelevant. You were saying? No circ for me, period. Thank you, Mom and Dad. ??

Eric

Dr. Dick

I was born in the Southeastern U.S. in the late 80s. Circumcision was just the norm here. Probably still is.

However when I was circumcised not much of my foreskin was removed for some reason. When I'm flaccid the vast majority of my glans is covered.

I don't hold it against my parents though. As I mentioned circumcision was just the norm here and I'm sure the doctor was probably highly recommending it as something that needed to be done for health reasons. But I'm so thankful that my parents didn't choose to have the rest of my foreskin removed. I'm sure it must have been very apparent when I was an infant that much more skin would need to be removed for my whole glans to be exposed. Thanks to that I don't have tight or painful erections and masturbation is really nice since I can just rub my foreskin over my glans.

Their dad, who I knew, told me that before his sons were circumcised, he explained to them that it had to be done "to make their pee-pee easier to wash."

It is easier to keep dirt from under your fingernails if a doctor would simply remove the fingernails. Just pull them out at birth, cauterize the (very minor) wounds and there we go. No more dirty fingernails, ever.

Similar reasoning. But does it sound reasonable?

I was done at birth with the standard explanations, Cleaner, no mechanical issue and foreskin does not get stuck. I suspect there was a “right look” element too

Religious reasons and I am glad they did. To each their own, I am not a foreskin fan. Prefer cut

Being that I am Jewish and most Jewish Boys are circumcsized at 30 days old, it was done to me as a religious right. I do not really remember much about it being done. However, I do not have any objections to it being done to me. If my wife and I had children and they were boys, I would have it done to them as well. Fact is, we did not have any children as she could not get pregnant.

Done at birth. Later explanations were cleaner, easier to care for, no infections, no foreskin getting stuck, quicker and easier to do in advance. I suspect the non stated ones were "the right look of a fully exposed head", "looks like Dad", looks like peers etc

Born in 1967, father was circumcized plus everyone else in the family circles. I think the logic was to not let me look different and possibly the slightly selfishness of easy care of a small boy who is cut.

I never encountered a real uncut penis until about 40 years later. Seeing and feeling the difference I wish I was given the choice. As a bonus my circumcision was too tight and I had it redone in my late 40s to get rid of the turkey neck and the discomfort of penis retraction (think turtle).

I was born in the late 1940's and was circumcised while still in the hospital after my birth. Circumcision was never explained to me by my parents and since all of my boy cousins and friends were also circumcised I never knew that what circumcision was until Junior High School when we were taught about it in Health class and there was 1 boy in my Gym class that wasn't circumcised and seemed to like showing off his large penis and long foreskin to the rest of us.

I never knew that what circumcision was until Junior High School when we were taught about it in Health class and there was 1 boy in my Gym class that wasn't circumcised and seemed to like showing off his large penis and long foreskin to the rest of us.

Just out of curiosity: I surmise that the uncircumcised fellow did the showing-off outside of the classroom? In private?

I ask because it sounds ambiguous as described and you never really know ... ha ha

@agracier The uncircumcised boy showed off his penis in the Boys' Change Room at the end of Gym Class after we had all come out of the shower and we had dried off and were getting dressed.

I remember our mother telling my brother that the doctor needed to fix his penis because it wasn’t working properly. She never went into much detail with him and I think he was quite surprised by the whole endeavour

I was circumcised due to phimosis. I'm unsure I knew exactly what the problem was - my mother had repeatedly tried to retract my foreskin, to no avail, but I'm unsure that I knew exactly what she would have expected if it succeeded. I sure was very surprised when I saw the result of the surgery, I guess nobody had explained to me what it involved and what I would then see.

Later I discussed the matter and my mother explained that she had decided on having me undergo surgery because she thought that otherwise I would get infections (she also added justifications why she thought it a good idea).