When you were a kid, how did you learn the difference between circumcised and non-circumcised boys?

Although I knew what the difference was from a fairly early age since I had been told about it, I was an adult before I ever saw an uncut penis either in person or in a porn magazine....

I grew up with a little brother who was circumcised, I was probably in grade 4 or 5 when I met a new friend who just moved here. After school, she would come visit and sometimes bring her little brother. One day my little brother was naked when they arrived and she noticedy brothers circumcision, she said she likes how it looks like a mushroom. I asked her doesn't her brother have the same PP. ECT...

This is so strange to read, I had very similar experiences growing up, except I was the uncircumcised boy being (unfavorably) compared to my circumcised friends. Though I was never taken to be circumcised after one of these comparisons, much to my disappointment.

Coming from country and indeed a continent where circumcision is virtually non existent it comes to me as bizarre to mutilate child this way.

Sorry, if I want to do all kind of things to my penis it is my right to do so, but unless really medically necessary no-one around me would even think of do that to their child. And even then they would try non invasive way first.

Honestly, when as an adult heard from somebody that in US it is prevalent I thought that he's trying to pull my leg. And on the personal note - being straight male I prefer look of uncircumcised penis.

At the age of 12 or 13, I discovered circumcision by reading the novel "A Bag of Marbles" and after this reading, discussing it with two friends: one was Jewish but not circumcised, the other was not Jewish but circumcised. At the time, I was not circumcised yet. I had just discovered what it was. From that moment, I always wanted to be circumcised. Now I am circumcised and I am very happy that way.

I didn't learn until I started babysitting , Which I learned that my brother and father were both circumcised by seeing some of the boys I sit for...

@Testy_Paul_a Circumcision actually very common here, from what Ive observed probably 90% of boys here have it done at birth.

Where are you from, if I may ask?

As one of the (uncommon) uncut kids of my generation and region, I didn't have many opportunities to compare with other boys, and even if/when I did, I don't have much memory of it. I do recall most/all of my peers were cut, though, and so were all the fathers that I saw in the YMCA change room after swim class.

In a very similar situation to @Amy93 story, I didn't learn the difference until I was a teenager who babysat for multiple boys in the neighborhood. I'm an only child and I rarely saw my dad naked. I saw two of my best friend's circumcised penis' when I we were young(I mentioned this in a previous post years ago) but I never saw an uncut one. UNTIL I became a babysitter who undressed the boy's I babysat for bare-bottom spankings and baths. A couple of the boys were uncut and I noticed the penis differences and put "2 and 2" together.

I remember looking through a book on caring for babies. It might have been Dr. Spock or a similar kind of book. I was probably about 10. It had a section on caring for the circumcision wound. That's when I realized that I looked like the drawing in the book, so I must be circumcised.

In sixth grade I had to do a presentation on the male sex organs. I read a few books on it and made a verbal report with diagrams. I understood the basics then.

To actually see an uncircumcised penis, my sub is circumcised and my only sexual encounter, was after I became a Mom.

Wow, asking sixth-graders to give sex-ed presentations in school feel so wrong.

It might have been Dr. Spock or a similar kind of book.

I remember my parents had two editions of Dr Spock on their shelves, interestingly the earlier one recommended circumcision as a sensible health measure, but the later edition had gone the other way - from memory the recommendation was "leave his little penis alone" or something similar. Pity my parents had both editions and not just the older one 😂

Im from the US and started High School in 1979 - thats when everyone started showering after gym class. EVERYONE was circumcised except for one kid who had moved from Europe. Even though I knew about it from sex ed and puberty books I had never seen anyone uncut. I remeber being very interested and trying to look, but not get caught!

I didn't know about being circumcision until I was an adult. Never paid attention to other boys penises in high school. I was circumcised as a baby and thought all boys were like me. I found out that my dad wasn't when he had himself circumcised at age sixty, when I visited him in the hospital he showed me his swollen balls from the surgery, they were huge! I told him I was glad they had done me when I couldn't remember.

When I was in elementary school I glanced a peek at urinals and noticed some boys had different looking penises

I went to a religious school so we learned about circumcision as a biblical practice from a fairly young age; I didn't give it much thought beyond that for a long time.

I never gave it much thought as a kid or now. I was more interested in other things. Still am.

Nothing attractive or interesting about the things. Cut or un-cut they look grose.

I also remember when me and my cousin (5 years younger) would pee in the same toilet, I used to do everything to hide my foreskin from him. He was cut as were most boys in my family, and I was a little self conscious about it at that age. From the time he was 3, I used to take him to the bathroom with me when I went pee so he could watch and learn. Before taking my pee bug out, I would quickly skin it back in my pants and he would watch me smiling, saying “big boy peepees!!!”. I thought I was pretty good about hiding my foreskin, until one time when we peed in the bushes together when he was 5 and I saw him pulling at the corona of his penis trying to cover his glans. Sometime soon after that, when I was sleeping over at his house, I decided to not hide it anymore. I decided to take my clothes off and change my underwear right in front of him; he just stared at my elephant trunk. He asked me why my peepee looked different. I explained to him that I had a foreskin and that his was cut off, and I showed him how I could skin it back to look like his. I remember us peeing together for about 2 more years, until one day he decided he didn’t want me to look.

I don't recall exactly when I learned the difference, but do remember when it first came up as a topic. I'm assuming I heard about it during the sex talks in school around 6th grade. Around this time, my two closest friends and I had seen each other nude and were aware that we were all circumcised. Somehow the other two had seen my friend's cousin (same age as us) nude and realized he was uncircumcised, commenting on his "elephant trunk". They made comments to this on occasion, and though curious, I never saw it for myself. I experienced next to no locker room nudity growing up, but figured out from my little bit that circumcised was standard for my age group and area. It wasn't until my mid 30s that I saw one uncut in person. Joining the local YMCA, with casually nude locker room, I saw a few older guys nude with elephant trunks swinging in all their glory.

I'm assuming I heard about it during the sex talks in school around 6th grade.

I didn't attend middle school in the US, but when I started high school, we had a semester-long sex education class that everyone had to attend. I think it was called "Health Issues" or something very similar.

Our school doctor taught the class, and I remember him telling us that boys were born with a flap of skin covering the end of the penis, but that the skin was always supposed to be removed shortly after birth; this was called circumcision. I also remember him telling us that if the flap of skin wasn't removed for whatever reason at birth, the doctor would usually talk to the parents about having it done as soon as possible.

Around 12 or 13. I had seen another boy at camp who was not circumcised but didn't realize that's what it was until a few years later. I had heard the term but never seen one until then and I just thought he was deformed or had something wrong until a few years later when I actually saw pictures of the difference.