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.