Circumcision status same as father's?

All I can say is that I am glad you are cut my love.

Mashie

Now they are but I had an adult circ. father was cut as an infant. So was my son (who was cut before me).

Yes for me, same as my dad, but at birth for me, and as adult for him.

Yes for me, same as my dad, but at birth for me, and as adult for him.

Do you know if your father had a medical problem with his foreskin that caused him to get circumcised or was it done just because he preferred a circumcised penis?

Yes both uncut

Both intact, as is my brother. In fact I'm not aware of any members of my family being circumcised. As far as I am aware I am teh only one who has ever had an issue with a foreskin that would not retract fully.

I just realized that I, having started this thread, did not answer the question. My father is uncircumcised and I had a neonatal circ. We never discussed the reasoning behind my being circumcised but I suspect my father made the call.

Exam doc, yes, father had a medical problem with his foreskin that caused him to get circumcised

The same, uncut. Before I started school my mother made sure I knew I might see boys who looked different and explained "circumcised" to me. She also said that after I was born the doctor asked if she wanted me cut and she replied emphatically "You're not cutting anything off my baby". Whereupon he told her she would have to retract my foreskin every time she bathed me to wash under it and showed her what to do. She did do that and showed all my older girl cousins how to do it too when they came to visit. When I was a baby it seems that bathing the baby was a ritual that had to be carried out when ever visitors showed up and my father took home movies of those events so I have proof that the girl cousins were all showed how to peel my dick. Being knowledgeable of all this and how I felt about not cutting it never occurred to me that my wife would answer "YES" to the question when our son was born so I was shocked when I saw his denuded glans. When I mentioned that her reply was shut up I did it because I wanted to and it's not up for discussion. So #2 got the same cut. Since that I have not been allowed to contribute anything to their upbringing except for food, clothing and housing.

Being knowledgeable of all this and how I felt about not cutting it never occurred to me that my wife would answer "YES" to the question when our son was born so I was shocked when I saw his denuded glans. When I mentioned that her reply was shut up I did it because I wanted to and it's not up for discussion. So #2 got the same cut. Since that I have not been allowed to contribute anything to their upbringing except for food, clothing and housing.

I feel badly for you that your wife did not discuss circumcision for your two sons with you and respect your input in the decision. I suspect a lot of women have strong feelings about circumcision but this is more than opinion.

I really don't know how she felt about circumcision because years later after years of her refusing to touch my penis during sex or any other time I offered to get cut if that was why she wouldn't touch me. She said no. I think she likes the fact that I have a foreskin because when I tried having sex with my foreskin held back so I could see what it felt like having my bare glans rubbing in both directions she did NOT like that. So the question of why she did that to our boys is still unanswered.

I feel badly for you that your wife did not discuss circumcision for your two sons with you and respect your input in the decision. I suspect a lot of women have strong feelings about circumcision but this is more than opinion.

It can work both ways, with husbands also not respecting a wife's wishes in not circumcising. My parents were like this, still arguing and bringing up both my uncut and my brother's cut condition literally until my mother's dying year (among many many other issues naturally). It was one of those things that she couldn't get over, my father going behind her back to make sure my brother was cut over her protests.

Thankfully I am uncut. I'm glad that in the Netherlands, this is, and never has been, standard procedure.

I see circumcision without a clear medical need and / or consent of the person it's done to as mutilation, and in case it's done during an early age, downright child abuse. Male and female circumcision alike.

It should be banned and made punishable by law, period.

It should be banned and made punishable by law, period.

Every now and then on FaceBook there are threads that ask questions like: 'what is now allowed, that 50 years from now, will most likely be against the law?'

Of course you get all kinds of answers, but it struck me that quite a few answers are: (infant) circumcision. Meaning that many people think that as a procedure, infant circumcision is most likely on its way to becoming a socially unacceptable phenomenon ...

Both my dad and I were both uncircumcised. When I was born, a minor health issue that prohibited me being circumcised at that time. My pediatrician only recommended circumcision for medical reasons. He dismissed the parents request if only because of appearance or their dad was circumcised .

Yes, my dad and me are both circumcised. I think that they were even trying to sell it with some variant of that crap - "you don't want him to start worrying if he sees that his penis looks different from his dad's and his peers', so let us hack parts off for no really legitimate reason whatsoever".

I do kind of like the look, but then again I've been used to it for, well, ever.

My husband is cut but my kids are not. I saw no logical reason to lop off a perfectly good piece of their body, one that evolution felt was worth keeping. If they don’t like it, they can have it removed later. I’d rather it be their choice than something done to them that they can’t undo later.

We are both cut.

I only saw my father's penis once when we stood on opposite sides of the WC when I was about 12. He had a foreskin with a long overhang. At that time I too was uncircumcised but I had it done as an adult.

My stepson is intact (as is his 6 year-old son who has expressed an interest in circumcision and wears his foreskin pulled back).

At that time I too was uncircumcised but I had it done as an adult.

My stepson is intact (as is his 6 year-old son who has expressed an interest in circumcision and wears his foreskin pulled back).

Are you pleased with being circumcised?

Do you have any idea how a 6 year old became interested in circumcision?

I was circumcised primarily for boarding school, my father was circumcised in the army

My father was born at home in 1930 ... obviously, uncircumcised. I was born in 1959 in a hospital ... circumcised!

I am uncut. I did not know my dad's status until he turned 90 y/o when I provided his health care. I was not surprised to see that he also was uncut like me. I was born in 1950 when everyone else was getting cut. Thanks dad for keeping me intact.

English born 1953, left uncut, found out from mother that my father was circumcised when discussing why some boys cocks look different to mine.actually never saw my father naked till I was a teen and we shared a change room at a swimming centre.

I was circumcised at age 49 here in Sydney Australia for purely cosmetic / sexual reasons

My father was born and raised in Mexico. When I was born in 1983 here in the midwest, he got mad that I was circumcised. He said to my Mom that it made me, "to American." I will say, I am glad that I am circumcised.

I was born in Belgium while my father was away in Korea for almost 2 years. When he came back he was apparently incensed that I hadn't been circumcised. It remained an issue even until I got married and my parents still argued about it, bringing it up as recrimination against each other till they were in their 80's.

All that contention to spite, I am ever so happy to have remained uncut.

Agracier: I'm surprised that your father was still bringing up the issue as you were married, since this probably established that you were fully capable sexually without any particular infection or so despite being intact.

My husband is cut but my kids are not. I saw no logical reason to lop off a perfectly good piece of their body, one that evolution felt was worth keeping. If they don’t like it, they can have it removed later. I’d rather it be their choice than something done to them that they can’t undo later.

I guess I agree with this. I was circumcised as an infant and I think it is more sanitary and have no regrets it was done. Having been born in mid 50's I think that it was pretty standard back then. I rarely saw one in the gym that wasn't. My only reservation about not doing it is that I'll bet it is a lot more painful to have done as a young adult. Can you say Ouchie!

Agracier: I'm surprised that your father was still bringing up the issue as you were married,

It was some weeks before getting married - to the same girl I had been with for 4 years already. He was nothing if not steadfast in his obsession ...

He is cut, but I am uncut... Not sure the reason?