Circumcision fetish

Agreed with @agracier. To me part of the fascination about circumcision is how many women put it, as a body transformation, on the same level as a girl having her ear lobes pierced (or, even, less serious). “Oh it's just some pointless skin, it's easier to clean that place if it's gone.”

In some of my short stories on this site, circumcision is discussed, but not so much the surgery in itself; rather, the pressures and reactions of the environment, especially older females.

Agreed with @agracier. To me part of the fascination about circumcision is how many women put it, as a body transformation, on the same level as a girl having her ear lobes pierced (or, even, less serious). “Oh it's just some pointless skin, it's easier to clean that place if it's gone.”

That's right, also as a possible part of imagining and role-playing, with parents or the inevitable proverbial aunt, being very firm about the decision and pre-circing examinations, all the while acting as if it were the most normal thing an adolescent boy should undergo.

And any kind of scenarios can come to mind, as a punishment for naughty behavior or treating the whole procedure and preparations like a sort of necessary rite of passage, perhaps as a pre-condition for being allowed more ‘advanced’ sexual play.

I don’t think that I’m a male circumcision fetisher, but this topic turns me on.

I’m very fascinated by many aspects of it (history, procedures, esthetism, examinations memories).

It began few years after my circumcision (6 y.o.), and due to childhood events too, as many medical exams and doctor plays. Also very curious about medical exam of uncut boys.

@Kasiade I think this particular fetish, for most people, revolves around the embarrassment and discomfort of examinations and procedures to avert phimosis, and around the humiliation and helplessness of the surgery, rather than the surgery in itself.

I completly agree you !

This is very much a fetish of mine, although my focus is mainly on the foreskin (and its possible removal) rather than on cut cocks, which I find much less interesting and attractive than intact ones.

I remember as a young boy being fascinated by the variety in appearance of the foreskins of my schoolmates, and by the fact that a few boys (and my father) had a different type of penis with a permanently bare knob at the end. With a few of my closer friends I was also able to discover the variety in shape and colour of the knob which could be uncovered by most boys, and I found that some boys were unable to pull the skin back, or could only reveal part of their knob. At that age I think it was just an extreme curiosity, rather than anything sexual, although I got erections when playing with my own penis.

The next (and undoubtedly the most important) step in the development of my fetish was at the age of 11 or 12 when my previously loose foreskin became progressively tighter until it was completely unretractable. At first I thought this might only be temporary, and as I knew that a few other boys were unable to retract it didn't worry me too much.

However, later in my teens it became clear that my foreskin was not going to loosen of its own accord. I had learned that the cure for this condition was circumcision, and the prospect of this terrified me, so I kept it to myself. I consulted medical books in libraries (this was before the internet) and found myself being aroused by the technical terms such as phimosis, paraphimosis, glans, frenulum, corona, sulcus etc. Their advice was always the same: if you can't pull back your foreskin you need to be circumcised.

My teen masturbation fantasies began to involve carrying out medical exams on all the other boys in my class, the highlight of course being a check of the foreskin for retractability and cleanliness. If necessary, force would be used to the point of pain, and boys would be sent to be circumcised if I considered the skin to be too tight or too dirty/smelly. I don't think I ever fantasised about carrying out the operation myself.

I became increasingly frustrated by my tight foreskin and eventually got the courage to undergo circumcision at the age of 31, nearly 32 years ago. My fetish has remained strong ever since.

@zarniwoop However, later in my teens it became clear that my foreskin was not going to loosen of its own accord. I had learned that the cure for this condition was circumcision,

Didn't you ever consider trying to stretch the foreskin?

When I was young, mine wasn't unretractable, but it was quite tight when I was erect. I just decided to begin stretching it on my own, which seemed to me an obvious and simple solution that didn't include any input from a doctor or medical professional.

The stretching with creams and lotions and stuff was moreover a (needless) justification for some extended masturbation and stimulation and tied in easily with concocting mental medical fantasies of the mind.

And if not stretching, why wouldn't a doctor recommend a partial circumcision? That too is an obvious solution.

@agracier Didn't you ever consider trying to stretch the foreskin?

Yes, all through my teens and twenties I kept trying to stretch the opening in my foreskin, often painfully and causing the skin to split. Then it would be too sore to continue, so I left it alone for a week or so, and it would heal up just as tight as before. I now realise that by being too aggressive I was causing scar tissue to form, making the problem worse.

I wouldn't call it a fetish but I am somewhat intrigued by the procedure itself. I'm circumcised but I often wonder what I would look like if I wasn't. Occasionally I will do somewhat of a self inspection after a shower and see if I can see a scar or telltale sign of what once was. I suppose after many years the scar, if any, has faded to natural unseen. I don't mind it though for hygiene reasons. I don't think I would like the “maintenance” of having to keep things clean down there. I have had a woman I dated ask me about circumcision details and she seemed surprised that as a male, I was clueless about the procedure.

I don't think I would like the “maintenance” of having to keep things clean down there.

There is no more maintenance required than for washing any other part of the body. Just retract the foreskin and don't get sidetracked into fiddling around with yourself.

In fact, masturbating with soap as a lubricant takes care of two jobs at once. Pristine clean afterwards and more fun than flossing.

Brushing your teeth requires more effort and time. The maintenance thing is a meme put out by far too eager circumcision adherents, who have somehow turned the question of circumcising or not into a sort of social/moral imperative.

@tomvolts I second what @agracier said. Washing one's glans while retracting the foreskin is not more work than washing a circumcised penis (which you should probably do if only for courtesy for sex partners), not more work than washing one's anus, and certainly less work than brushing teeth.

This topic turns me on from time to time, especially after chatting with guys who underwent it during puberty.

I never had phimosis or medical need for it, my foreskin has been loose since pre-puberty. But occasionally the idea of being circumcised as a teenage boy is a hot fetish. The fantasy starts with the intimate exams to determine whether required or requested, with dad watching those exams, him and Doctor talking about my penis. Maybe that's the attention and humiliation I feared then and still crave now?

I would never go through with it, and would have resisted vehemently if the situation had arisen, but am I wrong for occasionally getting aroused by the fantasy?

Would especially like to hear from guys who were cut in their teens.

@tomvolts: I don't mind it though for hygiene reasons. I don't think I would like the “maintenance” of having to keep things clean down there.

Yes, it is much easier for a male to keep his genitals clean if he is circumcised. In fact, circumcision is often performed for hygienic reasons because full exposure of the glans makes it easier to keep it clean and prevents accumulation of smegma.

One might think that it is always easy for an uncircumcised male to keep his genitals clean as long as he retracts his foreskin fully to wash around the glans daily. In reality, numerous physiological reasons, such as excessive sweating and increased activity of sebaceous glands, could prevent a male from keeping his genitals clean, and a complete removal of his foreskin might be the only option.

@madebare

In reality, numerous physiological reasons, such as excessive sweating and increased activity of sebaceous glands, could prevent a male from keeping his genitals clean, and a complete removal of his foreskin might be the only option.

I hope you don't mind if I spend my two cents … In reality, every boy is normally born with his foreskin covering his glans, and most men keep their foreskins for a whole lifetime. If genital hygiene was such a tremendous problem from an existential point of view, why didn't the foreskin degenerate over tens of thousends of years?

This might be just another objective reason why most developed countries do not perform routinal circumcision …

Agreed with @Acroposthion. Before anesthesia and improved surgical conditions made circumcision fashionable in the West, there were no indications that there was widespread problems with male genitals.

European countries where they is almost no circumcision outside of medical or religious reasons do not seem to have serious problems with male genitals (I mean, I've seen reports of boys getting balanitis in childhood, but the inconvenience was like having to dip the glans into a disinfectant for a while, that does not justify removing the foreskin preventively!). I've seen also the argument that circumcision reduces sexually transmitted diseases, but, again, Europe does not seem worse than the US in this respect.

@Acroposthion I hope you don't mind if I spend my two cents … In reality, every boy is normally born with his foreskin covering his glans, and most men keep their foreskins for a whole lifetime. If genital hygiene was such a tremendous problem from an existential point of view, why didn't the foreskin degenerate over tens of thousends of years?

An organ could still be present in a human body despite even though it lacks its functional purpose. Humans are still born with ears and tonsils despite the fact that both organs are rudimentary, and the latter is often subjected to removal. Although these organs are considered rudimentary, they are still present in humans. Full degeneration could take millions of years.

There could also be other reasons, including the limited number of geographic regions where it was practiced, percentage of males that were commonly circumcised, and the amount of the foreskin removed. It even took time to realize that the traditional Jewish brit milah was not sufficient for a male to achieve maximum benefits. In the United States, it took half a century, even longer, to make circumcision widely available, and another fifty years for the majority of the male population to be circumcised.

@madebare

It even took time to realize that the traditional Jewish brit milah was not sufficient for a male to achieve maximum benefits.

Wouldn't this operation even be much more widespread around the globe if the benefits you mention were that relevant and would objectively outperform its disadvantages?

In the United States, it took half a century, even longer, to make circumcision widely available, and another fifty years for the majority of the male population to be circumcised.

As far as I know circumcision rates in the U.S. have been decreasing for years now, if not even already for decades. So why is that if it really was that benefitial?

As far as I know circumcision rates in the U.S. have been decreasing for years now, if not even already for decades. So why is that if it really was that benefitial?

Circumcision is overwhelmingly a social and/or a religious custom.

If not for the fact that for some reason or other, lost in the mists of time, a group of people had started doing it and proclaiming it denoted a special status, circumcision would be nothing more than a medical procedure performed only for certain easily observed medical circumstances. There is simply no valid, prevalent or often occurring reason why a penis should be circumcised. To say it somewhat flippantly, circumcision is a fashion statement or else it denotes religious membership.

If not for those reasons, it would be a rarely performed procedure.

But like many traditional socio-cultural and certainly like many religious customs, when the validity or necessity is challenged or called into question, the practice is defended with vigor, outrage and made-up spurious reasons.

I am not circumcised but had a lot of genital examinations for phimosis and tight prepuce. I also know what genital surgery having two operations. Circumcision fetichism borned in me for that. Having to undergo genital examination was dreading and embarassing and the surgery was a step further having the doctor modifing permanently the anatomy of my penis.

It is a fetish for me.

I was circumcised at birth. As virtually all of my male peers were also cut, I was not aware that a part of my penis had been cut off until I found information about circumcision at age 15. After struggling for many years to accept what had been done to me, it eventually got to the point where I began to take a sexual interest in the topic. I am fascinated by both the foreskin and the circumcised penis, with the various styles, scarlines, and different guys’ experiences with having a circumcised penis. I get aroused thinking about how my penis is altered in function and sensation due to having no foreskin, and how my sex life is influenced due to having undergone this surgical procedure. This somewhat newfound “circumsexuality” of mine has served as somewhat of a coping mechanism in helping to accept myself as a circumcised man, and I’ve also found a number of other men on online spaces with similar feelings. Perhaps some on here as well?

Does any body know whether a doctor can tell, when he physically examines the penis, if it was circumcised using the forceps method or with some sort of clamp, like the Gomco clamp? What effect do the different styles have, if any? The most important thing, I would imagine, is that the frenulum should be left intact and not excised with the foreskin as this is a most sensitive spot nerves wise.

I'm sure a Dr could quite easily tell the technique possibly used but conversely I'm sure he/she wouldn't care less. It really is not that big a deal for the profession .

Does any body know whether a doctor can tell, when he physically examines the penis, if it was circumcised using the forceps method or with some sort of clamp, like the Gomco clamp? What effect do the different styles have, if any?

I have read about and watched videos of the utilization of the three commonest types of clamps used for neonatal circumcision: Gomco, Plastibell, and Mogen. I think it is possible to examine a penis circumcised with one of them and determine visually which clamps was used by focusing on the circumcision scar.

Personally it's not the surgical technique that interests me, but the final result : low/high, loose/tight, and the impact on sexual sensitivity and sensitiveness (does masturbation without lubricant hurt, etc.).

I also like to think about when a boy (circumcised in childhood or teen years) discovers the result, especially if not told in advance what to expect.

I am intact but I have been masturbating for years by dry rubbing my bare glans. I clean it well to remove any stickiness, usually using rubbing alcohol to clean it. I then pull my foreskin back tight so I can rub the whole shaft and glans. Of course this required desensitizing it to be able to touch it. Since doing the desensitizing I have never rolled the foreskin up and down because bare rubbing the glans when it's dry feels sooo good. Being able to cover it with the foreskin when I'm done maintains just the right amount of sensitivity so that rubbing it when it's bare is heaven.

So my answer is NO it doesn't hurt, it feels great.

I don't have circumcision fetish, but it's an interesting topic.

I may have spoken too hastily when I said I was not interested in the surgical technique. In fact, I'm intrigued by "Plastibell" or similar devices.

@Pecan_nutjob

Why are you intrigued by Plastibell-like devices? Is it the device or technique itself or do you like the possibility to use it in a medical play setting?

Why are you intrigued by Plastibell-like devices? Is it the device or technique itself or do you like the possibility to use it in a medical play setting?

Sadly they don't make plastibells in adult sizes. If they did, I would get one to play with. The largest size they make is 1.7CM, which is sometimes used up to ~11 years old. Any larger than that, and the string may not be strong enough to safely cut bloodflow to the skin.

I do have a set of Ross Rings in my collection, and those did come in adult sizes. They work the same way as the plastibell, but they are made of metal instead of disposable plastic. The plastibell basically completely replaced them when it came out, because it was a lot cheaper to use since you didn't have to worry about losing them.

I was cut the day I was born, and they used a 1.1CM plastibell, the smallest size they make. I know because my mom saved it in a photo album she made.

@BillyGreen Well… Circumcision intrigues me since childhood since I was under the impression that I somehow "narrowly" escaped it. I later discovered that it"s not necessarily done completely surgically but that special tools are used to speed up the process so that it only takes a few minutes! Just imagine being a parent and receiving your baby with such a device clamped on his penis. To me that's the epitome of industrialization…

@BillyGreen Well… Circumcision intrigues me since childhood since I was under the impression that I somehow "narrowly" escaped it. I later discovered that it"s not necessarily done completely surgically but that special tools are used to speed up the process so that it only takes a few minutes! Just imagine being a parent and receiving your baby with such a device clamped on his penis. To me that's the epitome of industrialization…

Plastibell circumcisions are definitely still surgical. The first steps are the same as a gomco circumcision, you have to grab the tip of the foreskin with hemostats, then use a blunt metal probe to tear the foreskin from the glans. Then you crimp and cut a dorsal slit through the foreskin, so you can open it up to fit the bell inside. Then you tie it on tight, and trim the skin back to the string with surgical scissors. Here are the instructions straight from the manufacturer: https://archive.org/details/plastibell-instructions I got them scanned in for the Internet Archive.