Discussion with parents

My stepdad brought another reason for having the operation. He said that the moist environment around in the glans in uncircumcised males facilitated bacterial growth and resulted in frequent infections. In his mind, circumcision was necessary to allow the exposed glans to become dry and therefore free from bacterial infections.

My American father told me the same basic story, but in less polite terms quite a number of times, even a week before I was to get married to my gf whom he knew I had been fornicating/intercoursing with for 5 years with nary an infection at all. None in fact.

For good measure he added that the ultimate result would be amputation because the infections would become uncurable.

I could never figure out if he truly believed all of that or if he was trying to scare me into circumcision. And I didn't know if I should have blown a gasket or started rolling over the floor laughing myself silly.

In any case, his predictions from half a century ago never came out.