Genital Surgeries

@roscoe Were you using contraception before that?

@roscoe Were you using contraception before that?

@Pecan_nutjob She had tried several IUDs but they all hurt, some worse than others.

We had 2 kids and didn't want any more. Now she tells me SHE wanted more but I forced her into not having more. I've learned over the years to not believe her in anything we appear to agree on. She always takes the opposite side of whatever we decided.

An example is the time we went skinny dipping at a friend's house. There were 5 of us, she and I, him and his wife and my hairdresser. We were in his rec room having a drink when she and the hairdresser went outside. Then there was tapping on the sliding glass doors because they had locked. Standing there dripping wet and naked was my hairdresser wanting us to come down to see the pool. When I got there my wife was in the water naked and he and I quickly followed. His wife came down with a tray of drinks and was about to head back to the house so I grabbed her and stripped her and got her in the pool.

Now my wife says I made her (my wife) go skinny dipping for which she can never get forgiveness from God. So I forced her to go skinny dipping when she was already in the pool when I got there for which she and God will never forgive me.

The fun we had in the pool that night is one of the most fun nights I ever had while to her it's something she wishes to erase from memory.

@Pecan_nutjob

@obertaller "Usually the patient is also circumcised during the procedure" Why?

In my experience when a pediatric penile surgery requires general anhestesia the surgeon almost always proposes a circumcision taking advantage of this kind of anhestesia.

@Obertaller Why? I can understand for hypospasia, because the foreskin would hamper the surgery and urination (if I understand the issue correctly). But for other problems, unrelated to the foreskin?

@Pecan_nutjob

there is not strict medical reason. Medical practice does not recommend circumcision also in hypospadia. What often happens on patients with neonatal penile defects is that routine circumcision is delayed to the time of the corrective surgery.

@Obetaller I can understand that parents that postponed circumcision due to the problem corrected by surgery would want to do it at the same time. But why do it in other cases?

@Pecan_nutjob they did for a sort of consolidated medical practice for hygienic reasons not supported by any medical evidence in a better outcome of the overall procedure. It is generally proposed to parents when general anhestesia is required and if they have not specific concerns it is simply done.

@Obertaller In Switzerland specifically? I did not know they were so keen on circumcising boys there.

@Pecan_nutjob no Switzerland only, also other continental Europe countries were circumcision is lower than 10%. Where a genital issue is discovered during examination and a surgery with general anhestetic is required it is quite common. My secondary school mates were all uncut except for one whod had hypospadia surgery and one who had varicocelectomy.

@Obertaller Do you know if they knew they were going to be circumcised?

I was circumcised due to phimosis, then, a few years later, I had surgery to bring a testicle down into the scrotum! The circumcision plays a role in my psyche… painful attempts at pulling the foreskin back, a surgery that was not quite explained to me before, the surprise of the outcome… I recall my reluctance to undergo the testicle surgery given how I had felt cheated by the previous surgery down there!

I had an inflatable implant placed about 10 yr ago. Still works good.