Growing trend to get circumcised

As you know I had to be circumcised because of a tight foreskin, but generally in the UK it's not the norm.

However, I've heard that there's a growing trend for girlfriends/wifes to pursuade their men that it's the best thing and to have it done. Has anyone done this for their other half?

I've even come across one lady who had her labia reduced as she felt embarrassed by them naked.

I didn't elect to become circumcised, but I do prefer it now...

I don't think anyone should have be circumcised because of embarrassment. I feel like the foreskin is a perfectly fine addition to a man's body and if it's already there, why bother to remove it?

I've had partners that are circumcised and one that wasn't, and I have no preference whatsoever. I think if men decide to do it, it should be for a reason other than being embarrassed.

I have had boyfriends that are circumcised and ones that arent. I prefer circumcised, but I would never suggest that it be done if it hadnt been done when they were born... Ow.

I am not circumcised and see no reason to have elective surgery to change what is natural. It is true that a man's foreskin can harbor some bad things like hpv, but if he keeps himself clean there is no worry.A woman's vagina can also harbor some really bad things if she doesn't take proper measures, so there you have it.

There is something quite lovely about loving your man and nibbling his foreskin..... uncircumcised for me..... 😉

Now on the subject of that, as a student nurse i came accross a man in day surgery that i was told to wake up and give hime some tea and toast. (yep, that was the extent of my nursing skills on that placement) well, when i went to get him up, he pointed to the floor, covered in blood and said, hmmmm, i think im bleeding,

i asked him where from and he just lifted his T shirt and showed me a dressing on his tummy, i looked,and couldnt see where he was bleeding from until he dropped his pants and told me that he had just been circumcised and that the doctors had taped his penis to his abdomen to apply pressure and stop the bleeding! well, i nearly died of embarrassment, his penis was HUGE!, i just made my excuses "ive got to go get the Sister" and ran out! my god, what an initiation into adult circumcision. This man was hung like the proverbial donkey! 😁

I think circumcision is totally unnecessary unless there are compelling medical reasons.

Here in the UK I think around 6% of men are circumcised mainly for religious reasons, but in the US it became a hygiene fad years ago and I think around 60% have been done over there. Of course it has become big business over there and the health providers push it for all they can.

If the man washes regulary with the foreskin retracted its not a problem or health issue at all.

In addition as a man with a foreskin I have the choice of masturbating with or without it, and I can tell you which is most pleasurable!

Leave it natural and normal, its how a man should be.

Kind regards

Dr Philip.

I like many children born in the USA was circumcised as a child. However I was circumcised at approximately 4 years of age when they also performed a T&A. We had my identical twin boys circumcised shortly after birth. I've often wondered what it would be like to have a foreskin!

I'm uncircumcised and would never consider having it done.

I was cut at birth so it's impossible for me to compare. I don't think I even know any one who isn't and I've never had the opportunity to be with a man who wasn't cut.

As far as women modifying their labia, I've always found "fins", as Tiffany Granath on Playboy Radio refers to hers, to be erotic and sexy as compared to just a vertical slit. They just add another dimension and I notice that some naked women sites feature them. Unless medically necessary, give me original equipment instead of after market all the time. The only body mods I like are well done tattoos and hair removal.

My husband had it done because of tight skin. All I can say is that he was well proportioned before the op but for some reason he is noticeably bigger now!

We have no idea why this is, all I can think is that the tight skin was decreasing blood flow?

Dr Bob

The area just under the penis head is the frenulum prepuci or the point where the foreskin (the prepuce) was attached before circumcision. It is just below the little 'v' formed by the corona or the ridge which borders the head.

It is the main nerve centre for the penis, exceeding the sensitivity of the head or the shaft. Often, simple rubbing of this area is enough to provoke orgasm.

Removal of the foreskin in circumcision is, as has been said, sometimes a religious issue and sometimes a medical necessity. I am not going to get into the issue of the rights or wrongs of elective circumcision.

One significant benefit that I have noted from circumcision is that the exposed head is less ultra sensitive than that shiny area exposed by pulling back the foreskin of an uncut man. Thus, it seems, circumcised men are less prone to premature ejaculation. perhaps there needs to be a study on this. I base my statement on examining many men, both cut and uncut.

For my part I can barely remember being circumcised. I guess I was about 4 when Dr Spencer and his brother, also a doctor arrived at the house. Without any ceremony, explanation or by your leave I was placed naked on our scrubbed kitchen table, a cotton gauze mask put over my face and a substance I now recognise as ether, poured on it.

I knew nothing till I awoke with a sore bandaged penis but I was mighty embarrassed when a week later I had to go and display the handiwork to the doctor and have the single stitch out.

At 71 I guess I'm reasonably qualified to attest that the experience did me no harm and that I must have gained many hours of wonderful sex by not being so trigger happy.

I generally like not being circumsized; however, it was "used" against me growing up. Our doctor and my mom were very concerned about my uncicumsized penis as i began to enter puberty and it was frequently examined. To me, having someone else retract my foreskin was like being made naked for the second time: first, when I had to take my clothes off and then, the second time when they slowly revealed the naked head of my penis. It was like a second stripping and really embarassed me. As an adult, I like having the foreskin.

I love the look of the circumcised penis, especially if there is a brown scar around the penile shaft from either the GOMCO or Mogen clamp.

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Dr Bob

For my part I can barely remember being circumcised. I guess I was about 4 when Dr Spencer and his brother, also a doctor arrived at the house. Without any ceremony, explanation or by your leave I was placed naked on our scrubbed kitchen table, a cotton gauze mask put over my face and a substance I now recognise as ether, poured on it.

I knew nothing till I awoke with a sore bandaged penis [/quote]

I believe you ether is what made this a tolerable and trauma free experience.

not so when you feel every bit.

I agree! I believe I was totally under because of the T&A procedure being preformed at the same time!

I was circumcised at birth and have never been happy about it. There are no health benefits associated with it if you keep your penis clean (I do). The main reason that people started doing it was a faith-based one. However, the practice is not associated with my faith.

I don't think parents should have parts of their children's bodies cut off or removed unless their is a compelling medical reason for it. If the child wants to have something cut off when he or she grows up, fine. Otherwise, leave it alone.

I find it especially horrifying when you consider what a critical role the penis plays in a man's life; not just biologically, but all of the cultural/relationship/sexual aspects of human life that are related to the penis.

It's not a huge deal that I lose sleep about at night, but it does not seem to me to be the sort of thing that should be done to someone without first getting their permission.

I was circumcised at birth, for no other reason than it was standard practice at the time.

Another thing to remember is that often neonatal circumcision is performed without anesthesia, since neonatal anesthesia is hard and dangerous. Studies have shown that this can be an extremely traumatic experience (nah, really?) and can contribute to issues later.

That is not true, circumcision does not prevent HPV. HPV is contageous, circumcised or not.

Circumcision helps in hygene but one can maintain hygene without being circumcised.

Dr. B.

I would like people who base their belief that circumcision is not traumatic for anyone on their own experience to consider the experience of my nephew with Sensory Processing Disorder, which leaves him with a heightened sense of pain, sound and many other issues. He was a few weeks old when they had him cut (apparently there was a reason other than aesthetics as to why is was deemed necessary) and it was extremely traumatic and for years they had trouble even washing his penis in the bath because he still associated fear with the area and perhaps there was sustained sensitivity--not sure.

Anyway, to cut someone's organ without a good reason (for those of you who must such as with the tight foreskin, etc., surgery for a medical problem? That's what it's for!) other than that it may or may not be more hygienic (there's no scientific basis for this belief) or that they may feel different from other boys or their father or that women think it's gross or whatever is bizarre. Most of the rest of the world has given up this practice and the US should follow. However, doctors don't want to fight parents who still insist on this barbaric surgery and parents give in to peer pressure. There's a fun episode of that show that the magic duo Penn and Teller host about this topic that's somewhat entertaining.

As for women who find a man more attractive who was forcibly disfigured at birth, they need to grow up and think a little more deeply about what exactly surgery on an infant entails: no pain killers, wide awake during surgery for god's sake. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to look down on men who were circumcised as infants, but I'm hoping they'll be man enough to leave their own children alone.

I am concerned about the attitude of those who would condemn parents who allow their boys to be circumsised.

Do these people consider that such parents deliberately arrange to have their children 'assaulted' or do they fail to recognise that the parents do things with the best of intentions or at the behest of their physicians?

Would it for instance be OK if the parents of circumsised boys criticise the parents of uncircumsised boys for exposing their children to the unspecified bad effects of being uncut?

I submit that whatever a parent decides - if the decision is made with the best of intentions - NO ONE has a right to criticise!

We were pressured to have my son cut. My husband was cut as a baby and while he wonders what it would feel like if he weren't there are no effects that I know of.

The doctor felt that my son would feel out of place if he saw dad cut and he had all that extra skin.

We decided that was BS and the "why am I different subject" never came up. It was a bit of a pain over the years to make sure it stayed clean and was regularly pulled back, but no more complicated then explaining to the girls how to wipe themselves properly after going to the toilet and not even close to handling menstruation! LOL

Emma_play, bravo to you for using your own mind when the doctor pressured you with such a superficial reason.

BigK, I take issue with your stance that if a parent has good intentions no one has the right to criticize. Are you also a proponent of so-called "female circumcision" because the parents have good intentions for their daughters? Many countries have banned this practice for very good reason. I'm okay with a few people getting their feelings hurt in the course of changing society's view of an unnecessary practice of infant surgery--it's surgery, not ear piercing. Who's standing up for the baby with "good-intentioned" parents and who is going to force a change in the American medical field who is too afraid to take a position in opposition like most other countries against this fad? And, yes, it's a fad if it's not for religious purposes. It's for aesthetics, no matter what anyone says. It's a doctor's job to inform parents of what is in the best interest of the child/patient and advocate for that child.

Bethgirl - I'm fairly certain that I worded my comment a bit ambiguously and no, of course I don't agree with female genital mutilation or indeed male circumcision for purely religious reasons.

I said - quote - 'Do these people consider that such parents deliberately arrange to have their children 'assaulted' or do they fail to recognise that the parents do things with the best of intentions or at the behest of their physicians'?

I think if the word 'or' (7 from the end) was removed, so that the (part) quote is '- with the best of intentions at the behest of their physicians' - it might mean more like I intended it to mean.

And of course we must recognise that there are valid medical reasons for circumcision such as balinitis, phimosis or partially attached foreskin, though apart from the latter, it is unlikely that they will afflict a newborn.

In my own case I was circumcised at the age of 5 because apparently I had a tight foreskin. My parents were advised by the family doctor and based their decision on his advice.

All that being said I apologise for offending you and no doubt others. I just wanted to try to have a little balance in the discussion.

And btw - thanks for agreeing with me in another thread, just 5 minutes later. Just goes to illustrate the fairness of contributors

I was cut when I was born and when my son was born we had him circumcised also.

I was trimmed when I was born. I have found that as my weight increased, the foreskin came back.

Hi, I was circumcised when I was about 7 or so after the school nurse examined me and couldn't retract my skin. Not sure why we were examined as I don't think it was standard practice, I can still remember it now.

Out of about 70-80 lads in my year I was one of about three who were cut, this was early 80s UK. I felt really shy about being so different, I even tried to restore when I was in my early 20s but stopped, i am ok with it now, like someone said, easier to clean.

I think this is where i get my interest in medical exams, being examined by a female checking my foreskin at an early age.

I am uncircumcised , i find that the tip of my penis is sensitive and i cum early when having sex and tried many ways to try not to cum early but with no real success and i have been 😳 told that when u are circumcised u do not cum early . does anyone know if this is true?

I am uncut but when I have sex sometimes it hurts like crazy and the underside of my foreskin gets realy inflamed and red....almost cut. Does anybody else have this?

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i am uncircumcised , i find that the tip of my penis is sensitive and i cum early when having sex and tried many ways to try not to cum early but with no real success and i have been 😳 told that when u are circumcised u do not cum early . does anyone know if this is true?

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This is completely untrue. Premature ejaculators cross all religious, socio-economic, circumcised and uncircumcised lines.

My mom had cervical cancer in 1967. They said it was because my father was uncircumcised. She's 86, so it didn't kill her, but both my sons were circumcised because of the link to cervical cancer. I was too. Can't remember being traumatized, but I sure love medical play.