Circumcised as adult

Any urologist will perform circumcisions in adults and they frequently do. It's not the totally benign painless procedure that is is in infants and there is some post op pain and a short down time afterwards. I've seen several in my practice and all were happy with the results. Most were happy to be able to clean themselves better and several who had phimosis were very relieved. Remember that the tissue is analogous to vulvar tissue and heals extremely quickly and well. I know I'm going to collect some heat for this.

No heat from me liquidsky, it isn't bad, but it's SO easy for infants. I had no downtime afterwards tho, I was back at work the same day (in retrospect, I'd have been a lot more comfortable taking the rest of the day off). I firmly believe all male infants should be circumcised at birth for health and cleanliness.

exam doc, I went to a clinic in London that specialises in it.

50% of the nerve endings of the penis are in the foreskin? I don't even think so. C'mon Amethyst I think you're the best but that's a gross misconception.

@liquidsky said

50% of the nerve endings of the penis are in the foreskin? I don't even think so. C'mon Amethyst I think you're the best but that's a gross misconception.

I think the important point in her argument is that the ability to feel pleasure in the foreskin is significant, and is often greatly underrated. I don't think this should be so ignored.

Seriously, things must adjust after circumcision because if I were more sensitive I'd never be able to please my partners which is not the case.

Hi Suzy, here my story:

* My circumcision was done when I was 45 years old, in january 2012, so now almost five years ago.

* To be honest, I was totally against circumcision before, but a year earlier my son was suffering from phimosis so it had to be done with him. I looked up all the information I could about it, especially medical papers about the effect on adult age. It became clear to me that there is actually no difference in the sexual enjoyment between circumcised or not. Since my wife was a Filipina, I learned also everything about how the procedure is being done in the Philippines. We talked already before about it when we were still busy internet dating and her opinion was it didn't made a difference for her. Her answer kinda surprised me since in the Philippines you are not seen as being a real man when you are not circumcised. Anyway, my interest was triggered, especially after reading a fantasy story of a man whose wife arranged him a special birthday gift. He came home after work and his wife blindfolded him and then the doorbell rang, some female friends came in and they circumcised him. Sadly my procedure didn't go that way, hahaha. Anyway, since females experience pain while giving birth because of us, men, I wanted to have my share of pain and undergo the procedure without anesthesia. Unfortunately that isn't possible here in Belgium. Since I enjoyed already many years to be complete it was time for something else. I was not afraid for the outcome because I knew my sweetheart would always be there for me.

* Before the procedure I had a meeting with the same urogolyst that circumcised my son. He said there is no medical reason to circumcise you but I will do it for you. The procedure was done here at the local hospital. It was scheduled just after lunchtime. So me and my wife picked up my son from school and drove to the hospital. After the necessary paperworks it was time to put on a gown and was told a nurse will come to shave me. Since I knew I had to be shaved I gave the honour to my wife that morning. So the nurse who came to shave me was faster gone than that she came. Then they drove me to the pre op room. There they asked if I needed some medicine to calm down a bit. I said no need, because I was very much looking forward to it. Then they transferred me from the hospital bed to the operating table. I was really amazed to notice how much peole are walking around in an operating room, especially this was my first operation ever. Then they strapped my arm onto an armwrest and installed me a needle with the necessary tubes on it. Then the anesthesist came in and told me he was going to give me something to relax a bit, my protest against it sadly didn't help. Then he injected a painkiller somewhere above my penis, where the pubic bone is. Then the doc came in and after some formal questions he started the job. Pretty soon he stopped because he heard me moaning. Probably because I was so much in the mood for it. He asked if I still felt it when he was cutting and I said no it's no problem, but again no protest possible and he ordered the anesthesist to put me into a short sleep, very sadly. Especially because I really wanted to experience the procedure. After tweny minutes I woke up and they were already busy wrapping up my poor little thing. Then up to the recovery room, for a half hour. It seemed to be ages, because I was so over excited to see my wife and son again in the room. When they saw me they thought that I had gone crazy, because I was so excited and happy. The healing went very smooth, only experienced a bit bleeding at the beginning, and sometimes a very mild itching, which is very normal in any wound healing. Never experienced pain or discomfort.

* I like it very much to be circumcised, now five years ago, though I wished the doc removed a little bit more skin so it would be tighter. But he did a very beautiful job and my sweetheart don't want a re-cut, so probably it's not going to happen anymore. About the difference for the so-called lost feelings, well, I didn't really lose much feelings. That was different when my frenulum was removed, then I lost more feeling, but in fact it was good, because when it's too sensitive you finish too soon during intercourse. As of now, I don't have any problems with intercourse, in fact, I love it, as I always did! So my personal point of all these people complaining and wishing they weren't circumcised as a baby; Just stop complaining and enjoy it, it is all in the mind, if you stop telling yourself how pity you are then you can really enjoy. Be positive, cut or uncut, it is always fun ! For me I find it much more horny, and now I don't have to worry about that disturbing skin slipping over the head again, retracting it again, etc, pfff....

* My partner is a bit cool with her reactions and emotions but I am very sure she's very happy with the new look, especially because the job has been done so very good.

Tony

* How old were you when you got circumcised

I was 34 but then I also had a revision later.

* Why did you decide to get circumcised

I had a huge foreskin which caused me grief at school. And it was also damaged and made sex unpleasant.

* How did the procedure go

I was expecting it to be really unpleasant but it was easy. I had a slight problem with erections in my sleep that caused a very small break in the wound but apart from that it was amazingly easy. Far easier in fact than I thought it would be. And then I had a revision.

* How do you like being circumcised

The question really should be..If I had not had problems would I have bothered..?

Its hard to compare or make an unbiased comment given I had issues but I have no regrets and yes I like it.

Its certainly easier without a foreskin being in the tropics.

The reality is having a foreskin is great and yet being circumcised is great.

It really is a very personal journey for anyone faced with problems or simply wanting to be circed.

For me I like it but thats me.

As I said I have no regrets.

* What was your partner's reaction to your "new look"

She had no idea until I dropped my pants to show her a neat little bandage around my penis.

I was 14, after a bad bike wreck, broken back and the foreskin grew onto the catheter

And a couple of virginity's were lost

* How old were you when you got circumcised

I was mid 20's.

* Why did you decide to get circumcised

I zipped the end of my foreskin up in my jeans zipper. Yes - underwear is strongly recommended - especially after a hard night of tequila.

* How did the procedure go

It was semi emergency. The doctor recommended it, saying if he repaired the foreskin the scar could make it hard to retract. He did a 'functional job' but wasn't concerned about appearance. I went and had a revision when i was 30 to neaten things up a bit.

* How do you like being circumcised

Best decision I ever made. I never once experienced loss of pleasure. Sensation is a little different but certainly no less (and for my money, better). I wish my parents had made the decision for me though - it would have been a much less involved procedure with better cosmetic outcome. One thing my surgeon (the 2nd one who did my revision) was very clear about. Very very rarely do adult circ's wind up looking as seamless and clean as infant ones. Any surgery in childhood tends to leave less evidence. I like my penis but it's obvious something has been removed.

* What was your partner's reaction to your "new look"

Much prefers me without foreskin. She says it feels better.

- I was 16 when I got cut

- I did it because I had bad phimosis an had for years. I'd tried creams and stretching it, but nothing really worked well enough to fix it totally, so I saw a urologist who recommended it. I wouldn't say I wanted it, but I just wanted a dick I could enjoy when it was hard.

- The procedure went fine. I was awake for it, so I watched pretty much the whole thing, mostly cause I found it interesting. Whatever the shot me up with kept the pain away, but I could still feel what they were doing (although who knows, maybe that was all in my head). Healing was the hard part, with not being able to use it for a while.

- I don't mind being cut. The doc was able to make it high and tight like is wanted, although he completely removed my frenulum, which kind of sucks. I love using it now though, so better this way I think.

- Didn't have a gf at the time, but every one since has never had complaints about it

That's interesting. What year was that and where did you have it done? I know a guy who wants to get circumcised.

- I was 16 when I got cut

- I did it because I had bad phimosis an had for years. I'd tried creams and stretching it, but nothing really worked well enough to fix it totally, so I saw a urologist who recommended it.

- The procedure went fine. I was awake for it, so I watched pretty much the whole thing The doc was able to make it high and tight

That's interesting. What year was that and where did you have it done? I know a guy who wants to get circumcised.

It was 4 years ago. Can't remember the name of the place, but some urologist in SoCal. I think most urologists are qualified to do circumcisions, though I could be way wrong about that.

* How old were you when you got circumcised? 57

* Why did you decide to get circumcised? I had wanted it for years as I prefer the look on myself and others: it's more erotic to my mind.I had kept my foreskin permanently retracted for many years.

* How did the procedure go? No problems at all. Day procedure under local anaesthetic at a specalist clinic.

* How do you like being circumcised? Loving it. I wish I'd not waited so long, but various things always got in the way. I could wish it was cut a little tighter.

* What was your partner's reaction to your "new look"? n/a, but male friends very supportive.

* How old were you when you got circumcised - 36

* Why did you decide to get circumcised - long term issues with length and thickness of foreskin, tightness - small tears making tighter/paraphimotic, short frenelum, hygiene issues, recurrent infections in urethra, plus concerns about std/hiv and just personal preference

* How did the procedure go - took 45 mins, slightly longer but i had a lot of skin and frenelum was tight, healed well in about 6wks, took 8 months for swelling to completely settle

* How do you like being circumcised - best decision ever, wish i had it done sooner, wish it was a bit tighter when soft and wish frenelum had been completely removed.

* What was your partner's reaction to your "new look" - very positive, made bj's enjoyable for him

Circumcised 2 months before my 50th birthday for purely cosmetic / sexual reasons.

I was born in London in 1953 and like most British boys born after 1949 I left uncut although my mother told me that my parents had requested I be circumcised the NHS docs refused saying there was no valid reason.

From a young age I started to wear my foreskin retracted, I preferred the look and feel of having my Glans exposed.

I would always ask girls I dated what they thought about circumcision and those girls who had experience with both types of penis universally said they preferred that circumcised kind especially when it came to cleanliness and oral sex and visually found the circumcised penis more sexually appealing to the eye. I have to agree, even as a boy I thought the cocks of the small percentage of boys who were circumcised looked far bettter.

In my early 20's I came out to live in Australia and with such wonderfull weather the beach was the place to be. It didn't take long to realise that just about every Aussie guy was circumcised, if you saw an uncut penis then it was a immigrant like myself. It was also obvious that most Aussie girls had never seen a foreskin.

Over the following years I continued to think about circumcision and with that mid-life crisis approaching of realising your soon going to be 50 I decided it was time to get circumcised. I spent probably a year searching out for a good doctor I felt comfortable with and was eventually circumcised on a Friday afternoon using a local anaesthetic, totally painless, done in 25 minutes and back at work on Monday morning.

First carefull masturbation 7 days later, first sexual intercourse 3 weeks later.

Best decision I have ever made for myself, love the look and feel of my new penis and love showing it off hahaha.

Really wish my parents had tried harder to have me done as a baby and would strongly recommend parents have their boys done as babies.

I am about to get circumcised after my wife has been pressing me to get cut for her, she loves a tight and taut erection and especially the exposed glans when soft.

I plan to have a high and tight cut to retain as much of my inner foreskin as possible so I keep the sensation of the skin without the overhang and having read about the potential loss of sensitivity.

To test out the sensitivity issue I have been keeping my foreskin pulled back for 10 months now and find the rubbing sensation in my pants a pleasurable experience. Even when I tape the skin fully back when soft the dry rubbing does not cause problems so I guess I am ready as I ever will be and even looking forward to losing my foreskin.

I am sure some men find a loss of sensation but I hope my experience is good.

Cut Aussie states :

1) "It didn't take long to realize just about EVERY Aussie guy was circumcised"

2) "It was also obvious that most Aussie girls had never seen a foreskin"

Utter rubbish !!! Please explain how you came to assume this as fact. .You are generalizing based upon those you might socialize with

Please provide links to factual (verifiable) data to support what you have now stated as fact across several topics

If you cannot provide satisfactory evidence to the contrary then please desist from making unsubstantiated claims to that effect in your forum posts

I would also question this statement -

I would always ask girls I dated what they thought about circumcision and those girls who had experience with both types of penis universally said they preferred that circumcised kind especially when it came to cleanliness and oral sex and visually found the circumcised penis more sexually appealing to the eye.

Opinion among British women is divided on the matter. Those who have had experience of both do not universally prefer circumcised men for any of the reasons you have suggested. I know this because my wife tells me (and she has stated so in posts) that her own friends have differing views. Some prefer the uncircumcised, others prefer circumcised, and there are some of them with no preference either way. I can be confident that this particular group isn't unrepresentative - I've heard other discussions among British women along the same lines.

If British women had preferred circumcised men almost universally (having experienced both) as you suggested, I imagine circumcision rates in the UK would have mirrored the USA quite closely. But they didn't.

I would also question this statement -Opinion among British women is divided on the matter. Those who have had experience of both do not universally prefer circumcised men for any of the reasons you have suggested. I know this because my wife tells me (and she has stated so in posts) that her own friends have differing views. Some prefer the uncircumcised, others prefer circumcised, and there are some of them with no preference either way.

Yeah. We have agreed that we will not talk about penises being circumcised or not because it had caused arguments about which my friends think is best. More girls I know think men with foreskins are nicer than circumcised but some of them do not. A few of them like circumcised more. We were not going to agree so it is best if we just do not talk about it.

My husband is not circumcised and I love his foreskin. I really like to play with it! I have not been with other men but I do not think I would like a circumcised man as much.

My take is that most people prefer what they're used to. I grew up in suburban NYC in the 60s and 70s. All my friends were circumcised because that's the way it was. All our girlfriends only knew circumcised guys. An intact guy was a curiosity.

This, IMO, is nurture, not nature.

Regarding the last remarks: my wife, before meeting me, had only seen circumcised penises (she's American) and thus initially considered my intact penis as a curiosity; my mother-in-law asked why we did not have our son cut because "that's the normal thing to do" (...in the US in her generation !), etc. My own mother, when seeing a little boy's circumcised penis for the first time, remarked "it looks much cleaner" but she's a hygiene/cleanliness freak. So it depends on culture and personal obsessions.

* How old were you when you got circumcised

30

* Why did you decide to get circumcised

For hygiene purposes and foreskin was still tight despite active sex life.

* How did the procedure go

Fine but i did get a bit of an infection a few days later which was quite painful.

* How do you like being circumcised

I love it. So glad it was doone

* What was your partner's reaction to your "new look"

Very happy with my new look.

I'm talking here to people who were circumcised at an age where they could remember have it done (not as babies).

Were you surprised by the result? If she decision for surgery was not taken by you, had you been explained what the surgery entailed?

One French Zity member, who suffers from phimosis, told me that now his wife pressures him to get circumcised because it would solve the phimosis problem and besides would be cleaner. She has told her mother about his predicament, and she agrees on the solution!

Poor man. There is something about females pressuring or ordering males to get that surgery...

She has told her mother about his predicament, and she agrees on the solution!

Poor man. There is something about females pressuring or ordering males to get that surgery...

Wives and mothers-in-law ganging up on a husband. How awful a predicament to be in.

I was circumcised when I was 43, wife took my foreskin and made two lampshades, slippers and a shower cap

I was circumcised when I was 43, wife took my foreskin and made two lampshades, slippers and a shower cap

All of which fit in a sandwich bag. Rub before use.

I was circumcised when I was 43

If you are willing to tell us, why did you get circumcised and are you pleased with the outcome?

I was circumcised when I was 43, wife took my foreskin and made two lampshades, slippers and a shower cap

Making lampshades out of human skin has a very disquieting connotation to it, I really hope I don't have to explain .... shiver shiver ...

* How old were you when you got circumcised?

40

* Why did you decide to get circumcised?

I grew up in the UK in the '60s and saw my first circumcised penis in the school showers when I was 14. I was fascinated by his bare glans and began to research without much success. My first girlfriend was Korean and had never seen a foreskin before. She loved to retract it when we played doctor and would often bring up the topic of circumcision during our play medicals. She returned home to Busan a year later. I received a letter inviting me over, saying that she would fix me up with a circumcision. I replied, accepting her offer but never heard from her again. I finally met the girl I wanted to marry. She did not exactly make having a circumcision a condition of marriage but it was something I wanted so I told her to set it up with one of her friends who was a surgical nurse at a clinic in Harley Street.

* How did the procedure go?

It went very well. The first local anesthetic needle stung quite a bit but then nothing. The surgeon chatted with me about his son's football expertise and I felt totally relaxed and happy. I was bandaged and given a prescription for medium painkillers and went home. Healing was without problem and I was pleased with the neat, high scar and the tight skin.

* How do you like being circumcised?

Very much! There was a reduction in sensitivity but the quality of the sensations produced during sexual activity was enhanced.

* What was your partner's reaction to your "new look"?

At first she was nervous to look at the fresh scar. She was really pleased with the result and often told me how beautiful it looked.