Finding out your friends' circumcision status

Ask my friends about their circumcision status? WTF? Who cares? That's an adolescent pissing contest if I ever heard of one.

As my friends about their circumcision status? WTF? Who cares? That's an adolescent pissing contest if I ever heard of one.

Yeah @liquidsky I think you are right. It is juvenile and I think adult men would not do it. But I have heard some American women want to know if a man is circumcised before they will get into a relationship with him. I think that is wrong as well but I think they have been brainwashed to believe it is wrong for a man to still have his foreskin. I think they should read a bit more.

I would never ask the men I know socially if they were circumcised or not. I could not imagine doing so.

But yes, in the gym locker room I do sneak peaks at the guys who do not cover up and allow everybody to see them. I would have to say that I rarely see uncut guys and I think the trend from the 1950's onward was to circumcise baby boys at birth. I am not sure if that is true today but I have a feeling most still are in USA.

I got interested and read quite a bit about circumcision about 3 months ago. What I found said that American rates for circumcising babies had dropped to about 55% or so last year and been lessening since the 1980s. I think that might be an average though because different parts of America have different rates and they are not all the same.

I did this up until age 8. I'm uncircumcised, and from the time I started peeing standing up, until I was about 9, one of my favorite activities was peeing in the same toilet as my friends, I was really trying to find as many penises that looked like mine as I could. Turned out all of my friends, except 2 kids I peed with in preschool, were circumcised. After age 9, sometimes I would notice a circumcised penis in a locker room or when a friend did a quick pee in a bush, but I stopped paying close attention. In later years, I have noticed more foreskins on boys and men peeing in parks or urinals.

Siloam: I think that past a certain age, trying to see your friend's penis during urination or changing is likely to have you classified as "gay", which is not a good thing.

The only way I know is from changing after swim lessons. One is cut, another one + his brother aren't. Even though this is one of my kinks, I don't need to know the configuration of my male friends' peckers - it's not like I'm going to do anything with/about them.

I certainly like finding out who has what type. In the changing rooms or at the urinal

For me since I was circumcised at birth it is no big thing to me. I like them all circumcised or un-circumcised. It does not matter if I am with another male who is taking me anally and he is or is not circumcised. The feel of him inside of me GREAT no matter what he is. I do not try to guess in advance until I later see him without his clothes on.

Yeah it is always interesting to see what type of cock your mate has in the changing room

It's always interesting to guess and see if you are right. One friend I guessed that he was circumcised and found out I was right. Another friend I guessed that he was uncircumcised and found out I was right about him being uncut.

I love predicting circ status of guys then verifying in the locker room. I have never directly asked anyone.

@joesmoe @phoenix1701 How do you guess? What are your criteria?

Google ‘intact celebrities’ and ‘circumcised celebrities and BOOM! you've hit the big time.

I don't, however, know how one person could compile all these results.

@JONW Nude shots in movies? Accidental nudity? Hearsay from groupies?

@JONW Nude shots in movies? Accidental nudity? Hearsay from groupies?

I'd probably go with the last one. A handsome actor can have his pick, and certainly the music guys slept all over. But even competing lists offer different identifications for each man--in the Beatles, for instance, while it's established that John Lennon was uncircumcised, Paul McCartney and Ringo are identified as either, depending on the list. (It appears as if there's solid proof that M cCartney was cut, though, as verbally revealed in his brother's autobiography.)

@JONW

It appears as if there's solid proof that M cCartney was cut, though, as verbally revealed in his brother's autobiography.

Really?

In the UK and properly most of Europe circumcision is so uncommon, I could bet that the next naked man I see is uncut and I would win the bet.

All I know is my circumcision was just there from the the time I was 8 days old! :-)

@SouthernAnn Yes and no. Routine circumcision for hygiene reasons is rare, but

• A significant part of the population is Muslim or Jewish.
• Among the rest, there is a non negligible part that were circumcised for phimosis or adhesions; in some countries physicians were quite fast in recommending surgery to parents.

So yes on average more intact than circumcised males, but it's definitely not rare to be circumcised.

A very valid comment @Pecan_nutjob.

In my brain I was thinking of the cut men I have seen, and I would think there are some religions that would not allow men to show themselves naked in front of a woman that was not their wife.

I think that must apply to most religions !

But in answer to the original post about ones friend's cut status. I would say that of close friends I know are cut in my age group, it's about 50 /50 . But here in the UK it seems to be a generational , Baby boomer growing up in the 50's,60's' 70's, thing and in truth a bit of a class thing too.

According to WHO figures around 8.5% of men are circumcised in the UK, and this is dropping year on year. In the 1930's around 35% of men were circumcised in the UK but by the 1980's this had fallen to 6.5%. I've been a regular member of big gyms in London and local for the last 40 years and also take part in other sporting activities, so have seen a lot of men naked in the communal changing rooms and showers. But most of the men are not circumcised, I can't recall when I last saw a man who was circumcised. I personally don't know anyone that is circumcised so I think @SouthernAnn would be safe in placing her bet…

@Dr_Philip: Right, the safe bet is “uncircumcised” unless you see signs correlated with membership in certain religions. I was just pointing out that 8.5% is still a significant minority, and would not count as "rare".

Yet, circumcision is sufficiently uncommon, especially if you don't have Muslim friends, that many women only see intact penises and don't know what to do if faced with a circumcised one. My cousin mentioned that his early girlfriends, who lacked experience, treated his penis probably like they had seen intact males jacking off (rubbing back and forth quite hard, without extra lubrication), except then if they did that on him, it chafed and hurt.

I'm 32, from the southeast US.I I can think of 14 of my friends who's penises I have seen over the years. All except 1 are circumcised (as well as myself). The one friend who is uncircumcised is Vietnamese and was raised in France. He is very happy about his circumcision status and does not desire it. Likewise, I don't know of any of the others who wish they had not been circumcised. I think there is something especially cool about getting to see your friends penis. It's better than a random guy on porn. Plus if you can openly compare and comment on various aspects of it, even better than a quick glance at a urinal.

I've found it interesting how readily my female friends have volunteered their partners' circumcision status. Or other things about their penis. I hooked up with one of my friends for several months. Then, we kind of flamed out, remaining friends after that. Some time later, another one of my friends had a thing with her and they broke up on much worse terms. She vented to me after the fact, claiming that he had a two-inch dick the size of her pinky, and they never had sex partly because of it. I asked if he was circumcised or not and she said yes. I have no way (nor desire) to verify in person, but there ya go.

Before me, she had only seen/worked with circumcised dick as well. I've asked other partners of mine and they've all noted what size/type of penises they have been with. But this was the one time I found out about one of my friends' penises in a roundabout way.

@Feesii This is very uncouth of her.

@Pecan_nutjob I don't know if there is necessarily a specific set of criteria I use or not. I usually just consider certain factors like, where were they born or raised, when, who their parents are, were their parents born or raised in a different country. Some of those things can kind of help you make an educated guess. Sometimes if I've seen them in underwear and can kind of see the outline of the head or not, that helps with guessing too.

In all my years of living in Belgium (61 at the moment) I have never heard anyone ask about anyone else's circumcision status. The common supposition was that no one gets cut unless there is a medical condition or unless they were Jewish and later on Muslims were included as well. But when I was in school and in my 20's later, having either as a friend or even passing acquaintance would have been very unusual.

It is possible that wives and girlfriends nosed around about circumcision when gossiping, but if so, they wouldn't have told us men anyway …

I had a friend she broke up with her boyfriend because he was not circumcised

I had a friend she broke up with her boyfriend because he was not circumcised

Would she have shaven her genitals had the boyfriend asked? Would she have submitted to a labioplasty? A breast enlargement for his sake?

Those are huge no-no's when asked for by a (male) partner, but expecting a guy to be cool about getting part of his prick cut off is supposed to be a reasonable request?

Talk about double standards.

A close friend and I went through radiation and hormone treatments for prostate cancer at the same time. His cancer was a lot worse than mine resulting in twice as many treatments.

A month ago he called me and asked if I could take him to the hospital for an outpatient procedure. He is ¾ blind so I thought nothing of it.

On the way he told me he was going to be circumcised because of sever phimosis caused by the radiation treatments. By the way he is 84 years old.