When you were a kid, how did you learn the difference between circumcised and non-circumcised boys?

When I was 7 or 8. I had a medical at school, where the doctor said my foreskin was tight, and suggested I might need circumcising. Later that year, I noticed after the summer holidays that a boy in our dormitory had a penis which looked different to everyone else's. I eventually asked him what had happened, and he explained that the same doctor who had said my foreskin was tight had diagnosed him similarly, and he was circumcised in the school holidays. My mother did not want me circumcised, so I didn't have the operation. From then on, I could recognise the difference between circumcised and uncircumcised penises.

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In some religions it is a custom that all boys are circumcised at 30 days after birth. Two of those religions are the Jewish and Muslim religions. There are others, but I do not know which ones they are. Therefore all Jewish and Muslim Boys would be circumcised at 30 days after birth.

It is also a custom in the United States. If the parents do not ask that their son not be circumcised at birth there is a good chance it might just be done in the hospital before the mother and son get to go home. Most of the hospitals in the United States will otherwise just do it.

As for me, I am Jewish. So, it was not done in the hospital. My parents told the hospital not to do it. It was done at home on the 30th day of my being born. It is done by a special Rabbi that is called a Moel. (Not sure of the spelling of that.)

All I remember of it is what my father later told me. He said that it was done at a special celebration in our home. It is a celebration of the boys birth and his first required task as a Jewish Boy.

Jewish Girls do not have a similar thing that is done to them. Some religions do have a similar thing that is done to girls. I do not know what those religions are. Maybe, some of you females may know what countries they are and just what is done to girls of that religion?

@6-Quarts-In-Me: As far as I know the age of circumcision for Muslims varies between Muslim traditions and countries.

In some religions it is a custom that all boys are circumcised at 30 days after birth. Two of those religions are the Jewish and Muslim religions.

Muslim culture is not monolithic and there is great variance between practices from one country/region/group to the next.

As to circumcision, there are some regions where Muslim boys are circumcised at a median age corresponding to puberty, that is between 12-13 or so, depending upon the availability of a circumciser, which is often an occupation carried out by an itinerant, especially in rural areas.

Then again others have their children cut at birth, in Western countries most likely in hospital.

There can be great differences when it comes to ages.

I learnt by looking and talking to other boys at school.

But goodness me the whole subject is one I find most uncomfortable! Maybe I am just squeamish but the whole purpose and procedure is one I would rather pass by in the other side!

My father was circumcised so I knew the difference between circumcised and uncircumcised, although as a child I had a problem with pulling the foreskin to the end with regular parentl control and forcing the foreskin to be pulled and a of check-ups at the doctor all my mother to pull the foreskin so that the whole head comes out.

When i was 12 was sent to a boarding school. The first time in the shower I saw an uncut dick and was shocked! My little thing and the few i had seen were all cut.

I grew up and still live in England, where infant circumcision is very rare, so as a boy the vast majority of the cocks I saw had a foreskin like mine. But from a young age I had seen a few cut cocks, most notably my father's, and one or two boys at school. I just assumed there were two different types of penis, and it was a case of what you were born with. I felt sorry for the circumcised boys as they did not have the extra bit of skin to play with, and their cocks seemed less interesting to me, with a dull pink knob compared to the moist and shiny purple knobs which could be revealed by most of the uncut boys.

I remember seeing a sex education video when I was about 10 years old which mentioned the two types and gave them names which I couldn't remember, except that my type was the one prefixed by “un-”. It offered no explanation of why some boys would have one and some the other.

All became clear to me when I was about 11 or 12 years old, when my younger brother's foreskin, which had previously been loose and fully retractable, tightened up and became impossible to pull back. He was taken the family doctor, and referred for circumcision. My father explained what would happen to him, and that is when I learned the terms “foreskin” and “circumcision” and realised that all cut boys and men had had an operation to remove their foreskin.

I was fascinated by all this, and I remember looking up the subject in my grandma's medical encyclopaedia, where I learnt other terms such as “glans” and “phimosis”, and learnt that the operation may also be done in infancy for religious or cultural reasons.

I was kind of confused as a child. i am uncut and everyone around me seemed to be cut. my dad, my uncles i would see their cocks when i went swimming and wonder why mine didnt look like theirs. my best mate was even circumcised and we use to get out cocks out and look at porn mags but not really know what to do with our cocks. but i use to really like how their cocks looked with the head exposed.

one day i was in the bath and i pulled my foreskin back for the first time and saw my glands. i was chuffed and i really liked what i saw. the feeling of my helmet being exposed to the air gave me an instant erection. but i couldnt roll the skin back over the head when it was hard. then i liked keeping the head exposed as often as i could i liked it when people saw it in the showers even at bath times so my mum could see it.

As a child, I had problems with foreskin pullback l where I was often exposed by my parents to forcing foreskin withdrawal, when I was a little older I saw that my dad was circumcised, I still haven't, but regular foreskin withdrawal was always there, they often told me that I would I had to get circumcised and my dad was circumcised at my age because of phimosis, my aunt's brother younger than me could completely cover the foreskin at that age and I couldn't, so there was more forcing and pressure on me, eventually going to the doctor and creams I managed to stay uncircumcised.

I think I was in Jr. High school when I learned the difference, thanks to Google and a sense of curiosity. Wasn't until college that I saw an uncircumcised one in person.

Never learned but saw in the shower in Jr. High. Intrigued me.

I guess that must have been at age 8 in 3rd grade of elementary school, while changing for swimming lessons. Out of us ~15 boys, only one was circumcised.

During my school entrance exams, I had my foreskin forcibly retracted and the doctor told my parents that my foreskin was tight and that I might need to have surgery, but I managed to stretch it a bit while in baths. Until changing with the other boys for swimming, I have never seen the result of this surgery.

Shortly afterwards, my dad got circumcised, on behalf of my mother I suppose. This is when I fully realized why that other boy in the changing room looked differently. My dad regrets his circumcision up to this day btw.

@pl3ric “on behalf of my mother I suppose” Would you have an idea why she would have requested that?

When we got changed together theirs all looked the same and mine was different. I was the only one not circumcised. I was initially the butt of jokes in the locker room but after awhile it died down. I did get pantsed a couple times so girls could see my “different“ penis.

I did get pantsed a couple times so girls could see my “different“ penis.

What age were you when you got pantsed?

My neighbour was circumcised and I wasn't. To be honest, he was more interested in mine more than I was about his. He would have me pull back my ‘cover’ (foreskin) every time we pissed in the woods while out playing.

You're talking about “pantsed” kids. Makes me think how, when I was a kid, some boys, I don't know how consenting they were, would have their wares exposed, in certain circumstances out of sight of adults, to satisfy the curiosity of boys and girls. There were some Jewish and Muslim families and it is possible that part of the attraction was seeing cut vs uncut.

I vaguely recall hearing - I think in a movie - someone saying “his pants were so tight you could tell his religion”!

@pl3ric “on behalf of my mother I suppose” Would you have an idea why she would have requested that?

No, I have no idea why my dad got circumcised in his mid-40s all of a sudden. I didn't asked about the hows and whys. All I know is that my parents somehow dropped this in a social gathering with friends. My mom liked it, but my dad said he wouldn't do it again.

@pl3ric I see. I was surprised because it seems quite late in a relationship to request such surgery, especially after having children. A guy on Zity told me his wife insisted that he should be circumcised, but the reason was that he had severe phimosis and could not have intercourse properly, so she got impatient.

The first non-circumcized penis I saw was when our first child was born. The first circumcised penis I saw was the same son, a few days later. I was 24 ½ years old at the time.

@redcaramel Out of curiosity, why did you have him cut?

@Pecan_nutjob I am and we had all four sons done at birth, I have one grandson that is and one not yet, as Covid-19 lockdowns delayed his surgery. He has down syndrome and other health issues, so for him will be for hygiene, and make it easier for peeing.

Also see 'Direct Messages" Nov 2021 between us

I am a baby boomer in the States. I don't believe I saw an uncut penis until I was in college. Circumcision was that universal for us in those days.

@chamed How about your own kids?

I'm uncut and didn't know anything about Circumcisions until a school friend said his foreskin was too tight. We compared and indeed it was. A little while later, he showed me it had been removed.

I remember being very glad mine was loose, it was checked in exams a lot anyway.

For me was college before I saw natural male that's was un-cut. Fraternity brother who was staying at my place for the weekend. Very interesting weekend and definitely made me a little jealous I was cut clean.

Pecan, i only had daughters