Circumcision and you

[Politesse]

Why do genitals look like undersea creatures?

In the grand scheme of things, all animals are pretty closely related, made of the same stuff formed into initially subtle variations on the same basic embryonic structure.

 

[unapologetic]

 

[James Brown]

Read it out loud if you don't get the joke.

 

[Tammuz]

I am not. It is simply not something that is common in Sweden, unless you are Jewish or Muslim.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

I'm circumcised, as are most men my age. IIRC, I didn't even know what the word meant until I was an adult. I had thought all guys were born this way. Thinking back though, I remember goofing around with some friends at the local stadium during off hours and one of my (uncircumcised) friends pulled his pants down to pee on the field and....WTF was I seeeing? I was sorta dumbfounded. I couldn't make sense of it (I concluded he was deformed and moved on). Even later in gym class locker room, everyone was circumcised.

Have you considered that you’ve been tricked? Male circumcision reduces sexual pleasure dramatically--by about an order of magnitude.

For a long time, I thought circumcision must have originated for health reasons. I remember being told as a kid that many Biblical taboos had practical roots--for example, avoiding pork to prevent trichinosis. The ancients, lacking science, saw illness and death, then invented magical explanations and ritual rules to cope. I assumed male circumcision was in that same category.

But the more I’ve thought about it, the more it seems plausible that its origins were closer to female circumcision: a deliberate attempt to suppress sexual pleasure and channel people toward procreation.

 

[southernhybrid]

My current husband and my son aren't circumsized but my ex husband was and as far as I could tell, it never interfered with his sexual pleasure. We had sex almost daily and he never had any problems with erections or orgasms. I've read a bit on the topic and it's controversial whether it interferes with a man's sexual pleasure.

My guess is that the reason it was enforced during Biblical times was for cleanliness reasons, as there was no fresh running water or soap to wash beneath the foreskin during those days, so they made up some bullshit religious reason for circumcision. Who really knows?

I refused to have my son cut because I felt it should be his decision. My ex was pissed about that but I was one who gave birth to my son and I was the one who told the doctors that I wanted him left intact. I did a lot of reading on the topic and decided it wasn't necessary.