Foreskin: cut on not?

[Guest kjun12]

I'm 67 and lived for 66 years au natural. This year I got an infection and went to see a doctor here in Bangkok. He advised circumcision and did a "partial" cut. It is shorter but still covers most of the glans. Just interested in the others on this forum.

[TotallyOz]

I had a good Jewish doctor!

[Guest HeyGay]

I had a good Jewish doctor!

 

 

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I think it is a disgusting and bar barrack thing to do. something that ruins many boys lives, especially as they have no say in the matter, it should be banned unless for medical reasons.

 

Personally if a guy is Cut I'm not Interested in a dry shriveled head. many cut beyond belief .

 

They drove me out of living in Florida, with all those hidious cut cocks, when I had a Home there in the 70s.

 

http://churchofjesus...anForeskin.html

[Guest thaiworthy]

I really don't care either way, but I am not so hideously adverse to it as HeyGay. For many years I was only interested in cut, but since coming to Thailand I have become accustomed to foreskin, so I can't really say there is any real preference anymore. There is more to a Thai guy that I am interested in beside his surgery scars or the lack thereof.

[Guest fountainhall]

I think I am right i saying that in the UK and the USA - and perhaps other countries as well, for all I know - there was a 'fashion' for circumcising boy children in the couple of decades after the 2nd World War. It was felt that it helped boys and men avoid some infections - and would discourage masturbation for a while. How on earth they came up with the latter idea, goodness alone knows. Doctors certainly promoted circumcision.

[Guest]

Natural every time.

[kokopelli]

. Doctors certainly promoted circumcision.

 

Easy money for the doctors.

[Rogie]

This year I got an infection and went to see a doctor here in Bangkok. He advised circumcision and did a "partial" cut.

I don't wish to intrude much farther, but as you thought to tell us about your circumcision, might I ask if the reason for it is common or rare? I have not come across the possibility a man might become infected with something necessitating the foreskin be removed, even if only partially. No offence if you decline to elaborate.

 

As for circumcision in general, it has always been my understanding boys had it done in north America (US and Canada) because it was expected. I suspect the medics 'expected' parents to agree to it. Many parents put under that degree of expectation nodded their heads in agreement. A done deal. I have no evidence for saying that, so just my hunch. I also suspect that if a baby boy's father had been circumcised (I refer here to non-ritual circumcision) that he was very likely to be also, simply because the father, identifying closely with his son, was happy to see it done. My understanding in Britain is that it was more common amongst middle or upper-middle class (we love our class system!) parents to have their boys circumcised. Cost may have been a factor, but as far as I know there was none of the expectation that boys would have it done as in America. Again, as in America, I would think that once a British family has a tradition of circumcising its male children that it tends to take root.

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Hey Gay's post has me puzzled:

 

Personally if a guy is Cut I'm not Interested in a dry shriveled head. many cut beyond belief .

I agree that circumcision can be botched and in some countries with poor medical facilities this can happen, and boys can die. But let us stick to circumcision in western countries with high standards of medical care.

 

I had a quick look at that link you showed in your post but I am sorry to say I did not like the way it was written - it was far too anti-circumcision and a bit hysterical almost.

 

The tightness of most circumcisions causes at least some hair migration from the groin up the shaft of the penis (the "hairy dick" phenomenon). Most, though not all men with hairy penises are circumcised. This is mostly due to insufficient shaft skin present during puberty, with groin hair being pulled onto the shaft. The groin hair "becomes" shaft skin, but this is not normal, and is a direct result of circumcision. This effect is more pronounced during erection and may not be noticed when flaccid. Restoring men also often experience a reduction of hair migration.

As for the 'dry shrivelled head', that sounds pretty serious, in fact it makes me wince just to think of it. You would have thought generations of men, facing this awful predicament, would have kicked up a bit of a fuss. So for them to happily pay a surgeon to inflict the same fate on their own son makes no sense at all.

[floridarob]

Western countries usually do it well compared to what I have seen in the Philippines.

 

However, I prefer uncut.... I have a Mexican friend and when they were having their kid circumcised I asked him why since he was uncut....his wife wanted it done and she said uncut was gross, I told him if she doesn't like you cock so much, I'll take care of it,lol

[Rogie]

....his wife wanted it done and she said uncut was gross,. .

That's enough to make me become a 5 minute misogynist and holler "You silly moo"

 

(that's putting it politely as I know the people on here are nice )