circumcision

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bigckhead: Sure there is many theories to explain why mostly 80% of the americans boys are CUT.

I think that's mostly for hygenic reason than religious believes or WASP origins.

I'm living on the other side of the Big Pound in Europe,
specially in France where more than 80% of the men are
Uncut except for medical reasons or religious habits ( Jewish or Muslims).

Sure it's often difficult to live its difference and being part of a minority (CUT / UNCUT, WHiTE / NON WHITE, ATHEIST or BELIEVER...).

Here in Europe, CUT men are the minority, i know a lot of gay guys and some women who prefer having sex with an UNCUT cock rather than a CUT one even if it is cuter than the uncut one ;-).

So i think people tend to think "normality" as "majority" ...

Just be tolerant and enjoy the pleasure you can give to your sexual partner. As we know all, love blinds...

For sure, any time i went at the urinals in USA, many guys couldn't refrain themselves to look at my Uncut Cock, even if they were Str8. I don't know if it was due to the fact of being Uncut or having a Huge mushroom on a beer can sized cock

When i was young i had some troubles due to my over sized cockhead. Hopefully my father and the physician gave me the choice of being circumcized or doing daily streching exercices of the foreskin....
They both gave me the consequences of the operation... unpainful but cut, or staying uncut but having some painfull exercices to be done daily. I didn't want to be different than my other friend. So i prefered to make the exercices explained by the physician and my father in order to strech the foreskin enough and avoiding being cut.

It was very painfull the first months... but after some time i find that it was very 'pleasant' ;D

I'm thankfull to my father and the physican for letting me the choice !


PS: sorry if my english sounds sometimes funny ... it's just that i'm only a French guy trying to write some english ;-)

 

[Northland]

lilAmy: ??? so im wondering guys, wht is more common around here cut or uncut penis'.

It seems that in Canada most are uncut, that could be because of the great diversity of cultures in Canada
but in the US it seems to be a higher rate of cut men.
So I was wondering since this is a pretty diverse place who is the minority?

Sorry if this has been brought up before.

Not to fear, it'll be brought up again-and again-and again- and again- and again...


Some interesting comments in this thread.

 

[Damian Johnson]

Whether you are circumcised or uncut you need to be comfortable with who you are and your cock. To people who are cut and unhappy I say they should look into restoration procedures. For those who are uncut and either unhappy or have tight foreskin problems then again do something about it. If there's an issue people need to be proactive and deal with it not just moan about it on lpsg. We have too much of a moaning victim culture in western society.

 

[SirConcis]

RE: AIDS prevention.

It is scientifically proven that circumcision reduces the odds of catching AIDS *VIA THE PENIS*.

Circumcision of the penis has no effect on the oods of catching aids via ANUS.

So in countries where AIDS is primarily a homosexual disease, circumcision has no effect because men catch it via their anus if they don't via their penis. And use of condoms makes a far greater difference in preventing spread of aids at both ends. (penis and anus).

In africa, AIDS is a heterosexual disease and is spread due to widespread promiscuity. Circumcision reduces rate of spreading by about 60%. It only helps control the growth of the epidemic. Lifestyle changes would make even bigger differences (wearing condoms, no longer sleeping with many many women etc etc).

 

[peteuncut]

Gord: TOTT666:
You should have read more carefully. The crux of the matter in what you responded to was THE ADDED HEALTH RISK TO WOMEN of regular sex with UNcut men. Drooping labia or less than perfect breasts pose no such risk to men.

Further, you mention conflicting medical studies that contradict the results I have presented. Like JONB, you fail to make specific reference to ANY such material. I quoted at length from a journal article, and gave a complete citation so that others could go to a medical library and easily find it and check it out for themselves. Vague, unsupported remarks are what JONB would call "anecdotal". In all my reading, I have not encontered an actual medical study refuting the health benfits of circumcision, except for the APA Policy Statement mentioned much earlier, and which is explained by the aversion physicians have to creating liability, given the existence of the risks that accompany ANY surgical procedure. Cicumcision is, of course, an elective procedure to boot.

I don't know what your relationship to medicine is, but the Hippocratic Oath says, "First do no harm." That means, don't prove that circumcision is harmful to health, prove that the benefits outweigh the risks. All medical organizations in the US and Canada and Europe say that regular infant circumcision (that is without a disorder to ameliorate) has no medical value (!)

You do not remove a healthy functioning part of the body, which has a proven function, which protects and gives pleasure, because of a minute statistical chance of preventing certain conditions. You simply teach hygienic steps (washing and condom use) to prevent them. In Southern Africa, where sanitation and condom use is way reduced, there may be an argument involving AIDS transmission. Here, we should be using condoms, period. The minutely increased risks to women from the foreskin are almost all in dispute when sanitation is factored into the studies. Circumcision is the only operation that people perform because it has minute statistical benefits.

And by the way. In the US where circumcision is 85% at least, we have higher rates of STD's, including AIDS than, most of the European countries where circumcision is below 5 %.

Please stop using pseudo-science to justify your cultural/religious prejudices. Why not say, "I am too limited by my culture to absorb the fact an intact body is preferable to a scarred and reduced one," or, "God told me he wanted me to cut off a piece of my penis, and limit my sexual pleasure for the rest of my life, as a proof of my devotion to HIM."