For USA born Uncut males only. Why were you left uncut?

[B_Evie]

I honestly do not understand why this still even happens in America. No human being should have their bodies altered at birth for either a cosmetic purpose or the parents religious beliefs. It is just barbaric and cruel.

However, I love the look of both, and find each beautiful in their own special way.

 

[averagedude775]

The medical community also thought that masturbation lead to insanity, seizures and a host of ailments. Cut off a young man's foreskin so he won't be so inclined to masturbate and you would save him from all these horrors. Sure, that was a century ago, but the medical community has not made many strides regarding foreskins. So much for the medical community. If you were circumcised as an infant and don't know the joys of having a foreskin, you are ill qualified to lay a tirade on those of us who know what it's like to have one and what others are missing. All penises may work, but they do NOT work the same.

You make a mighty assumption with that statement, because just as you can say "I don't know the joys of having a foreskin" it is just as easy for me to say "you don't know the joys of not having a foreskin". Do you see the loophole and circular reasoning with statements like that?

Furthermore, saying all penises do not work the same is just moronic, because they do. Can you get an erection? Can you achieve orgasm? Can enjoy the pleasure which comes from your penis? If so, then what's the problem? There is no problem because you can enjoy it just the same.

Your entire remark is just full of linear and narrow minded views. If I am "ill qualified to lay a tirade on those of us who know what it's like to have one and what others are missing", that means that you are just arrogant and foolish to assume that others are missing out on anything in the first place. Like I said previously, it's a matter choice, and there is no way to compare such things as sensation or feeling between people because it's going to vary from person to person and from situation to situation.

Re-read my post, it's not a tirade as I neither argued for or against circumcision; I merely suggested that people, especially people like yourself, stop acting like they know what is best for anyone but themselves and be happy with what they have. Unfortunately, such a suggestion falls upon deaf ears.

 

[ThatFellaUK]

I'm uncut, didn't grow up in a family that was overly concerned about it, to be honest. I like it. Not that there's anything wrong with the alternative, but I like it nonetheless.

 

[tophk86]

You're right, averagedude: an uncircumcised man cannot objectively comment on what it is like to be *without* foreskin, just as a circumcised (from birth) man cannot objectively comment on what it's like *with* one. Certainly, even those who restore their skin are not aware of what being fully intact entails, although there seems to be an (admittedly) anecdotal increase in sensitivity. Those cut later in life have not had the same experience as one cut at birth, and as a consequence, one could argue that their comments are meaningless.

I was uncut until fourteen. Now, some eleven years later, I can say that, to me at least, there most certainly is a significant difference in sensitivity. I used to be able to see an orgasm coming from a mile away; now, there is only a few seconds heads up. Also, orgasms used to be a full body, mind numbingly ecstatic experience; now they're just a fun tickle.

There are problems with such rigorously obtuse definitions. But any scientific studies or religious dogma aside, this subject *should* be able to be reduced to a simple argument: his body, his choice. Viewing circumcision in a purely cosmetic frame-of-mind, circumcision of infants is repugnant. I find it absolutely disgusting when people invoke their personal opinions or religious beliefs in what is clearly a human rights issue.

The only thing that is a fact about circumcision is that there are NO clear benefits NOR disadvantages of being circumcised. PERIOD. The entire issue basically comes down to preference.

Wrapping this post up, I would argue that your post was slightly pro-circumcision. You acknowledge that there are no proven benefits for or against it, yet you would subject any hypothetical male offspring to the procedure. You also claim that all it really comes down to is a preference. Who's preference? Your preference for your son to have a circumcised penis, or his to make his own decision?

 

[playainda336]

I feel like my dick would look better if it were uncut. Especially because of the size of my head. It would just be hard and wrapped up. Also my head is still the most sensitive part of my dick. So then it would probably have even more sensation. Whew.

 

[B_Craiggers]

I'm cut. I never asked my parents why.

Both of my sons are uncut. I think it's a form of child abuse to make an irreversible decision like that (rather than letting the child decide when they're older).

If they want to get circumcised when they're older I'm totally fine with that, but it's their bodies & their call to make.

 

[shankity]

I'm uncut as are the other males in my family.... never asked why, I think that bringing it up would be slightly disturbing to my family. If I have a son, he will remain intact. My girlfriend had never seen one before and after talking about it, she agrees it is best left the way it is.

 

[hairynyc]

Mom is from Europe. Dad was the son of European immigrants and was also uncut.

 

[philip92]

So I realize that yes circumcision is very painful for the baby, or in some cases the adult having it done. And there's nothing wrong with an uncut dick, because I love uncut dicks which is why I found a boyfriend with an uncut dick. However, I was cut as a child and I would hardly consider it torture or mutilation. If someone had been mutilated or tortured they would remember the experience forever. I can't say that I remember being circumcised or that it has caused me any pain as an adult,so I don't see why circumcision gets a bad wrap

 

[mandoman]

You haven't been in the room when they flayed the baby alive.
I heard sounds I didn't know could come out of a human being.
The hair on my neck stands up today, when I think about it.
I honestly thought he was being murdered, ran in to stop it, and saw it was a circumcision.

 

[Uncutsouthernboy]

I'm cut. I never asked my parents why.

Both of my sons are uncut. I think it's a form of child abuse to make an irreversible decision like that (rather than letting the child decide when they're older).

What did your parents say about your not getting your sons circumcised?

 

[Uncutsouthernboy]

You're right, averagedude: an uncircumcised man cannot objectively comment on what it is like to be *without* foreskin, just as a circumcised (from birth) man cannot objectively comment on what it's like *with* one. Certainly, even those who restore their skin are not aware of what being fully intact entails, although there seems to be an (admittedly) anecdotal increase in sensitivity. Those cut later in life have not had the same experience as one cut at birth, and as a consequence, one could argue that their comments are meaningless.

Well, actually, we uncut men can sort of experience what it is like to be circumcised without all the pain and mess.

We can hold our foreskins back during sex. I have tried it many times. I have held it back during bjs and while I was fucking and always have let the foreskin go because it wasn't "right". It felt good for a minute but I do not think it as good as with my foreskin doing its thing. My partners did not seem to like it either. Once I was fucking my gf and was wearing a cock ring. I pulled out and pulled my foreskin back and tucked it in the cock ring. I left the head completely exposed. I re-penetrated my girl and continued making love. She seemed uncomfortable and asked me what I was doing because it was uncomfortable. I said I don't know. I thought it was mayb the cock ring hurting her. She said it is wrong inside me. I pulled out, the head was still uncoverd and put my forskin back in place, reentered her and all was well.

I have been told that since my dick is so big the foreskin makes it easier to take.

For me the presence of the foreskin makes sex better.

 

[slurper_la]

I reject the use of the word "uncut" as it suggests a negative connotation, as if something is wrong; incomplete.

I prefer and always use the term "natural" and I think they are beautiful.

Myself? Mutilated at birth but I do think mine is pretty (and my best friend) :biggrin1:

Thankfully, whoever the doctor was that took cold, sharp steel to me did a nice job and left me "meaty"

 

[rbkwp]

For USA born Uncut males only. Why were you left uncut?
Why were you left uncircumcised?

can i suggest it could have been the Health Budget cuts, Govt policies of the time???

 

[D_Randy_Harder]

I was left uncut myself as it isn't the normal practice in Puerto Rico, where I was born.

 

[gymfresh]

For USA born Uncut males only. Why were you left uncut?
Why were you left uncircumcised?

can i suggest it could have been the Health Budget cuts, Govt policies of the time???

We don't have government-run single payer healthcare in the United States, like New Zealand does. The great majority of American males were born into families that had private insurance or no insurance at all -- neither of which would have been affected by government budgets.

We do, however, have a program for low-income families called Medicaid, and each of the 50 states sets its own policies. At one time, every state automatically paid for routine infant circumcision of boys born under Medicaid. California was the first state to drop this coverage almost 30 years ago (1 September 1982). It took many years for other states to follow, but at present 18 states don't include routine male infant circumcision in their coverage. Parents must pay out-of-pocket to have this done, and many do. The other 32 states still cover routine infant circumcision and the great majority of boys born in those states are still being circumcised. When Medicaid, which has a mission to cover "essential" services, covers circumcision, it sends a message of endorsement (and guaranteed payment), so many doctors encourage it and many parents take advantage of the freebie.

You can visit this page (scroll down to the map) and roll your mouse over any state to see its circumcision coverage status and date of dropping automatic circumcision coverage. The newest to cease is Colorado, which de-funded Medicaid circumcision one year ago today. So in all cases except California, LPSG members would be too old to have benefited from any of these state Medicaid changes.

Circumcision remains a covered service under Medicaid when performed therapeutically with a proper medical diagnosis.

 

[rbkwp]

Thanks for that info gymfresh
altho it was an attempt at trying to be funny, on a serious subject, i do appreciate very much the info and link you have provided, always interested to learn.

 

[BoHungandUncut]

I love my foreskin

 

[Uncutsouthernboy]

bump

 

[mandoman]

I think the real reason I was left uncut was that my father loved his foreskin.
My mother was from an uncut family. They chose not to circumcise my brother and me.
For that, I will always be grateful. Almost every word published about a foreskin in the US anyway, is a lie. Maintenance is far less than most areas of the human body. An uncircumcised penis is no more prone to disease or injury than a circumcised one...despite what those biased three famous African studies say. Foreskins are really fun. That is why most people who have them, speak of them with love.