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

[D_Malcolm_MacPudd]

I'M CUT-i asked my mom once why she had me circumsized and she said-cause an uncut is...ew...it looks like a sausage-you dont want that. I feel like thats the rhetoric in america because they dont know any better. Sigmund Freud said the biggest traumatic experience in a human beings life is birth, but i think being circumcised is a close second.

 

[Fuzzy_]

My grandfather was a doctor during WWII, and his son (my father) was born during the war. At that time, soldiers in the trenches kept getting infections under their foreskins because they had no way to wash themselves regularly enough there. And since at that time, people really thought the war was never going to end, doctors decided to start circumcising newborn babies so that when they grew up and became soldiers (remember, there was the draft, so most people had a good chance of serving, especially if the war dragged on for years and years), they wouldn't have to deal with the issues of unwashed foreskins in trench conditions. So my father was circumcised.
But then the war ended, and my grandfather stopped advocating circumcision. He told my father that it was an unnecessary procedure (after all, WWII was meant to be the 'War to end all wars'), and not to do it to his kids.
So me and my brother are both uncircumcised and very happy about it

TLDR: War. Germs. Doctors. Peace. No snip. Yey!

Great post. Wrong war.

WWI was the "war to end all wars."

 

[young_hung_21]

Great post. Wrong war.

WWI was the "war to end all wars."

But obviously, when WWII broke out, they realized WWI wasn't the war to end all wars... so they started saying it about WWII. People couldn't imagine something as horrific as the Holocaust every happening again, so they thought it really was the end of war. Just shows how stupidly optimistic people can be.

 

[gymfresh]

My grandfather was a doctor during WWII, and his son (my father) was born during the war. At that time, soldiers in the trenches kept getting infections under their foreskins because they had no way to wash themselves regularly enough there.

issues of unwashed foreskins in trench conditions

This is a common myth, but completely ridiculous. Foreskins don't get infected simply because of going several days without washing them. Why was the United States supposedly the only country with this "problem"?

The real situation was that plenty of soldiers were visiting prostitutes (and if they had the time for whores, they had time to wash) and getting venereal diseases. It was popularly believed that circumcision would reduce the uptake of such infections, and so many medics liberally circumcised; but in fact it had no real effect on future STD rates. Quite a few guys came home circumcised, and instead of telling their wives and girlfriends that they had gotten circumcised because of VD, they said that war conditions necessitated it. Which is bollocks.

The stories go on and on: it was because of sand and desert conditions. It was because of jungle conditions. It was because of trench warfare. It was because of extreme heat. It was because of extreme cold. None of them really make any sense, and in any case it would have been tactical suicide to take so many men out of combat for surgery and recuperation. The circumcisions were done in downtime, around times of R&R, shore leave and brothel visits.

As for post-war, I doubt that combat conditions was much on the mind of anyone when babies were born. Medical insurance was booming as a job benefit in peacetime and birth was moving rapidly from the house or farm to the hospital (worth noting that most births today in the Netherlands are back at home again). This medicalization and standardization led to "assembly line" thinking and boys were cut as a matter of course. In many or most cases, doctors and nurses didn't even bother obtaining consent; circumcision was as routine as a heel stick. This didn't begin to change in earnest until the 1970s.

It's cool that your family evolved out of the idea that circumcision was necessary or desirable, and that you and your brother benefited.

(BTW, I have never in my life heard WWII referred to as "the war to end all wars" or even "the war to end war".)

 

[D_Skippy_Skidmarks]

my mother left me intact , iam uncircumsized , she lived thru war world 2 in nazi germany , that plus she said their was no good reason to cut me as an infant , she did explain to me when i turn 16 that if i wanted and it would be my desicion to make , iam still in tact and love it .

 

[LA8Ball]

European parents, and my dad is a doc. No medical or cultural reason to cut, so they didn't.

 

[Uncutsouthernboy]

bump

 

[craptacular]

Might as well... parents were horrified of the idea of us (brother and I) getting cut as infants, and my dad wanted us to have the choice that he didn't. They talked about it when we hit puberty and said we could get it done if we wanted... neither of us wanted, hahah.

 

[Stuckey13]

I'm the 2nd of 4 boys and my older brother was born 10 weeks premature so my parents had to wait for the circumcision but they never went ahead with it so I believe they wanted all us to be the same even though my father is cut

 

[socalanfmodel]

OK I'm not sure if my story helps or applies but my mom and her friend had the same insurance down to the t. I was born a day after my mom's friends son and he was circed and covered by the insurance and I wasn't covered mind you we were born in the same hospital my mother was going to ask her parents at the time to cover the cost for my procedure but felt bad and at the time 1985 it was a hundred dollars for the procedure didn't want to borrow the money so I was never cut. I dont know how I new of the difference but I did ever since elementary school and I told my mom I wanted to be even at that early age. I had a consulation with my doctor a female at the time and she didn't recommend it and in high school for athletics my doctor a male said (after I brought it up to him) said he would have approved me and that my doctor that told me no had no right to it was my penis not hers and whatever whatever but at the time i was actively sexual sure high school freshman and not fully at the size I am now but i didn't want to take almost a month off from fucking because to me it was the most amazing feeling in the world so I didn't. After getting my own medical insurance from my first fulltime job I looked into it and played the part that I needed it thanks to phosmisos (forbid by incorrect spelling) but tight strecthing of the forskin and that doctor approved it and It was covered medically that sad part is i wish i was a birth so I wouldn't have such a difference in skin discoloration but i'm proud to be cut now!

 

[869276]

Pretty much the same as the first post. Dad wasn't and Mom saw no need. I am quite glad. Was afraid the other boys would make fun of me in the PE showers in junior high, but they did not.

 

[rjp1346]

Males in our family were not cut, and when I was born I had some lung problems and the Doctor, a women, was opposed to the whole idea of circumcision. So I still have my foreskin and everyday I thank that wonderful women Doctor,

 

[821746]

My parents thought it was unnecessary and rude, and it is. My mom thinks it's a barbaric practice, and that it's mutilation. I have 5 brothers and we're all uncut and very thankful for it.

I feel so bad for the guys who are cut. They won't ever know the secret things you can do with being uncut. There's so many things to learn.

 

[koval]

I have American cousins who were circed at birth (without parental permission). The hospital and doctor were sued for carrying it out as they had been informed that this was not to be done if it were boys.

Personally I believe that if its not for religious or medical reasons then it should not be done until they are old enough to decide for themselves.

 

[milwjocknow]

My mothers father believed he was going to hell because he was uncut. I'm sure my circumcision had something to do with that.

 

[mandoman]

Why? Seems an odd thing to go to hell for.

 

[rjp1346]

When I worked in a hospital many years ago, I overheard one of the Senior Doctors telling an Intern, don't forget to push for doing a circumcision. it is a fast and easy way to pad your bill by a couple of hundred dollars, and the assisting residents do it, you make the money and they do the work. Thought this was a truly barbaric practice.

 

[mandoman]

Absolutely nothing has changed there. Medicine is still pushing it, and reneging on whether or not it actually helps prevent disease.
Some of the most loudly proclaimed studies can't be reproduced. Others with different results, are completely ignored.
I hear it's about a billion bucks a year business, in the US.

 

[colgan1999]

at one time circ. was a status symbol.Meant youcould afford a doctor

 

[mandoman]

And now it is not a status symbol.