I think I've convinced TheBF on non-circumcision

[Dave NoCal]

Petite, some recent statistics suggest that the rate of RIC in the U.S. has fallen to 40% (and dropping). It may be a bit higher due to office procedures that don't get added into the stats. Nevertheless, you intact son would be far from unusual and probably in the majority in many parts of the country.
Dave

 

[maxcok]

Hello darlin, I've been wondering where you've been. Nice to see you back.

I'm sure you'll get plenty of good information on this, so I'll just add, I wholeheartedly support your intention.

Just wanted to say hello. Hope you and your oven bun are doing great.

 

[petite]

Hello darlin, I've been wondering where you've been. Nice to see you back.

I'm sure you'll get plenty of good information on this, so I'll just add, I wholeheartedly support your intention.

Just wanted to say hello. Hope you and your oven bun are doing great.

Aw, thank you! It's nice to see you around too!!! :kiss:

All three of us are healthy and happy. I'm probably the least happy, but that's totally normal for a woman whose organs are running out of room inside of her and are being squeezed into a smaller and smaller space.

 

[maxcok]

:kiss: back atcha. Glad you're doing well. I hope for your sake then le petite is petite. :wink:

 

[petite]

Bizarrely enough, you can. And today it's actually the norm in the US. I can't speak for what activities you'll have your children involved in, but they may find themselves showering very much alone.

Of all my friends who have had kids graduate from high school in the past 5 years, only one of these young adults has ever seen another human being of the same sex naked (other than porn, I suppose). And that is because he went to a very, very old Catholic high school that still has open showers.

This report is almost 15 years old already, and pathological modesty has only grown worse. Kids today completely freak at the idea of anyone seeing them nude, even for a fraction of a second.

Oh, kids were embarrassed and freaked out about it when I was in school, too! When I was much younger my mother took me to bathhouses (the real ones, not the sexual ones, of course!) so I grew up being very comfortable with nudity among other women, but I learned as a kid when we were living in the US that if you aren't also uncomfortable about nudity, it makes everyone else more uncomfortable! So strange, but it's true. Maybe it makes everyone else more aware of the fact that they're self-conscious? I don't know.

I'm not surprised that kids avoid it now. I'm just trying not to make any assumptions about what things will be like for my son in 12-18 years. Trends change, there are backlashes, attitudes change, and you never know what's going to happen or what things are going to be like. I never thought that bullying could get worse than it was when I was kid, but it has! Who knows what else will be different?

 

[petite]

:kiss: back atcha. Glad you're doing well. I hope for your sake then le petite is petite. :wink:

I've embraced my inner fat girl and TheBaby is normal size. I'll upload a pic. I'm big! :tongue:

 

[B_dxjnorto]

That said, I know of no men who've regretted getting circumcised at an older age

I've posted this in other threads, but just so you know of one:

Adult Circumcision My Experience 2 years on | DavidLouis77's Blog

 

[Titsdude21]

Another quick thought...

Bit of back ground
My extended family are 'old school' and all of them (most that i no of) are cut. And when i was born there was a lot of pressure form the family for my mother to have me done. At that point she thought they must be right and was going to get me done. When she talked to my father about it, he said it was a great idea to get me done, and that he always thought toes look silly so while we are in the mood for cutting bits off, may as well do them too.

And hey guess mum saw how silly circumcision is, and i escaped the knife

P.S the reason i say this is because if ur bf wants to get him cut, suggest the toes too, maybe even ears. Hopefully he will see how silly it is too.

 

[B_dxjnorto]

he always thought toes look silly so while we are in the mood for cutting bits off

Your dad is a wise man. My uncles are all living intact and they cut all their boys' boy bits off.

Damn toes are so unclean. You may think I'm joking, but I worked in a hospital lab for awhile and you do see a fair amount of toes in the pathology lab. Mostly diabetics.

 

[petite]

I've posted this in other threads, but just so you know of one:

Adult Circumcision My Experience 2 years on | DavidLouis77's Blog

I'm so sorry that happened to you! That's terrible!

Part of the reason why I am anti-circumcision is because I have been with several men whose circumcisions did not go perfectly when they were babies. One man had to have his "corrected" when he was 12 and he still has big Frankenstein scars below the head of his penis. He wasn't well-endowed and you could tell when he became erect that one of the problems was that his skin was too tight. It was like his penis was trying to grow larger, but it was being held back by his own lack of skin.

It seems like it's far too easy for the surgery to go wrong in babies and I don't want something bad like that to happen to my son. I didn't realize that adult circumcision carried such big risks, too!

Thank you for posting your experience.

 

[ibostyle11]

I've posted this in other threads, but just so you know of one:

Adult Circumcision My Experience 2 years on | DavidLouis77's Blog

meant to put "two" no idea why I put no...
meh I'm tired, go figure...

 

[petite]

meant to put "two" no idea why I put no...
meh I'm tired, go figure...

You mean that you know of two men who regret getting circumcised at an older age?

 

[B_dxjnorto]

Thank you for posting your experience.

That is not me petite -- thanks for your kind words.

I worked in a hospital for more than seven years. Radiology, medical records, lab. RIC revisions are not common, but they are not uncommon. My buddy's nephew was done over. Have no idea why. I've seen the tot in our hot tub. Half his dick is scar. WTF :frown2:

 

[petite]

That is not me petite -- thanks for your kind words.

I worked in a hospital for more than seven years. Radiology, medical records, lab. RIC revisions are not common, but they are not uncommon. My buddy's nephew was done over. Have no idea why. I've seen the tot in our hot tub. Half his dick is scar. WTF :frown2:

Oh! I should have read more carefully. Sorry!

Aw, that's terrible about your buddy's nephew! Poor child!

 

[B_dxjnorto]

Aw, that's terrible about your buddy's nephew! Poor child!

Yeah, it's fucked up. The parent decides they didn't chop enough off or something? Several years ago a stupid classmate friend of mine said she didn't think they chopped enough off her son because he would get lint in there. WTF

 

[erratic]

We're having a baby boy and I'm anti-circumcision. He's cut and really doesn't know anything about uncircumcised penii. I think I may have convinced him that not cutting is the best idea for our son. What do you think? Is there anything else I should tell him to sway him?

Tell him there's nothing wrong with what he's got (though I'm sure you do all the time), but if it's not your body it's not your choice. You believe it's for your son to decide whether someone should take a knife to his penis.

If he still argues against it he's arguing from emotion, so give him some time and stick to your guns.

 

[ibostyle11]

You mean that you know of two men who regret getting circumcised at an older age?

Yeah. Sorry for the confusion. I'm more awake now so let me specify what I said before more clearly. I'm friends with a crap load of frat guys from my old college, and we all talked about this as well as other stuff, while hanging out (drinking).

-Two got circumcised at a late age (older than 18) and decided that they preferred how they were before. The pain that came with that choice wasn't exactly enjoyable to them AND they weren't happy with the results.

-But there was another two who were circumcised as kids and angry about it. They started working on getting the foreskin back (both claimed to be getting good results) but realized that they actually liked being circumcised more and stopped.

These cases seem to show that guys will be happy/comfortable with what they've known their selves to have in the first place.

-I then mentioned that there were three who got circumcised later in life (after 18) and said they preferred it. They all gave various reasons for this, but I won't go into that, since it's irrelevant to what you were asking. I'll just point out that they ALL said that the pain was an issue, and that they would have preferred it if it was done at an age that they wouldn't remember.

These cases in conjunction with the ones above show that it can be altered later, and regardless of the results, they'll have only their selves to thank/blame for whatever happens.

-There weren't any cases among the guys where they were circumcised, choose to get the skin back, and were happy with the results.

This isn't to say that those cases don't exist. I'm sure there's plenty. I'm just saying what the guys I talked with said. Everyone besides those 7 mentioned above said they were fine with what they grew up with and that was that.

And I don't doubt what countryguy said about his friend, but in all reality, his friend was an exception. Circumcision is uncomfortable beyond reason in MOST cases. Not traumatic, but the pain is at the very least, a concern to all who would have it done. If it wasn't, there would be far less arguments about it being so unjust (with the exception of course being those that argue for religious reason).

Again, I'm of the opinion that it should be left to the boy to decide. More often than not, they'll be content with what they grow up with regardless of what YOU choose to do, but why not let HIM choose.

Hope that clears things up...

 

[petite]

Thank you for clarifying, ibostyle11. Actually I am curious as to why an uncircumcised man would choose to be circumcised.

That does clear a lot of things up.

 

[ohioboxerbriefs]

Mind you he won't be able to really show his son how to clean it of peel back the foreskin. I'm not saying for or against just merely putting in my two cents.

My mom didn't know to show me either.
But we got figured out

 

[D_Ezdras Dingledonger]

Mind you he won't be able to really show his son how to clean it of peel back the foreskin. I'm not saying for or against just merely putting in my two cents.

This is a very important point and I hope you do make sure you teach your kid about this. My parents were too prudish to bring up anything relating to my penis and I was 17 before I figured out that my foreskin was supposed to retract. I had developed phimosis (an inability to pull it back) and had to have a circ, but put it off til age 20 because I was so reluctant to get it done. It pretty much ruined my teenage years from a sexual standpoint and to this day I'm still in disbelief that it happened to me. It's unreal to think that I had never seen my (exposed) penis head before the age of 20.