The majority of uncut dudes I know plan on cutting their future sons/have cut their sons. if they plan on cutting their sons while remaining uncut, it is kinda a shitty thing to do.
If these fathers plan to have their sons cut at birth, they should make it for two for the price of one, do the father when they do the baby
Uncut dads should probably get circumcised if they want their sons cut. Imo.
On the one hand this is a reasonable enough argument to make. If a man sees fit to deny his son his foreskin, then naturally he should be willing to lead by example and have his own removed first. It seems only fair, because surely he must have some very good reasons to believe that it's beneficial for the son, such that you would expect him to want those same benefits for himself. If he's not willing to get circumcised then he must either believe, through his own experiences of being uncut, that the purported downsides of having a foreskin aren't significant enough to warrant him getting his removed, or that he gets something of value from his foreskin which he is unwilling to give up. In this case it would be extremely hypocritical of him to circumcise the child, and take away from his son something he wishes to keep for himself.
On the other hand though, for the sake of playing devil's advocate, there is a big difference between being circumcised as an infant, and at any other time later in life. The one major advantage of getting cut at birth is that the man grows up never knowing any different. The pain of the procedure, and any discomfort during the healing process, are all complete before the child begins to form memories. From his perspective the only body he has ever known is one without a foreskin covering his penis, and so growing up it seems perfectly natural that way, and as though it's not supposed to be any different. The first time he discovers how to jerk off, it's without a foreskin. The first time he has sex, the same. The level of sensitivity that his penis has is already set. He has nothing to compare any of it to. For a man who contemplates getting circumcised later in life it's going to be a completely different experience. He already has something to compare it to. When he's grown up knowing one thing his entire life, suddenly he'll have to adjust to something new. He'll have the pain of recovery from the surgery. The trauma of seeing his penis as a bloodied and bruised mess. After years of understanding that the head was supposed to be encompassed by the skin, he'll have to adapt to the idea that now it's going to be forever exposed and interacting with clothing. He'll have to relearn masturbation. Sex might feel different. Some sensitivity might be lost. There'll always be a memory of how it was before, and something to compare it, so it'll never feel 100% natural.
That's why I think that I can understand how an uncut father might weigh all the pros and cons and ultimately decide that circumcision is the right choice for his son, but not something he would do to himself, even if I don't necessarily agree with that conclusion myself.
