FROM YOUR FIRST POST IN THIS THREAD:
It really took me quite awhile to envision where the stolen bits were once attached or how. I finally figured this out in adulthood by looking at two friend's penises. One was much younger and hadn't been cut at birth as the trend is downward. Another is from Mexico. I was struck by how much redder and more vascular their penises are than the standard U.S. clip cock.
When all was said and done I felt betrayed by my culture's disinformation campaign and angry that, of all things, a part of my penis was amputated.
I don't mean to be insensitive, but you took, I assume, a couple decades to discover that you had good cause to be pissed off. Well, if you weren't pissed off for two decades (or however long it took), why would you want to
become pissed off? I mean, that feeling is one of
contraction that takes you out of the present, reduces your connection with the life that's rolling out in front of you now, and, to me, has no real point. It's a feeling to be avoided. (Even, I might add, when from certain perspectives it can be justified.)
As 8085 percent of the worlds men have complete genitals, I could easily find pictures of intact men showing that they have a lot more skin on the penis and scrotum and everything moves more freely. I was cut so tight, I didn't know you could jerk off without Vaseline. I feel a loss and wanted to understand why such a thing was done to me. With difficulty I put the pieces of the puzzle together. I've long since abandoned a false pretense of superiority about being cut, knowing that my condition is one of inferiority.
Okay, here we begin to understand.
Your circumcision ... unlike, I believe, most ... has made a
real functional difference.
I'm not creating a sense of violation. Therein is the violation. Why do you think I am manufacturing it?
Your position (and correct me if I'm wrong) seems to be that
all circumcision is a huge violation.
Well, I don't want to give the impression that I care whether people are circumcized. The operation is generally unnecessary and probably should never have become as routine as it was for a time in North America.
But I know all kinds of circumcized guys who claim to have entirely satisfactory sex lives. And off this board, I've never heard a circumcized guy lament his circumcized status.
So the sense of violation
in principle that certain people hold seems to me to have little point.
Your case is a bit different, because, as I noted above, your circumcision made a
real functional difference.
But in this regard, I believe you are part of a small minority.
And haven't the intactivists essentially won anyway?
The circumcision rate is falling rapidly.
The passion can be put into urging governments to fund AIDS drugs in Africa or malaria nets for African children, or reconsideration of military policy in the Middle East, or creation of universal medical insurance schemes.
So many important causes, far from won ...
But really, dxjnorto, this is a bit silly of me.
We must respect the opinions of others even when we find we cannot share them.