Well said cutnbulls2ox, I can only add this, parents will never take the blame if they leave their sons intact. Future relation between parents and the boy might be seriously jeopardized if he isn't please with his circumcision. Is circumcision worth the risk ?

paring (imported) wrote: Thu Jun 29, 2017 4:25 am Well said cutnbulls2ox, I can only add this, parents will never take the blame if they leave their sons intact. Future relation between parents and the boy might be seriously jeopardized if he isn't please with his circumcision. Is circumcision worth the risk ?

Thanks. Just hope its helpful. Most young guys aren t comfortable talking dicks n cutting with their dads. I hope this son is and is happy being cut. Great Dad to worry n want to talk with his son and try to make it right. I wish men talked more about circumcision and the pros and cons face to face and long before they have to choose as new fathers and never talked with other cut and uncut males to know what is best. Why are men so afraid to discuss cutting dicks? Every male makes that choice or has it forced on him and his dick. Men gotta talk about it way more. And tell the truth about it to each other.

I too am a baby boomer that had my penis mutilated at birth. About 15 yrs ago I made the decision to commit to the foreskin restoration process. If anyone is familiar, I used the t-tape method for about 90% of my now full coverage foreskin restoration. I've been tremendously satisfied with my coverage for over ten years now. So I now have substantial experience of many years with and without a foreskin. And my experience, I wish I had restored many years earlier.

I have always detested the reasoning to cut a boy at birth "to be the same as his father", if that logic is to be followed, and the father had only one arm, or the father was blind, the child should also have an arm amputated, or that the child should also be blinded at birth? Ridiculous??? It makes no more sense than the routine removal of a health functioning foreskin. And what's so amazing, is that Dr's will refuse to remove healthy testicles or other body parts from a responsible consenting adult, but seems the foreskin has always, and continues to be fair game from an innocent infant. I read a couple of years ago that in the US, Dr's and hospitals brought in over $2BILLION in unnecessary circumcisions, that leads to little incentive to stop these mutilations.

I must agree with tuggin64150, when my nephew was born I tried to talk my sister out of circumcising him, but again her argument was that "his father was"

Bottom line, it is the mutilation of helpless babies who cannot consent. We were all born with foreskins after all, so nature intended us to have them.

Being born of European parents who lived through WWII, I was lucky in that I was not circumcised. Back then a circumcised penis could be a death sentence.

I hope the world has progressed since then.

Mandler1

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Mandler1 (imported) wrote: Thu Jun 29, 2017 6:08 pm I hope the world has progressed since then.

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It has certainly progressed. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom are examples of countries that have seen a significant decline in male circumcision in recent decades. In USA the neonatal circumcision rate is down to 55% (85% few decades ago) and it's declining.

Botched Circumcision Baby Awarded 1.3 Million

You may have seen this video before but if it's new to you it's worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEsXjIJeSic

The year before I started 6th grade I went to summer camp and there was only one boy there who was uncut. The rest of us all thought he was deformed and yes some of the other kids laughed at him. I didn't.

I think the thing that most surprised me when I first learned about circumcision about a year later was the realization the genital mods were the rule rather than the exception. At least that was true in California.

I was probably about eight-years-old when I found out I'd been circumcised. For some reason, I was in the bathroom with my mother and my aunt, and my aunt was commenting on my circumcision. "The doctor didn't cut enough off. He has too much loose skin at the bottom."

I hadn't seen too many boys' dicks at that point, but the ones I'd seen had all pretty much looked like mine: I was born in Texas a long, long, time ago, and pretty much every boy was circumcised. I saw my first uncut dick in the seventh grade in the boys' bathroom. I was standing next to a kid from Yugoslavia, and he was uncut. I was probably grown before I saw another one. Even when I was in college at the University of Washington and at the University of California, San Diego in the late sixties and early seventies, more guys I saw naked were circumcised. I was a little shocked to see that my great grandsons were, but they live in Texas, so that might be a factor. None of my grandsons born in Oregon are circumcised. I was tempted to ask my daughter in Texas - their grandmother - why those boys were circumcised, but being an OB-GYN, she is the one who delivered them and is probably the one who circumcised them (I don't know that for sure).

As a kid growing up in Texas and in Kansas, I would have probably hated having an uncut penis. I would have definitely been the oddball. I never saw one uncut penis the whole time I was in high school, and we all walked around naked in the locker room and showers. Now that I'm an adult, however, I wish I hadn't been cut. I have done some foreskin restoration, and while it's not the same as not having been cut, it is better than it was.

When I was a kid I was the oddball as I didn't know any other boy in school that was uncut which fueled my desire of circumcision.

Can't help but to wonder if circumcision as a child comes out of the womb doesn't begin a life long process of

the desire for mutilation of ourselves. Having been circumcised at birth there was never an experience of not

being so. Circumcision was done for somebody else's convenience not the child's. The next step was to have

a vasectomy for somebody else's convenience (so the gal didn't need to take precautions). Although there is a

good argument of self protection from false accusation of impregnating somebody. And then the next logical

step in the chain of events would naturally be castration either chemically or surgically. That is after all exactly

what the feminist movement is all about. (de-masculinize society) in order that they can run it all the way they

see fit with men as slaves to women. Just all a thought of curiosity to be sure. I've certainly managed to go thru

all of the steps in the process. Only makes one wonder if that very first cutting without any choice of the patient

started a life long chain of events. Not that I'm placing blame on my life's decisions in any way. But it IS a thought.