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(That cheeky young floosie already used this quote today, but I screen grabbed it yesterday so there. Don't sue me spjv)


If you could choose, would you prefer your/their penis to come in it's original packaging, or to have been trimmed?

The reason I ask is because of two confessions written yesterday: 

 



A penis that has the good fortune to remain as nature intended requires no lubricant for any sexual activity. It's simply a better design. Form follows function after all.

If I could wave a magic wand, and given that world hunger had been taken care of, I would give back each and every foreskin to each and every forlorn penis that had it hacked off. The practise is ludicrous, barbaric and unnecessary. It's child abuse.

Here's the up side - in my opinion
Enhanced sensitivity for the man
Easier to give a hand job - more tricks to perform and doesn't require lube, as stated.
Better to blow - see above
There's also a big plus if you're having unprotected sex, since the shaft of the penis, once it's in the vagina (or wherever) slides up and down inside that beautiful excess skin creating reduced friction, less or no need for lube and a longer more quality fuck. It's the difference between being poked and being filled.

The down side
I can't think of one.
I don't buy into the hygiene thing. If you wash you are clean, if you don't you are not. And if there really was an argument for health benefits of circumcision, European men would suffer from higher incidences of penile cancer, std's etc. And they just don't. (Spare me the HIV in Africa argument too because it's got more holes than swiss cheese)

I had never encountered a circumcised penis until I lived in America, so maybe it's a case of being more comfortable with what I grew up with.
I can drive an automatic, but I'd much rather be in control of a stick (shift of course)

Are there men out there who would reverse the procedure if they could? Or women who would change the current condition of their partner?

Now before I nix my sex life completely, let's be clear that I am quite fine and dandy with a modified one.
Especially if it's attached to an attractive, intelligent man.
But I would really love to get my hands on a foreskin...

 

Joseph Fiennes. I imagine he's got a nice foreskin on him.

 

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amboabe said:

I got mine.

November 13, 2008 1:35 AM

airheadgenius said:

Oh man, I can't stand it! If only you weren't so miserable!

When I start corresponding with a new man, I literally have my fingers crossed that he had sensible parents and still has all his body parts. Please please please say you were born in Europe. Please please please say your parents were hippies. I have seriously considered moving back to England just so that I don't even have to think about it.

November 13, 2008 7:01 AM

spjv840 said:

Definitely a fan of the foreskin.

People who use the argument of hygiene are usually pretty ignorant

November 13, 2008 7:44 AM

spjv840 said:

"cheeky young floosie"

AHEM!!

November 13, 2008 7:56 AM

profrobert said:

I've thought about this over the years, and by the time my son was born, I decided it came down to two things:  I do think it's important psychologically to look like Daddy, but what tipped me was the Africa heterosexual HIV study.  It is rare that a study produces such compelling results that the researchers stop it because to not release the findings and recommendations would be unethical -- I can't think of another study that produced that kind of reaction.

Yes, it hurt, and he was uncomfortable for about a day and a half.  But he won't remember it any more than I do, and I'm very happy with my own equipment (and evidently so is my wife).

I think this is one of those things that, as a parent, there is no clear-cut (no pun intended) answer.  I assume you didn't have your boys circumcised, and I'd never criticize you for making that decision.  We all try to do our best for our children and hope that on balance we get a lot more right than we do wrong.

November 13, 2008 10:29 AM

zeitgeisty said:

My parents had to go out of their way to get me and my brother snipped in France.. Of course they were jews, and maybe had some vague idea that they were going to raise us as jews, however somewhere along the line that never materialized, as I only discovered I was jewish when I was 13 by accident...

Other than that, I think it's what you're used to.. I remember as a kid whenever I was with a group of friends peeing agains a fence or whatever, and when we would see a kid with an uncircumcised penis, it was always a bit of a shock... they looked like pigs in a blanket, and were very disturbing...

As far as hyguien is concerned, I would definitely have to say there's something to be said for it... the thought of cleaning out smegma for the rest of my life seems like just one more additional thing that might lead to having me jump off a bridge.. Besides which it's easier to catch diseases with an unsnipped cock.. that's just fact.

November 13, 2008 10:43 AM

airheadgenius said:

spjv - aren't they just? And SO convinced that cleaning their dicks would be a chore. I'd hate to see their ears because the practise of cleaning those is infinitely more complicated.

Oh, and cheeky young ex-floosie then.

prof - there is NOTHING to say that any part of your son's body is going to look like you! He may be taller or shorter, more or less muscular etc etc. He may have different color eyes than you. Did you see the cartoon at the top??

As for the African study - the answer is to provide condoms not chop off body parts, but the Pope won't let that happen.  And I cannot imagine using the results of a study on sexual practises within poor African communities with little or no access to health care as a justification for the health care decisions of a child living in the west. There's absolutely no comparison.

I would be as likely to agree to having my sons ears cut off as the end of their dicks cut off.

November 13, 2008 11:51 AM

airheadgenius said:

Zeit - WRONG! It isn't "just fact", it's just politics.

And it takes maybe 5 seconds to wash smegma from a penis. About the same amount of time as it takes to wash your arsehole and presumably you manage to do that.

Women actually produce more smegma than men. You can use the same hygiene argument for female circumcision in fact. Oh, and you know that stuff that accumulates behind your ears? That's smegma. Go book an appointment to have your ears removed.

And was your discovery made when you showed up at your surprise bar mitzvah???

November 13, 2008 12:00 PM

zeitgeisty said:

nothing ever accumulates behind my ears...

Like I said, I'm not knocking uncircumsised pricks, it's all about what you're used to.. if you enjoy looking at some grotesque looking pig-in-a blanket/testube in a turtleneck/ dunkin' donuts cruller looking thing, then more power to you!

November 13, 2008 12:49 PM

airheadgenius said:

See, you circumcised people always exaggerate about the appearance of the beautiful complete penii. In reality, when erect they don't look much different, although they behave entirely differently. When flaccid, both examples look pretty silly which is why women don't bother looking at them.

Still interested in the surprise bar mitzvah...

November 13, 2008 1:19 PM

zeitgeisty said:

there was no surprise bar mitzvah, it was a few months AFTER turning 13 that I found out..  My family was visiting my aunt and uncle in France, and my cousin mentioned something about being Jewish, so then I asked my parents why was HE jewish and not us? and that's when it came out... and that was that.

November 13, 2008 1:26 PM

zeitgeisty said:

as far exaggerating the 'complete penii'.. one woman's beautiful is another's repulsive looking cruller..

November 13, 2008 1:27 PM

zeitgeisty said:

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upload.wikimedia.org/.../American_pigs_in_blankets.jpg

November 13, 2008 1:32 PM

waitmexico said:

I don't care either way, but I do think it's distasteful for people to bash uncircumcised penises as gross or unhygienic; it isn't true and as spjv said it seems to come from a place of ignorance.

November 13, 2008 1:36 PM

zeitgeisty said:

Hey it's MY opinion... what's the diff?

November 13, 2008 1:42 PM

airheadgenius said:

zeit - the pig in blanket one looks much more like a flaccid cut penis than an uncut erect one. With it's poor shiny upset head sticking out. You mutilated people don't know what you're missing.

waitmexico - men with no foreskin lash out. It's residual pain and they just can't help themselves. Pity the poor mutilated penii - it is a troubled and angry beast.

November 13, 2008 2:07 PM

zeitgeisty said:

you're just a skanky cruller lover...

November 13, 2008 2:09 PM

airheadgenius said:

By the way, I am pretty sure that cutting off women's tits would lead to a dramatic reduction in breast cancer. Can't imagine why it isn't done routinely in America given the penchant for finding essential body parts superfluous.

November 13, 2008 2:09 PM

zeitgeisty said:

CRULLER LOVER!!!!....

November 13, 2008 2:11 PM

airheadgenius said:

Ok, that's it. You have gone too far. I am indeed a foreskin lover, but accusing me of loving cruller is a low blow. First of all, I had to waste precious time finding out what the hell it was and then I find that it is a wheat based delicacy. How dare you suggest that I would consume something that was not gluten free??? Is this payback for saying you look like Sally Jesse Raphael or for saying your knob was easily bendable therefore skinny?

November 13, 2008 2:17 PM

zeitgeisty said:

hahaha...  My rod is like IRON... IRON!!!!... and my glasses look NOTHING like sally jesse Raphael...

You however, my dear sweet airhead, are nothing but a cruller loving cruller lover...

CRULLER LOVER oh CRULLER LOVER...

one day you shall soon discover

That covered rods are not the way to go

Unsheathed beauties are better to blow!

cruller lover.. oh cruller lover!

November 13, 2008 2:27 PM

airheadgenius said:

zeit - I have blown both and still MUCH prefer one that hasn't been damaged. I am very adept with a needle and thread by the way and, if you are not very careful, I will show up at your house with a piece of chicken skin and restore your foreskin for you.

November 13, 2008 2:39 PM

zeitgeisty said:

hahahhaha.... Keep that chicken skin away from my shlong!!!! POLICE!!! POLICE!!!!!... I've got 911 on speed dial!!!...

November 13, 2008 2:42 PM

zeitgeisty said:

In all seriousness though... I don't think I've ever asked anyone I've ever been with what their thoughts on uncircumcised cock... they were mostly a bunch of idiots anyway, for all I know they could all be cruller lovers too...

November 13, 2008 2:43 PM

spjv840 said:

hey we all know that when it comes down to it, uncut is always the most fun and the best at what they do.

November 13, 2008 3:24 PM

zeitgeisty said:

growrr!!! another cruller lover!!!!

November 13, 2008 3:25 PM

spjv840 said:

And that's a bad thing how exactly?

Speaking of high school mentality..

November 13, 2008 5:10 PM

amboabe said:

I was actually embarassed about my forskin in elementary school and jr high. My brother is snipped and would tease me when we were kids about what a mutant I looked like. I fantasized about the day when I would turn 18 and be able to go down to the doctor's office and get circumcised like all the other boys.

November 13, 2008 5:10 PM

bananas15 said:

As a member of the uncut brigade, I salute you, airheadedgenius.

As for the ignorant 'smegma' argument -- yeah, if you don't wash under your foreskin for a week you might get some fucking build up, but for those who presumably wash daily, there's likely zero chance. Hygiene is what makes the world go 'round.

November 13, 2008 5:38 PM

spjv840 said:

Yay bananas15!

November 13, 2008 8:10 PM

venusinfurrrs said:

srsly wooo for uncut fellas.

November 13, 2008 9:08 PM

recycledbrooklyn said:

The Africa/AIDS argument is entirely ridiculous and I'm surprised anybody still falls for that.  There are no similar statistics anywhere else in the world between cut and uncut cocks.  None.  If it were true in one place it would be true in another.  Same for all other cock maladies.  It's utterly fallacious.  If you applied the same misuse of statistics to everything else in your life you'd find yourself well-screwed, and not in a good sense.  Wake up.  

Same for any argument about children wanting to be just like their parents...  Think about your own life.

As far as looks go, most of us have far worse things to worry about than what our genitals look like.  If we paid more attention to those things, perhaps more people would look at our genitals...

Get the picture?

Grow up.

November 13, 2008 11:47 PM

fishnetsandlight said:

Oh, grow up, Z. Everyone's genitals look as though they come from Mars.

Dick is dick, so long as it's healthy, clean and a decent size.

November 14, 2008 12:19 AM

theinternationalthreat said:

i am so thrilled that the idiotic comments are coming from Z and not the ladies, as we the uncut, grew up with fears that living in this country we would somehow be seen as genitally inferior...

but in my experience, the opposite has been true.  we feel more and feel better.  so bash away cut crew...

as for cleanliness, you really do have to neglect basic hygiene for it to even become an issue.  something most were to taught to avoid by showering and the like as children.

November 14, 2008 2:34 AM

E-Claire said:

Unless there is medical reasons, such as a tight painful foreskin during erection, then leave them whole!

I agree AHG, to people who got their sons circumcized, would you do the same to your daughters for cleanliness? While you're at it, take their belly buttons, their toes, their ears. Its cruelty. And these days now it's proven that it has NO health benefits, it will soon be the case that its  the cut boy who stands out to his friends.

November 14, 2008 7:14 AM

zeitgeisty said:

If you people seriously couldn't tell I was joking, than I'm gonna go jump off a bridge...

goodbye cruel world.

November 14, 2008 9:41 AM

airheadgenius said:

amboabe - and yet you're so fond of it now. Some things mature with age.

bananas - peeps unfamiliar with foreskins have visions of bucketloads of smegma like a giant stilton. Little do they know. Hurrah for a complete body!

You are getting cheers from all over actually...

recycled - well said sir. If Americans travelled more they might be a bit better at separating fact from fiction. According to some, Europeans are walking about with giant foreskins stuffed with knob cheese and disease. Travel good people! Find out the truth for yourselves!!!

fishnets - zactly

international - you and your knob are vastly superior. Hold your heads high!

E-Claire - off with their belly buttons!!! It's true that there are less American boys being mutilated than a decade ago, but it's still done very routinely. Honestly, I do not know any other way of reconciling the decision to do it other than repression and denial. Shaking my head at the plight of those tiny willies.

Oh and the Japanese have developed this balloon stretching technique for a too tight foreskin.

Zeit - JUMP JUMP! (jkng) ((maybe))

November 14, 2008 3:26 PM

dwpbike said:

my wife loves my 'skin.  she sucks me daily, so i keep it fresh and clean.

November 14, 2008 8:08 PM

anathema_teatime said:

Hmmm . . . my last comment seems not to have posted. My point was just that, yes, there's a bit of a taste. OMG, genitals are not completely sterile! I've heard that women have a bit of a taste as well, and many men enjoy it. I personally ask my boyfriend not to bathe for a day or so before we get together, because I love the taste of his uncut cock. The circumcized variety has no taste, and that is less sexy to me.

And, amusing quote from Dan Savage. When he decided not to have his son altered, the main argument from his friends was the old "He won't look like his father." His response was that people had said many, many things about his cock over the years, but to his great happiness, "It looks just like your dad's" was not one of them.

November 15, 2008 10:48 PM

shakti_vos said:

this was an argument my ex and i had over our son.  he, being Jewish, wanted the boy circumcised, i thought that to be odd, since he's certainly not religious in any way.  he had to have a discussion with his father, who said that they never intended on circumcising him, except that in Israel they just whisked the boys off and did it (unless they were religious, then they'd wait for the Bris).  he finally saw the light, and we have a beautiful, intact boy.  

the Africa study came out after, of course, but being a responsible human being, i'm going to teach my child to use condoms.  lack of condoms, not presence of foreskin led to STDs and HIV/AIDS in Africa.

November 15, 2008 11:31 PM

Thea said:

Thorny issues like these are why I'm not having kids (along with being very fond of my body as it is).

AHG, your writing made me hungry but I think you're wrong about the studies in Africa being a crock. NY Times confirmed it, and hiv/aids info website Avert cites studies in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda showing 60%, 53%, and 51% less incidence of hiv infection respectively among circumcised men. Condoms don't work when they aren't used, which is a big issue in sub-Saharan Africa.

November 16, 2008 8:21 PM

shakti_vos said:

"Condoms don't work when they aren't used, which is a big issue in sub-Saharan Africa."

that's the point, the rates are going to be vastly different in a place where responsible use of condoms is taught to be the norm.  

November 17, 2008 6:46 PM

florentinoariza said:

recycledbrooklyn - you have given me the name for my new band: cock maladies

November 21, 2008 4:50 PM

Thea said:

Soooo the studies are NOT bogus just are not applicable to the rest of the world. That's a major difference.

November 24, 2008 1:33 AM

LydiaSarah said:

Ah, the circumcision debate. It seems I am late in coming but here goes, my two cents:

Personally, I'm against circumcision. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. It's there for a reason and, as airheadgenius has said, there are no compelling reasons to get rid of it. Your rebuttal to the African HIV argument is spot-on. Plus, I think it is a cruel thing to do to a baby who cannot consent. In my experience, men who are circumcised often wish they weren't (or at least wonder a bit wistfully about what could have been) whereas men who aren't are usually happy their not. Nobody should have a choice like that made for them when they are a helpless infant.

But, PLEASE everybody, I really hate how people having this argument become so disparaging of cocks that don't conform to their preference. We're talking about penises here, let's be a little sensitive, okay? If I were a circumcised guy hearing women talk about how inferior circumcised penises were, I'd feel pretty damn defensive too, and maybe a little more inclined to bag on foreskins (and make "pig-in-a-blanket" comparisons.)  All the back-and-forth is pointless. Cocks are great, period, okay? As far as personal experience goes, I have loved both cut and uncut models. In general I would say uncut cocks are more sensitive but that's only in general--I've also run across some uncircumcised cocks that were every bit as sensitive as any uncut one I've ever played with. They might have been even MORE sensitive with their foreskins but that would have been getting a little ridiculous. And, yes, blowjobs and handjobs are "easier" but, personally, that's work I enjoy anyway. And I have noticed no difference as far as my own pleasure goes.

So, in short, for the sake of respecting a person's right to make their own decisions about their bodies, for the sake of the guy, and because nobody's given me a compelling reason to support circumcision, I am against it. I will not do it to any son I should have. But let's not blow the difference out of proportion. You're fine the way you are, guys, whatever that way is.

And just for the record, I am also Jewish, and observant.

December 3, 2008 10:05 PM

airheadgenius said:

Lydia - "COCKS ARE GREAT". I'm getting a t-shirt printed!

December 3, 2008 10:22 PM

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