what do you think about circumcision?

Question

Have you had both circumcised and uncircumcised partners?

Which do you prefer?

Why?

How did intercourse feel different?

would/did u circumcise your boys?

Answer 1

Circumcision -- male or female -- is genital mutilation. If an adult decides to get circumcised, that's their business. But for adults to decide to circumcise babies should be a crime.

Answer 2

Well, as a straight man, I haven't had much experience with feeling penises...

But I was circumcized myself, and I can safely say that I WANT MY FORESKIN BACK! If you had given birth to a daughter, would you be considering having her labia removed?

Circumcision is a once in a lifetime operation. If your son wants to get it done himself, he can do that at any time, and in fact, there are less complications if it is done as an adult.

For years, we have been told that removing the foreskin is more sanitary. This is a myth. While a man with a foreskin does have more moist membrane available to certain diseases, this area is smooth, and can be easily cleaned. On a circumcised man, this "moist membrane" area is exposed to the elements, it dries, wrinkles, hardens, and looses sensitivity. Also, depending on the size of the cut, a boy looses somewhere between 20-80% of his sensitive tissue. Due to the loss of sensitivity, circumcized men tend to need more vigorous penetration (rougher sex) to reach climax. This rougher sex will lead to small tears in the female's vagina, and in the male's tip. Since the circumcized male's tip is dry and rough, it is hard to get these tears cleaned out... indeed, it is hard to see them. Many of the more serious STDS are blood borne, and a circumcized male is at a greater risk of contracting these blood borne STDS, such as AIDS, warts, and Syphilis.

When an uncircumcized man becomes erect, the foreskin folds open like a section of accordion, and the shaft is free to lengthen without stretching the skin. When a circumcized man becomes erect, there is no foreskin to fold open, so his skin must stretch. When the circumcized male becomes flaccid, this stretched skin then wrinkles up at the tip.

This stretching leads to a number of potential problems.
For one thing, it takes a long time for the flesh to stretch out. In this time, the blood flow to the erectile tissue will be restricted, and if it takes too long for the skin to stretch, the tissue can be forever stunted, leading to a shorter member. The difference may be as much as an inch, perhaps not a major issue for women, but a great disservice to the male ego. The stretching can also lead to pubic hairs creeping up the man's shaft a little, again, probably not more than an inch, but weird, and gross.

One of the more serious problems is that if the cut is uneven, or if the skin is thinner in one part of the shaft than the other, the penis may find more give on one side when it stretches the skin, and can bulge over, leading to a curvature, which can be as mild as a bananna, or as extreme as the handle of a gun. it is difficult to get a perfectly symmetrical cut, so some curve is common.

While any circumcision runs the risk of stretching problems, child circumcisions run other risks, because the foreskin has not yet separated from the head. This can lead to accidental gouging of the head, incorrect reattachment (known as skin bridges) and accidental removal of the very sensitive frenulum.

I for example am a fairly normal male, and my penis has a slight curvature, one skin bridge on the underside, and a difference in pigmentation between the cut, and the uncut area.

Answer 3

i have two boys neither are done ,
my oldest is hygienic at 14 i don't see a problem .
My ten year old is clean now but part of his foreskin is adhered to his knob . the doctor said it will come back if he stays vigilant about pulling it back in the bath and keeping it clean.
I think it will all work out in the wash pardon the pun.
Now I am done . As a father of boys I do not understand what possessed so many parents to circumcise boys from my generation .
It is not necessary , i think it's abuse.
If a child has any medical problems with his foreskin it can be removed later , it might be painful , but at least there is some sort of choice

Answer 4

Well...

It's a personal choice for sure. I can tell you first hand that circumcision is best for hygenic reasons. I was raised as an uncircumcised boy, and I lived with alot of pain because of it. I was constantly in the doctors office with Urinary tract Infections... I'm sure most of you think it was because I was dirty, but not the case. My mom taught me to love a good shower with hot water and soap.The problem is that the foreskin keeps the glans, (head), of the penis moist and warm, and as most people know moist and warm grows bacteria and yeast.

I made the decision to be circumsized when I was 23. When I was 18 I lost my virginity and it was VERY painful for me. There is a sort of ligature that attaches the foreskin to the glans called the "frenulum". Just think of the same thing on the bottom or your tongue that attaches it to your lower jaw. As my penis became erect the frenulum stretched and eventually tore during intercourse. That was more painful than the recovery from being circumcised.

I will say that the foreskin does have nerve endings and does give pleasure during sex, but the pleasure I felt after being circumcised was deeper and more intense since I experienced more friction on the glans than before. Also, I personally like the way my circumcised penis looks.

The average infant circumcision takes less than 5 days to completely heal. 94% of circumcised children ages 1yr to 10yrs NEVER have a UTI, as opposed to 68% of those same uncircumcised that do.

As I said, it's a personal choice, but I think that it was the right choice for me, and only wish that my parents had done it to me as a baby. I have a brand new son and have had him circumcised because I KNOW it is better for him.

Hopefully you will make the right decision.

Answer 5

The truth is, uncircumcised males have a better sexual experience. It doesn't make a difference for women.
I didn't circumcise my son and he is 5 months old.
I asked my pediatrician if she saw more urinary tract infections in uncircumcised boys and she said she didn't.
My husband isn't circumcised and my father and father-in-law weren't either.
Recently, my father who is 70, developed bladder cancer and for medical reasons connected to the cancer treatment had to get circumcised.
He hates it and says that he thought sex would be better, but it isn't. He was the one that absolutely did not want me to circumcise my son.
I'm glad I didn't.
The AMA deems circumcision as an "unnecessary" procedure.

Answer 6

I have two boys, Ages 8 and 18 months and neither one of them are circumcised, And I wouldn't have it any other way. I am not God, And he put it there for a reason, Who am I to come along and have it cut off, Just because 'It looks better'...Penis' aren't for decoration.

As long as you teach the boy how to keep himself clean, And how to take care of himself, There shouldn't be any problems, And if later in life, He makes the choice to get circumcised, So be it, But as a parent, I would just leave it alone. :-)

As soon as my oldest son was able to pull the skin back, And learn how to clean himself, I showed him what he was to do, And told him it was VERY important he do it, And he's NEVER had any medical issues with his penis!

Answer 7

No comment on the first part.

No I would not circumcise. There is no medical reason to. The US is essentially the only country the routinely does it, without a religious reason. Studies are showing that there is a certain amount of harm that befalls the child. It has been equated with having your eyelids removed.

Answer 8

Hi there, Yes i have been with circumcised and uncercumcised men. Either way it is no different. I think that it is a personal choise as to weather you get your son the snip. My husband isn't and so there for if we had a son i'm sure it will not be done. The only thing to remeber is to teach your son to clean himself properly if uncercumcised as it can cause infection if not.
Hope this helps.

Answer 9

Seriously think through the cirumcision. There are some health benefits, but with proper cleaning then there is no difference. Circumsized men tend to be angrier individuals due to experiencing a tramautic event early in life.

Answer 10

Its not a ******* option for the women leave it alone for god sake it doesn't belong to you. It is grotesk mutalation that has been repeatley proven to have absolutley no benefits. Adult men may do as they want with there forskin but weve managed fine with them (myself included) since we lived up trees. How does a guy releief himself without a forskin anyway seems kinda painfull if you don't have one. Men have gone to very desperate messures with straps ect to regrow there forskin because there idiot parents decided to make the decison for them. They report a better glide action witch is what its designed for. It protects the very sensetive head, I'm sure it becomes less sensitive that way cause i cringe at the idea of walking around without a forskin it must be like walking around with shoes and no socks.