circumcised vs uncircumcised?

Question

I've seen in mens health some questions lately about circumcision and whether to do it or not to do it. I'm just curious how many of you out there are circumcised and how many are not and how old you are and where you're from. I'm from canada and 33 and my whole family are uncircumcised as well as many of my friends. Just curious.

very amusing how passionate people are on this subject. the question was are you circumcised or not and what age and where you are from but people are offering up their opinion on why one should be circumcised or not and are quite passionate about it and that wasn't even part of the question......wow.

I would like to say I'm appalled at one persons answer. HIV is a human disease not a Hetero or homosexual disease. I'm not homosexual but even as a heterosexual I'm offended that the idea of Aids being a "gay disease" is still around. but anyhow I was merely looking to compare numbers and demographic and didn't really want to spark such a heated topic.

Answer 1

circumcised 18 California

Answer 2

I'm uncircumcised, 21, and from the US, my entire family is (to the best of my knowledge) and no one has ever had any problems (again, to the best of my knowledge).

The stereotypes surrounding the foreskin has always struck me as strange. I mean, it's not dirty and prone to infections if you keep it clean, and it's not hard to keep it clean - I mean, it's far easier than, say, brushing your teeth. It's a part of your body, and you should wash it like a part of your body during a shower/bath; how hard can that be?

Okay, so some people do get problems with their foreskins, but most of them are easily treatable without any kind of surgical intervention. Plus, most statistics say that around 95% of uncircumcised men never develop any medical problems with their foreskins, and of the 5% that do, only a fraction of that is severe enough to warrant circumcision.

Also, the trend is decreasing in the US, hovering around 60% nationally (for those done on infants within days of birth before discharge). Yes, that statistic doesn't include circumcisions done after the neonatal period, but circumcision beyond that period is uncommon (and certainly doesn't account for a 25-30% chunk of the population, as one person here asserts). This seems to indicate a few things: most uncircumcised guys are fairly content with the state of their penis, and most uncircumcised guys don't have medical problems that necessitate circumcision.

The rate is already much lower in other countries such as Canada, the UK, and Australia largely due to the health system (who'd want to pay out-of-pocket for what is largely a cosmetic surgery?). And around the world, 70-80% of the world's male population is uncircumcised.

Sorry to drag on and on, but sometimes some people need to be refuted, if not corrected.

Answer 3

I'm uncircumcised and won't change it since I like it that way.

Keeping clean hasn't been an issue; you just pull back the foreskin and rub the head when you shower. Quick, fun, and easy. The foreskin is made of the same tissue as your lips, eyelids, vagina, etc.

I'm 18 from California.

And yeah, circumcision is mostly an American, Jewish, and Muslim thing. (The USA is the only industrialized nation that does it to most newborns and yet we still have the highest HIV rates in the developed world, although the rates are falling a lot; it's as low as 14% in some states, especially on the west coast). Also new studies have confirmed that circumcision reduces sensitivity and pleasure (since the head dries up and rubs against everything, making the skin harder) and makes masturbation more difficult, which is how it was made popular by Dr. Kellogg in the 1800s here in the USA. Another study found a higher rate of ED, but that's just one study; it doesn't have multiple studies to back up yet. Other risks of circumcision include meatal stenosis (urethra closes up), hairy shaft (skin pulled towards shaft, along with pubic hair), decreased penis size (trapped/webbed or concealed penis, when done tight), and more listed in the link below. You can also see international and American statistics in the link below, in addition to the studies.

Answer 4

I'm circumcised. I definitely think circumcised penises look better, and I've read several studies as to its "benefits". (Namely, easier to clean and lower risk of diseases.) I've often wondered what it would be like to have a foreskin, however.

For the record, I imagine there is a trend when these types of questions are asked: cut men will prefer cut, uncut will prefer uncut. After all, once circumcised, he cannot effectively reverse the procedure, and an uncircumcised adult will generally NOT want to have any part of his genitals removed. Since neither camp can easily change positions, each will support his own.

In any case, as long as it works to your satisfaction, who cares?

Answer 5

Everyone hold up- lets get some things straight!

Circumcision has been associated with a lowered rate of transmission of HIV to MEN from WOMEN. HOWEVER, this is based on epidemiological data from Africa, where HIV is a heterosexual disease. This conclusion CANNOT be applied to places like the US and Australia where HIV is more a homosexual disease. Circumcision does not prevent any other type of STD or infection.

Circumcision does help older people keep themselves clean, partly because sex ed was not as common back in the day, so these old codgers just don't know enough about how to look after their tackle! Younger people who know enough, and are capable of taking 2 seconds to clean themselves in the shower, do not have a reason to circumcise based on hygiene!

Circumcision DOES reduce sensitivity in men. And who cares what women think??!!

I am uncircumcised, and I think if the same procedure were done to women for the same 'reasons' as they are to men, it would have been labelled as barbaric a long time ago.

Answer 6

I'm not a man, but....I'll answer anyway. I read in two college textbooks that circumsion is an American (and Jewish) thing. Most people born outside of the U.S. don't circumcise their children. Many commonly held beliefs about the benefits of circumsion have been discovered as not true. A circumcised member isn't any more clean or healthy than a uncircumcised member just because it's circumcised. I never knew that until I read it in those textbooks a couple years ago. In my personal life......I have had two Hispanic boyfriends born/raised in Mexico. Neither one of them was circumcised. One of them is father and his son isn't circumcised either. My other boyfriends were born in the U.S. and were circumcised.

Answer 7

Not. In my demographic in Australia, it's about 50/50. Younger than me, mostly not, but it's starting to become popular again as doctors have found it to reduce diseases if you don't wash. The big push now is because "studies" have shown a lower rate of aids in uncircumsised men in high risk groups. So, mothers, if you aren't going to teach your boys to wash, or practice safe sex, go for it !
Edit: Funny thing is, during the "act" it is retracted and pretty much the same as a circumsised one. Why rip the top off your convertible ?

Answer 8

I have a son and the reason we had him circumcised was because my husband is and every man I have ever known (only 3) that was uncircumcised wishes that he was. I think it is becoming less popular now though......I am in the US

Answer 9

I had my son circumcised a few hours after birth. I'm glad I did because if it's not kept clean, it can become infected. It was just a personal preference---My sister-in-law didn't have her son circumcised and her son is fine with it.

Answer 10

I am a circumcised American along with everymale in my family along with my two sons. My grandfather was circumcised when he was an infant in 1907. We are all Protestants.

Again the bigoted minority know as anticircs are out again with their distortions. They have a foreskin fetish--otherwise known as a sexual perversion. I have no problem with parents or males deciding on their own to leave them intact. But I DO HAVE a problem when a small minority try to tell everyone else what to do.

1. Canada and Australia and the United Kingdom have low circumcision rates because their national health care won't pay for it. So many uncircumcised men have to contend with tight foreskins and bacterial infections.

2. Some errors for correction in some of the responses here:
a. The statistics here are badly incorrect. Most hospitals don't keep statistics for inpatient circumcisions. Nor for
those cut as outpatients in hospitals and in
pediatrician and family doctor offices, and in private and public clinics. The constant rate in the USA for the last 20 years is about 85% of all males, infants, adolescents, and adults. We are now approaching 90% of the USA males. Routine circumcision is being considered positively in NZ and Australia. A number of Canadian provinces are also raising their percentages.

b. Circumcision is now a painless procedure, if the doctor is told you want it. The doctors are wrong to do otherwise. A pain killing shot to the penile nerve or Emla cream, etc. on the whole of the penis does prevent pain There are also other ways, especially used by Jewish mohels (circumcisers).

c. Circumcision is a medical necessity in the age of a major HIV epidemics. 60% of men who have intercourse with an infected woman do not get HIV from sex play before penetration without a condom. Wearing a condom is a necessity for total prevention during intercourse.
STD rates are less in cut men. Hygiene is simplified.

d.It is a cultural custom in the USA and for many in other English speaking countries, in all of Polynesia and other South Pacific Islands, in the Philippines, in South Korea (99% in young male adolescents). It is a religious custom in Christian Ethiopia, and in all of Israel (Jews, Muslims, and Christians), in all the Islamic countries, including Indonesia the most populated country of all of Islam, and in secular Turkey, also for Muslim and cultural reasons. All of East and North and many in South Africa practice circumcision as a preparation to adulthood or for religious reasons. It is catching on in West Africa for health reasons. Also in Mexico, in the cities, and in much of central America. In antisemitic European countries (France, Germany, Spain)
it is now catching on, mainly because of Muslim and American influences.

e. It is not true that the penis loses sensitivity after circumcision. The glans and now the whole penile shaft adapt to the loss of the few nerves in the foreskin. Those same nerves which carried impulses to the foreskin are still in the shaft and with circumcision are activated. There is a slight change in the outer layer of skin on the head of the penis (the glans), but it retains its sensitivity,even makes it greater as it expands without the restraint of the foreskin. The glans also gains staying power to enhance the female's orgasm which usually comes after the male orgasm.