These things are very controversial when it comes to women, but apparently most think it’s ok when it’s about men.

Do you blame your parents? Why did they do it? Scared of HIV? Not wanting to explain their son how to clean underneath the foreskin?

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    10 months ago

    When I asked my parents they said “We did it in case you wanted to marry a Jewish girl.” It didn’t make any sense at that time either, but since I don’t have any problems with it and have never known my penis any other way, I don’t really mind.

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    Very unhappy and violated. I don’t have a lot of sensitivity left (except in one area they missed) because they took too much foreskin. It makes me last longer but I can’t help but wonder what I’m missing.

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    I know why my parents had me cut. It was because my father had been cut, and that’s just what was done at the time. It’s not a good enough reason for me, and if I had had sons I would not have allowed them to be cut in turn. My children are not my property.

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    Pretty good. Glad that I don’t have a foreskin. No offence to people who do, but it freaks me out. Any time I watch porn and it features a penis that clearly shows foreskin I get weirded out and have to find another video.

    (Don’t know if that’s something uncircumcised people can relate to going the other way around?)

    Way back when I lost my virginity, the girl I was dating was like “oh nice, my last boyfriend wasn’t circumcised and he didn’t like to clean himself very well”. Made me feel good in that very nervous moment.

    I had this done to me when I was 7 years old, due to some medical issues I’d had in my really young years of life. I didn’t think much of it then, just like being kinda excited about being a hospital patient. I was given a very generic/non-branded action figure as a surprise afterwards, which I named after the surgeon, who had been super nice to me. And I got some time off school.

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    Wanting to be uncircumcised is like declaring your pleasure is more important than your partner’s pleasure. It’s saying you want sex to feel so good that you can’t last long enough to satisfy your partner. Anyone who bashes the practice of circumcision is misogynistic.

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    Pretty good. I like my dick. My wife likes my dick. I never had a complaint about my dick before I met my wife. If I’m missing anything by being circumcised I can’t imagine what it might be. I don’t really think I’d like my dick to be any more sensitive than it is. It was done to most of us in the States back in the 70s. I have a friend who had to have it done in his 30s and he said it was fucking awful. I’ll take what I have.

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      10 months ago

      I never had a complaint about my dick before I met my wife.

      This implies that your wife does complain about your dick 😜

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    It’s amazing that FGM is outlawed in much of the first world (plus America), but not MGM.

    All guys want is equality. Yet ne’er a feminist around when men are the unrepresented victims.

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      10 months ago

      Men shouldn’t count on feminists to liberate them. Men must liberate themselves without resorting to misogyny.

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    10 months ago

    I wish it wasn’t done to me. I blame American customs more than my parents. What a barbaric thing we do to our children.