What is it with circumcision?

I thought it was to make it easier to clean.

However, they forgot about the feeling of constantly having your nerves rub against your underwear.

<--circumsized.
 
DarkMagician said:
I thought it was to make it easier to clean.

However, they forgot about the feeling of constantly having your nerves rub against your underwear.

<--circumsized.
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Lol. Thanks for the info. Want to start a poll?
 
Badly Shaved Monkey said:
Why do so many traditional cultures and religions want to harvest foreskins? There are discussions to be had about the medical benefits, but were those societies capable of developing this practice because of supposed medical benefits? If not, then why did they pick on that piece of anatomy?
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I dont know why that piece of anatomy was chosen, but biblically speaking circumcision was necessary to continue fulling the covenant between the descendants of Abraham and God.
 
Personally, I think it's an atrocious practice. There is no utility in it. The myth of 'uncleanliness' is just that, especially in the past four hundred years with hygiene becoming prevalent (or in places where it was always recognized, as in Japan).

I feel that those who are circumcized are victimized. How would you feel if it were a custom to have your lips removed at birth because they are 'unclean'? It is a practice that needs to be stopped in the way it is done currently. Heck, you want your foreskin removed at an age of responsibility (16/18), sure go for it. But 2 week old babies don't have a say or choice in the matter. For the always-hypocritical Christians out there: Abortion is bad, mutilation is okay?

Yes, I was a victim of this insulting practice. (That's two in the poll, right?) ;)
 
TragicMonkey said:
I'd also point out that in that long excerpt from the foreskin pathologists, where they discuss lubrication and movement, etc, none of that would actually work with a foreskin if you were wearing a condom.
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Exactly!

Cavalier, and proud of it: BSM may be badly shaved, but has not been trimmed in any other way.
 
I was circumsised as a child (three in the poll) and I've no idea why. My parents were, if anything, anglican. I think it was just the done thing at that time and in that place.

I've never felt victimised, insulted or deprived because I have no foreskin. I can't remember it happening, so I don't know if it hurt or not. And having nothing to compare it to, I can't say that I get any less sexual pleasure than a man with a foreskin.

The sum of my opinion therefore is "meh". My children are not circumcised, as I don't see any point in it.

I'd like to quote Robin Williams:

"We're going into the desert, folks. You don't want sand in there!"
 
Fidelio said:
Umm...yes bud we remember the paltalk streaking episode a couple years ago.
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Yeah, maybe I should stop doing that.
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No streaking! Bad magician!

Anyway, I thought it was for hygenic purposes. The forskin attracts infection or something.
 
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jmercer said:
Best line up the lawyers:

http://www.circumcision.org/foreskin.htm



We - or at least many of us - have been screwed, indeed.
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One would have to wonder how many more of us would be premature ejaculators without circumcision. It is not implausible that one aspect of the initial inclination in some societies was, in fact, to decrease sensitivity (pleasure, if you like), but with an eye toward making sex a more equal experience for both men and women.
 
http://www.noharmm.org/paige.htm

In the United States, the current medical rationale for circumcision developed after the operation was in wide practice.

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When a custom persists after its original functions have died, it may be accorded the status of ritual. American parents and physicians no longer cite masturbatory insanity as a reason to circumcise children, but they have found other justifications for the ritual that they believe in as firmly. When the same operation is variously reputed to accomplish antithetical goals - in the case of circumcision, to repress sexuality and to liberate it, to make the penis or clitoris less sensitive and more sensitive - we can be sure we are dealing with ritual, not rational thinking. It is astonishing that such a little bit of skin carries such a great load of power.
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As I was sitting here reading this my dog was rolling around on the floor and boom what do I see?His red]RED ROCKET.Maybe ancient cultures were trying to be less animal like in the appearance of their sexual organs.Just a thought.Make that four in your pole.Pun intended.Does anyone really think that thousands of years ago some guy decided to cut off his foreskin to increase his wives pleasure?Iseriously doubt that.
 
I don't support female infibulation, therefore I don't support circumcision. I was under the impression that it was a religious notion all bundled up with some claim of health benefits.
 
I was cut as an infant and I have no memory of the event. Heck I didn't even know I was missing a part till around 16. So what is it with cultures that wait till 10-12 years of age?

Do they figure each little boy needs a bit of physical and psychological trauma involving his weiner?

"Step out of line and it'll be the whole thing next time kiddo."
 
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Hamhawk714 said:
As I was sitting here reading this my dog was rolling around on the floor and boom what do I see?His red]RED ROCKET.Maybe ancient cultures were trying to be less animal like in the appearance of their sexual organs.Just a thought.Make that four in your pole.Pun intended.
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Hey, great minds think alike. I was wondering about this the other day after I had started this thread and you are right. Although prepuces are present in our domestic species, when their todgers up and ready for action they are extruded fully. Given early man's proximity to animals and the metaphorical and magical importance of male animals to human sexuality, perhaps there is an element of mimcry involved.

Mind you, I'm glad we didn't try to engineer anything quite as baroque as the ram's male implement.

Badly Shaved Monkey wishes to make it clear that his detailed knowledge of animal penises is derived from his professional training and is not merely an unpleasant hobby.

Edited for typos, but not for decency or taste!
 
Here's a joke on the subject ;

Q What happened to the blind circumciser ?
A He got the sack.
 
zaayrdragon said:
I'm reminded of notes in the Skeptic's Annotated Bible to the effect of, "God loves Penises. And he HATES foreskins."

I just think a trimmed John Thomas is more attractive, easier to keep clean, and looks a lot less worm-like.
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It's true that from an aesthetic POV, circumcised penises look better, but the idea of being easier to keep clean is a nonsense. I'm uncircumcised (as is Richard Dawkins, BTW), because in Britain it really is down to the whim of the doctor in the delivery room. At Dawkins's school, boys used to divide themselves into Cavaliers and Roundheads for sports like Rugby.
Oh, and foreskins act as increased protection against contracting STDs, which explains why they were naturally selected in the first place.
But those without may consider themselves a cut above the rest... :p
 
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