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?

  • Taco2112@lemmy.world
    10·
    11 months ago

    I understand the implications and I think it should be the person’s choice, not the parents but as a person with a penis whose parents had him circumcised, I don’t think about it ever really and it doesn’t affect my day to day life.

    In answer to your questions, I’m not sure why they did it.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
    10·
    11 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.

  • GingeyBook@lemm.ee
    6·
    11 months ago

    Looks like you’re looking for a very specific answer that you’re not getting.

    Doesn’t bother me one bit, as far as I’m aware I could have been born like this

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    11 months ago

    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.

  • emmanuel_car@kbin.social
    2·
    11 months ago

    Do we have to use such charged language? I was circumcised for a genuine medical procedure, nothing to do with hygiene, religion, or trends, so I’m very glad my parents had that done. Not so glad it had to happen in the first place, but very happy with the end result.

  • Cap@kbin.social
    2·
    11 months ago

    TL;DR: Don’t care

    Was a baby when it was done so don’t remember any of it. Been this way my whole life so have nothing to compare it to. Never bothered me, never was a topic of conversation, and nobody ever cared…probably because it is extremely common where I live.

  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
    2·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • Koen967@feddit.nl
      21·
      11 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 😜

  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    11 months ago

    My parents were told by the doctor that having it was hard to clean, (even as a baby) so came with increased risk of infection. I don’t blame them. I do think the doctor could have been more clear about how large the risk was, and what the downsides to having it done would be. But I obviously don’t have first had experience about the situation, so it could have been different.