Male circumcision is genital mutilation.
If it’s your culture, your culture is dumb.
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
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Except it has more upsides than downsides. In fact, except for extreme outliers there are no downsides. Not once in my life had I ever thought "I wish my parents would have not circumcised me as a baby". From a US perspective, I think it looks better, most women think it looks better, and it saved me from cost, pain, and awkward teen years of waiting until adulthood to make the decision.
OP, you said it yourself, really. You aren't unhappy to be circumcised. You know at least one guy in real life who hated not being circumcised. Do you know anyone in real life; not the internet where people with negative outlooks on an issue tend to be the most outspoken, and not from all the other countries with different cultures and norms, but that you actually know that was mad about being circumcised? I work in a field that's very... Not shy about bringing up things like this. I've never met a guy who wished he wasn't circumcised.
Nanook can go ahead and call it mutilation, trying to lump it in with a dangerous and sexual pleasure ruining practice done to women in a handful of places, but I'll hard disagree. Mutilation is "a severe and disfiguring injury." I don't see circumcised as any of that, and neither do most people where OP or myself are from.
There is like, no upside its literally you making up reasons to justify your condition lol.
You're doing the same thing, but hey, we can both start throwing links at each other to back up our points, if you'd like.
But you know what, lets just say for the sake of argument neither dick has any medical or hygiene or STI risk differences (because there's loads of evidence showing uncircumcised people are at a greater risk of getting those)
I think it looks better, and most people in my country think it looks better. Personal preference? Sure. But personally, we got better looking dicks. The other medical benefits are just a bonus.
Sure buddy, go play with your half dick
Smegma
Don't do it. Let your kid choose as an adult. You can't undo circumcision.
Absolutely barbaric practice. Obviously not in favour of genital mutilation.
You'd be removing a lot of sexual function for masturbation (now you need lube) and a lot of nerve endings that give pleasure are now chopped off. Dried out numb penis head/gland. Less sliding when having penetrative sex so it's also worse for women.
For what? In honor of weirdo American puritan? Kellogg brother who hated masturbation? No,it's bullying. What a rancid country the USA is.
British penis owner here. Cirumcision is rare in this country and as far as I know the rest of the world. I imagine most British people would find it strange, the inverse of your friend's experience. My instinct is to say don't perform an unnecessary medical procedure on your child and let them decide as an adult. You can't put a foreskin back on. But I sympathise with the cultural aspect of it you're having to contend with in the USA.
Side note: I did consider getting circumcised at one point. I was in a BDSM relationship. My penis was consensually "hers" and she preferred it after being with a Jewish guy. It was a rule that I couldn't get it out without retracting my foreskin. If it had become a long term relationship I might have done it.
you can absolutely get a foreskin put back on, that's how trans men get their penises constructed
Dude I have a foreskin and it's fucking rad. I can pinch it closed when I pee and it'll fill up like a balloon. How could you deny your son that?
You could also consider chin implants to give your son a strong chin. A strong chin is definitely going to have a positive impact in his life later on, and recovery will be faster and less painful as a child. Another thing to consider would be earlobe separation if his earlobes are joined. This will make sure he looks more normal and won't be made fun of in school. If you are asian you should definitely also consider eyelid surgery since it can reduce problems with vision and lead to healthier eyes
Or you could avoid cosmetic procedures on non-consenting children entirely.
Particularly one that is not solely cosmetic and will have a substantial impact on his sexual experience as an adult. That skin is meant to be there, it protects the sensitive parts of the penis from over stimulation when not erect. This constant stimulation on the head of the penis from clothing makes it less sensitive over time. And the skin being removed, itself, has sensitive nerve endings. Removing this skin means that circumcised men simply do not experience that same level of sensation from sex as they would have otherwise.
Beyond that. There are risks as well such as too much skin being removed causing the skin to become stretched with an erection, which can be painful and a possible source of sores and infection.
There is no good reason for it except. In the US, at least, it stems from weird prudish attempts stop boys from masturbating and has since then just become a norm that isn't questioned. Well question it. Forget it is the "normal" thing for a second. Would you cut off your daughter's labia to make it easier to keep clean or not breed bacteria or pass on STD's or whatever other justification they have for circumcision? Are there any other parts of your newborn you want to permanently remove? To flay off? No? Then dont do it to your son's penis.
You can't be bullied if everyone is uncut. And as you say it's cultural, it makes absolutely no sense for me and I don't understand parents who voluntarily butcher the genitals of their children. I can't believe it still exists.
I had a "friend" in highschool try to make me feel bad about being uncut. Saying the typical pseudoscience of "you're dirty" "girls don't like it", it was that day that I decided this guy was stupid beyond repair.
I did as a kid because I was different from everyone else.
As an adult I'm so incredibly thankful that I didn't suffer genital mutilation because of social pressure from people I couldn't care less about.
I'm very happy being natural.