cut or uncut ??? (dick related)
Fatback
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i got 1 month to decide whether or not to have my son circumcised. my basic rule is that medical interventions should be about preventing or stopping a health issue. this does not apply here. it seems unnecessary and basically like plastic surgery. i am not considering it for religious reasons. i still can't decide.i've only had my own dick to worry about for 35 years. i'd also like to find out what the ladies or gay men think about cut vs uncut dicks, but this probably the wrong place? Or is it? 
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seriously, this needs to be a soulstrut quotable. totally made me spit coffee on my pb&j sandwich.
i was always under the assumption that leaving the foreskin on can cause irritation and possible infection if youre not clean enough. though i dont have kids, never been around children, and had my penis flap removed when i was a baby... so really, i dont know anything.
good luck with your foreskin issue...
i'm cut. that whole shit about uncut cock being more prone to infection seems to be based on some 18th century standards of personal hygiene. as far as irritation, it seems like uncut has more protection.
we had to make that same decision when my little guy was born, we decided not to as there is no MEDICAL reason to get it done.
somebody was talking about how being uncut lets you jack off lotion free.
1- esthetic(a couple said "hate dick's that looks like a sharpei")
2- sexual(girls sensation related)
3- hygiene
this is true. I wouldn't put my kid through it i don't think. He probably wont remember it, but it seems kind of cruel. As for the infection thing, not a problem, unless you never wash it or something. Back in the day when people didnt shower it might have been a problem, but today i just cant see that being a concern.
unless its a religious thing, id say avoid.
It's evolution, baby. If we didn't need it, we wouldn't have it.
Tell that to my (now removed) appendix.
This is the key
Hard & Leathery? Unless you wear sandpaper drawers this smacks of anti-circumcisionist propaganda. Free the snipped dongs!
And lack of sensation doesn't seem to be a problem for too many men AFAIK.
Fact.
unless your religious needs call for circumcision, i say leave it alone
The recent study that found this acknowledges that there is a fairly neglible difference, but it is still noteworthy in places like Africa where HIV is rampant and condom use is low. A condom is way more effective.
if you wear a condom, you are even less likely to get any sexually transmitted disease, cut or uncut
I said I'd send the Michael Henderson for nothing. The foreskin was an nice gesture but you needn't have. Really.
Fatback,
Personally, as a father (though not of a son), I wouldn't have done it even though I'm cut. It just doesn't make much sense for medical reasons though, yes, it would cut down (possibly) on the risk of infection or disease but so would basic hygiene and condom usage.
Generally, I've heard that women prefer cut for aesthetic reasons. I've never heard of an uncut penis being less pleasurable for the women sexually speaking. That doesn't make much sense to me.
This is what is really important. Think about when a kid first has to take showers in gym or is about to get his first handjob. Kids are at a real self conscious state of their lives when their penis starts to go public.
Always seems weird to me that so many boys in the US are circumcised while across the rest of the world it's pretty much limited to religious groups. How come it's so much bigger a deal in America than elsewhere?
condoms are for little dudes.
Leave it on and he's got the option. Take it off and it's a done deal.
Have you ever heard anyone complain about being circumcised?
You're the parent, trust those instincts and make the decision for your kid.