Kind of like a secret handshake. To let people of the same kind know who each other are so they can show ingroup solidarity towards each other. I'm not saying they whip out their dicks and have a swordfight, but an extreme body modification like that is impossible to fake and unlikely to be done by anyone other than the faithful.
Then at some point it became standard in US hospitals to mutilate newborn boys in this way. It was done to me when I was a few days old and nobody asked for anyone's consent.
As a Jew who is circumcised, I've never understood the fuss. Sex still feels amazing, I like how my dick looks... idk. Like, nothing against people who are uncircumcized or people who are and wish they weren't... obviously everyone gets to have their own opinions about their own bodies... but I've just never understood it personally.
No, no. you misunderstood. I'm merely saying that I understand and respect the validity of the opinion of those who are upset that it was done to them. while expressing that I'm personally quite content with my parents decision to have me circumcised.
yeah, sorry. what I was trying to say was that I personally don't understand why other people wish they weren't circumcised. not that I don't understand the concerns around the practice, generally, Just offering up the voice that I'm circumcised and perfectly happy with that, since I mostly only hear people who were unhappy about it. BUT that's completely separate from any question about agency over one's own body. I totally get how my initial comment wasn't clear.
No two circumcisions (or penises for that matter) are identical. My cut left me with little sensation in my dick, which makes it difficult for me to orgasm. I also have zero gliding mechanism remaining because I got cut "high and tight" style, so I can't masturbate for long before it gets tears and bleeds. Even if sex feels amazing you never know what you're missing out on (NSFW example), like a person born colorblind. I once heard an intact cis-man describe the sensation as "if I could lend you a foreskin for one day you would flee the country and change your identity to keep it forever". I'm a bisexual man and I love playing with cute men's foreskins and it makes me sad when I compare theirs to my scar---which disturbs me additionally because I see it as two pieces of dissimilar skin tissue (mucousal and regular) that are fused together in a Frankenstein way. There is also the matter of the trauma from the pain (it's not possible to sufficiently aenesthetize a newborn as they could for an adult going through the same procedure), which can effect a permanent change in personality even without a conscious memory of the event. It fucks me up to think about how something like that could have changed me psychologically, even if the possibility is small.
Kind of like a secret handshake. To let people of the same kind know who each other are so they can show ingroup solidarity towards each other. I'm not saying they whip out their dicks and have a swordfight, but an extreme body modification like that is impossible to fake and unlikely to be done by anyone other than the faithful.
Then at some point it became standard in US hospitals to mutilate newborn boys in this way. It was done to me when I was a few days old and nobody asked for anyone's consent.
As a Jew who is circumcised, I've never understood the fuss. Sex still feels amazing, I like how my dick looks... idk. Like, nothing against people who are uncircumcized or people who are and wish they weren't... obviously everyone gets to have their own opinions about their own bodies... but I've just never understood it personally.
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No, no. you misunderstood. I'm merely saying that I understand and respect the validity of the opinion of those who are upset that it was done to them. while expressing that I'm personally quite content with my parents decision to have me circumcised.
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yeah, sorry. what I was trying to say was that I personally don't understand why other people wish they weren't circumcised. not that I don't understand the concerns around the practice, generally, Just offering up the voice that I'm circumcised and perfectly happy with that, since I mostly only hear people who were unhappy about it. BUT that's completely separate from any question about agency over one's own body. I totally get how my initial comment wasn't clear.
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No two circumcisions (or penises for that matter) are identical. My cut left me with little sensation in my dick, which makes it difficult for me to orgasm. I also have zero gliding mechanism remaining because I got cut "high and tight" style, so I can't masturbate for long before it gets tears and bleeds. Even if sex feels amazing you never know what you're missing out on (NSFW example), like a person born colorblind. I once heard an intact cis-man describe the sensation as "if I could lend you a foreskin for one day you would flee the country and change your identity to keep it forever". I'm a bisexual man and I love playing with cute men's foreskins and it makes me sad when I compare theirs to my scar---which disturbs me additionally because I see it as two pieces of dissimilar skin tissue (mucousal and regular) that are fused together in a Frankenstein way. There is also the matter of the trauma from the pain (it's not possible to sufficiently aenesthetize a newborn as they could for an adult going through the same procedure), which can effect a permanent change in personality even without a conscious memory of the event. It fucks me up to think about how something like that could have changed me psychologically, even if the possibility is small.