Personally, I'm opposed to the practice but generally just for bodily autonomy reasons; let people be old enough to know their body and consent to it. I'm circumcised and my feelings are basically that it sucks that it happened, that I wouldn't do it or ask for it to be done or advise it if I had control over what was happening to a kid, but I wouldn't want my foreskin magically back or do any of those weird regrow procedures.
Like this is my dick as I've known it, I can't remember anything else so there's no baseline to compare it against. Its not like losing vision or a limb later in life; I'm not missing anything that I ever knew I had/learning how to live without something I'm used to - it was gone well before I could use it. My parents' dumb religious practices are dumb, but I have been way more impacted by the homophobia side of religion than the missing skin on my cock side of things.
Lots of people have horror stories about botched jobs, lack of feeling/sensitivity, irritation, erectile issues and worse, but I've never really experienced those from mine so maybe thats why I dont have such an angry outlook about it. If it never happened to me, maybe a couple things would be easier and maybe a couple things would be harder, I'm perfectly satisfied with what I've got, but that doesn't mean other people should have it done to them.
Personally, I'm opposed to the practice but generally just for bodily autonomy reasons; let people be old enough to know their body and consent to it. I'm circumcised and my feelings are basically that it sucks that it happened, that I wouldn't do it or ask for it to be done or advise it if I had control over what was happening to a kid, but I wouldn't want my foreskin magically back or do any of those weird regrow procedures.
Like this is my dick as I've known it, I can't remember anything else so there's no baseline to compare it against. Its not like losing vision or a limb later in life; I'm not missing anything that I ever knew I had/learning how to live without something I'm used to - it was gone well before I could use it. My parents' dumb religious practices are dumb, but I have been way more impacted by the homophobia side of religion than the missing skin on my cock side of things.
Lots of people have horror stories about botched jobs, lack of feeling/sensitivity, irritation, erectile issues and worse, but I've never really experienced those from mine so maybe thats why I dont have such an angry outlook about it. If it never happened to me, maybe a couple things would be easier and maybe a couple things would be harder, I'm perfectly satisfied with what I've got, but that doesn't mean other people should have it done to them.
Some cultures (in the pacific at least) do it around 11-13 as a becoming a man thing.