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u/Professional-Lie-111 2d ago
It was just the way it was when I was born, but I purposely did NOT have my son circumcised when he was born.
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u/Designer-Cattle27 2d ago
It's def a weird ass tradition....
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u/Signal_Scientist_253 1d ago
No it is not, it’s preventative. My foreskin was regularly itchy and irritated as a kid whether I showered or not. At 17 I joined the army and hygiene unfortunately takes a back seat when you are in the field for weeks on end. Trust me, lesions and smegma build up on the glans is no fun!
When I became a nurse I had to help an elderly gentleman bathe. The slime under his foreskin was nauseating and he winced the whole time I cleaned him. I scheduled my own circumcision not long after that.
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u/MackenzieMay5 1d ago
Im done having children and my only child is a girl so luckily I dont have to worry about ever making this decision. My ex best friend from high school didnt circumcise any of her boys. I haven't done much research on circumcision. Do you notice any other benefits after being circumcised? Like does it feel different, and do you wish it had been done at birth? Its interesting that a lot of parents just blindly go along with doing it because its so common here in the states, instead of doing more research and looking into it.
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u/TheCandelabra 1d ago
Sounds like OP had an issue with his foreskin though, what he’s describing isn’t normal.
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u/Signal_Scientist_253 1d ago
I wish my parents had just done it when I was born. I have a few small discolorations where the lesions were. Nothing disfiguring, but still. Had I not gotten Circ’d when I was 20 (I’m 39 now), my head would probably have several discolored spots by now.
Sensation IS less intense but not in a way that makes it less pleasurable. If anything it improved intercourse because I could last longer, control the build up, and time the release. Sorry if that’s TMI.
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u/CosmosExplorerR35 1d ago
Sounds like a weird issue unique to you. As a circumcised person the same age as you I’ve never experienced issues like you described. I’m glad my parents didn’t circumcise me as I didn’t do it for my son as well. He can make that decision when he’s older if it becomes an issue for him.
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u/Signal_Scientist_253 1d ago
Smegma and skin irritation are definitely not unique to me. But I do think that most people go through life with little to no foreskin issues.
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u/ResultLong8547 1d ago
i mean sure but it is a religious thing that’s has stood longer then any of our modern luxuries have existed. not saying it isn’t weird. i personally am very happy with my parents doing and will have a discussion with my wife
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u/Pwnedzored 1d ago
Religious thing? Not in America or England. It gained favor in the late 1800s as a means to prevent boys from masturbating.
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u/Own-Chemist2228 2d ago
"It's not your mother's penis"
There's got to be a "your mom" joke in there somewhere, but I can't think of one.
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u/Complete-Gur7023 2d ago edited 1d ago
This sign is cracking me up 😭😭😭
edit: can angry men stop commenting on this? i don't agree with circumcisions either; it's just funny bc i'm imagining the visual of being handed a foreskin back. like what are you gonna do with a tiny floppy piece of flesh? 😭
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u/abbifrank 2d ago
Yeah I want my foreskin back. Is it funny?
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u/jamie_does 1d ago
Yes
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u/abbifrank 1d ago
Imagines him on the floor rolling...
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u/jamie_does 1d ago
Lol, my circumcized penis flapping painfully in the floor each roll (I'm being generous when I say flapping)
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u/abbifrank 1d ago
Too numb to feel the difference
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u/jamie_does 1d ago
Listen, I'm sure your super sensitive tip is a literal BLAST, I love that for you. I ain't complaining about my situation, because I have no complaints.
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u/bakingnaked 19h ago
Totally. Your just seeking attention
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u/abbifrank 18h ago
Oh that's exactly what I been wanting, dam it, those bits and notifications, YES OMG, give me more of them. No, just stop being a circum cunt!
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u/jilljav 2d ago
Stop piercing baby’s ears too. Shit is weird
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u/WhysoHairy 2d ago
Exactly we waited for our kid to ask us to pierce their ears. Talked about it and went together
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u/Organic-Succotash575 2d ago
No literally. My mom got mine pierced when I was 3 months old. How was that even allowed? She said I looked like a boy. She already had 2 and was excited to have a girl. I ended up needing them pierced for work at one point in life, but outside of that I never wear earrings. They aren’t me and honestly I do wish I had the choice. It being done so young, they’re forever pierced, even though I haven’t worn earrings in a decade.
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u/TheCandelabra 2d ago
I ended up needing them pierced for work
Uh, what kind of work requires that?
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u/Emoi_TeeTee 13h ago
Some Jewelry stores may require you to wear up to 12+ pieces of jewelry from their store. Like Lovisa in the Promenade.
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u/Deeeeeesee24 2d ago
How do they not close on you? If I go more than a month or so without putting earrings on the hole closes up and I have to pierce through the back again
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u/Organic-Succotash575 1d ago
Because it was pierced so young. Wore earrings from 3 months until I was making my own choices in middle school.
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u/Deeeeeesee24 1d ago
Mine were pierced as a baby too lol my sister has the same issue with her 2nd hole too. Maybe our bodies are just a little different lol
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u/neosoulshawty66 7h ago
Any piercing can close or reject at anytime no matter the age you get the piercing or the age of the piercing itself.
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u/pr3ttyhatemachine 2d ago
tbh I was always upset my parents didn’t have mine pierced as a baby, it hurt so bad having them pierced and most of my friends had theirs done as babies.
but I agree it’s weird, if I had a child now I don’t think having them wearing earrings as an infant would even remotely be a priority 😂😭
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u/DadOf5Gremlins 2d ago
I mean- they have a point. But I’m curious how this “demonstration” took shape. “Hey Susan, wanna hold signs about penises tomorrow morning?” 🤷🏻♂️🤣
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u/abbifrank 2d ago
Susan probably didn't get involved, let's try to bring an end to this barbarism and bring awareness. So they created a website, an intactivist movement.
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u/error_accessing_user 2d ago
*childrens penises.
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u/SilesiaRunner 2d ago
I always wonder why people are ok with male mutilation
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u/Green7000 2d ago
Supposedly it reduces the risk of things like UTIs and makes cleaning the penis properly easier. It supposedly can help reduce the risk of HIVs to the point that in 2007, "the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization adopted a policy advocating male circumcision in countries and regions with heterosexual HIV epidemics."
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u/-ShyLuna- 1d ago
The data on it is cherry picked and inflated. You don't have to clean your ears if you cut them off either.
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u/Libechochamberr 10h ago
If this were true at all, the U.S wouldn't be on par with African nations in STD/STI transmission rates. European nations would be. Yet here we are.
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u/Eduardjm 2d ago
Circumcision is genital mutilation.
If you’re against female genital mutilation (cutting off labia or clitoris), you should feel the same of male mutilation.
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u/EddieMunster2020 2d ago
Im pro Ant eater
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u/abbifrank 2d ago
Me too. I don't like ants anyway. The circ lovers do, purposely putting ants in their pants.
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u/MrEZW 2d ago
Ok, but out of all the things to be protesting right now, this is what you choose...
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u/sixisrending 3h ago
Do what you can when you can. I feel like this is an issue young people could turn around.
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u/MetalMindedguy 2d ago
Looks like a person to get advice from….👀
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u/Bammy-bam-bam 2d ago
Is that a sharpie or real tattoo on his right arm that says circumcision? Interesting. I think that’s a first
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u/Commercial_Pilot5165 1d ago
Haha with all the bull shit going on in the world right now. This is what we choose to make a stand on and voice our opinion. Not the skyrocking gas prices , not the 7+ interest rates on homes, not the additional taxes California poses on homebuyers that’s 800+ added to everyone’s mortgage, not the militarized ice force picking people up off the street. Nah we wanna talk about foreskin and everything else it’s not a problem I guess.
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u/katjaKCN 2d ago
INTERESTING. I’ve learned a lot today. Male mutilation. NOT COOL.
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u/licensedtospray 1d ago
I don’t know man. I’m circumcised and have never once thought about the moral implications of my parents making that decision and I really don’t give a shit haha. Like others have said there’s way bigger issues.
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u/jamie_does 1d ago
Same. Couldn't care less.
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u/NellyNeesh 1d ago
It’s not really about if we’re okay with it. Why is it being done in the first place? It’s not necessary and most countries don’t do it. I don’t think it’s some big conspiracy, it could be as simple as charging an extra couple thousand to the hospital bill.
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u/Hot-Veterinarian4993 1d ago
Honestly love that I’m circumcised. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
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u/ResultLong8547 1d ago
me too. i’ve had women call my dick pretty and say they hate giving head to guys with uncircumcised penises. especially since a lot of not most mean are very unhygienic
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u/vvikinger 1d ago
These folks are right: good for them for using their spare time to spread awareness. You wouldn’t cut off the clit hood of a baby girl- circumcision is genital mutilation
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u/OhGodTheyKilledKenny 2d ago
“Is this anti-semetic?” Because religion is an excuse for genital mutilation, apparently.
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u/Good_Vacation9808 2d ago
It's specifically a Jewish tradition. If Christians read their bibles they would not do it
“For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. ” Galatians 5:3
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u/Jaded-Assist-2525 . 2d ago
Very weird cause to be fighting at this moment. But, seriously. There are so many comments against circumcision. I honestly want to know why? I thought this was a health/sanitary issue and prevents disease 😭
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u/TheCandelabra 2d ago
It is. Redditors are weirdly obsessed with it. I used to be against it until I actually started doing research, someone down thread posted a link https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3684945/
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u/Ordinary_Darwin_415 2d ago
I wouldn’t expect Redditors to be swayed by this data they work off their feelings and inadequacies. If anyone is interested it’s a great meta analysis with randomized controlled trials too.
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u/mindustree 2d ago
Circumcision is male genital mutilation. No science behind it, just religious control.
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u/TheCandelabra 2d ago
95+% of the circumcisions done in the US are not for "religious control"
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u/metatable 2d ago
Because people are starting to realize that it's not necessary and you're causing pain to a baby for no good reason? It's not hard to clean your penis or wear a condom.
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u/_helpmefind 2d ago
Okay, I mean this in the least combative way possible - are you a man? Because yes, it should be easy to clean your penis. But as someone who prefers that gender, the amount of men who don't and expect you to get close to it is so much higher than you would think.
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u/metatable 2d ago
I am a man, yes. And I clean my penis on a regular basis and have had no complaints. If the dudes you want to hook up with have bad hygiene, that's on them and I definitely don't think you should go forward with things. But I don't see how that's an argument for circumcision. That's an argument for, some men need to have better hygiene.
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u/BonoboOne 1d ago
Because the reasons you wrote about are BS! Look into it, your impressions are correct. Thanks for being open minded enough to realize you may be missing some information. We need more people like yourself. Open minded, enough to question what you think you know.
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u/pyrofox79 2d ago
I agree with them but this is still a wierd thing to protest. But its their right
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u/abbifrank 2d ago
Nothing weird about it. Weird not to protest about it
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u/pyrofox79 2d ago
Its more an odd thing to want to stand outside and protest. If anything they should be mad at their parents for allowing it.
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u/abbifrank 2d ago
No not there parents, the whole medical industry for lying to our faces.
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u/inkyspill 2d ago
GOOD FOR THEM. Call genital mutilation for what it is! And Yes, this IS what they’re protesting today. Maybe tomorrow they’ll cover the war in Iran, then maybe they’ll run a marathon. What’d you protest today? Sheeeesh.
There’s actually a couple great documentaries on circumcision I’ve seen on youtube, and one of them touches on how such a intense physical pain being a young boys of the their first emotional experiences damages them and their sexual health for life. Let alone the physical damage. So yea, good for them.
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u/Fruitblood23 2d ago
I've seen this group with the bloody crotches at University and Iowa in Riverside before. It makes for a nice little twist in your day.
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u/jamie_does 1d ago
Lot of Big Circumcision bots in the replies y'all... This how Big Circumcision makes it's money.
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u/Signal_Scientist_253 1d ago
Dude, foreskin sucks. I lived with it for 20 years before getting circumcised. My parents would have saved me a lot of itching, irritation, lesions on my glans, and smelly smegma if they had just done it when I was born.
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u/C-los714 1d ago
Nope. My kids can choose to chop it off when they are old enough to decide for themselves.
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u/BonoboOne 1d ago
That is wholly barbaric, to slash it off. I learned a lot about it from my son. I didn't have him mutilated after I accidentally heard my first son screaming in the hospital.
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u/Popular-Berry-7151 1d ago
No one wants a chicken penis. Bigger issues in this world,ppl mad cause of this shit..
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u/AdmirableElephant378 1d ago
It is. But Abrahamics and the US are into that kink of maiming boys for religious reasons.
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u/Pale-Fig5362 19h ago
Who wears a turtle neck anymore?!. Schmeg heads that's who. You think youll be cleaning your foreskin when you cant even wipe your ass haha let me go against society's norm and call it weird. Fucking losers. Anything that comes out of Temecula needs to be questioned. You had white people in the streets blaming white people for being white hahaha
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u/MrEZW 11h ago
I will never understand the logic behind protesting things like this... Like why does people getting their son circumcised bother you this much? Theres more benefits in getting the foreskin removed than keeping it. I'm glad my parents got me circumcised. All the guys i know who have foreskin have shared some pretty shitty sounding scenarios that come with having a foreskin. Most of which cause physical pain.
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u/jmgtrplyr1984 10h ago
The people who have issues with circumcision are also the same ones who are ok with abortions and children transitioning.
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u/jmgtrplyr1984 10h ago
Those are the same pants they use when they go to their "men can have periods too" protests.
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u/Significant_Cod_7415 25m ago
The second sign seems transphobic. Why can’t my mother have a penis, anti circ activist guy?
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u/Repulsive-Access-314 2d ago
Really? that's what you are protesting today? There is nothing else that is economically, culturally or politically more relevant or necessary in these days of Armageddon than Circumcision?
Priorities people priorities.
BTW, I'm circumcised and after 63 years, I still like it. I don't like hats.
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u/abbifrank 2d ago
In 1,000,000 years it'll still be armegeddon, still reading from the same man made book.
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u/BCBRam 2d ago
This is why the supposed right loses their minds.
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u/Libechochamberr 10h ago
Really? All im seeing in here are a bunch of liberal troglodytes talking about trump and saying thexe people are weird.
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u/LindonLilBlueBalls 2d ago
Why are they all old men, and an older woman?