Originally Posted by retracted

The thing about those who say "keeping yourself clean is easy" is that they ignore the fact that, when you're older, you may not be able to do what you can do now. Such as keep yourself clean due to immobility. Or do the splits. My grandfather had diabetes and he couldn't move his arms beyond a certain point and he often fell when he walked so you can imagine that he had a hard time being able to do certain activities. He died before things got too bad for him foreskin-wise (triple heart attack and bleeding from the brain) so he never had to get a circumcision although he would have had to eventually because, like many old people, he had a lot of pride and wanted to do things for himself even when he physically couldn't so.