Foreskin Envy

I find your post quite upsetting, Kim. I don't think you quite understand the concept of having something stolen from you at birth, causing sexual dysfunction and other complications throughout life, without any sort of option to reverse the effects.

Maybe you should have yourself circumcised. Maybe you'd feel a little different once you know that pain.

All I want is for my Sister to make the right decision, and give her child a fighting chance at liking his body.

I hate the way I look. It'd be nice to be able to look down and see that I've got a decent penis to make me feel a little better.
But no, I can't. I'm circumcised, keratinization has toughened up my glans, and Meatal Stenosis has set in. It hurts.

You think that sounds pleasurable? You think that sounds normal?

I don't want my nephew to have to deal with the same problems I've faced. They treat me like shit, and don't even listen. How do you even consider that reasonable?

Wait, you're right. It's not my decision to make. It's not right for me to voice my opinion, especially not to my own fucking family. I should keep my mouth shut, and let "nature" take it's course. God forbid that I should have a normal conversation with someone.

When you have the grounds to tell me that causing someone unnecessary pain and discomfort for the rest of their life is alright, you let me know. I'll be plenty willing to admit that I'm wrong.

Well said! My father was circumcised, his brothers are all circumcised, my brother is, but I am not. Why not? My father was anticipating a daughter but got a son instead. That's one possibility. The other? My brother had no opening - the foreskin was totally closed, therefore circumcision was the only option. But to circumcise a boy just because it is fashionable or "the done thing" in a certain society is absolutely no justification whatsoever. So what if the father is cut, why cut your son? Sure, you created this boy, well done, but you have absolutely no right whatsoever to circumcise him, unless for religious grounds or for medical grounds. Those are the only exceptions. Circumcising any boy is brutal infliction of pain, unnecessary pain, and a violation of his human rights!

Then - if you don't cut him, ensure you teach him proper hygiene. Ensure yourself that the boy draws back the foreskin all the way. Ensure it is washed clean, dried, and the foreskin returned to its natural position. Daily! Daily! Daily! Even when he is 13, daily, daily, daily! He will thank you for it when he is big (pun intended). There is nothing worse than a tight foreskin where a guy cannot retract it, there's smegma, there are a whole chain of adverse reactions and conditions I won't get into here, but for his own sake, ensure proper hygiene, and he will thank you one day for your mercy in not cutting his manhood short, just because it suited you, or just because you are cut yourself.

I think you have the situation a little mixed up. I advocated AGAINST circumcising my Sister's child. They had no reason to. I hate being circumcised, and I feel that unless it's absolutely necessary (like your brother's case), it shouldn't be done. I'll be stuck with pain and dysfunction for the rest of my life, and it's all my parents' fault. I just don't want that to happen to my nephew.