Cut guys: when and why were you circumcised?

Circumcised as an infant. My mom relates the story my dad took me to the DR. for a checkup, DR. clipped my tongue, did something to my navel and circumcised me. Dad came home and said I was bleeding from 3 places and he was never going to take a kid to the DR. again. I cannot blame my folks for doing what they thought was in my best interest.

I was born in Los Angeles in the early 1950's. At the time it was the established norm if you were WASP to get your weenie whacked.

As a teenager I asked my Mother about it. Her statement was that she and my Father had intended to leave me intact, but that she had endured a difficult delivery of me and spent some time in the Hospital after delivery had taken place.

The doctor walked into her room and said "we circ'd him this morning". My parrents were not even asked. They had intended to leave me intact.

Though I don't see anything wrong with being cut, I think that basically it is both a personal and medical decision based on need or reason. If you have problems with the presence of a foreskin, then out come the "scissors". but....... "If it ain't broke!.....Don't fix it!"

I was in my late 20s riding a stretch of desolate roadway up near Ellenville or Kerhonkson (my brain froze out parts of that day). The motorcycle veered somewhere and I went flying, crashing down on my front side I skidded along a stretch (the accident reports claimed 65 feet). By the end I had ripped off the front of my jeans, my undershorts were shredded and there was a gash on the foreskin. Although it might have eventually healed with the stitches, I made a decision (while under the influence of hard pain killers) to have it removed. They did that while resetting my broken bones (or just before or just after-I was out like a light by then). But hey-it's all okay 'cause I was wearing a helmet and had no head injury and my handsome face was undamaged!

I missed the skin for about a second, then the stiffness and pain from the other surgery (leg, arms and right hand, not to mention that annoying catheter) set in. By the time I finished physical rehab-4 months-I had no interest in sex. When sex reentered my brain, I noted I was still able to get an erection and to cum, then I got together with a lady friend and we had a test run. All worked well and my confidence was back to where it needed to be. A few weeks later I hooked up with a male friend of mine and here too all was fine. To me that was all I needed to know about my foreskin-sure, it had served me well; but I could function without.


At times I wonder how life would have progressed with my skin; but, it's gone and I must move on.

cut before I came home from hospital shortly after birth. My dad was cut at age 30 when I was 8 and I remember his befor and after and think the after looked best, but I too if I had a choice would be intact.

Cut as an adult because that is the way I always wanted it and hated having grown up uncut.

If the dozens of enquires I get from uncuts as to how to go about getting it done as an adult is anything to go by, there are a lot of guys out there who share my sentiments.

My 2cents worth

Comon dood.... what POSSIBLE reason could you have against letting men have a choice about there own cocks?

I don't care if you have foreskin or if you're cut... they both look good to me. I don't think it's mutilation either to get cut. But a man should be allowed to make a decision about what MAKES him a man and decide for himself.

There is no argument in the world that can be made that would justify taking away a mans choice about his cock.

The fact alone that so many people feel that they DIDN'T get a choice shows you that there is a problem with routine infant circ.

Also, stretching shaft skin to look like a foreskin is not a real foreskin. It just looks like one. It doesn't reverse the fact the real thing is missing.

One thing that has a factor on why for some people they say they have lots of sensitivity after getting cut, versus the people who say they lost a lot is the technique and style of the cut.

cutcocksonly, you look to have a lot of skin still and they didn't cut your frenum which is the most senstive part. For other guys like me, it's tighter, more foreskin was cut off and the frenum was removed as well.

For anyone who wants to get cut, i would DEFINITELY recommend they get it done the way you did, since it's going to preserve as much of the frenum and nerves as possible. This also limits the about of scaring which also damages nerves and it takes a lot less time to heal.

Make sure to tell the doctor not to touch your frenum!

My parents had me cut when I was a baby, and I'm happy with it. I never felt that they abused or mutilated me in any way. I have a lot of sensitivity, so I can't at all relate to guys who say having a circumcision has ruined them.

For anyone who finds cut cocks beautiful:

Circumcised Beauty

From a very early age I noticed that my father's penis was different from mine. I thought mine would be like his when I grew up - until when I was 6 my baby brother was circumcised. From then on I hated my foreskin - even more so when I discovered that all my best friends had been cut and my sister tactlessly said that she liked the look of my brother's dick better than mine. I think this difference between us is why my brother and I have never been close, and I found this difference came between other pairs of brothers too - I thus urge all parents to have all their sons circumcised. Sadly I wasn't circumcised until after I was married. Although there was nothing wrong with my foreskin, being circumcised greatly improved my sex life and that of my ex-wife, and all my lovers since have said that they are glad that I am circumcised, especially a Chinese girl who had never had a circumcised lover before. She said that having sex with a man with a foreskin is no better than if he is wearing an old-fashioned thickwashable condom! Rik

Helston, are you a member of circlist, Gilgal Society, or similar? Did you use a template for you post?

Not true..
For many decades circumcision was standard neonatal practice in the US. It was adopted because studies showed that it reduced STD transmission and the US at the time, was trying to be proactive about STDs.

In the 50s and 60s- almost all the baby boys were routinely circumsized. If it hadn't been for my own Dad's, I would never have seen an uncut dick in the flesh till I was 20-something.

A bunch of hippie nature folk activists pressed hard to get this standard thrown out back in the day... and a lot of clinical research was done that threw doubt on the original findings of reduced transmission. These clinical studies were based upon lab experiments... not upon actual penises in actual pants.

However- as circumcision rates have fallen in the States ACTUAL data show that STD transmission rates have risen.
And new research from Africa shows a large reduction in female to male Aids transmission among the circumcised.

So- Sorry -proof is its healthier. Not a huge effect, but a definitive one.


Further- on the issue of pain.
There is this ridiculous idea permeating the culture as the result of the psychiatric seventies that ANY experience of pain is traumatic and that such traumas affect children in thr form of mental illness or personality issues later on.

The idea that if everyone had the perfect childhood, never suffered from want or physical pain or neglect, always had their "self esteem" re-inforced, we would have a perfect society- full of perfect people.

Of course- there is not one iota of evidence that this is the case; and lots of evidence against it.


There is nothing particularly bad about pain. ITs a sensory system we evolved for the purpose of enhancing survival thru LEARNING.

Pain teaches, it instructs, it warns. There is zero evidence that the experience of ordinary pain over the short term, as from ordinary injuries, surgeries, cuts and scrapes etc, has any negative effect on mental health or physiology.

You give your kids a shot to immunize them- it hurts, but they survive it and they learn that some experiences are painful but worth it.

Most human cultures thru history have had rituals in which young children are exposed to severe pain. Particularly male children.
Part of the reason for this is that its important for human children to learn that pain can be dealt with, can be survived and can be endured, when necessary.
These rituals survive because they enhance overall tribal survival by not allowing human children to become TOO frightened of mere pain to do what must be done.

So- have to reject the idea that circumcision is "bad" merely because it, temporarily, "hurts".

Yeah... the kind of guys who have "issues" over their genitals , or issues with mommy and daddy.
You might as well be angry with your Dad for not giving your Mom an X chromosome so you could have been a girl.... ( oh... the breasts I could have had...sniff )

Sorry... but if you're an adult circumcised man who's upset over the fact of it... then grow a pair and act like a man.
I know a guy who lost half an ear in a barfight and I never hear him whine about it.

Look- you complained about the fact that its a HURT needlessly inflicted by your parents... so , yeah its perfectly analogous... even moreso since there is ZERO evidence that pierced ears translate to less infection as an adult.


I am not a "pro-cutter" I am not saying EVERYONE should be cut. If you don't want to trim your son's willy, fine.
However, The anti-cutters are saying that EVERYONE should abide by their worldview... that everyone should make the descision when they are full grown... that your parents have no right to make any descisions about your body or health that involve any form of pain or irrevesible loss.

Sorry... but my stance is NOT extremist, nor totalitarian. Your's IS.


...to our lasting shame.... but - what? Are you suggesting that agitating to make medical procedure illegal is equivalent to gossiping about bradgelina?

Why would I? I am not adverse to anyone expressing any opinion.
I am adverse to those opinions that are angling toward, unnecessarily, telling me what I can or can not do.
Its the push for circumcision of infants to be banned that I object to.

And its the "theory" behind this agenda; a theory predicated upon poppycock, that I argue against.


No reflection upon you intended... people have enlightened me to my own poppycock from time to time...
That whole unconditional love and no spanking thing sure SOUNDED like a brave new world...

But, science proves its bull.

*hi5*


It should be up to you to decide, not your parents. You can be circumcised at any age as I'm aware of? At least an age where you can decide whether you want to be or not. Therefore why the rush to have it done when you're a baby? Is it because from generation to generation they have forced their religion on you? (that's if it was done for religion purposes of course).


I do think cut cocks look better, but I'm uncut and I don't want to be cut as when wanking a cut cock it's weird and a bit difficult.

I didn't have a choice in this matter...
It is a ritual for the males in my family to be cut at age 12 or 13 years old...
I think & was told it serves like our male rites of passage...just never questioned it beyond that...just alway followed this tradition.

shortly after birth