Of course, you don’t really have a point of comparison to know what you’re missing, either. Erm, so to speak.
Even though the question was asked 15 years ago, I would still like to answer it. Yes, I am voluntarily circumcised and what will surprise many people is that I am a European from a German-speaking country, where circumcision only occurs among Jewish or Muslim inhabitants. However, I am neither Jewish nor Muslim, but come from a very old Austrian family whose roots can be traced back to 1398. And for us, circumcision of boys is an ancient non-religious family tradition that can first be traced back to a document in 1596. In contrast to Judaism, where circumcision takes place eight days after birth, or Islam, where boys are usually circumcised between the ages of eight and ten, circumcision is common in our family between the ages of 14 and 16. Where this family tradition comes from and what the background is is unclear (there is an unproven theory), but it has persisted to this day and so I also had my penis circumcised when I was almost 16 years old, in the way that was always customary in our family: the foreskin and frenulum are completely removed. Such a family tradition is extremely rare; I only know of five very old bourgeois families here in southern Germany and Austria who also have this tradition and have been able to prove it for more than 300 years. Among aristocratic families it is probably a little more common, but not very often either. The fact that there are a few, very few families with such a non-religious tradition is also practically unknown here in Europe. In any case, I have no problems with being circumcised.
Incidentally, it was very interesting for me when I was an exchange student in the USA in 1982: as boys at the two high schools I attended in Illinois and Wisconsin, we still had to attend swimming lessons naked and of course all the boys and the teachers saw my circumcised penis. They were completely perplexed that a blond, blue-eyed European from a German-speaking country was circumcised for non-religious and non-medical reasons – that didn’t fit into the world view of the Americans at the time and was beyond their imagination. And even the doctors to whom I had to go for a school check-up and who saw my penis were completely astonished and perplexed.
Those must have been unusually cosmopolitan schools. I would not expect that Midwestern high school students in the early 1980s would have even the slightest knowledge of circumcision customs in German-speaking European countries.
One of my friends married a (non-practicing) Jewish woman but her only demand of him was he gets circumcized because she didn’t like how it looked. So he did it at 28, they got married, and they now have six kids together so apparently he recovered?
OK, but you cannot go telling people, especially ones you want to marry, that you don’t like how they look, and by the way suggest some body-modification surgery! Not. Cool.
My 78 year old father just had to go through this procedure a few months ago as a result of diabetes. Apparently it can cause things to close up. Speaking with the surgeon, there are two usual groups who go through this procedure: people my fathers age and young people 18-25. I had assumed that the young people wanted it for appearance reasons, but maybe they were health reasons too.
A male who converts to Judaism is required to undergo ritual circumcision. Even if previously circumcised, although in that case the only thing that is done is to draw blood, but no real removal. I was born with no foreskin and the mohel insisted on drawing blood.