Do American women prefer circumcised lovers?

In My Humble Opinion
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Personally, I find the snipped version more attractive. However, it could be simply because that’s what I’m used to. There are pros and cons of both. My purely logical mind tells me that unsnipped is a better choice but I’m sure the decision would create more than one heated debate.

Another reason parents made the decision to cut was that they wanted their son to look like “everyone else”. It’s also my understanding that circs are less and less popular in America so that reason has little or no bearing anymore.

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Cos it’s asking for opinions rather than facts maybe?

I was questioning the value of the poll and wondering that, as long as we were having a show of hands on unnecessary surgery on babies according to the preferences of the opposite sex, it was ok to give the go ahead to similar action on infant girls.

Could we have a poll who likes their women with bound feet? Nothing worse than big feet you know. I’ve heard they’re harder to keep clean and they smell bad.

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The Beansprout is unsnipped. And we’re Jewish.

We didn’t consider the possible whims of his future sexual partners when we made the decision. Who the heck knows what his future sexual partners will prefer?

I have only been with one intact man. It was dandy. I have no preference for snipped or unsnipped.

As far as the argument that the kid should be like Daddy…Well, the kid won’t be like the parents anyway. There will be differences. For example, my mom has dark-colored nipples. I have very light-colored nipples. I thought there was something wrong with me until I had an opportunity to see more naked women. (a friend’s father had a subscription to Playboy!) I then found out that nipple color varied quite a lot. At least with the circumcision thing, the parents will probably think to explain why there is a difference.

We plan to tell the Sprout that circumcision is something that used to be commonly done because doctors thought it was necessary, but by the time he was born, it was shown that it wasn’t necessary in the vast majority of cases, and that is why Daddy is snipped and he is not.

I consider circumcision a bodily modification, and I don’t have the right to make that decision for someone else. The Beansprout’s body belongs to HIM, not me. I’m just the caretaker for a few years.

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Just another note, while I personally plan to have my son(s) (assuming I have any) circumsized, there is some evidence that having a circumsized penis will reduce the chance of HPV infection (which can lead to cervical cancer in women)- see New England Journal of medicine cite below.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/346/15/1105

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I have three sons. We debated whether or not to circumsize them. I believe it is a 50-50 thing in this country, so neither way will really stand out in the locker room. In favor of circumcision, lower risk of a very rare cancer, and can be done in a painless way. Against it, any procedure has its risks, and in most countries, they’ll stand out. (sorry for the pun, I can’t help myself.)

As a guy, I stood my ground and said firmly: “Whatever you want dear.” She then went with what her daddy had - the snip. (Although, again, there is no need for any actual snip or slice.)

My point - there are two conflicting family traditions here. There is no good reason to violate either tradition, so they’re just going to have to duke it out. Where is the boy being raised? (I do tend to favor the father’s side. Most young boys worship daddy for a few years, and to be different from daddy might cause some stress.)

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I’m different from Daddy. No stress whatsoever.

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Female circumcision and foot binding are both family traditions too.

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I’m weird? Feh, thats stating the obvious. in other news bear shits in the woods

Anyway, I’ve never met not one person in my life that said they were pissed at their parents because they had them sniped.

But hey I could be wrong maybe you have a cite that that shows this supposed myriad of people who are so “angry” at their parents for having them sniped.

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Do a search on this subject on these boards, you might be surprised at the anger of at least one individual! (not me).

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Well yeah, they have no means for comparison.

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SHAKES how many have you met who were pissed at their parents for leaving the decision up to them?

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You can take this with a grain of salt if you want becuase I don’t have a cite. But here it goes anyway.

I have heard people speak of getting this done. Their opinions of it were not pleasant to say the least. Now, you asked; How many people do I know? Not many I must conceed. However it works both ways. You were the one earlier who implied that there might be a significant amount of people who would be pissed if their parents made that decision for them. I just don’t think its true. But aparently I’m “weird” (by your standards) for thinking that.

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So after conceding that it is unpleasant, and without offering one iota of reasoned argument as to why the snip should be done (other than daddy did it to me so I’m going to do it to you) you suggest that it is better to do it to newborn babies who can’t complain and have no choice?

Nice.

No, I never mentioned significant numbers. I did imply that more people would be unhappy about being given no choice than would be unhappy about being given a choice.

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SHAKES:

Does being “sniped” mean having your foreskin shot off at long range by a “snipper sniper” or pecked off by the marsh bird?

Either way I’d rather have it done as an infant. If I had to think about it (even if I wanted it done),I’m sure it would get put off until I was too old to think about any kind of sex.(If that actually happens).

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On the OP:

Don’t care. Don’t recall. My husband is unsnipped. I have no idea if any of the other men I’ve been with in my life have been - I probably did at the time, but its unimportant.

I once had an arguement with one of my husband’s former girlfriends who swore up and down he was snipped, so from that ancedote, I’d speculate I am not alone in my not recalling. And from conversations with my girlfriends, I know I am not alone in my not caring. There are so many other things that women look for in men that simply are weighted higher. (“Lets see, I prefer them snipped. Bob is snipped, but he is an unemployed loser who hits me and has horrible BO. John is unsnipped, but is a really nice guy who treats me well, is financially and emotionally stable, and is good looking to boot! Guess its Bob!”)

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I’m not really qualified to weigh in on the OP, since I’ve had no experience with un-circumcised men (however, my mom and sister swear that they can tell, by the smell of the bacon, if the pig it came from was un-circumcised, and in that case they won’t eat it :eek: ).

But I’m inclined to agree with the women here who’ve said that there are SO many other factors which are more important in a fella . . . and with those who’ve said that little Johnny is not likely to be the only un-snipped kid in the locker room.

And here comes the relatively pointless auntie em anecdote:

I’m friends with a kid (male) who’s now 17. Back when he was around 14 (just starting high school, just getting–ahem–really interested in girls), he often subjected me, in his annoyingly guileless way, to frank and somewhat embarrassing discussions about sexual issues. One day, he asked me out of the blue if White men were circumcised. (At the time, he was REALLY! into his Black heritage–to the point of being somewhat militant–and so had worked up the crazy theory that only White people would be horrible enough do that to their sons–nevermind the fact that his mother is White. :rolleyes: ) I told him that I’d never been with a man who wasn’t circumcised, and that I’d dated men of many races.

He looked at me as if I’d just sprouted a third eyeball and said, “How did that happen???”

Now, whether his shock was due to the fact that his little “theory” had just been squashed, or whether it was due to the fact that circumcision is highly uncommon among his peers (and, I’m guessing from his reaction, among the Black male members of his family), I dunno. But, as usual, I had to share.

One more thing I have to say is that my fiance and I are not planning to have kids, but I’ve always felt like if I did have a son, I’d want his little weenie left as is. However, since I’ve never had a penis, I would also be willing to concede (as someone–sorry, I don’t remember who it was–suggested) that “it’s a man thing”, and let the kid’s father have the majority of the vote on that one. I’d say my piece, but if he insisted on circumcision, I probably wouldn’t press the issue, unless he, like, wanted to do it HIMSELF, using a rusty pair of pinking shears or something.

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Oh, and one other thing:

My mom (who’s an old lady now, and her brothers–old men–are intact, because routine circumcision had not come into practice when they were born) maintains that being left intact can make sex painful. I originally thought maybe she meant for the female partners of these men, but no–she meant for the men. Where she got that, I dunno, but has anyone else heard of this?

One other thing Part II:

My mother also told me that when her brothers were babies, her mother (my grandmother) “worked” their foreskin back with her fingers on a routine basis until it just became “trained” to stay that way. :eek:

Seems to me like THAT would be painful!

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My two cents …

I’ve ‘met’ both and honestly don’t care (as long as they’re clean, and I would hope that both snipped and unsnipped men would take care of that). But I have noticed that the un-snipped ones seem to be more sensitive during sex, I guess because the tender skin is usually protected by more skin, but if it’s been snipped it’s always rubbing against clothes etc.

(I may be completely off base on this. As I say it’s just my personal opinion.)

Pain: One man I knew had a particularly big foreskin and once it did … um … I won’t describe what happened (TMI!!! and also it sounds too painful to even write!) but be assured that it did hurt.

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I prefer my men to be intact. Actually, it is a bit more than prefer. I LOVE it when they are intact.

I have had both, and intact gets my vote.

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I had my son circumsized. It was done in the doctors office, there was no screaming or crying. My son just laid there looking at the pictures on the wall. He was 5 days old. We never had any problems with his circumcision. They used a plastic ring on him.

There were two reasons I decided to get my son circumcised. The first was an ex-lover of mine who was not cut…ewwww. And the second was my Uncle who had a stroke, for some reason the nurses didn’t clean him properly and he was forced to get a circumcision at the age of 38. It almost killed him, he was in the hospital for 2 weeks just because of complications from that surgery.

I also talked to all my male friends about how they felt about circumcision. Those who were cut were glad, out of those who hadn’t been cut only one was glad. (I talked to about 12 who hadn’t been cut and around 30 who had been.)