# foreskin question
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 30, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703 "2003-01-30T20:17:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@purgepro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purgepro)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/1 "2003-01-30T20:17:10Z")
So I received a joke today and the punchline had to do with foreskin and circumcision.
My question is, What does become of the foreskin after a circumcision? Is there some sort of a ceremony done with it? Is it tossed in the garbage? Is it kept in a safe place till the boy’s bar mitzvah? and then given back to the boy?
Or as the joke summed up, they’re saved up and given to the IRS and they become little IRS auditor pricks.
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### Author:  [@mrcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrcrow)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/2 "2003-01-30T20:18:39Z")
i never got mine but havent missed it:)
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### Author:  [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/3 "2003-01-30T20:23:51Z")
Hotdogs!!!
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### Author:  [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/4 "2003-01-30T20:49:46Z")
The foreskin is buried after the bris.
(After hospital circumcisions, the foreskin is incinerated with the medical waste).
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### Author:  [@purgepro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purgepro)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/5 "2003-01-30T21:13:06Z")
thanks Nametag.
In the back of my mind I was picturing some wierd rituals. too many B horror / sci fi films.
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/6 "2003-01-30T21:42:42Z")
While touring Paris, my wife and I stopped in some little church (near the Pantheon, I think) that had a reliquary whose placard translated as containing the foreskin of Jesus. “Now, **there’s** foresight,” thought I.
Hmm, I’m positive that it was the _foreskin_ that bowled us over, but some Googling gives slightly different info.
[http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Jesus/Christian%20Phallism.htm](http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Jesus/Christian%20Phallism.htm)
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> There are at least a dozen foreskins of Jesus on record as well as quite a few navels. In the Museum of the Middle Ages (Cluny, Paris) there is a late medieval reliquary made of precious metals that supposedly housed the umbilical cord of Jesus. In a virgin birth, when the Holy Mother was believed by devout Christians to have remained ‘intact’, before, during, and even after giving birth, one wonders where the end of the placenta was attached!
And [here’s](http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/christian/blfaq_jesus_foreskin.htm) a fun page with lots more on the subject of Jesus’ foreskin.
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### Author:  [@purgepro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purgepro)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/7 "2003-01-30T22:15:28Z")
I guess Jesus was really well hung, even at that early age. 12 foreskins! Who’d a thunk it. No wonder all the girls liked him.
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### Author:  [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/8 "2003-01-30T22:34:04Z")
so they don’t get bronzed?
jb
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### Author:  [@MHand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHand)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/9 "2003-01-30T22:36:12Z")
After a bris (Jewish ritual circumcision), Jewish law requires that the foreskin must be buried. After my son waws circumsized, the mohel (professional circumsizer) offered it to me to bury (wrapped in some paper), but let him do it, which he told me is what most customers prefer.
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### Author:  [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/10 "2003-01-30T22:52:52Z")
Then there’s the old joke about the rabbi/mohel saving them up to make a wallet that expands to suitcase size when it’s rubbed. 😃
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### Author:  [@jeel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeel)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/11 "2003-01-30T23:44:04Z")
IANJ–but I am circumcised, and I am pretty sure that mine ended up with all the other tissue removed in surgical procedures that occur every day and was probably burned in an incinerator.
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### Author:  [@fauxpas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fauxpas)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/12 "2003-01-31T01:43:22Z")
So foreskin is the skin thats attached to the head of the peni? Or some other sort of skin thats covering over the head? Cause that’s basically what my Health Teacher said. Im quite confused. No one wants to explain it though!!! ☹
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### Author:  [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/13 "2003-01-31T01:43:31Z")
This is one of those things where I was impressed/grossed out/amazed all at the same time, but …
Some foreskins are used to make the artificial skin used to treat burn victims.
Article here: [http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9708/28/artifical.skin/](http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9708/28/artifical.skin/)
(Caution: contains journalistic, yet sad, photos of burn victims)
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### Author:  [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/14 "2003-01-31T02:11:19Z")
fauxpas, the foreskin is skin that covers the head of the penis. Many people have it removed at birth for either religious reasons (Jews, Muslims) or just for the sake of sanitation.
I think you’re thinking of the fore_head_.
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### Author:  [@fauxpas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fauxpas)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/15 "2003-01-31T02:22:57Z")
Oh, I get it now…thanks! So what would be better: a circumcised person or uncircumsized? I mean as in more potency.
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### Author:  [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/16 "2003-01-31T02:27:26Z")
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> \*Originally posted by fauxpas \*
> \*\*Oh, I get it now…thanks! So what would be better: a circumcised person or uncircumsized? I mean as in more potency. \*\*
Don’t know, never got to the chance to try my forskin out.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/17 "2003-01-31T02:30:42Z")
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> \*Originally posted by fauxpas \*
> \*\*Oh, I get it now…thanks! So what would be better: a circumcised person or uncircumsized? I mean as in more potency. \*\*
Oh, God, NOT AGAIN!!!
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/18 "2003-01-31T03:28:13Z")
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> \*Originally posted by whiterabbit \*
> \*\*Oh, God, NOT AGAIN!!! \*\*
I think that’s why he’s called “ **fauxpas** ”!
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### Author:  [@purgepro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purgepro)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/19 "2003-01-31T03:30:32Z")
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> \*Originally posted by fauxpas \*
> \*\*Oh, I get it now…thanks! So what would be better: a circumcised person or uncircumsized? I mean as in more potency. \*\*
before I posted my question, I did a search of the SD archive here in GQ. there are several good reads.
Ya can’t miss what ya haven’t got, I always say, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that its better being circumcised because my Dad went under the knife near the beginning of his 3rd marriage, he was in his 50’s. I guess my stepmom liked to…AAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH. sorry, I just don’t want to think about this anymore.
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreskin-question/151703/20 "2003-01-31T04:20:03Z")
::: takes pity on **fauxpas** :::
About a year before you became a member, my friend, we had a person where who, to quote a friend, not only “had issues – he had a lifetime subscription!” – on the subject of circumcision and the alleged loss of sexual pleasure resulting from it as opposed to that felt by a man who had not been circumcized (or something similar to that; like most people, I had trouble wading through his arguments). If you’re really interested, do a search on the poster name **Jack Dean Tyler**.
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