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Leave us not forget that he could also be snipped with magical instruments (a potential arch-enemy for Superman: The Mystic Mohel!) or he could fly to a red sun/high gravity planet and could have it done there!
Fenris
It was started as a compulsive practice to discourage masturbation in youth (it’s easier to masturbate with a foreskin) sometime in the 20th century. Now, the explination is “hygenical reasons”.
Well, pizzabrat, the lack of a foreskin has never stopped me from jacking off. 
it’s easier to masturbate with a foreskin
Really, really sorry to continue my interruption but I don’t think this merits a tread on its own. Just how is it easier with a foreskin?
Yeah! Prurious minds want to know!
You have one, you should know! Well, maybe it’s 'cause I have experience with both. With a inact penis, an impromptu jerking slides the smegma-lubed foreskin back and forth over the hyper-sensitive (due to its usually protected state) glans causing enough sensation to please its owner. Most circumcised gents can’t (or maybe won’t) engage in masturbation without artificial lubrication, thus meaning a less spontaneous session. Therefore, I chastize my mother nearly everyday for severly compromising my penis.
The one superhero who doubtlessly is circumcized is The Thing:
STOP IT!!!
Can we, just once, for the novelty of it all not turn a discussion that talks about circumcision into “Circumcision: Evil Plot to Unman the World” vs “Circumcision: Cleaner, Healthier, Better Sex”?
Please? Get to some other damn thread where people want to hear about your smegma or lack thereof. In this thread, we should stick to Superman’s smegma (or lack thereof)…um…so to speak.
Fenris
What is even wierder, Fenris, is that this damn thread will soon hit 100 posts. Imagine that, 100 posts about Superman’s wanker. Hell, I’ve seen threads about religion & world peace that died 'way before that. There are some sick puppies on this board.
Erm…the above was not directed at ** Satisfying Andy Licious **. And FTR, Colossal Boy from the Legion is also circumcised.
(And I didn’t like the story about the Thing suddenly becoming Jewish: he’s never mentioned it in 40+ years but he has celebrated Christmas and Easter, gone to Mass and (iirc) Confession, etc.)
I just don’t buy it and it seemed almost as condescending as the Colossal Boy revelation.
Fenris
PS Coyote: It’s in part because we made Threadspotting. Think about it: some sick bastard put this thread on the front page right next to Cecil’s Holy Writ! Talk about “letting it all hang out”
What was condescending about Colossal Boy’s revelation, Fenris? It can’t be much worse than that dumb electoral system that put his mother in as world president.
I don’t know about Mass and confession, but he had a way with a cigar that always reminded me of Groucho.
I admit that Petunia doesn’t sound like a Jewish name, though.
Condescending isn’t quite the right word, but it’s close: it’s as if DC realized “Hey! We don’t have any Jewish characters! We need a token Jew! Who can we pick that no-one’ll care about to be our token?” So he was Jewish for maybe two panels and then it was forgotten for about 6 years. It’s like the way they made Karate Kid Asian for a while. He wasn’t, but they realized “Hey! We don’t have any Asian characters either. Karate’s one o’ dem Asian things! Make him Asian!” It’s as dumb and vaguely offensive as if they realized they didn’t have any Black characters and rather than create Tyrok* (gad!) they just said: “Oh yeah. Phantom Girl? She’s black. It’s just that the interdimensional travel she does from Bltzgl makes her skin color appear light. Holy Christmas you bad mamma-jamma!!”
Back when Hembeck was funny, he kept drawing Colossal Boy with a yarmulke and tallis. (He also had Gim griping about how his yarmulke kept falling off whenever he used his power.)
Fenris
*Not that Tyrok was any prize. All the black people in the 30th century went off to live on an island just like ‘Brigadoon’ (that only appears in our dimension for 30 years out of every 200) and that’s why you don’t see 'em? < cough > Uh-huh. That’s like that Superman story from the same era where all the Black Kryptonians, it turns out, live on their own island (Valtho Island, if memory serves) and that’s why you don’t see any black Kryptonians? Say what you want, if you look at old issues of Spider-Man and Doc Strange, you’ll see a ton of black faces in the crowds. Marvel handled race stuff sooo much better than DC in the '60s and '70s.
#1 Most of us are not circumcised.
#2 For those who are and grieve it, there is foreskin replacement therapy (which I suggested as a joke 20 years ago – now available at yr neighborhood cosmetic surgeon).
#2.5 People take their comix too seriously.
#3.1 People take these threads too seriously.
#5. I am organizing a search for Superman’s lost foreskin. Let’s all meet at google.
LOL:D I haven’t heard that phrase since I was a wee lass watching Biker Mice from Mars!
IDBB
Generally, I agree with you, Fenris, but don’t forget “Man, Thy Name is Brother” from JLA 57. DC had its shining moments, too.
degustibus: The search for Superman’s lost foreskin. Hey, this sounds like a great idea for an alternative mini-series.
It was Vathlo, actually.
There was a Superman Annual by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (the Watchmen guys) that depicted an alternate history in which Kal-El grew to adulthood on Krypton. It’s an excellent hodge-podge of pre-Crisis Krypton factoids, including throwaway references to “Little Vathlo” (a ghetto neighborhood within the city of Kryptonopolis) and “racial trouble” with the immigrant inhabitants.
There are whole host of other issues related as well. If a gun-shot to the chest isn’t enough to bother him then, doesn’t that infer his nerve activation threshold is very high. Can an Earth-cooch provide enough friction and presure to activate the nerve endings on the Super Schlong? Or would he require a superheroic vagina to pop the champaign cork. Obviously guess he could get a handjob from the Hulk, but I don’t see either of them swinging that way. So does he have to handle the ship himself to orgasm? And if he has superstamina it might take weeks(I guess he could do it at superspeed but it would be hard to be discrete and confortable with the whole city hearing a series of sonic booms). If there was one guy who really needed a Fortress of Solitude to handle his buisness, he is deffinately the one. The foreskin issue is minor compared the those if you ask me.
Ah, Wolfman, but he has super-sensitivity in addition to his other super-powers. Supes just doesn’t mention this one much.
Yeah: he can turn his supersenses on and off at will. There was a really cool story where the Parasite absorbed the on/off ability and his powers went out of control.