This is what I get for replying before reading the entire thread. I have to type new replies to other messages.
Sorry, relic_11.
While there are procedures that can create a foreskin, this does not reverse the circumcision.
The glans(you probably know it as the head)(I used the term meatus instead of glans in my previous post -brain fart- that’s the hole you pee out of.)
, and the foreskin are fused prior to the procedure. The top few layers of cells on the glans contain fine touch receptors that make the penis more sensitive.
During the circumcision these are ripped off. These can’t be replaced. Ever.
Went through the same arguments 20 years ago. All the “expert” adice I can give is this: My OBGYN’s father is a Urologist. His sons are not circumcised. Who would know better than a Urologist about the medical implications?
Exactly what I said to hubby. As I remember, hospitals routinely snipped the little buggers without even asking if this was wanted.
When my little bundle was born, he came with a sister and they were both under 5 lbs, so no automatic slice and dice (sorry, couldn’t resist). Hubby wanted me to take the boy back to the hospital when he was 2 months old to get it done. Why? I don’t know. Maybe some latent anger because hubby isn’t snipped.
I refused. There was no reason to. None. When it was time for a checkup, hubby came asked asked the doc about having the boy circumcised.
Dr’s response:
Yes, it can be scheduled.
No, I don’t see why you would want to schedule unneccessary surgery on a baby.
No, they don’t usually give the baby anesthesia as this is more dangerous than the actual surgery.
Just show the boy how to keep it clean and he will lead a happy, productive and sheathed life.
Hey, with that little extra peice of skin hanging down, it’ll be that much longer.
I did research (with wife before Son was born) and didn’t see a reason for it. All you have to do is take a few extra seconds in the shower and you’re done.
I think it’s strange for the parents in the beginning to be saying “He won’t get a blow job unless we cut it up!”, then complain 15 years later that he did get some action. Duh…
I’m Irish and circumcised (it’s like the AA in here!!)
All I can say is that if your going to get the little tike’s member snipped do it when he’s a baby and won’t remember a thing and not later in life as I did at age nine - I can still feel the pain if i think about it too much (it’s now like a 'Nam flashback…the horror …the horror). No pre-pubesn …pre-pubesc …kid should go through it if he’ll remember it at all - i’ve tried to repress it but i just can’t!
My son is circumcised. Of all the uncut boys I know about half have had problems with their foreskins (infections, constriction-when you can’t pull it back etc.)
Mr Lunasea really wanted it done, so I defered to him. When did get it done, he slept through it. They put anasthetic on it, and it never seemed to bother him.
I think you should leave it alone.
Let me put it to you, the way my doctor put it to me. What other part of the body would you have me cut off because you don’t want to clean it? The hands get quite dirty…how about those?
I’m cut…my boys are not. We don’t have to be the same. The dink is an ugly organ to begin with. Who gives a flying wank if the ugly bastard is wearing a hood?
My Dr. wouldn’t do it…that’s good enough for me.
Just received a call from the Mrs. uber and it looks like things are going to happen tonight or tomorrow morning.
Leaving the office now to drive the expectant mom to the hospital.
I’m only praying (ok, so I am religious, sort of) for good health for mom and baby.
Congratulations, uberDave!! I remember when Ralf Jr. was born. It’s a special time of your life. Enjoy it!
Back on topic: Missus Coder and I decided to leave Ralf, Jr. unsnipped. We discussed it with the doctor and the Lamaze group, and felt this was the way to go. Why subject him to unneccessary surgery when he’s less than 48 hours old? The only downside we had was that his foreskin was a little tight, and so we had to carefully pull it back to clean him when he was little, because it was tender. He’s 10 now, and takes care of this himself.
On the “Gotta look like dad or he’ll be scarred for life” bit. I don’t buy that logic. Ralf Jr. has seen me in my birthday suit, and I was snipped as a lad, and he never said a word. If he noticed it at all, he kept it to himself, and that’s not like him. If he notices some day, explain it to him. Most kids will say “OK”, and not worry about it.
As a follow up, in case anyone is curious. Last eve, Mrs Uber gave birth to healthy, handsome baby boy. My son (!) is named Connor Jacob Uber and with reguard to this thread,
he will have his stem clipped this morning. I’m thinking of nicknaming the lad ‘baldy’ but I suspect the Mrs. will not approve.
:rolleyes: Well, duh. Of course it’s a non-issue now. They’re toddlers! It becomes an issue later in life, when the penis becomes important for more than just urinating. There is the locker room issue, which you mentioned. There’s also the issue of desensitization. The foreskin keeps the penis nice and protected so it doesn’t rub against the clothes all the time, so it is more sensitive. That’s why I am against circumcision. From my perspective, the issue comes down to: looking normal in the locker room, or better feeling during sex. Any woman that is grossed out by foreskin is ignorant and superficial anyway.
How odd that Uber would come here looking for input, get what appears to be virtually 100% advice against it or neutral and zero for it…and goes ahead and gets it done. WHY?
I’m a woman. If I was a man and cut, I’d be mad as hell. Ithink it’s a travesty…how dare we make sucha a choice for our children!!! (religious reasons excepted, only because I have to) Every uncircumcised man I’ve been with has been far more responsive and sensitve by far than the cut men.
It’s ridiculous and sad and I’m deeply sorry you made that choice. I long for the day when it’s not even considered.
This is moot, of course, since uberDave has already made his decision. (Congrats on your baby!)
I’m not a mother, nor have I slept with an uncircumcised man, but I have a strange little bit of experience with this.
I used to work in a nursing home, on an Alzheimer’s unit. I was a CNA, which basically means that I helped clean people up, including the peri-area. All of the men I worked with were not circumcised. This posed a bit of a problem, because not everyone was thorough when cleaning, and lot of times the foreskin didn’t get pulled back every time someone got changed. With one male resident, it took three people to do his peri-care, because he would hit, scratch and even bite if you even touched his penis, let alone tried to pull the foreskin back. Lots of people ended up getting UTIs.
So, though I know this is a very strange situation that wouldn’t come into play for about 80 years, give or take, it does sometimes affect health.
I didn’t bring it up in my previous post, but I’d actually heard something similar and it did enter into our decision as well.
We did what we thought was best after getting information and anecdotes from many friends, relations and doctors. I hope my son doesn’t grow up to join Foreskins Anonymous and whine about how he was mutilated in his infancy, but, I suppose if that’s the worst thing he can find to whine about I should be grateful.