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Are you circumcised or uncircumcised?

Are you circumcised or uncircumcised?


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^ EDIT: I understand that you are a writer, good for you. Now, do you think you could calm down? You have managed to master one language, bully for you! I am a little too old for primary school English lessons, and I wasn't aware of asking you to correct my post. If I choose to employ a quick, shorthand style of posting, that does not mean that I am incapable of using correct language. :rolleyes: Anal retentive so and so... *Grumble grumble*

I believe mutilation is mutilation, whether done on a large scale or a supposedly "small" scale. My brother was circumcised when he was 5. I tried to stop it, but since I was not his parent, I had no say, and it's perfectly legal. It was performed under local anesthetic, he was able to see everything. He had nightmares for weeks afterward. He couldn't understand why - too young to take it all in. His personality changed somewhat after that. He was more suspicious of adults, including his family (rightly so!).
 
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As someone who is circumcised (and who has received no complaints), I find it offensive that some people consider me "mutilated".
 
I believe mutilation is mutilation, whether done on a large scale or a supposedly "small" scale. My brother was circumcised when he was 5. I tried to stop it, but since I was not his parent, I had no say, and it's perfectly legal. It was performed under local anesthetic, he was able to see everything. He had nightmares for weeks afterward. He couldn't understand why - too young to take it all in. His personality changed somewhat after that. He was more suspicious of adults, including his family (rightly so!).
Oh, I don't agree with circumcision as standard practice either. In fact I don't think it should be done for anything other than medical/therapeutic reasons. But all the back and forth just kinda seems a bit redundant when there's someone here who has real life experience with genital mutilation, not just some theoretical knowledge of it... if that makes sense?
 
As someone who is circumcised (and who has received no complaints), I find it offensive that some people consider me "mutilated".
Why? It is what it is.
  1. To deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple.
  2. To disfigure by damaging irreparably: mutilate a statue.
  3. To make imperfect by excising or altering parts.

Which of the bolded parts don't fit with circumcision?
 
^ EDIT: I understand that you are a writer, good for you. Now, do you think you could calm down? You have managed to master one language, bully for you! I am a little too old for primary school English lessons, and I wasn't aware of asking you to correct my post..

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Yeah, I'm kind of wondering what prompted that as well. Your post doesn't appear to be correcting anyone, it appears to be answering the thread title.
 
Looks like I was a little hasty, TGTheodore. I thought you were referring to me, a post but one above yours. Seems I made all the wrong connections, and for that I apologise sincerely and without reservation. Sorry!
 
As someone who is circumcised (and who has received no complaints), I find it offensive that some people consider me "mutilated".

Same here, but the people who are against it tend to have an almost religious zeal for their foreskin (or lack thereof as the case may be).
 
Looks like I was a little hasty, TGTheodore. I thought you were referring to me, a post but one above yours. Seems I made all the wrong connections, and for that I apologise sincerely and without reservation. Sorry!

No problem. It happens from time to time. Just glad it was cleared up.

Hope your weekend is going well. :)

--Ted
 
As someone who is circumcised (and who has received no complaints), I find it offensive that some people consider me "mutilated".

Same here, but the people who are against it tend to have an almost religious zeal for their foreskin (or lack thereof as the case may be).

Well, you don't have to be Freud to work out why :lol:

The dick is central to our egos, society tells us it is constantly as well. Tell a man his dick is ugly he's gonna get uptight about it, make him think about having to cut a bit of it off he's gonna get uptight about it, tell a man his dick is incomplete he's gonna get uptight about it. It's no wonder that by and large the two sides don't see eye to eye, so to speak...
 
My vote just now nearly got it to 50/50.

I am a circumcised American. In my youth in Pennsylvania, I saw a foreskin for the first time when I was 8. New neighbors from California moved in and I went to visit my new friend who was 9 and when his mom answered the door she said, "Ray is taking a bath. Go ahead in if you like." He was in the tub and the water was running and not more than 2 inches in the tub and the first thing I noticed was that his willy did NOT look like mine. I asked him what that was and he told me it was his foreskin.

I went home and asked my dad why mine was different, which was when it was explained that I had been circumcised. I don't think his explanation sunk in for some time. It did make me pay closer attention in changing rooms and the like.

I can vouch for this, also.


J.

Seen 'em.
Anyone who hasn't?! :guffaw:

I feel somehow left out of the viewing public. :scream: ;)
 
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