How many guys are uncut nowadays?

Yeah, I meant in the US. I know Europeans don’t do it. Also, I wouldn’t necessarily say unheard of for that age group. I think some of this will depend on ethnicity and region as well. I’m also older than 35 and have lived on the west coast for much of that time. A lot of guys in my age group are also uncut, but most of them are either Latino (in which case it’s almost unheard of for them to be cut) or otherwise European or Asian immigrants. But yeah as far as white guys go, the majority in my age group are cut. But it seems like that might be changing because of the ones I’m friends with, none of their boys are circumcised nowadays. It seems that for the very liberal hippies from the Bay Area, they seem to be all anti-circ relative to most other white Americans. I was just curious as to how far this movement has spread.

 

I'm on the east coast...to date still a majority are circumcised!

 

Crazy stuff. I always imagine the east coast as being more progressive than other parts of the country.

 

Actually the west coast has the lowest rates nationwide...

 

I'd think during any sexual encounter...not just solo!

 

At on time I heard circumcision was developed to prevent sand contamination under the foreskin among desert dwelling people. I was born in the baby boom and almost every baby was circumcised in the Midwest…not a desert. What a travesty that the doctors were allowed to continue unnecessary mutilations. Shame

 

It's not like when you were born, but the midwest remains the area of the country with the highest circumcision rates. Did you even know anyone who wasn't growing up?

 

No

 

I'm on the east coast. I'm a bit younger than you, and I'm not circumcised. I was the only guy I knew of growing up who wasn't. A lot of people didn't even know what foreskin or circumcision was!

 

Yeah, I was aware of that. I actually have first hand experience with that, although I don’t know what the official explanation is for that disparity between the different regions of the U.S. like why it’s so low on the west coast or so high in the Midwest?

 

Not sure. One thing that impacts this is whether or not insurers/state administered health care plans cover the procedure...

 

Mmmmmmm, back to the original thread question, let’s line up all the men in the world and have them drop their pants to have an accurate count.
Not proper? Well okay, the online survey doesn’t seem to work well.
Forget it, we’ll never know.

 

I live in england and ive only seen a couple sliced

 

In most places outside the US, you won't see many guys circumcised unless it's for religious custom.

 

I know. I was referring to inside the United States.

 

I wasn't cut. Had a big foreskin, but later in life, had a bladder infection and a tearing of the underside of the tip. They did a partial circumcision and a skin graft as part of the repair op. My brother was circumcised, I wasn't. Don't know why.

 

Obviously you do since you are here bringing it up (as if it works as an argument to rehabilitate your fallacious reasoning). I no longer have an issue because I’m very comfortable with myself. This is just a form of well poisoning (more fallacious reasoning).

Well that was never the claim in the first place - it’s just a straw man argument. The claim is that there are plenty of guys who are cut who are upset about it, and that everyone should be given the choice to decide what they want their own body to look like. That is the claim, and you have no argument to counter it. That’s why you went to these red-herrings.

You simply have no grounding for that claim - none whatsoever. You have no statistical data you can point to that supports this claim. You are using your own anecdotal experience and personal feelings about yourself to speak for the majority of others (who you’ve never had a conversation with). That’s absurd and no reasonable person would take it seriously.

I do. Why don’t you leave other people’s dick alone? Why do you have to do things to someone else’s dick to make yourself feel better about yours. That’s the question you need to be asking yourself when you talk about what you’d do to your son.

 

Well not looking to fuel any arguments on foreskin envy - I’ll provide what I know to be true.
Born in the early 60’s it was almost a given your dick was cut your tonsils were pulled.
both came with the same rational- “because that’s what we do!”

of the 4 boys in my family 3 un-cut my one brother cut “without consent” my mother was pressured to do us all but refused as there was no medically sound reason for it. (One was taken done and returned without a discussion. Imagine the lawsuits today but in the 50’s just a lot of tears.)

of my 4 closest friends growing up one was cut three were not. that’s west coast (Canadian) but three nationalities involved German Irish Scottish - the Ukrainian kid was cut.

dozens of grand kids and counting un-cut no issues!

So if you are a soon to be parent I say look at the facts closely, be educated in your decision. Don’t believe they will feel out of place if they aren’t cut (that is not a justifiable reason - no one in the locker room ever felt out of place because of that - size, sure - no hair, yup - but there are far better reasons to ridicule a kid than foreskin) but do what “YOU” feel is right for your child based on sound medical facts. Not Dr Happy go snippy’s suggestions.
Not Some quack nurse on here preaching that he will die of penis cancer if left in its natural state… or that 90% of males are cut… none of that is true, the number of cut appears to be falling daily.
Note: there are some very logical medical reasons to have it done but they are not common place - it’s your kid, your choice, get to know the facts, how they affect your situation, understand risk on both sides and decide.
- end of my sermon.