It is believed that circumcision of the baby man could keep his member from growing to its full length and girth in adulthood. The foreskin serves as extra skin to allow for this growth. Naturally, you are not guaranteed large member, no one is but to cut off skin takes away an advantage for it. If cleanliness is not concern anymore, why keep circumcising?
It is believed by who? Circumcision will not make your penis any smaller or bigger then it would have been uncircumcised, except for maybe less then 1/2" of skin. There really isn't any except for religious or cultural reasons. Both function just fine.
I agree that circumcision is NOT the deciding factor for penis size. Im saying that by cutting off the skin it binds the penis from growing to its full potential. The japanese used to bind their women's fit to make them smaller. By having skin tight around penis it could stop it from growing correctly.
Unless it's a religious or cultural decision, it's not necessary. There is a small argument about hygeine & infection issues with uncircumcised boys, but from what I've heard it's a really small percentage of boys. However... circumcised penises can grow PLENTY large enough! And that's all I'm sayin'! love, mom
How does it make it tighter? It makes it looser if anything. They are removing part of the foreskin which does nothing to effect the tightness of the skin. It may effect how sensitive the head is but not size.
Haid, it most certainly does make the skin tighter. Foreskins MOVE with the penis, at least in adulthood, scar tissue and exposed glads do not. Circumsized penis ARE tighter, and many of them are at angles because of tight cuts.
Well I haven't had a whole lot of hands on experience with other penis's but I have never heard that. I am circumsized and my skin is not tight at all. Cutting the tip of the foreskin I have heard can slightly harden the head but tighten the skin? Why would cutting a peice of enveloping skin effect the tightness of the rest of the skin? Maybe mine was just done wrong because my skin is definately not tight or constraining? Anyone else with knowledge in this area?
It's not tight or constraining, but it might be tighter than it would have been had you not been cut at all. Frankly, since most of the adult generations of the US are circed, most, including myself, have never seen a non-circed and can't relate the difference. But I do know that circumcision causes a great desensitization of the penis.
there are millions of nerve ending in an uncircumcised male penis' foreskin. More than in the tip of a finger.
LOL In Britain circs are uncommon, only done for religious reasons or out of medical necessity; and rumour has it that guys here are doing just fine and dandy as nature intended. Don't think I know [IRL] any guys who are circed, but then it doesn't exactly come up in casual conversation. So no I wouldn't circ my own [future] sons, because there's just no reason to (am not Jewish or whatever, obviously). If it aint broke don't fix it, y'know. Frankly it never occured to me until I started coming to places like this (i.e. US-centric boards) that such a thing was common practise... Americans are so weird sometimes.
Actually it was the CHINESE that bound the feet of women, no the Japanese. And the binding cause more problems than circumcision! Gangrene, broken bones, and mobility issues. Not saying that circumcisions don't have their own problems. Genital mutilation to the point of having to amputate, urethral erosion, adhesions ( what you are talk about) yadda, yadda. I've researched this because my son is NOT circumcised and I wanted to get the whole picture. I recommend this link: http://www.male-initiation.net/welcome.html Shamefully, yes "us Americans* ARE so fucking weird as to circumcise for fashion. We have a lot of other problem too as you know... pray for us!
My brothers are not circ'd... When I was a little kid, I remember all of us playing together, swimming naked in the backyard or something, and at one point the difference came up, between my little brother and his friends, and they all started picking on him because "Your's looks different from ours!". We ran home and my brother went crying to momma who sat him down and reasoned with him (he was like 5 at the time), telling him this was how nature intended him, that his foreskin was a part of his body that was there for a reason, and it wouldn't do him any harm as long as he remembered to take care of it. If he grew up and decided he really wanted to be circ'd he could make that decision for himself. She then posed the question of how he might feel if they'd just cut it off when he was a little baby, without giving any thought to how he might feel about it. And now the funny part: After having reasoned with him, my brother actually went back to his friends and upset them so much that they all went home, crying to their parents, about how they'd been all hacked up when they were so little they couldn't do anything about it. "Mommy, why did you want to cut part of me off!? Don't you love me?" Seriously, it was a huge drama in my neighborhood growing up, but I daresay it caused a lot of parents to think more about blindly following such a barbaric custom.
That's exactly my feeling about circumsicion. it's such a personal decision and I think it's almost disrespectful to your child to make it for him. that almost brought a tear to my eye. I think this really is how little babies feel when they get circumsized. like something is wrong with them, like "why are you doing this to me?" I just couldn't do it. I'm thankful my baby was a girl because my fiancee is still undecided as to how he feels about circumsicion, as he is and kind of wants the same thing for his son, although if we ever have a boy, he probably will not be circumsized because I just can't do it.
