if my parents left me "intact" because they'd read some hippy-trippy alternative medicine blogs, i'd be pissed off.

fuck a bunch of foreskin, and fuck a bunch of smegma

12/10/2008 7:29:57 PM

Assuming the smegma didn't kill you, you'd still have been able to get circumcised in your teens. The surgery isn't limited to infants.

12/10/2008 7:40:31 PM

not worth risking getting my dick all fucked up just to do something that will barely change anything.

12/10/2008 7:42:26 PM

motherfuck foreskin, i am glad i never had to lay eyes on mine, or clean smegma out from under it

also, i too, can't imagine having any more sensitivity down there

12/10/2008 7:46:07 PM

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"Assuming the smegma didn't kill you, you'd still have been able to get circumcised in your teens. The surgery isn't limited to infants."

Great logic - lets do it when the person will remember the pain. Too smart!!!!!

12/10/2008 7:54:27 PM

^ It's common enough in other parts of the world. Besides, the argument that it's okay to hurt babies because they supposedly can't remember leads to all sorts of unpleasant places.

12/10/2008 8:14:53 PM

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"It's the argument that it's okay to hurt babies because they supposedly can't remember leads to all sorts of unpleasant places."

Ok - name seven?

12/10/2008 9:47:38 PM

I think you know what I meant. You wouldn't support slapping an infant around, now would you?

12/10/2008 10:05:19 PM

peter singer says that babies should be disposable up until a year of age because they are not self-aware and therefore they cannot truly suffer. i guess he probably thinks infant circumcision is ok.

12/10/2008 10:11:35 PM

^^ so, GV, have you stopped beating your wife?










god damn this thread is retarded.

12/10/2008 11:58:00 PM

People insecure about their dongs in this thread

12/11/2008 12:18:06 AM

look buddy

i have a penis

and i'm sick of you talking abou

tit

12/11/2008 12:20:46 AM

marko this is TSB dongchat

12/11/2008 12:21:21 AM

thanks for reminding me that i need to go buy new underwear, soap box

12/11/2008 1:17:29 AM

TWW has surprised me with this thread. No penis pictures on three pages, amazing.

12/11/2008 1:26:53 AM

Another problem with this whole discussion is that people seem to be laboring under the fantasy that people grow up and get upset about their parents' choices vis-a-vis the wang.

I don't have a study for it, but I will bet what's left of my penis that most people who are circumcised are OK with, and most people who are uncircumcised are OK with that, too. And it has nothing to do with choice, it has to do with the fact that dudes like their penises to be like the penis they grew up with.

Of course, the notable exception is that rare guy who decides to get his shit chopped because his main girl asks him to do so. I suppose it's a little unfair, since it isn't nearly as easy for guys who are already chopped to undo it because of a woman's request, but I'll also bet a fair amount (though not the rest of my dick) that those requests are at least slightly less common.

12/11/2008 6:09:31 AM

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"so, GV, have you stopped beating your wife?"

My question does not match this classic. Think before you post.

12/11/2008 10:20:24 AM

oh, it quite does.

take your own advice.

12/11/2008 10:32:36 AM

My question allowed an acceptable response. The classic does not.

12/11/2008 11:15:51 AM

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"I think you know what I meant. "

So you can't. Slapping your child, are you kidding me?

12/11/2008 2:16:25 PM

I imagine circumcision hurts more than getting slapped around.

Depending on the severity of the slapping, of course.

12/11/2008 2:49:08 PM

are you purposely acting retarded, or are you actually serious?

12/11/2008 3:05:36 PM

Lots of people real touchy about their dongs in this thread

Willing to write lots of words about it

12/11/2008 3:07:40 PM

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"Another problem with this whole discussion is that people seem to be laboring under the fantasy that people grow up and get upset about their parents' choices vis-a-vis the wang."

Two words: FORESKIN RESTORATION.

http://www.norm.org/
http://www.foreskinrestore.com/
http://www.circumstitions.com/Restore.html
http://restoringmen.net/fs2.htm (NSFW)

12/11/2008 3:11:09 PM

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"are you purposely acting retarded, or are you actually serious?"

I'm as serious as an anti-lulz paladin.

12/11/2008 3:18:11 PM

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"Two words: FORESKIN RESTORATION."

What's your point? You've got this very small percentage of the population that opts to change, but far and away the majority of people are down with what their parents do, and end up vociferously defending the position in internet forums.

12/11/2008 4:28:51 PM

Hmmmm... I don't think I've ever had a problem with my dick. It's circumcised in nature and we've been on very good terms since we became aware of one another. I could not care any less.

12/11/2008 4:53:19 PM

See, what the anti-circumcision crowd needs to do to get it banned is very simple. Just construct a study that says uncircumcised penises are on average longer than circumcised ones and 90% of the male population will be up in arms over it.

12/11/2008 5:10:50 PM

You guys are just jealous that you didn't get to have a sweet party when you were circumcised.

12/11/2008 5:44:01 PM

Women prefer circumcised penises over an uncircumcised one

Therefore my son will be circumcised. I don't want to put him at a disadvantage.

12/11/2008 5:52:16 PM

^ Yeah, except for Kristen O'Hara and her few cultists.

http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Nature-Intended-Important-Making/dp/0970044216

Bizarrely enough, various historical sources support the idea that circumcision reduces sexual pleasure for both parties.

http://www.circumstitions.com/Pleasure.html

I'm not sure what to make of it.

12/11/2008 6:08:39 PM

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"I'm not sure what to make of it."

That getting laid would provide far more scientific evidence than a website called "circumstitions".

12/11/2008 6:59:02 PM

You can find the most interesting ancient sources elsewhere. Do you dispute their existence?

12/11/2008 7:26:10 PM

I would argue that any ancient sex studies that were done before the publication of the Kama Sutra are incomplete and therefore questionable at best.

12/11/2008 8:25:10 PM

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"Women prefer circumcised penises over an uncircumcised one "

If that is true, it is probably due to the fact that they are comfortable to what they are used to.

12/11/2008 9:14:44 PM

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"Two words: FORESKIN RESTORATION."

I saw that on Penn & Teller's Bullshit, and stretching some loose skin over the end of your dick is not restoring your foreskin

12/11/2008 9:34:29 PM

I only brought it up because it just goes to show that everyone is not happy with the essentially irreversible decision that their parents made to circumcise them. At least if you're unhappy with your foreskin, you can be circumcised. Foreskin restoration is just months of skin stretching to achieve an aesthetic.

12/11/2008 9:52:43 PM

Circumcised yes, would I do it to my child no.

It is not my penis. And someday society will carlface when we look back at the time when we sliced off the ends of babies penises.

If my son wants to have his sliced off when he is an adult, that is his choice.

12/11/2008 10:22:26 PM

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"It's not the best example, but strikes me as strange that only the foreskin should be subject to this policy of hacking body parts that can get funky. If nothing else, the female equivalent should equally acceptable."

No, the female equivalent isn't equally acceptable.

Our parts are more important than your parts.

12/12/2008 12:45:58 AM

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"Our parts are more important than your parts."

They certainly fetch a higher price on the open market

12/12/2008 12:55:04 AM

And that's a travesty. Equal pay for equal work!!!

12/12/2008 1:03:39 AM

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"They certainly fetch a higher price on the open market"

I think you underestimate the amount of money made at a bris.

12/12/2008 8:33:27 AM

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"If my son wants to have his sliced off when he is an adult, that is his choice."

Does this even work?

12/12/2008 2:19:59 PM

^ Absolutely. It's the norm in some countries.

12/12/2008 2:22:52 PM

hygiene? Do some of you have problems washing your penis?

12/12/2008 2:35:36 PM

my parents had it done to me, and I'm glad they did.

12/12/2008 4:19:38 PM

We got pretty close to a full penis inventory of the Soap Box.

You guys are so passionate about your penises. It's adorable.

12/12/2008 6:09:02 PM

If someone out there was going to chop up your vagina so that your clitoris was continuously exposed to the world you'd probably get passionate pretty quickly

12/12/2008 7:30:27 PM

^tempting to comment, but this is TSB.....

12/13/2008 9:32:41 PM

^^No doubt.

12/13/2008 11:24:55 PM