For context, I’m circumcised and expecting a son and my wife and I are torn about the circ. We’re American so from a cultural standpoint circumcision is the default choice. Thing is, there’s no real benefit besides practicing a religion we don’t believe in, and I’m uncomfortable about cutting the tip of my son’s dick off.
On the other side, I’ve met a guy who was bullied in high school so bad for it he got a circ as an adult. Apparently crazy painful recovery. I’ve also talked to women who are generally grossed out by uncircumcised men. I don’t want to make him feel like something’s wrong with him his whole life because I was uncomfortable with the idea.
From a moral standpoint I’m against it, but from a social and cultural standpoint I feel like I should do it? It’s a crappy situation. If there’s any uncircumcised American men who want to talk about their penis I’m all ears.
Edit: I really appreciate everyone’s responses I never expected to hear from so many people. With the decision hinging on social and cultural norms it’s been really helpful to be able to take the temperature like this. I obviously need to talk to my wife, but given the overwhelming support of dick hats I don’t thing we’re going to do it. Thanks, lemmings!
My buddy had to get circumcised as an adult. Some weird infection. He’s not like a gross unhygienic dude, it just kinda happened. I guess it was super painful and he was laid out for like a week. I know that’s not the best argument for pro circumcision, but ya, there are reasons. I personally am uncut, and have zero intention of getting cut, nor would I cut any child of mine.
Infections like thrush are possible when you’re uncircumcised. It actually has its own little biome going, just like a vagina, and can have that disrupted all the same. For comparison, vaccinations can also cause issues but for both it’s exceedingly rare enough to get such serious complications that major intervention, like your buddy’s circumcision, are needed.
What we need to do is destigmatise seeing a doctor when things down there aren’t 100%, especially so for men. Because I’m willing to bet things would have been fine for your buddy with just a cream if he’d gotten help sooner, though obviously I don’t know his circumstances and don’t want to blame it on him when it’s society with the weird hang-ups.
Edit: It might have also been caused because your buddy tried too hard to keep it clean. Just like with a vagina, you should only use water and no soap, as you can mess up the biome and make infections more likely.
im guessing makes it easier to clean of the "cheese’ too, ALLEGEDLY it can lead to the big C in rare cases, of course they arnt accounting for things like HPV.
The solution to “the big C” is to just give the HPV vaccine to everyone, not just girls. Which is what we’re already doing in Australia.
The “cheese” is a myth that just doesn’t happen though. Except maybe if you’re one of the grossest humans alive I guess? I’ve not showered for weeks at a time when I’m depressed and haven’t ever had that pawblem.