I married a Jewish woman, but she's not religious in any way. After we had a son, the amount of people who thought it was ok to ask us about the status of our child's penis was alarming. I didn't mince words with them either. If you're gonna ask me, I'm gonna tell you why I think it's fucked and I won't allow anyone to mutilate my child, I don't care how much it offends your religion.

But for some reason really doesn't want adults to be able to make the decision to lose even more of their pp.

I'm intact. In my country it's only done for medical reasons.

My friend had circumcision performed in his 20's because he was having trouble during sex. He later confided to close friends that it was shit; Initially he was constantly uncomfortable because of the friction of his glans with underwear, until it desensitized!! and he had to lubricate to masturbate, among other things. He also said that sex was plain and simple worse, that he had lost a lot of sensitivity, and that it took him way longer.

Those who are circumcised who tell themselves they fine are deluding themselves.

That the US allows ritual infant genital mutilation is plain and simple barbaric.

I regret what I did to my newborn son. It's 22 years too late to change it, but as an atheist with an atheist son, I should have done better.

!shirtsthatgohard@lemmy.world

I nearly died the first time I had sex because a surgeon in california botched a circumcision my parents had done. they're not jewish, just evangelical christian.

he severed some nerves so I basically have no feeling except at the base. Basically, I can't get off from vanilla sex... and uhm... those warnings on viagra commercials about erections that last longer than 3 hours? yeah. uhm. they're serious.

Are we not doing consent anymore? I thought everybody was onboard with consent?

The way my dad told it. When I was removed (tumor baby ftw) the doctor was just about to cut me and my dad stepped in. And told the doctor something along the lines of, "if you cut his dick off I will cut your dick off"

Dad was a 6'4 Vietnam veteran.

Hmmm... whenever this comes up, I'm glad I left my kids' intact. At the same time, I'm fairly indifferent about mine. Circumcized or otherwise, it's magnificent.

Also, given the hour I do want to remind non-US that it's weirdly seeped in the culture, perhaps even more so than gun ownership. I haven't the faintest idea why, though. Its also weirdly covered by my insurance, although only if done as part of the whole labor package. If you do it later on, it's additional cost (and me being a cheapskate was probably even a bigger deal than me being atheist, lol).

It's high-time we filed a class-action suit and forced them to return those ill-gotten foreskins to their rightful owners.

Donate to https://foregen.org

Needs to be cross posted in shirtsthatgohard (idk how to link stuff in lemmy)