I'm almost 62 years of age and I LIKE my circumcision...

[PCIntern]

in fact I personally never met anyone who was dissatisfied with his circumcision or talked about it. Pretty much all of the women in my life were rather fond of my circumcision as well. Circumcision has been very very good to ME.

Just saying...since we have Orthodox "misccrean"t threads, and circumcision threads, I thought I'd post one of my own!

[bigwillq]

1. I am almost 37 years of age and I like my circumcision.

And I am not pissed at my parents for not giving me a choice. I'm glad they made the choice they did.

[Capt. Obvious]

2. What does this have to do with pit bulls?

[MannyGoldstein]

16. You didn't read the story of *how* PCIntern was circumsized?

Oy.

Uh-oh, I think I just offended a #%^*load of people.

Sorry everyone!

[Capt. Obvious]

18. This post will referenced

sideways forever.

[notadmblnd]

29. Pit bull owners are now training them to perform circumcisions

haven't you heard?

[customerserviceguy]

68. It's a dog-eat-dong world out there. n/t

[joshcryer]

3. I like women who breastfeed in Olive Garden.

But I don't make threads about it.

[RiverLover]

7. Thank you!!!!

jeesh

[hrmjustin]

4. I am 36 and all the boys in my life never complained so I have no complaint either. n/t.

[el_bryanto]

5. My circumcision is frankly a bit stand-offish. We really aren't on speaking terms.

If I see it at a party I might wave, I guess.

Bryant

[daleanime]

51. But are you waving at it...

or with it.

[840high]

6. I would like your

circumcision, too - just saying. As a woman always appreciated circumcisions.

[PCIntern]

89. Best offer of the day! Nt

[riqster]

8. So, you wouldn't cast a ballot "fore skin", I assume?

[customerserviceguy]

66. Nor would he try to stuff the ballot box! n/t

[riqster]

71. What a cut-up.

[Feral Child]

9. I'm so glad

you like your penis! So many of us are ashamed.

Circumcised at birth, wasn't asked. Since I never had a prepuce, can't say I miss it.

The many, many lovers I've had never complained but I suppose some may have been secretly disappointed. Only remember a scant few that didn't come back for more, so I guess it all worked out.

Since we're congratulating ourselves...

[JohnnyLib2]

10. Guess you were sad when the Feast of the Circumcision disappeared.

\

[hrmjustin]

14. There is a hymn that some parishes sing on the feast just as a gag.

Oh Sacred Head Sore Wounded.

It is a Good Friday hymn but it is always fun to sing it on the feast of the circumsision.

[edhopper]

11. I too

am fond of my circumcised penis. A little too fond at times I admit.

[Tsiyu]

12. But let's say you have a vagina instead

would you be ever so PROUD of that glorious vagina if a couple of dudes with weird hair and funny hats told you they couldn't sit next to you on a plane because of all your vaginal power and glory?


And then asked you to take your fabulous vag somewhere else?

Inquiring vaginas want to know.....

[Capt. Obvious]

17. He won't sit with you?

[Tsiyu]

19. I guess not

[PCIntern]

23. Are you addressing me?

Did I say that I had anything but contempt for those who won't allow touch or proximity? My thesis had nothing to do with the actions of the Orthos.

[Tsiyu]

24. You ARE the OP, correctomundo?

Since you never answered my question in the other thread, I jokingly asked it here.

Lighten up, Frances.

[PCIntern]

28. I did answer your question, Sarge.

On my mobile I can't see whom you were addressing Sarge.

[Tsiyu]

31. You did?

Hmmmm....I don't see any replies to the question on my post page. Lemme check again....




Nope.......


http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6024913


Love,

Sarge

[Glassunion]

34. Since when do they let vaginas on airplanes? Why didn't anyone tell me?

[Tsiyu]

38. Shhhhhhhhhhh!

They'll hear you!

[stevenleser]

13. I have to admit I thought your OP was silly at first. But it really isn't. It's a good point...

... female circumcision is something we can all agree is completely repugnant because there is an obvious and severe reduction in quality of life as a result of the procedure.

I'm not sure we can say the same about male circumcision.

[brooklynite]

15. As long as you got it when you were an adult, good for you...

...otherwise, shouldn't really be your parents choice.

[PCIntern]

22. Since they chose to have me

feed me, choose my place to live, my religion, my doctors, my musical instruments, my furniture, my school, and my early friends, I suppose they could choose whether or not to snip off some skin from my dick. Just sayin'.

[Little Star]

25. +1

[brooklynite]

26. And if they decided to give you some tattoos, piercings...

[PCIntern]

27. I'm a JEW

We get cut. And that's just too effing bad for those who don't like that fact. Never heard one of my own complain. Ever.

[GummyBearz]

37. I'm NOT a JEW

And I am also circumcised ... double thanks mom and dad!

[COLGATE4]

39. +1

[pnwmom]

65. If there were valid health reasons for tattoos and piercings that analogy might make sense. n/t

[joeglow3]

128. Should parents have a say in vaccinations received?

Or should we have to wait until we are adults to decide on our own?

[pnwmom]

64. Parents choose to vaccinate and make other health decisions.

Now that the WHO and other medical organizations are saying that there is a medical benefit even for children (fewer urinary tract infections leading to permanent kidney damage), and that there is a long term benefit because circumcision is so much simpler in babies, it is a reasonable decision for parents to make.

[Orsino]

21. I might assign weight to a before-and-after account.

Most of us have no memory of not being circumcised, and therefore no goddamned idea of what it is we've lost (beyond the obvious). If anyone could talk about his adult circumcision, and do it free of religious dogma, I would pay respectful attention.

I have heard of statistically-significant health benefits to circumsion, but that's not what I'm curious about.

[customerserviceguy]

69. I'll take you up on that

Had mine done when I was eighteen, it was a medical necessity. Figuring that my sons might just have inherited my condition, I had them snipped before they could really process what hit them.

I'm an atheist, and have no religious reasons for having done this with myself and my sons. It's way easier to keep clean (I remembering my dear old Dad having to have that talk with me about how to keep clean down there, as he was uncut himself), and after getting over the effects of the initial scar tissue, it's been just fine.

[mopinko]

30. i had a bf long ago who wasnt cut.

best time of my life.
i didnt do it to my sons.

but i guess it is true what they say- you cant miss something you never had.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

32. I'm using a website that helps you find your Birth Foreskin.

If I find it, we can meet at Denny's or some other neutral place, get to know each other, that sort of thing.

[valerief]

33. Not all cops are circumcised, so stop hating on all cops. And they all don't eat at

Olive Garden either.

Pit bulls? Hate 'em. They're bred for aggressiveness. Like ammosexuals.

[Tsiyu]

40. And if you EVER put crushed cornflake breading on your

fried chicken, well just damn you all to hell.....

[valerief]

45. What about non-GMO cornflakes? That part always confuses me. nt

[Tsiyu]

46. Even healthy cornflakes are against the

Federal Fried Chicken Breading statute, Section III, paragraph 27

WE WILL prosecute!

[NuclearDem]

35. If you like your circumcision you can keep it

[CincyDem]

36. I too like my circumcision, but...

I'm starting to wonder if I have some latent angst because I find I'm drawn to wearing floppy turtle neck shirts and sweaters.

Am I acting out?

[Prophet 451]

41. Well, good for you

I don't think any of us have ever been for *banning* circumcision, just that it shouldn't be done to infants unless there's a legitimate medical need. If you choose to have one when you're old enough to understand it, fine.

[PCIntern]

47. It is a major operation

You should look up the sequelae. I wouldn't go for it.

[F4lconF16]

99. +1 nt

[Lint Head]

42. It's all venereal as far as I'm circumcised.

[lunasun]

43. TMI

[LiberalElite]

44. John Lennon wasn't -

cf: Two Virgins (NSFW)

[PCIntern]

48. Having nothing to do with Lennon

or his mother Julia, I'll take this opportunity to say that many people who are shall we say are not too find of Jews, refuse to have their boys circumcised so that no one can ever accuse them of being Jewish AND as a racial/religious discriminator.

[LiberalElite]

49. ok ok ok nt

[Capt. Obvious]

53. I initially wasn't going to circumcise my son

but then I worried that people would assume my wife and I were anti-Semites.

So the hoodie went.

[Crunchy Frog]

104. So I'm a racist anti-semite because I didn't cut my boys?

[Tsiyu]

105. yeah, that's a stretch, huh?

I won't talk about my five sons' peni, as they are grown men and are due privacy, but I never thought I'd hear someone say something so stupid as "people won't circumcise their kids over fear of being thought a Jew."

The men I've been with have all been cut, and only one was Jewish.

I never heard a single kid in school or any time as I got older claim uncut was an anti-Semitic statement by parents. And that was in the Deep South.

Never, ever heard that because most males are circumcised these days, religious parents or no.

I suspect the poster is harkening back to an earlier time when circumcision was not so widely performed.

[Crunchy Frog]

107. In earlier times when it wasn't so widely performed,

it was because it hadn't yet become widely ingrained in the culture, not because people were choosing to be anti-semites by not doing it.

I believe the poster was perhaps accusing John Lennon's mother of being an anti-semite, but it was never as widespread a cultural phenomenon in England as it became in the US, and not doing it was pretty common, especially among that social class, and during the 2nd WW, when medical resources were needed elsewhere. The practice was largely abandoned in England not long after.

I very much doubt that a personal insult to PCIntern and all of his people ever entered the mind of Julia Lennon.

[PCIntern]

134. Did I not write "Having NOTHING to do with Julia or John"?

Do you have a vision problem or a processing problem?

Anti-circumcision is not equated with being anti-Semitic. However, there ARE individuals who choose NOT to for the reasons which I elucidated.

But then, one would have to think rather than just act before one posts, wouldn't one?

[Crunchy Frog]

137. I'm sorry. Your post was a bit circumspect.

[Crunchy Frog]

133. You wouldn't happen to be Uncle Leo from Seinfeld, would you?

[cherokeeprogressive]

50. 53.5 years old; I find my circumcision simply breathtaking.

[B Calm]

54. and it is hump day. . .

[cherokeeprogressive]

56. "bite my lip and close my eyes..."

"Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored
I'm going blind
And loneliness has to suffice
Bite my lip and close my eyes
I was slipping away to paradise
Some say, "Quit or I'll go blind."
But it's just a myth"

[3catwoman3]

84. There is a certain ironic amusement factor to visual problems...

...being among the side effects of ED drugs.

[cherokeeprogressive]

85. Really? That must suck.

[Skittles]

81. I want I should kick your breathtaking circumcized 53.5 old ass, cherokeeprogressive?

I HAVE NEW YEARS SPECIALS GOING ON YOU KNOW

[cherokeeprogressive]

83. NO!

Well, maybe... if you promise to look.

[irisblue]

88. Skittles, what other end of year specials you got?

I got an ex who needs a leave me the F-alone reminder.

[Skittles]

102. asshole exes are a favorite of mine

yes INDEED

[B Calm]

52. Amazing topic you have here!

[riqster]

55. I'm a Presbo, and was circumsized in infancy.

I have no opinion on it. It's what it has always been. Only had one girlfriend comment on it.

[JustAnotherGen]

57. Things I never thought I would read at DU!

Sitting back with and and prepared to watch the men of DU engage in a circumcision debate.

[customerserviceguy]

67. Not all comments

will make the cut.

[JustAnotherGen]

70. Naughty! Naughty! Naughty!

[customerserviceguy]

74. Well, then spank me

but leave my monkey out of it.

[JustAnotherGen]

77. Oh my!

Intent of op was serious - but sometimes it's fun to just - have fun!

[customerserviceguy]

78. I did take it seriously

elsewhere on this thread, but it was fun to have fun with it, as others have done.

My serious post is #69, but really, I didn't intend it that way! (although I'm not displeased with the result...)

[JustAnotherGen]

79. You gave me quite the laugh!

Happy New Years to you!

[customerserviceguy]

82. And the same

to you and your loved ones. Seriously!

[B Calm]

121. Spank me, oh my, like 50 shades of Grey?

[Warren DeMontague]

93. Oh come on. You've been here, now, how long?

Circumcision is one of the old standbys.. like chicken, olive garden, pitbulls, porn, PETA, children in fine dining establishments.

Always good for a go-'round.

[arely staircase]

97. bomb the moon, I say nt

[uppityperson]

58. is this really a thread about how much you like your penis?

DU is funny.

[Major Nikon]

63. Still better than most GD threads

Just sayin'

[Ernesto]

59. I once had a job in a circumcision clinic

The pay wasn't too good, but there were plenty of tips........

[yellowcanine]

60. Thanks for sharing that.

[closeupready]

61. File under "WAAAAYYY too much information from a 62 year old man" and

trash thread. Thanks so much!

[Logical]

72. Wow, way too much information. But at least you get to brag a little as usual. nt

[ileus]

73. It just gives the easily poutraged folks something to whine about.

[sir pball]

75. Can't say whether I like mine or not, since I don't recall the before..

But I'm entirely happy, as has been every lover/fling, with Mjolnir even cut as it is so I certainly can't complain though!

[still_one]

76. That really cuts both sides of the issue

[madinmaryland]

86. OH SHIT!! I thought you were a woman!!

[Jesus Malverde]

87. .

Jesus

[Monk06]

90. When you're 62 years old an uncircumcised dick looks like an old apple in an overgrown ditch.

FLAME ON !!!

[Warren DeMontague]

94. And just HOW many 62 yr old dicks look like a breathtakingly beautiful Santorini Sunset, cut or no?

Riddle me that, Batman.

[arely staircase]

98. I am forty-ish and it seems like the scrotum does all the aging.

The penis (circumcised) looks fine. But the sack is kinda sad.

I know. You didn't ask. But I'm keeping with the TMI theme of the OP.

[Monk06]

138. Well not mine dasa fur sure!!!

[Spider Jerusalem]

91. Congratulations

the issue with the other post you're responding to isn't circumcision but unsanitary practices that resulted in an infant getting herpes. I really hope you're not defending that just because it happens to involve Orthodox Jews. I can only wonder how you'd react if the story involved traditional circumcision practices of Muslims; I suspect rather differently. And you of all people should have some appreciation of the importance of sanitary practices; if you don't you probably aren't fit to do your job.

[Tsiyu]

106. Just cut to the chase why don't you?

See, this is why I love you.

I always look forward to your reasoning, even when mine is spazzing out.


Happy New Year, Spider Jerusalem

[PCIntern]

119. Did you enjoy typing

Your post? I know you relished that last sentence. Banged it out and hit Enter to post!!!!

My thread, since you sort of asked, is in response to all the anti-circumcision diatribes I've read during the past year here. I didn't reference the other thread but you are not alone in the "J'accuse" mentality of accusing me of a variety of sins with only supposition and poor assumptions. Great work and well-thought out post there. Thanks!

[Spider Jerusalem]

120. You're a sad and unpleasant little man.

[PCIntern]

122. Opinions vary…nt

[Warren DeMontague]

92. I honestly never thought about it that much, until I got older.

But if I really sit down and consider it, I do find it a bit offensive that someone fucked with my body without checking in with me, first.

[boguspotus]

95. I'm glad there are no photos posted on this thread!

Thank You

[Warren DeMontague]

96. If you like your circumcision, you can keep your circumcision.

[DemocraticWing]

126. But will there be Foreskin Death Panels?

[mockmonkey]

100. When I was born...

my foreskin was sent to Heaven. When I die the rest of me should make it there since I already have a foot in the door, so to speak.

[Warpy]

101. You're going to like it even better as you age

and your eyesight isn't as good and your manual dexterity isn't what it was.

Honestly, some of the uncut little old men we had to take care of could be smelled all the way down the hall. They'd likely taken care of themselves when younger but found it too difficult to do properly as they aged. Sometimes it was infected and really raw under there, making care painful.

Yes, we know that non Jews did it for all the wrong reasons at first, but new data are emerging about lower transmission rates for a lot of diseases, especially HIV, so there are some right reasons to do it.

Parents are the ones who need to be presented with both sides of the argument so they can make the best decision for their sons. Everybody else needs to butt out.

[CTyankee]

131. Oh, that is sad and gross at the same time. Not all of my family's men are Jewish

but those who aren't but who are circumsized are pretty happy. Geez, what's the problem, folks?

[Crunchy Frog]

103. This thread means nothing without pictures!

[Behind the Aegis]

108. Like your other thread, this went over some heads...not just the cut ones.

Paint us one way, and you dared to speak back. Shame upon ya! How dare a minority speak up!

I don't like my circumcision, I love it! It is a cut above the rest!

Wallet and suitcase...if you know it, you know it; and you may know why I didn't post it.

Happy New Year (again...heehee)!

BtA (not BoA...LOL! I wish!!)

[Spider Jerusalem]

113. Who is "us"? Are you a Haredi Jew?

Would you have a problem sitting next to a woman on a plane? If you had a son, would you want the blood sucked off the tip of his freshly circumcised penis despite it being grossly unsanitary and a vector for serious infection? If not, then it's not about you...nor is comment on these issues "anti-Semitic"; it's "anti-fundamentalist", which is something completely different. (And as an aside? It's very fucked up for a supposed "progressive" to defend the actions of religious fundamentalists out of misguided ethnic loyalty.)

[Behind the Aegis]

115. No. I am not Haredi.

But, don't presume to tell me what this is or isn't about. In your short-sightedness, it is NOT about "ethnic loyalty" (or playing the anti-Semitism card), it is about how, why, and the way certain topics are discussed. Anti-Semitism is NOT limited to calling a Jew a "kike."

[Spider Jerusalem]

116. I'll presume to tell you what it's about because I get the sense I have a clearer idea than you do.

The issue for most people commenting? Is the fundamentalism and anti-modernity and misogyny and general fucked-upness. Which would be exactly the same if it were fundamentalist Muslims and not ultra-Orthodox Jews. Crying "anti-Semitism" where it doesn't actually exist is not very helpful.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

109. I read somewhere that John F. Kennedy

had it done as an adult, and that he felt "castrated". Considering how much action he got, that's probably a worthwhile observation.

As a grown female, I am against it unless medically necessary as it makes intercourse far easier and more enjoyable (while we're in a TMI thread) but I am not going to say something negative to the vast numbers of American men who were cut when they were babies and therefore don't know what they are missing--a few thousand nerve endings that would otherwise have given them pleasure. Not saying anything to a guy who can't do anything about it, and whose parents violated his bodily integrity by cutting off a useful part of the body, is just being diplomatic.

[Mariana]

110. +1

No woman is ever going to tell her guy, "Too bad you're circumcised, it makes it so dry and abrasive. Oh well, we'll just have to make the best of it, I guess."

[Manifestor_of_Light]

123. Oh yes! LOL!

But seriously, no woman with a lick of sense (I'm Southern, that's where I got that phrase) would ever say that.
They would just say, "Oh we need more lube." Women have to be diplomatic about lots of things in bed, as you obviously know.

Happy New Year!!

[Hekate]

111. *This* you call a New Year's greeting? Oy.

At least it wasn't done at Olive Garden.

[Warren DeMontague]

112. Aesthetics, or Functionality?

Truly, such matters are nothing if not subjective.

[LeftyMom]

114. Is this a response to the baby herpes thread?

Shame on you.

[PCIntern]

118. Read your post.

Now what did you just do? You asked me a question, presupposed the answer, and then spat on me.

Very humanistic and intellectual approach to discussion. Your professors would be so proud.

[UglyGreed]

117. My son's circumcision was botched

and he had to go under the knife again just after he turned a year old. He now has speech problems which the doctors do not know the cause......

[Orrex]

136. What kind of speech problems? And how old is he?

I'm sorry to hear of your difficulties.

[Jamastiene]

124. Yeah, but I haven't seen any breastfeeding or Olive Garden threads during the holidays

this year on DU. We've already done circumcision and pit bulls. Surely, you LIKED breast feeding, assuming you did? Maybe you liked one thing at Olive Garden?

Weird that I haven't seen the Olive Garden threads or breast feeding threads this year.

[PCIntern]

125. We can rectify that, you know!!!

Let me know...

[Jamastiene]

132. Start a thread about how much you liked breast feeding.

I don't know many people who didn't like breast feeding.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

127. Comparing cut and uncut,

is there a vas deferens?

[1step]

129. Forty-nine and likin' mine

And I'm not even Jewish. Mine occurred in infancy, and was done for medical reasons.

[lame54]

130. I like your circumcision too...

did I say that out loud?

[madokie]

135. I'll be 67 in March

and I still remember when they cut me. You see I was a poor kid in a poor part of the country, northeast ok. Born at home without a birth certificate and without being circumcised. The fellow who made a trip through our neck of the woods cutting us unclean kids with the foreskin showed up when I was 4. My brother who is next up from me was 8 so they let him slide, said he was too old and would probably remember this but they figured that me at 4 I wouldn't remember it but I got news for them I do. About the time I went into the service I gave up on ever finding the bastard who took the knife to my part. I still remember what he looked like to this day.