Can we stand one more circumcision thread?

[Bunny]

Life, Circumcision, and the Cannon

I want to share this story. I can't make this stuff up.

One day at work, I was in the hallway talking to a colleague about circumcision. You are familiar with this conversation - the health gains, societal standards, and religious laws associated with being snipped. The conversation was a bit one-sided since neither of us ourselves have an anteater. At the height of the conversation, another coworker, we will call him Jiminy Bonerpants, walked by. Jiminy is a 25 year old, college educated, married engineer from a Middle American state. So as Jiminy passed, we inquired as to the state of his foreskin. Very matter-of-factly, Jiminy replied no, he was not circumcised.

Being the first person we had come upon who would admit to having a meat tulip, we were intrigued and my colleague started asking him some questions. These questions were about fundamental mechanics of operating an uncircumcised penis, i.e. sex, hygiene, etc. I am no doctor, but Jiminy's answers did not make any sense. Physiologically, the answers did not add up. Upon further questioning involving some rudimentary diagrams, the following became clear: Jiminy Bonerpants was and is circumcised, but he did not know this.

Where he got this idea, i cannot tell you, but somewhere in the last 25 years, Jiminy gained the impression that male circumsion involved removing the entire head from the penis. Logically, since he still retained his helmet, he sincerely believed that he was uncircumcised. We laughed at him, and then showed him some German porn to try to clear up his misconceptions.

I struggled with whether or not I should tell anyone at work about this. Surely this would make him a laughing stock and severely damage his reputation. This struggle lasted approximately 10 minutes and within 2 hours, everyone at work was laughing at him.
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This story does not say much for the health education being administered in Middle America. As far as I am concerned, there is a minimum amount of operator knowledge that should be required for ownership of any equipment. If you own a car, you should at the least understand why it needs gas and how to check the oil. If you operate a washing machine, you should understand what most of the noises mean. If you own or ever operate a penis, you understand, at the least, how to put on a condom and what it means to be circumcised.

Please pass this on. Knowledge is power.

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[SPKrazy]

1. OMG, That Is Funny

That is sad, but funny!
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[ornotna]

2. Funny

But damn, Jiminy Bonerpants is a dumbass.

[uppityperson]

3. had this happen with a 24 yr old male once

took dog to vet to get fixed, after discussion of why I wanted him fixed he did a vasectomy (great dog personality, adult dog also, just didn't want him to make babies). Brought him home and 24 yr old male (who had been VERY upset I was going to do this to the dog), would not believe dog had had vasectomy. I explained that dog had vasectomy, "like people get", rather than cutting off testes. 24 yr old male would not believe me because "they are still there", he thought men got vasectomy by getting testes chopped off. Sigh.

Knowledge is power. Please pass this on.

[Redstone]

5. If ignorance is bliss, that's gotta be one happy dude.

Redstone

[uppityperson]

7. I was amazed, he was happy indeed

[Redstone]

4. Given how funny this was, yes, we can stand another circumcision thread.

Redstone

[GOPisEvil]

6. Look the snake is either wearing a turtleneck or a WWII helmet!

Those are the options if you have one, dammit.

There, now that's cleared up. :D

[Deja Q]

8. Well, don't just sit there. Cut to the chase!

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