Funny childhood story about circumcision.

[Meldread]

There are several threads and postings floating around the general discussions forum about circumcision. While I don't support circumcision, I do have a funny story to tell. It wasn't appropriate for those threads, and I was wondering if any other guys here had similar experiences.

The story takes place in Pre-School. I was around the age of four or five. I remember my mother used to always stress to me that, when I took a bath, that I should always wash "down there" because if I didn't it'd turn black and fall off. (Nothing strikes more terror than that into the heart of a young boy. :P) Now, being circumcised I had never seen an uncircumcised penis in my entire life up until I was in Pre-School. There I was standing at the urinal next to another boy named Aaron. I glanced over and... OMG, his "pee-pee" didn't have a "head!" I was horrified, and became convinced that my mother was telling the truth and that this boy Aaron hadn't washed himself properly, and that it had turned black and had fallen off.

I seriously believed this story to be true throughout virtually my entire childhood. It wasn't until I had access to porn - gay porn - that I learned what circumcision was and what an uncircumcised penis really looked like. Yet, it still took me awhile to put two and two together and realize that Aaron just had a foreskin. :blush:

It's an embarrassing but funny story. Needless to say, "down there" is always rather impeccably clean. Neither Aaron nor my mother knew how much of an impression they left on me regarding cleanliness. :P

[damntexdem]

1. Your circumspection is based on your circumcision?

recced

[pnwmom]

2. One of them COULD fall off, under the right circumstances.

My little son told me he was sore, so I checked him out. He was swollen, too, in an odd way. Turns out that a very fine, almost invisible head hair had gotten wrapped around his penis -- so tightly it was cutting off the circulation. Ouch!

[Touchdown]

3. I didn't know anything about it until I joined the Army

... and became a bottom boy slut in Germany. All of the anatomy books, health & sexuality books when I was in school had drawings of circumcised penises, implying that the sawed off version is natural. A foreskin wasn't even described. I hate American medicine! :grr:

[SacredCow]

4. I was never given the "it'll fall off" story....

but my first viewing of an uncircumcised penis was also at a trough urinal, and it did puzzle me why his looked so different. But not enough to ever ask about it that I can recall. It was not too long afterward that I asked mom or dad (can't remember which) why some of the ancient statues had naked men with headless-peni, and all was explained.

As for the eternal debate- I get harpooned from both sides, because I just honestly don't care one way or the other if someone I'm dating is or isn't circumcised. Nor was I scarred for life in the process of my circumcision. I don't judge anybody for choosing to or not to circumcise their sons, because it really is none of my business.