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3rd Trimester
NewlyWeds13
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maybe TMI-- but about circumcizing...
NewlyWeds13
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I know this is a weird post... but I am curious.
I have read the stats that in US it is 50%/50% on circ vs. non-circ.
Well... I am not a slut or anything... but I am 38.5 and was engaged before I met DH and went to college and had a few boyfriends, etc...
so I find it hard to beleive that I have never seen IRL a non-circumcized penis if it is 50/50.
Do you think this is regional? Is it because I am older and it was more common then? etc?
Anyone else never seen a non-circum? What about people who have never seen a circ one? I would think if it was 50/50 and you have seen 5+ penises you would have seen a mix. LOL
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Re: maybe TMI-- but about circumcizing...
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I think it might be your age. More recently, it's become less and less common. I was born in the 1980s and my brothers were, too. I don't think they are circ'd.
Also, I have seen a bit of a mix throughout my life with guys around my age.
I have to agree with the hispanic part. My husband was not circ'd until he was about 10yrs old. He got a bacterial infection and that's when he had to get it done. His parents are very traditional and don't do ANYTHING unless they think it NEEDS to be done.
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no... we are christian, but DH is ethnically Jewish (his mother is) and while he was raised Catholic (his dad) all of his mom's family is jewish and he IDs with it culturally. that is important to him. Also-- while I agree there is no definitive data on health reasons... there are certainly some studies that have suggested that it lowers infection rates, HIV (yes I know many of the studies have been refuted) but IMO... 1) it looks better 2) is cleaner and 3) even if it potentially has health benefits why not 4) DH's cultural ID was what put us over the line.
Dh is the only jewish (culutrally) guy I had ever been with... but all were caucasian and mostly catholics. Guessing it is a combo of region, race, my age, and likely just luck that I have not seen one.
Interesting there are others that have not seen one though IRL:)
I've dated two men that were not circumsized - one was German from Germany and the other was Roman Catholic from Puerto Rico...
Kristen (7), Timothy (5), Robert (3), Charles (9 months)
Would just like to point out that to my knowledge, it is not common culture amongst African-Americans to be uncircumsized. I've seen one in my entire life (DD's Father). I'm 29 and in my age group and younger, it has been common to circumsize boys at birth....
This website has graphs of circumcision rates by region and year, as well as by race.
For babies born in 2006, 78% were circumcised in the Midwest, 64% in the Northeast, 55% in the South, and 34% in the West.
It looks like babies born in the '70s were circumcised at a higher rate.
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LOL! And, me neither.
The generalizations are not always true. I am hispanic (born and raised in Ecuador), one of eight children, 6 of which are males and they are ALL circ.
DH is from Eastern Europe (Romania) and he is uncirc, he is neither of hispanic descend or black, however his brother, father, uncles and pretty much every male in his family are all uncirc.
I am also a cashew (half Jewish, half Catholic). We circ'ed DS because he was born in Ecuador and we wanted to make my father a part of the ceremonial Bris (Jewish circumcision), we did not do it for medical reasons. If we are to have another boy DH does not want to circ him, so we will have one of each.
btw, maybe tmi but from xp (not that I am a slut) uncirc guys can last longer on average than circ guys.
This is something that crossed my mind recently. It isn't like I have been around the block a ton but I have never seen one...I thought they were a myth, lol! Actually my DS will be the only one I have ever seen and that will only be in the few hours before we have it done. I always thought it was a regional thing and I was just not 'well traveled'.
I dated a guy who wasn't cut.
It didn't bother me at first, but one day I was giving him a BJ and found little navy blue fuzzies in his foreskin...fuzzies that looked suspiciously like the ones from a navy blue blanket we had sex on about a week before... maaajor turn off for me
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That didn't take long:
https://www.cirp.org/library/statistics/USA/
This one has a nice graphical map: https://www.circumstitions.com/USA.html
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Elizabeth Anne Born 08/18/10; 7lb. 4.5 oz; 20" long
I am a lot older than the average bumpie- I was born in 1969. I have a lot of sexual experience both here in the USA and overseas in Europe... I have never had an American lover who wasn't circumcised nor have I ever had a European lover who was not intact.
While any man has the potential to be a wonderful lover- I have never EVER had a lover who I thought would be improved by cutting off about 15 square inches of his penis skin, externalizing his glans and immobilizing the movable nature of his penis. I have never looked at my lovers as if they had "extra" on their body that was not important. It's obvious when you see and touch an adult man that is most certainly a part of his erotic whole.
My husband is circumcised and he was circumcised in a hospital in Cincinnati in 1964 without his parents consent- no males left the hospital without being circumcised- it was the routine and they didn't even ask. So if you think the fact that your relatives were circumcised is all the reason you need to keep it going to the next generation- you might want to think again. My husband's father was intact and had he been given a chance- he would have said NO WAY... but just like that- you have a new "family tradition" and ta-da American "culture" (this is not a part of our heritage!!) Before you fall back on the "look like dad" and "he has the penis" excuses... why don't you go back to the oldest generation in your family and ask them to tell you all about the childbirth process, how empowered and respected laboring women were, what part fathers played, how doctors treated you and how and why the circumcision happened. My in-laws never told my husband the story- so when I was pregnant- he tried to pull the "everyone is" and "a boy must look like his father" card (ironic huh... he didn't even know!)
By the way- the foreskin has a sexual function in heterosexual intercourse.
https://mensightmagazine.com/Articles/Northrup/lovecirc.htm
If you are not comfortable with the way natural male genitals look... perhaps you might pause for a second and consider that it's YOU who has a problem. Seriously- adult women grossed out by the sex organs of their species? Comon!! Grow the heck up! You all have the internet- there is no excuse to walk around acting like you have to circumcise a baby just because you were too inhibited to overcome your own ignorance. It's coded in every strand of your DNA.
If you think you don't "know" any intact men... maybe you are familiar with some of them... here is a list of famous men from the US and around the world... might bend your brain a little... Will Smith, Mario Lopez and Nick Cage are some of my faves.
https://www.circumstitions.com/Famous2a.html
Ewwww, that would totally turn me off, too!