I'm going to try being as calm as possible with this, since the issue is just enraging to me since 2009 when I started researching the subject. I understand ignorance regarding the manner was rampant back then, and I'm actually glad the vast majority (close to 80%) of Earth males are not victims of this barbaric act. It's far more rare with females, so this is just regarding male circumcision.
It's becoming more commonly known what're the effects of removing the foreskin (which is about 2/3 of your penile skin), not to mention removal of the frenulum, which is what holds the foreskin to the underside of the glans (penis head). Having the foreskin removed usually means having this removed as well. Some of these effects can be (and aren't limited to) drying out of the glans making it less sensitive over time since the foreskin's supposed to be covering it, bowing of the penis when erect due to lack of accommodating skin (one of the foreskin's purpose), "shafting" during intercourse (not having this amount of skin makes vaginal sex unnatural and somewhat dysfunctional, not to mention less desirable for the woman), painful erections if they get tight due to said lack of accommodating skin, and what I find to be the most depressing of all, the amount of sexual sensation lost. That foreskin reportedly has several times the sensitivity the glans has, and I originally thought the glans was the most sensitive part of all (the foreskin also works as a feel-good glider for vaginal sex and stroking purposes); the frenulum is also a highly sensitive area, and is actually the most pleasure-deriving part of the body. Nothing shames me more than those who support this practice for the sake of hygiene. I am a hygiene freak (it is even part of my OCD), yet I would NEVER support this due to the negative effects of it physically, and more importantly the possible worse mental/emotional/psychological effect of it. A person who's impotent is almost guaranteed a miserable life. The misery comes from the lack of sexual pleasure due to the impotence, and hardly because loliwant2reproduce. Now, considering circumcision eliminates well over 30% of the pleasure intended by nature, why the hell would people still recommend it now? Do people want us to be 30% depressed? Or intact humans, as opposed to mutilated at birth?
It's bad enough someone like me is pretty much permanently depressed due to other matters anyway. I'm victim to all these effects (I don't call them "side effects", since there's no benefit to being circumcised in the United States in 2012; this is not Africa or the Dark Ages), and I am not embarrassed to say that online, in person, to a doctor, whatever. I understand some may find this to be too much info. and so forth, but if it's a source of depression/displeasure, I don't see why I shouldn't bring it up. It's said that you should talk to someone about your problems when you're depressed, etc. and this issue's important. Every ad on the internet and their mothers talk about the importance of having a healthy sex life, so considering this is directly related to that, should this subject really be some kind of taboo? I don't think so.
The fact keeping an intact penis clean is as easy as pulling the foreskin back when urinating, or (if you want) thinking of arousing thoughts to make the glans come out just enough so that you don't soak your foreskin with your piss, and that you can simply wash it either way makes me want to cockslap someone hard enough that their head spins. You wash your entire body every morning. If you cannot wash an intact male organ, then you fail at failing. And STD's? Condoms, common sense, and clinical tests and you're good to go. Heck one of them is sufficient.
I hate people's stupidity and I hate those who blind-follow a religion without thinking even a little bit for themselves and doing their own research. Funnier is they believe their god commands that they cut off what he/she/it has been putting on creatures for the past 65 million years, lol. That god also commanded that we dismember limbs. After all, who needs them./sarcasm
It's becoming more commonly known what're the effects of removing the foreskin (which is about 2/3 of your penile skin), not to mention removal of the frenulum, which is what holds the foreskin to the underside of the glans (penis head). Having the foreskin removed usually means having this removed as well. Some of these effects can be (and aren't limited to) drying out of the glans making it less sensitive over time since the foreskin's supposed to be covering it, bowing of the penis when erect due to lack of accommodating skin (one of the foreskin's purpose), "shafting" during intercourse (not having this amount of skin makes vaginal sex unnatural and somewhat dysfunctional, not to mention less desirable for the woman), painful erections if they get tight due to said lack of accommodating skin, and what I find to be the most depressing of all, the amount of sexual sensation lost. That foreskin reportedly has several times the sensitivity the glans has, and I originally thought the glans was the most sensitive part of all (the foreskin also works as a feel-good glider for vaginal sex and stroking purposes); the frenulum is also a highly sensitive area, and is actually the most pleasure-deriving part of the body. Nothing shames me more than those who support this practice for the sake of hygiene. I am a hygiene freak (it is even part of my OCD), yet I would NEVER support this due to the negative effects of it physically, and more importantly the possible worse mental/emotional/psychological effect of it. A person who's impotent is almost guaranteed a miserable life. The misery comes from the lack of sexual pleasure due to the impotence, and hardly because loliwant2reproduce. Now, considering circumcision eliminates well over 30% of the pleasure intended by nature, why the hell would people still recommend it now? Do people want us to be 30% depressed? Or intact humans, as opposed to mutilated at birth?
It's bad enough someone like me is pretty much permanently depressed due to other matters anyway. I'm victim to all these effects (I don't call them "side effects", since there's no benefit to being circumcised in the United States in 2012; this is not Africa or the Dark Ages), and I am not embarrassed to say that online, in person, to a doctor, whatever. I understand some may find this to be too much info. and so forth, but if it's a source of depression/displeasure, I don't see why I shouldn't bring it up. It's said that you should talk to someone about your problems when you're depressed, etc. and this issue's important. Every ad on the internet and their mothers talk about the importance of having a healthy sex life, so considering this is directly related to that, should this subject really be some kind of taboo? I don't think so.
The fact keeping an intact penis clean is as easy as pulling the foreskin back when urinating, or (if you want) thinking of arousing thoughts to make the glans come out just enough so that you don't soak your foreskin with your piss, and that you can simply wash it either way makes me want to cockslap someone hard enough that their head spins. You wash your entire body every morning. If you cannot wash an intact male organ, then you fail at failing. And STD's? Condoms, common sense, and clinical tests and you're good to go. Heck one of them is sufficient.
I hate people's stupidity and I hate those who blind-follow a religion without thinking even a little bit for themselves and doing their own research. Funnier is they believe their god commands that they cut off what he/she/it has been putting on creatures for the past 65 million years, lol. That god also commanded that we dismember limbs. After all, who needs them./sarcasm