• elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    I’m intact. In my country it’s only done for medical reasons.

    My friend had circumcision performed in his 20’s because he was having trouble during sex. He later confided to close friends that it was shit; Initially he was constantly uncomfortable because of the friction of his glans with underwear, until it desensitized!! and he had to lubricate to masturbate, among other things. He also said that sex was plain and simple worse, that he had lost a lot of sensitivity, and that it took him way longer.

    Those who are circumcised who tell themselves they fine are deluding themselves.

    That the US allows ritual infant genital mutilation is plain and simple barbaric.

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      2 months ago

      Also consider that if it’s all you ever knew, you might just be trying to make the most of it, without defending the practice.

      Sex feels great to me, I wish I was uncut, and I would never circumcise my son if I had one.

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      2 months ago

      Those who are circumcised who tell themselves they fine are deluding themselves.

      utterly pointless insulting victims like this. stop.

      • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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        2 months ago

        I’m not insulting anybody, I’m simply pointing out that to pretend everything is fine, is looking the other way.

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            2 months ago

            I’m empathetic about your situation. I think it’s the best to make the best out of it. I simply say that saying all is OK makes it sound as it’s a trivial matter, and helps the practice keep being carried out.

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        2 months ago

        As a victim, I wish people had insulted previous victims so that they wouldn’t pass on their trauma to the next generation.

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      2 months ago

      I was circumcised in my late teen’s and had none of those issues or noticed any difference in sex other than it didn’t hurt like hell when I would cum anymore. I was left with a scar on the head and shaft from where they had to cut the string thing that connected the two. It might be because the head of my dick was already fully exposed when flaccid and uncomfortably so when erect. I still remember the first stringy bit tearing the first time I had sex, hurt like a mf. After a few more times I got the courage to ask my mom, who I had a poor relationship with, to take me to the doctor which resulted in them performing the operation to remove the much thicker, comparably, stringy bit that connected the head to the shaft.

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          2 months ago

          My mother said I was not circumcised as a baby but it’s nothing I talked to her about again and I suppose she could have been lying.

          • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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            2 months ago

            If your glans was permanently exposed it seems like you were circumcised ( a botched circumcision by the looks of it).