🐱 The Men Who Want to End Circumcision in America

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https://www.advocate.com/health/2018/8/31/men-who-want-end-circumcision-america

In this clip from American Circumcision, Jonathon Conte expresses the loss of trust he experiences while coming to terms with his circumcision. He fought against the practice as an intactivist (intact + activist) pushing for babies' bodies to remain intact, just the way they were born. Two years ago, he died by suicide; he is survived by his partner, Christopher Holden.

Georgetown University professor Ryan McAllister hears the stories of many men who have been circumcised and feel they cannot share their feelings about the experience with anyone else. After hearing many traumatic and stigmatizing stories, he says, "If you are willing to accept a man's feelings about circumcision as valid, then you have to question circumcision."

The film's director, Brendon Marotta, said in an interview with Plus (The Advocate's sister magazine) that the longterm harm is undisputed, stating, "Even the most pro-circumcision doctor in our film admits the pain from circumcision creates a lasting change in behavior that has been scientifically proven. Change in behavior is a form of memory, what in this case is known as somatic memory. The idea that early life experiences can shape who we are is scientifically proven.”

Marotta goes on to connect the procedure to toxic masculinity, "When it comes to toxic masculinity or rape culture, one of our interview subjects notes that circumcision teaches men that if you are bigger and stronger than someone else, you get to do what you want to their body. It teaches this in their first shared sexual experience, the first time someone else touches their genitals, and in the relationship all other relationships will be patterned on, their relationship with their mother."
 
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Absolutely unacceptable!
 
I never understood the 'it's easier to clean' argument. Cleaning your dick is the best part of a shower.

I have had one chick give me shit for being circumcised, but we still banged - @The Lizard Queen if you were in bed with a guy, and after working yourselves into a lather he whips off his underpants and hasn't had the chop, would you really bail out?

It would still be a turn off... kind of like if he had taken off his pants to reveal a My Little Pony tattoo on his butt. There's just some things you don't want to see or think about during sex.
 
It would still be a turn off... kind of like if he had taken off his pants to reveal a My Little Pony tattoo on his butt. There's just some things you don't want to see or think about during sex.

*sigh* das it mane i'm moving back to europe, where my dong won't be weird for its foreskin but for its gnarled, elder wand sort of shape
 
Tbh most American men are shit at personal hygiene so I can kinda understand the circumcision for cleanliness point of view, but overall it just seems like a waste of time and effort because basically no other country does it
 
Holy shit, this guy killed himself because he couldn't dock?
I would say his suicide came from ruminating about something that can't be changed, and a lack of other meaningful things to focus on instead. I mean people lose limbs or parts of their faces etc etc and manage to live good lives after that. He had an issue that prevented him from getting over the thing that bothered him.
 
We got kicked out of Jewish club for not chopping off part of our son's penis when he was 8 days old. Well, not kicked out but our families wondered why we didn't do it. It's bad enough changing diapers never mind having to work around a wound as well. If he wants to get it done when he is an adult he can but he can chose. Just like we didn't pierce our daughters ears as a baby either. Their body their choice.

Having been around a few dicks in my time, of both varieties, it's definitely easier to give an uncut guy a hand job. And the one man I know who got circumcised as an adult did say that after a few months he felt less sensitive. He got it done for medical reasons, not to join our Jewish overlords.
 
I never understood the 'it's easier to clean' argument. Cleaning your dick is the best part of a shower.

I have memories of my step-mother telling my younger brothers to make sure they lifted the foreskin and cleaned really well once they were allowed to shower alone. I think it's more of an easier to clean thing when you're a child, tbh, but this isn't a conversation I have with my brothers now as adults.

Tbh most American men are shit at personal hygiene so I can kinda understand the circumcision for cleanliness point of view, but overall it just seems like a waste of time and effort because basically no other country does it

That doesn't stop the US from doing things differently than the rest. C'mon now!
 
Tbh most American men are shit at personal hygiene so I can kinda understand the circumcision for cleanliness point of view, but overall it just seems like a waste of time and effort because basically no other country does it

This is a racist statement because the US is so diverse. Cleanliness dogwhistle Nazi and such.
 
Anyway, if you want to start a real internet fight, go to a parenting chatroom and say something about circumcision. It's like dropping a bomb.
The only thing more controversial is mentioning baby formula vs breastfeeding. You can draw blood over that one.
 
look at all of these people that can't wash their own dick.

also look at all of these people who claim uncut dick looks disgusting, but in reality when an uncut dick is at full mast, it looks the same as a cut dick, just with some added girth below the glans.

Unless you have aardvaark dick, in which case, 'k.
 
look at all of these people that can't wash their own dick.

also look at all of these people who claim uncut dick looks disgusting, but in reality when an uncut dick is at full mast, it looks the same as a cut dick, just with some added girth below the glans.

Unless you have aardvaark dick, in which case, 'k.

Someone sure sounds mad they aren't welcome to Yehwah's kingdom.
 
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