For every guy who likes his dick, congrats.

I’m an american woman. I have no sexual experience with uncut men, but my husband and I chose NOT to cut our son. He is now a teenager and he says his friends are about 50/50 between cut and uncut. There was a huge upsurge against circumcision, at least amongst intelligensia, in the late 80’s and 90’s. 

Penile cancer and STD reality check: if you are a slovenly person who does not bathe, your private parts are going to stink whether or not you are circumcised, and whether or not you are male! Haven’t you ever heard of “twat rot?” Teach your kid how to bathe properly and not to have unprotected sex with uncommitted partners, and the risk of penile cancer and STD’s goes down dramatically. Derp.

Personally, I never once thought about circumcision until my nephew was born and my mother threw a hissy fit against him being cut. It turns out that my dad, who was born in the deep south in 1916, had an elective circumcision as an adult. He felt stigmatized by not being cut, like being uncircumcised proclaimed his childhood poverty. There was a huge “ick” factor in questioning him or my mom about the outcome, but from what my mom said, I gather that after the circumcision he was extremely sensitive and had no staying power, leaving my mom sexually unsatisfied. Once the hood was gone, the head of his penis was like a raw nerve ending. My dad never talked about it to us and my mom was not specific in the details of what happened to him, but she was adamently opposed to circumcision! 

There was no question that when my son was born, he would remain as nature made him. Hearing this, my mother-in-law had her own hissy fit. She thought it was terrible and traumatizing for a son to look different from his father. So, for the non-americans who wonder why we circumcise over here, there’s another reason for ya – so the son will look like his dad -as if a little boy’s penis looks anything like his dad’s dick! 

As for the relative sensitivity argument: sure, if you had the hood removed as a baby or small child, your reality is that “this is how it has always felt” and that is normal for you and as long as your dick works, that is the important part. You don’t miss what you never had. But what if it could be even better? That was my thought when I looked at my baby son. You see, I had breast reduction surgery a few years before his birth, and after the surgery my breasts only feel about 1/3 as sensitive as before the surgery. I still have feeling. My nipples still feel directly tied to my clit, but just not as vibrantly. I had the surgery 22 years ago. The sensitivity has never come back. And breasts are only a secondary sexual characteristic! I could not contemplate doing that to him, and to a much more important area. 

Ben Franklin famously said that beer was proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. I disagree. I think orgasms prove that. Or at least help along that biological imperitive to procreate! I want my child to be able to experience that pleasure as vibrantly as possible.