Why so many stories about circ in later life - Page 2

[susienjay]

Originally Posted by Frankly Speaking

Hmmmmm . . . . Amputative surgery to avoid worry about a doctor with poor knowledge and diagnostic skills or amputative surgery to avoid the very unlikely possibility of later surgery? In other words a 100% certainty of surgery as opposed to a .0006% risk of surgery? Makes no sense to me but of course, this is just a rhetorical question to illustrate the point. Sounds more like denial and justification than anything else.




Frank

I agree with you. I just don't get it. This group is very conservative Christian homeschoolers and at least from my experience the vast majority of them circ.

[Frankly Speaking]

Originally Posted by Brina

I dated a man in my mid twenties who had gotten cut shortly before we met. From what he described, it sounds like he had phimosis. The odd thing is he talked about his brother and his father having to get circ'd as adults as well, for the same reason. Now, at the time I knew nothing about foreskins. This man was very well endowed, and I guess I just thout that somehow the condition he was describing was related to that fact. Now, I don't know if the x-boyfriend and his father and brother all really had phimosis or, if they simply all had the same urologist. Or, maybe, they all just wanted to fit in here in the US (not their country of birth).

Brina

Another possibility . . . Grandma may have been of the "Jerk it back and scrub it clean" mentality and caused damage to the foreskin of her son and then passed the same damaging information along to her daughter-in-law who also damaged her son's foreskins causing phimosis. The sad thing is that if these were all pathologically indicated circumcisions, there are simple stretching exercises that will stretch the foreskin opening to allow easy retractibility making the circumcisions unnecessary.




Frank