Negatives To Being Intact - Page 3

[Greaseball]

A woman once told me her x-dh "had to be circed as an adult" because during sex his foreskin would get pinched and painfully forced back.

Anyone else heard of this?

[Frankly Speaking]

Well, first of all, he didn't "have to be." He had an ignoramus, greedy doctor who should have had his license revoked.

Imagine if a doctor told a woman she needed to have her labia removed because her hymen wouldn't tear and it was causing her some pain. This is essentially what this doctor did. The man had a tight foreskin because it hadn't been used enough to be stretched. The doctor could have offered him some steroid cream and some stretching exercises if he hadn't been a total idiot. The man would have been fine within a few weeks. However, instead of a $15.00 prescription, the doctor gave a $1,500.00 prescription. Is any of this making any sense now?





Frank

[GinaMom23]

This is great-

My boys are intact and I am constantly defending my choice to some of the old biddys at work (I am an OB nurse). I have got to print this out, I am sure it will be most enlightening

Gina, mom to Gillian 10-98, Zachary 5-00, and Joseph 1-1-02

[sadean]

I've read often of accounts that men had to be circumcised for the military and have found no verifiable evidence of this. Frank

I personally know men who served in WWII, The Korean War and The Vietnam War who are intact. That in itself would seem to refute the rumor.

O.k., just wanted to speak to this, as I have had a "with-in the last 6 months" recent conversation with an intact African American Vietnam Vet (we will call E). It's anecdotal, but still pertainent. He told me the circumstances under which he was left intact (his mother had him in ahospital far from home and by the time they got home after the birth, they just didn't get it done. He is the only intact male in his family). When he was drafted into the military for service in Vietnam, he was told by his commanding officer during bootcamp that he would have to be circumsized. E told me that he told his CO where he could shove it and that he would desert before they would "cut his d**k off". He was not circumsized. However, I believe a weaker willed person would have succumbed to the pressure/"requirement".

So, was there an actual across the board policy of circumsizing all male military personel? I don't know. Were there instances where people in command asserted to GIs that there was a policy? I believe the answer is yes.

[Frankly Speaking]

Originally posted by sadean


So, was there an actual across the board policy of circumsizing all male military personel? I don't know. Were there instances where people in command asserted to GIs that there was a policy? I believe the answer is yes.

The answers are "No" and "Yes." The military has no policy of circumcising male inscriptees. Never has and I doubt ever will. However, because of the old myths and lies, I have heard several stories like yours. I have no doubt that some in the middle of the chain of command did try this. Some with success and some without. It's hard to believe that one man would try to do something like to another and especially one under his command but we do even worse things to each other. Our cruelty to and deception of each other is boundless.




Frank

[Greaseball]

I also read (in the same book, "Circumcisioon: The Painful Dilemma" by Rosemary Romberg) that circ used to be required for high school athletes. Anyone know more about this?

[Nathan1097]

Required for high school athletes? I highly doubt it. I wish I knew something about the background of that. You say it was in that book, though? I have several books on circ, but not that one.

[Greaseball]

It's a good book, though there are some things in it that are just stupid (like when the author says there may be medical justification for episiotomy!).

Romberg, a nurse, was pro-circ when she first started the book. Her only concern was infant pain. As she wrote, she became more and more anti-circ. She has 3 circed sons and one intact son.

It has stories from people who have circed their 3-year-olds, people circed as adults (and for the military) and high school boys harassed by school nurses and who had "letters of recommendation to circ" sent home with their parents.