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post #1 of 30
2/2/07 at 11:54pm
Thread Starter 
I have heard moms say that they don't like the way their dh's circ scar looks, but my dh is circed and I've never noticed a scar. What would it look like, where would I see it?
post #2 of 30
2/2/07 at 11:57pm
Around the rim of his penis I believe. Dh and ds both have scarring.
post #3 of 30
2/3/07 at 12:01am
On the shaft of the penis, there is scar tissue around where the foreskin "ended."
post #4 of 30
2/3/07 at 12:03am
On DH there is a definite band of discolouration. It makes me sad how far down on his penis it is and how much was obviously taken from him.
post #5 of 30
2/3/07 at 12:03am
It is a line of demarcation, often separating lighter and darker colored skin, that goes around the shaft of the penis where the cut was made. Some men have a more obvious one than other men do. I will find you a picture.

My DP also has scarring and pitting on the glans. I don't know if that's from when they ripped the foreskin off of it with the hemostats, or if he had adhesions that were forcibly pulled apart after his circumcision. Plus there's some odd honeycomb-looking skin on his scar line.
post #6 of 30
2/3/07 at 12:09am
OK, educational pictures of scarred circumcised penises! Fair warning!

http://www.circumstitions.com/Restri...rison/dry2.jpg
See the two different colors, and the faint line between them?

http://www.circumstitions.com/Restri...-ring-both.jpg
This is a bad one. The Plastibell can leave an esp. nasty scar because the tissue necrotizes and falls off. Penis on the left is intact.

http://www.circumstitions.com/Restri...on/fren3-4.jpg
Again, the one on the right is circumcised and has a scar.

http://www.circumstitions.com/Restri...son/veins2.jpg
A clear scar line.
post #7 of 30
2/3/07 at 12:10am
thats what i meant- ds's starts at the rim and down the shaft. I want to cry when I see it. never again.
post #8 of 30
2/3/07 at 12:23am
I was looking at the pictures and my husband walked in and said "what the hell are you looking at"......
post #9 of 30
2/3/07 at 12:46am
Thread Starter 
Telle Bear, I know, I'm going to have to either erase my history or tell dh in case he sees my history and questions our daughters. I don't see anything that dramatic on dh, but I'm going to look more carefully next time I get an eyefull. I thought that a scar would be more textural, like if you have a burn scar that healed, your skin is raised. It didn't occur to me that it could be a case of different shades of skin.
post #10 of 30
2/3/07 at 12:48am
My guys are textural and color differences.
post #11 of 30
2/3/07 at 12:51am
Yeah, my DH looks like he suffered a bad burn. Very sad.
post #12 of 30
2/3/07 at 12:55am
It's amazing when you see & realize how much skin is gone; how unhealthy (dry, pitted) the exposed glans mucosal skin is (imagine if your lips were denuded & your inner cheeks had air & clothing rubbing them all day & night with no protection!); and how normal the intact penis looks next to it.

People just don't know. The truth only benefits the cause of right. Look to see the pro-circ faction try to hide the evidence whenever possible. The next time someone you know says, "Ew, uncirc'd", show them those pictures.
post #13 of 30
2/3/07 at 1:24am
What is really sad is that my bf even had his frenum removed when they circed him as a babe. It makes me sad at how much pleasure he has lost without even knowing.
post #14 of 30
2/3/07 at 2:25am
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Originally Posted by Telle Bear View Post
I was looking at the pictures and my husband walked in and said "what the hell are you looking at"......
: :
post #15 of 30
2/3/07 at 3:17am
My DH also has a VERY noticable scar and the sad thing is he had no idea what it was until this thread. I showed him the pics and he's shocked
post #16 of 30
2/3/07 at 3:17am
Oh my! I thought DH was "normal" looking until I saw all of these pictures of an intact male!


Now I can totally understand the difference! Why didn't I see any of this before I circumcised my DS. :
post #17 of 30
2/3/07 at 4:24am
For me the worse thingy is the dried glans. It looks so totally wrong.
post #18 of 30
2/3/07 at 5:04am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Baby Makes 4 View Post
On DH there is a definite band of discolouration. It makes me sad how far down on his penis it is and how much was obviously taken from him.
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post #19 of 30
2/3/07 at 1:24pm
Huge circular raised lump of scar tissue all the way around about 1.5 cm down the shaft from the glans, if you're really unlucky, it's bunched up and larger on one side, making things look very lopsided.

GRRRRRRR
post #20 of 30
2/3/07 at 2:23pm
Thread Starter 
Thank you for all these descriptions and pictures. I'm so glad my sons are intact.
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