[Pandora114]

My DH has this little pearl of wisdom to share regarding the locker room argument:

"Yeah, people look, but YOU DONT LET ON YOU LOOKED. It is a cardinal sin in all of male-dom to let on you acctually LOOKED at another man's package, you just don't. You look, and you open your mouth and make fun, you are fare game and DESERVE to be made fun of in return, in spades, by everyone there, just because you LOOKED *admitted to anyway*."

His words, not mine.

A little bit of the "Locker Room" Mystery revealed, by a man, who has acctually experienced his fair share of communal showers in his life, and still is, because he's military.

PS: the only guy who didn't give a damn if anyone looked at his package and talked about it, was the dude who had a tatoo on his glans. And, that man happens to be DH's best friend.

 

[njeb]

ITA with you. My 18 year old son said exactly the same thing when I asked him about it a few months ago. I was relieved because we live in a very high-circ. area. I wouldn't be surprised if he was the only intact male in his class.

 

[Quirky]

Tattoo. ON. HIS. GLANS.

CanNOT imagine a) what man could live through that and b) what tattoo artist would want to do it.

Do you know what the tattoo is? :LOL

 

[Pandora114]

Quirky: the tatooed Glans man is circ'd and, he is a masocist as well. *and he had a nice stiff shot of Jim Beam before proceeding*

And yes, I know what the tatoo is, it's Thumper from Bambi *DH got permission from his buddy to show me the picture*

 

[AmandaBL]

Completley OT, but the whole idea of looking at another guys penis reminded me & it's too cute. I had a client the other day who was telling me her 4 yr old son is intace. He was swimming with a friend of his & they changed in the same room. The friend (also 4 yrs & circed) ran out of the room all excited & said to his mother "MOM! You should see Mikey's penis!!!! He's got THE WHOLE THING and it's really cool!!!" Mikeys mom had once explained circ to him by saying some moms choose to remove part of the penis, but that's not necessarry, so she left him with "the whole thing" :LOL I loved it as I have 2 boys with "the whole thing"

 

[Quirky]

Thumper from Bambi? Does that have some weird sexual connotation I'm not aware of? Are women -- or men -- attracted to this image?

And was the tat done when he was erect or not? The mind boggles at the idea of the image stretching....

 

[Pandora114]

I have no clue if it was done erect or not. And from what I hear, all his partners *DH's friend is strictly Hetero* have nothing but awed expressions when they see it, and have no complaints.

BTW, DH's buddy did it on a dare. "Hey you are like covered in ink, betcha you don't have the balls to tatoo your dick!" "Um You're on"

 

[~Megan~]

dh went to school with a kid that he knew wasn't circed. (It was a really small school) And no one ever made fun of him.
Instead they made fun of the kid who made weird faces when he pooped (the stalls didn't have doors).

 

[trmpetplaya]

Dh never got teased in a locker room and he totally agrees that looking at another boy's genitals wouldn't be something that many boys (especially high school age) would admit to, let alone draw attention to the fact that he was looking :LOL We also live in the Pacific Northwest, so more boys are intact than not anyhow

Someday it'll be the circ'd boys who will be teased about not having the whole thing (great story about Mikey, by the way!

: ). Cut guys are already the minority and hopefully it'll just keep getting more and more that way!

love and peace.

 

[DahliaRW]

My response to this *dumb* argument is that when ds is 13+ and in the locker room, if it bothers him enough, and he knows what circ is/does and wants it done fine. I'll pay for it and let him do it. Though I doubt any teenage boy is going to choose to have part of their penis cut off!

 

[sahli29]

I would not let my son choose circ at any age except when he is 18,and even then I would strongly advocate he NOT do it regardless of any peer pressure(social,religiopus,whatever) he may be experiencing.

He can not know the total loss till a few years AFTER a circumcision is done.He will also be taking away a normal sexual experience for any future partner(s). I have read of teen boys wanting to be circed to be like the other boys who boast of their *cut status*.Well what else are cut boys going to do anyway, but boast in order to feel better about what was done?

 

[DahliaRW]

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Originally Posted by mattemma04 I would not let my son choose circ at any age except when he is 18,and even then I would strongly advocate he NOT do it regardless of any peer pressure(social,religiopus,whatever) he may be experiencing. He can not know the total loss till a few years AFTER a circumcision is done.He will also be taking away a normal sexual experience for any future partner(s). I have read of teen boys wanting to be circed to be like the other boys who boast of their *cut status*.Well what else are cut boys going to do anyway, but boast in order to feel better about what was done?

Good point! Believe me, if my ds ever said he wanted to be circ'd, I'd make him read all the articles I did and be fully informed. But I do believe it is his body. My parents let me start making my healthcare decisions around 14 when they thought I was mature enough to do so, and we never had a conflict. I think that my ds will be mature enough at some point to do the same (and I'll know when).

Funny thing is, around here I did hear a boy one time tease another about this issues, except it was an intact boy teasing a circ'd boy! Go figure!

 

[njeb]

Personally, I don't think that any boy should tease any other boy whose circ. status is different from his own. Teasing hurts.

 

[TigerTail]

and if a 13 yr old is not mature enough to pay for it, and not mature enough to make the legal decisions requiring the signing of documents, perhaps he is not mature enough to make a decision so wrapped up in peer expectations.

(and the only guy i know circ'd as a 13 yr old was never able to come again. ever. with any stimulation. who is going to tell a 13 yr old that possibility, the urologist who wants $ to cut him? and what experience does a 13 yr old have to be able to mentally process something like 'no orgasms', 'no normal satisfying sexual relationship' & extrapolate that to the rest of his lifetime?)

yeah, you can start going into the 'kids should have the right to make contracts, vote, have sex' argument, but that is a different world than the one we live in & you are going to be in the minority; in our culture, the ideal is that we protect kids. sometimes from the consequences of their own decisions. if he wanted to cut off his arm (there is an amputation fetish, and fetishes usually get established long before adulthood), would you pay for that too? i do not think circumcising a healthy penis should come up as any more of a 'decision' than cutting off an arm. they are both absurd (except, of course, cutting off your arm doesn't necessarily- depending on which arm :LOL- trash your & your partner's sexual function for life.)

suse

 

[desertpenguin]

I'm shocked that any tattoo artist would tattoo anyone who had been drinking. Most shops have rules against that, because some people are simply bleeders to begin with and alcohol only encourages more bleeding...and considering how much blood goes to that particular organ....

:
I never understood the locker room pro-circ arguement...all kids get teased growing up anyways, it doesn't matter what they do or how they look. Just a fact of life.

 

[feebeeglee]

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Originally Posted by suseyblue (and the only guy i know circ'd as a 13 yr old was never able to come again. ever. with any stimulation. who is going to tell a 13 yr old that possibility, the urologist who wants $ to cut him? and what experience does a 13 yr old have to be able to mentally process something like 'no orgasms', 'no normal satisfying sexual relationship' & extrapolate that to the rest of his lifetime?)

I also know a man who was circumcised at twelve, is now eighteen and has had approximately 4 orgasms in four years.

He's pretty angry about it, too

 

[Mrs_Hos]

My husband went on and on about the 'locker room' and how if we had a boy we would HAVE to circ...little did he know that his best friend isn't circed!...AND HE DIDN"T EVEN KNOW! The only way I found out is that his wife and I were pregnant at the same time and talked about circ if we had boys... (we both had girls though...)

 

[Frankly Speaking]

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Originally Posted by feebeeglee I also know a man who was circumcised at twelve, is now eighteen and has had approximately 4 orgasms in four years. He's pretty angry about it, too

I had an uncle who had a similar experience. At the behest of his GF (who was a nurse) he was circumcised at 40 years old. The first year post circumcision, he was almost too sensitive. During the second year, he said it went back to normal. The third year, he saw that sensitivity quickly going away. He had his last orgasm when he was 45 years old. His GF left too. He said "Getting circumcised was the stupidest thing I have ever done in my life."

Frank