to circumcise or not: that is the question.

Apparently, it’s a sexy, sex-filled week here at duanemoody.com; here we go again… A friend of mine just phoned to tell me that her and her partner are having a boy! While I am very excited for them, she did ask me a question that got me thinking; and that I am curious to get other opinions on. And, since it kind of continues on the sex binge we have been having this week… why not, right?

She wanted to know, truthfully, if I were to have a son, would I circumcise him, or not? Well, I honestly have about 10,000,000 reasons why I wouldn’t circumcise my son, so I emphatically said ‘no’. And let me tell you why I feel this way. And then, you can tell me what you think about all this skin nonsense… First of all, I believe that the practice is completely barbaric. If you want your child circumcised, I think that you should watch a video of a boy being circumcised. Any type of circumcision is not good in my book. Female, male, whomever, circumcision equals bad news.

Secondly, I have heard from more than a few women that say sex is great with men who are circumcised, because of the role the foreskin plays in sex. The penis was meant to be covered by the foreskin (after all, it was in the skin to begin with, right?), and it actually acts as a friction reducer during sex. Friction usually means pain, after all, that is why we use lubricant; so it isn’t so hard to surmise that something that would naturally reduce that friction would be a good thing, right? I have also heard that it makes sex much more comfortable and enjoyable for both people involved; even more pleasurable. Sign me up for that.

Third, it isn’t proven that there are actually any medical benefits from removing the foreskin. But wait, duane what about the word that strikes fear and dread in the hearts of everyone; smegma? (I can’t wait to see what google searches come in from that word being dropped.) Well, the issue of hygiene and cleanliness doesn’t rest underneath the foreskin, and stop with smegma. You have to clean everything on your body, or you risk infection and being “unclean”; pulling back your foreskin and cleaning underneath it shouldn’t be that much more of a challenge. It isn’t like we are talking about a big tarp that is at the top of a phone pole, here. And after all, if you don’t cut your fingernails, what happens to them? Personal hygiene can be taught, and if taught properly, this shouldn’t even be an issue. I personally think that anyone who learns how to properly bathe themselves in a country where we use water that is good enough to drink to bathe with, should be able to handle it. Seriously. Do you not clean in your ears or your butt; because it is harder to get to? I didn’t think so.

Fourth, and probably most importantly, as a man who has no foreskin, and had no choice in the matter, my only wish, honestly, is that I would have been able to make the decision for myself. If I wanted my foreskin removed, I should have been able to choose to have it removed. If I want my baby toe removed, I will decide that, but I didn’t get to make the choice on something that was once a part of my penis. Now that alone makes me never want to circumcise anyone. Please, don’t cut part of (or any of, for that matter) my penis off without asking. (That especially goes for all those Bobbitt people out there…) And yet again, I bet many of you think, “what about little jimmy, he will be different from the other boys.” Well, I don’t know about little Jimmy, but I honestly never flashed my foreskin-less cock at people in school anyway, so I really don’t think that it should matter. If Jimmy gets made fun of for having foreskin, he can just brag that his dick is longer, and that he will one day have much better sex. If that doesn’t shut the kid up, and better yet, if that kid runs home and tells mom, I am sure it will be an interesting conversation that Jimmy’s parents get to have with the other kid’s parents. I seriously doubt it would be that big of an issue; I was way more worried about being called a faggot that someone seeing my cock and saying, “hey, you have foreskin!”. Maybe if more boys had seen my cock, then I wouldn’t have had to worry so much about being called a faggot; so much as actually being one… but that is another story for another time.

My point of writing this, is to truly find out what other people think about circumcision. Do you think that my friend should circumcise her baby? Do you agree or disagree with any of the four points I made as reasons I wouldn’t want to circumcise my baby? Speak from the heart. Speak from the foreskin. Just speak.