• Dearth@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Its like 10 in² removed by circumcision. Not necessarily length or girth from your dick. But 10 in² of incredibly sensitive skin on your sex organ.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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      1 day ago

      I can’t speak for everyone but I am an average sized uncut USian, and mine foreskin is pretty tight when erect to the point I think it might be painful if I was cut. I wonder if there’s anyone who got circumcised post puberty that can chime in.

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        Yes. Cut male here. For the first five or so years of my sexually active time, when I would get a particularly vigorous erection the skin below my glans would literally tear in random places around the circumference. It was quite painful but has thankfully stopped now and Im left with just some scars.

        When my son was born I refused to let him out of my sight until every staff member was able to assure me he would not be circumcised.

        Parents: do NOT circumcise your children, it’s barbaric.

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        22 hours ago

        Look up phimosis. It’s pretty common from my understanding but I had to get circumcised a few years back from it. Starts with a bit of tearing around the opening of the foreskin which will eventually turn into scar tissue. Then things start getting painful. You can make cranking your hog not painful, but sex and even just full erections were painful.

        I do miss my little hooded member, sex doesnt feel the same way as it used to, and I don’t last as long in bed but hey… no more pain and split foreskins these days!

      • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I’m a grower and pretty big. When I got to puberty basically every erection was painful. It took a couple years for the skin to stretch so it didn’t hurt. If I ever have a child in this fucked up world I will kill someone before I let them mutilate my child the way I was.