For too long people have been obliged to keep silent about male genital cutting because of the attitude of society. This series of podcasts aims to break that silence.
We would like to hear from men, women, mothers, fathers and anyone concerned with the rights of children regarding non-therapeutic genital modification. Ideally you will be based in the U.K. so that we can record you directly in front of a microphone. To take part contact M.D.C. using our contact form or write to – info@mendocomplain.com
I am a straight heterosexual white 30 year old male citizen of the United States like many in my country I was forcibly and without my consent circumcised. Many parents are completely oblivious to everything this horrible tradition entails and simply go along with it. This needs to stop people need to be educated it is a disgusting horrible practice that seems to go on to this day and many people that perpetuate this practice are ignorant to its history and practice. I as a child shortly after being born was strapped down my forskin was torn away from the glans which doesnt seperate until puberty and cut off and if I didn’t pass out from the pain I screamed my little head off just take a second to think about that and picture that this discussion is uncomfortable and may invoke sneers and ridicule and is a difficult discussion to bring up and people may become uncomfortable discussing such things but I didn’t ask for this I only ask people to consider what is actually being done. Especially after learning the earlier history of circumcision in the United States in the 1800s it was done not for any of the ridiculous reasons supposed medical practitioners bring up in the modern age but because it was believed it would stop boys from masturbating and the quackery of the medical community and knowledge of medicine at the time more than a hundred years ago believed this to be a necessary thing. I don’t care if certain religions deem circumcision to be a religious right of passage but systematically circumcising boys is cruel immoral unnecessary and pardon my french FU$$ED up. In the United States there are laws specifically making it illegal to circumcise girls and when this double standard is brought up it brings forth laughs from some people and yes there are several different types of female circumcision the female analogy to male circumcision would be removal of the clitoral hood and parts of the labia. The exposed glans or head of the penis dries out and the skin hardens and thickens and loses a significant amount of sensitivity which can and will cause sexual dysfunction later in adulthood. Circumcised men don’t realize what they are missing out on and what was taken from them. It is ridiculous that this practice is still going on many men are ignorant of what happened to them and many parents are ignorant as to what circumcision actually is. I am a human being and I am furious that society allowed this to happen to me. Upon educating myself and learning that there were options to at least halfway restore my male genitalia to the way mother nature intended about 5 years ago I decided to restore my foreskin. I used various techniques and after much hard work I was successful in regaining halfway a natural male genitalia I say halfway because the frenulum the elastic band that stretches the foreskin tight over the penis can’t be regrown but I do actually have a appearance of a foreskin and because my penis head is covered the skin returned to its natural state think of the skin on in the inside of a vagina or your mouth that is how it’s supposed to be the sensitivity is through the roof it is night and day there is no comparison I can say this because I have experienced both. I understand some people might think I am unusual for choosing to do this but I have taken matters into my own hands. I apologize for the length of my comment but I am sincere about this topic and I have valuable insight.
I’m a 39 year old male in the the United States and was circumcised without my consent a couple days after my birth. I knew I didn’t look quite right down there during my childhood. I started figuring it out in my early teens when I had to start cleaning the skin bridge that covers nearly 50% of mine. I have one skin tag and there are also 3 holes in the skin bridge, which I assume must be from stitches. I’m familiar with the decline of sensation as I’ve noticed it occuring gradually since my early teens and the most has been in my 30s. I’ve also had issues of shame about it for 25 years that personally affects me in relationships. I also have a distrust of American doctors for many years because of it. There’s nothing attractive in the least about having to clean a skin bridge with peroxide because it has an infection. I also have meatal stenosis, so I have difficulty urinating and it occasionally takes me in excess of a minute to relieve a full bladder. As an American, I’m ashamed of the cosmetic, religious circumcising culture in our country. It’s one of many reasons I don’t follow organized religion. It’s unethical to perform a primarily cosmetic procedure on all male infants based on perceived benefits while having some with extreme irreversible damage. If someone wants it performed as an informed adult, fine because it’s less damaging than an infant circumcision. Also it is not likely to be psychologically damaging as a circumcision being performed on an infant.