Horror Story: Syrian man circumcised 9 boys with soldering gun in Sweden

Really, with a soldering gun? Ouch!

Even proper thermal cautery tools must hurt like hell without adequate anesthesia, but a soldering gun?

Does Medical Circumcision Hurt?

The first thing every single guy facing circumcision asks is how much it is going to hurt. Most people in developed countries get a circumcision in a medical setting, and with modern medicine really there should not be any pain.

This post is going to be different from my usually cheerful dismissal of concerns about circumcision pain, and mockery of grown men who claim that they desperately want a circumcised penis but they are too cowardly to go under the knife.

I do think that concerns about circumcision pain are blown out of proportion on the Internet, often for the purpose to serve as propaganda against circumcision. But that is no excuse not to admit that sometimes shit does happen, and people experience far more discomfort than what they have bargained for.

This post may not make the best bed time story if you are going under the knife in the near future.

Just a warning, some parts of this post may be very disturbing, you may end up wishing you haven't read it.

Circumcision Pain, Masculinity and Spirituality

Traditionally circumcision and pain used to go hand in hand. Later anesthesia was invented and circumcision became a medical procedure instead of being just  a religious / cultural practice, and the relationship has become more complicated.

Do not try this at home: Attempted DIY Circumcision with a Kitchen Knife

One more story to show why it is a bad idea to try to cut your own dick -- with a knife from your kitchen, nevertheless. Seriously, don't do it!

 A 30-year old man in Morocco attempted to circumcise himself with a vegetable knife.

Check this out: Real men do it without painkillers

https://mg.co.za/article/2008-07-01-real-men-do-it-without-painkillers

Circumcision candidates who endure the pain without showing any signs of weakness are feted as heroes. Those who do otherwise, by crying out or touching the hand of the omushebi, are considered cowards bringing bad luck to the community. They are fined heavily.

Interesting to see the African attitude toward circumcision pain while in developed countries people walk to a hospital to have their frenulum snipped under anesthesia as if they were marching to their own execution. Different cultures just have different definitions of masculinity.

It Is Not Meant To Be Torture

Even though circumcision was probably invented as a means to mark the transition to adulthood, and pain was an integral part of the experience, it was never meant to be torture.

Check this out: Circumcision Without Anesthesia is Painful

 "It's because we want to be honest about the past while we fight the nonsense that is spread about medical circumcision in the present: whether it's the persistent anti-circumcision activist claim that numbing medication still isn't used in the U.S.; that pain control methods are universally not effective for circumcision pain; or, more laughably, that babies who receive pain control don't cry because they're in 'neurogenic shock;" or, taking a page from the anti-vaccination activists, that newborn circumcision pain leads to later-life autism, depression, anger, violence, sexual dysfunction, etc., etc."

From: http://www.circumcisionchoice.com/single-post/2017/06/23/From-the-Physicians-Lounge-2

Do not try this at home: DIY Circumcision with a Machete

Even more bizarre than these stories usually are, a 16 year old boy has attempted to circumcise himself with a machete:
http://www.chronicle.co.zw/16-year-old-injured-in-machete-self-circumcision/

This was in an area where voluntary medical circumcision is readily available, so it is not clear why he has decided that trying to hack his own foreskin off with a machete was the way to go.

Do not try this at home: The emerging trend of self-circumcision

A young African male attempts self circumcision with a razor blade, ends up in a hospital.

This is a medical article, about a patient who circumcised himself out of shame.

Do not try this at home: Man uses nail clippers in DIY circumcision

Well, the Russians do it with a kitchen knife, the Chinese with a pair of blunt scissors, but apparently in Britain nail clippers are the weapon of choice for attempted self circumcision.

Man uses nail clippers in DIY circumcision

Seriously, trying to trim off your own foreskin with nail clippers!

When will people learn that you need to use a samurai sword? Just kidding.

You should not attempt to chop off part of your dick at home. Go find the local mohel, or sünnetçi, or better yet talk to your doctor.

Do not try this at home: Self circumcision attempt goes horribly wrong for Zhejiang man

A man in China did not like how his foreskin looked like, so he has decided to cut it off with a pair of blunt scissors. Needless to say it did not go too well. And I am sure it ought to hurt a lot. But when the scissors did not work, he tried a razor blade.

The Third World: Russia

 Chopping Board DIY Circumcision in Russia:

Desperate man performs a circumcision on HIMSELF with a knife and chopping board after doctors refused to help him in Russia


You know that medical care is pretty bad if you can't even get a circumcision.