Men Expect a Tight Cut and a Bare Glans

My circumcision style is a result of a compromise. Considering how much trouble I had with it at one point, it almost feels like the story of the ugly duckling that turns out to be a swan at the end.

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.

The whole foreskin and nothing but the foreskin

Circumcision supposed to mean removing the foreskin from the penis.

Snipping the Frenulum

Some debate if the frenulum should be cut even during circumcision. But a tight frenulum can be an accident waiting to happen.

Circumcision and Body Image

Most men value their penises above  almost any other body part (perhaps with the exception of their balls) and want to feel good about it.

Because circumcision changes how a man's penis looks like it has an impact on the owner's body image and self esteem.

Spreading the Misery Around

Why do so called intactivists who were circumcised at birth (thus have no memories of ever having a foreskin) love to perpetuate the idea that having a foreskin is somehow “awesome”?

Don’t Be a Wuss

Many men who want to get a circumcision keep postponing it because they obsess about how painful it is going to be.

Just Because You Are Loud Does Not Mean You Are Right

One of the main reasons I have started to write this blog was that half the Internet is covered in anti-circumcision propaganda and I think my opinion is just as valid as the next guy’s.

Why I am Against Government Involvement

Some demand that circumcision should be mandatory.
Others take the opposite view and want to ban it altogether.

My question is: Are you out of your f-ing minds?

Erogenous Parts

One of the weirdest things that keeps popping up all over the Internet is the claim that the glans penis is not erogenous, and only the foreskin provides erogenous sensation. I am sure it is meant to be a figure of speech to emphasize a point, but someone might actually take it literally.