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Why are Americans circumcised?
05-20-2013, 11:09 PM
Juat wondering what the reason for this is? Apparently most Americans are circumcised. Seems a bit of a strange thing to do considering the foreskin is there for a reason (thanks to evolution).
It always seems a bit backward to have a totally pointless operation carried out on babies (particularly since it can occasionally be deadly).
Anyway - just curious as to how this came about? Here in the UK it is only carried out for religious reasons. So - I am interested in how it became a cultural norm in America?
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Why are Americans circumcised?
05-20-2013, 11:14 PM
I think it started for religious reasons and just became the norm. It never really occurred to me that a lot of the world isn't circumcised until my girlfriend who grew up in Austria asked me about my circumcised penis. She says she prefers it over uncircumcised, but who knows, maybe she's just saying it to make me feel good. I asked her if it was common in Austria and she said no. I told her that here it was weird to not be and in grade school the other kids made fun of you if you weren't. Her bro is also circumcised because her family is Muslim, so the idea wasn't new to her, she just wasn't used to banging dudes with a circumcised penis. At the end of the day though, it's more healthy and clean.
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Why are Americans circumcised?
05-20-2013, 11:19 PM
From what I can tell - women tend to prefer a circumcised penis over an uncircumcised one. Since they feel it is cleaner. But I may be wrong - and it is hard to analyse due to the different cultural factors involved.
Just curious. Does it make jerking off harder? Is this why people buy lube? Because you don't need lube if you have a foreskin.
Makes you wonder if this is a conspiracy between the government and the companies that make lube.
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Why are Americans circumcised?
05-20-2013, 11:19 PM
I find it weird for any degree of genital mutilation to be a normal thing, but to each culture their own. I can't really criticize it while the culture where I grew up has even worse hangups.
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Why are Americans circumcised?
05-20-2013, 11:24 PM
What about in South America? I wonder how many South American girls I banged thought my circumcised penis was strange (Or more likely extremely delicious).
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Why are Americans circumcised?
05-20-2013, 11:30 PM
Circumcision is unheard of outside of jewish communities (Something also kinda strange) and emergency procedures on babies.
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Why are Americans circumcised?
05-20-2013, 11:31 PM
I didn't realise how common it was in America until I saw it discussed on Seinfeld.
Here is the clip (bad quality):
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Why are Americans circumcised?
05-20-2013, 11:35 PM
We had a similar thread here when somebody posted about the rumour that Taylor Swift dumped some British guy because he wasn't cut. Most of the world is uncircumcised. Only in North America is it done for cosmetic reasons. Muslims and Jews do it for religious reasons. I am uncircumcised and had a couple of girls comment on it but never had a problem.
I have read more and more parents say no to circumcision for their boys (in North America). I hope this practice is weeded out, at least for non-Muslim and non-Jewish boys.
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Why are Americans circumcised?
05-20-2013, 11:41 PM
Quote: (05-20-2013 11:09 PM)cardguy Wrote:
Juat wondering what the reason for this is? Apparently most Americans are circumcised. Seems a bit of a strange thing to do considering the foreskin is there for a reason (thanks to evolution).
This is not specific to foreskin (which I don't really know much about off the top of my head), but evolution isn't a biological perfectionist by any means.
Evolution gets it right almost all the time, but sometimes it's "wrong" or at the very least, slow to catch up, particularly for humans. Some features that may have been beneficial for humans in the past are now neutral or maladaptive, such as the appendix or the third molars (wisdom teeth).
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Why are Americans circumcised?
05-20-2013, 11:42 PM
Like I said, I'm not trying to call anyone out or make fun because they are uncircumcised. We were young and fucking around. When you're young you look for anything to crack jokes with your boys about. I could give two shits less who's circumcised and who's not.