I have a serious problem. I am pregnant with a boy. At first my husband and I were in agreement that we would not circumcise him. I have read that the foreskin is comparable to a clit–it houses all the nerves that make sex more pleasurable. But now my husband says he has changed his mind based on brief conversations he had with two people. One woman said that when she saw her ex-boyfriend’s uncircumcised penis it was a deal killer. She wouldn’t fuck him because of it. The second woman said her boyfriend’s son had to get circumcised at age 13 because “boys just don’t clean it and it causes all sorts of problems.” I have seen an uncircumcised penis, and although I did not have the pleasure of fucking it in order to get firsthand knowledge of the situation, I gladly would have had the circumstances been different. And how hard is it to clean a dick? My questions are: Do women (or men) gag at the site of an uncircumcised penis? Do men prefer to be circumcised? Will my son be mentally scarred for life because he has a deal killer of a dick, or will he be scarred because we cut off his foreskin? Help me, Savage-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope. –A.Z.
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First off, A.Z., the foreskin is not, as some anticircumcision activists insist, “comparable to a clit.” The head of the penis, the glans, is the clit’s male counterpart. Remove a woman’s clit or the head of a man’s cock and you destroy the ability of that woman or man to experience sexual pleasure. Remove a man’s foreskin and he’ll usually get by–and get off–just fine without it.
And that brings us to point four, the tale of woe I mentioned…
Speaking parent to parent, A.Z.–and speaking as a contentedly circumcised adult male who likes his dick just the way it is–I would rather teach my son to wash under his foreskin than assume even the tiniest risk of him losing the head of his penis.
