• iuminou@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      All of the “medical reasons” people tout are thin bullshit.

      “it gets gross if you dont wash it” THEN FUCKING WASH IT IDIOT

    • Mr. Satan@lemmy.zip
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      7 months ago

      In my twenties I’ve caught a fungus down there. It caused some scarring on the foreskin. Basically it got tighter, so much so that undoing (what’s the term??) it during erections was painful.

      The doctor said I needed to be circumcised, so I got the surgery. Healing was not too bad and I can’t say it had any lasting impact (in sensitivity or otherwise).

      EDIT:
      I lie. There is a lasting impact — I can no longer wank without lubrication. With foreskin I had no need for it.

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      7 months ago

      Yep, right on. There can be a need for it when the foreskin is too tight during puberty, but it doesn’t fully pull back until that time in a boy’s life anyway so the circumcision is not necessary from birth, apart from maybe in the case of a rare deformity.