Living with a foreskin in circumcised America

From IntactiWiki
Revision as of 14:35, 10 March 2025 by WikiModEn2 (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Living with a foreskin in circumcised America is a review of the experiences of foreskinned guys with a penis with an intact foreskin in the United States, where the circumcised guy has been the norm.

Foreskinned guys frequently went to a school where they were the only foreskinned boy. They were likely to be teased and may have had their intact penis compared to an anteater or an elephant's trunk.[1] They may have been made to feel abnormal or deformed because of the presence of their normal, natural, healthy foreskin.[2] Intact men usually come to appreciate the value of the functions of their foreskin later in life and become comfortable with their intactness.

What is the real norm?

In actuality, almost every male infant throughout the world is born with a foreskin. There is a very rare birth defect called aposthia in which the foreskin does not develop normally.

Charles Darwin established that evolution occurs because of "natural selection".[3] [4] The other primates also have a foreskin similar to that of humans.[5] The foreskin improves fitness for survival because of its many protective, immunological, sexual, and sensory functions.

Although all 100 percent of males are born with a foreskin, The World Health Organization estimated that about 70 percent of living males are intact and only about 30 percent are circumcised. The great majority of the circumcised men are found in the Muslim nations, stretching from Nigeria in the west to Indonesia in the east.[6] A majority of males in the United States and Israel are circumcised. The foreskinned males are in the true majority world-wide and constitute the real norm, but not in the United States.

Distribution of foreskinned males in the United States

Peter Moore (2015) reported that 62 percent of all American males reported being circumcised,[7] which increases the prevalence of intact foreskin to 38 percent of living American males of all ages. This percentage is expected to gradually but constantly decline, while the percentage of males who are intact due to the declining incidence of newborn boys receiving medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision is expected to increase. The percentage of males with intact foreskin is lowest with senior citizens and highest in the youngest age groups.

The distribution of foreskinned males varies widely by census region, state, and by locality. The percentage of intact males is highest in the West census region and lowest in the Midwest census region. Among the states, Washington is believed to have the highest percentage of intact males and West Virginia is believed to have the lowest percentage of intact males.

Laumann et al. (1997) found that the incidence of neonatal circumcision in the United States reached its peak in 1965 at about 85 percent of boys being circumcised.[8] The incidence of circumcision has been declining slowly ever since, which means that one finds more intactness as age decreases. There also is more intactness among hispanic males.

Jacobsen et al. (2021) reported significant declines in the incidence of circumcision with an incidence of only 52.1 percent at the end of the study period in 2016. The corrolary is a foreskinned incidence of 47.9 percent among the boys born in 2016. Jacobsen et al. also reported that the incidence of intactness in the Midwest has increased from 1 boy in 10 to 1 boy in 4.[9]

The red areas on the map below have the lowest prevalence of foreskin while the green areas have the highest prevalence of foreskin.

03f582e91f04b3b43e7750ab3af7d71a.jpg

History

Excision of the foreskin is a relatively recent practice in America. The Founding Fathers of the United States were all foreskinned.[10] So were all the men from both North and South who fought and died in the Civil War.

The first recorded medical circumcision of a boy in the United States occurred in 1870 when Lewis Albert Sayre, a prominent New York City doctor, circumcised a boy of five years of age for paralysis.[11]

There were medical doctors advocating circumcision on both the east coast and west coast of the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Urologists

One must exercise extreme caution if one consults a urologist. American urologists love foreskins and foreskinned males. Urologists get a substantial fee for amputation of a foreskin, so one may expect to get a sales pitch for a circumcision if one visits a urologist for any reason. Your friendly urologist will be happy to do a circumcision for you for any reason or no reason. Make certain that you do your independent research on irreversible adult circumcision and do not depend on statements from your urologist, which may be biased by self-interest. There are plenty of regret men who did not do their homework and who rue their decision.

The next generation

Foreskinned guys know from personal experience how wonderful it is to have a fully functional penis with all of its parts. Most want to have any son's infant intact foreskin protected. Unfortunately, most maternity hospitals in the United States are spring-loaded to the circumcision position. One must consider measures for protection of intact newborns in hospital. Your son will probably be safer when he gets home from the hospital.

Nature designs the foreskins of boys so that they will stay in position where its protective and immunological functions can be effective. Your infant son's foreskin may not retract for many years, perhaps not until after puberty, so no attempt should be made to retract it. Wash the outside of his foreskin like washing a finger. See care of intact, foreskinned boys for more information.

What does the future hold?

The percentage of boys who keep their foreskin has been very gradually increasing since 1965. We are now at a "tipping point".[12] Although very unequally distributed geographically, the overall percentage of foreskinned newborn, infants, and toddlers is now about 50-50. As these young boys mature, one can expect to see more foreskins firstt in schools and later in the general population.

Video

Foreskinned guy

Finding other foreskinned guys

The Internet has made it easier to find other foreskinned guys. Reddit has several sub-reddits where one may discuss matters of interest to intact guys.

r/uncircumcised_talk

This subreddit is a place where foreskinned men may discuss intactness and matters of mutual interest. URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/uncircumcised_talk/

r/balanitis

This NSFW subreddit is dedicated to the discussion of balanitis. URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/balanitis/

r/barehead

This NSFW subreddit is "a community for anyone who is uncircumcised and who loves to keep the head of his penis exposed permanently or wants to achieve it, be it for any reason. You are welcome to share your stories, experiences, and doubts. Discussion and questions about autocircumcision and the autocirc movement are welcome."

r/bxo

This subreddit is "A support community for guys with Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans (BXO) - also known male genital or penile Lichen Sclerosus (LS)." URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/bxo/

r/Phimosis

This subreddit is dedicated to the discussion of phimosis. URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/Phimosis/

r/Phimosis_Care

This NSFW subreddit is a "place for men to share techniques, tools & tips on foreskin stretching. This group is for fixing or managing phimosis to AVOID circumcision." URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/Phimosis_Care/

r/Phimosishelp

This subreddit offers "advice and support for boys and men with phimosis (tight foreskin)." URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/Phimosishelp/

See also

External links

References

  1. Jump up ↑ REFweb Anonymous (4 March 2025). Uncircumcised in North America, Reddit. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
  2. Jump up ↑ REFweb Garrett, Connor (21 December 2023). Foreskin Phobia: How The Intact Penis Has Been Shamed, Intact America. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  3. Jump up ↑ REFbook Darwin, Charles (1859): The Origin of Species. London: Murray.
  4. Jump up ↑ REFbook Darwin, Charles (1871): The Descent of Man. London: Murray.
  5. Jump up ↑ REFbook Cold CJ, McGraft KA (1999): Anatomy and histology of the penile and clitoral prepuce in primates.. Work: Male and Female Circumcision. Denniston GC, Hodges FM, Milos MF (eds.) (ed.). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  6. Jump up ↑ REFweb Map of Islamic circumcision. Icons-mini-file pdf.svg, Reddit. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  7. Jump up ↑ REFweb Moore, Peter (3 February 2015). Young Americans less supportive of circumcision at birth. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  8. Jump up ↑ REFjournal Laumann EO, Masi CM, Zuckerman ER. Circumcision in the United States. Prevalence, prophylactic effects, and sexual practice. JAMA. 2 April 1997; 277(13): 1052-7. PMID. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  9. Jump up ↑ REFjournal Jacobson, Deborah L., Balmert, Lauren C., Holl, Jane L., Rosoklija, Ilina, Davis, Matthew M., Johnson. Nationwide Circumcision Trends: 2003 to 2016. J Urol. January 2021; 205(1): 257-63. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  10. Jump up ↑ REFweb Garrett, Connor (24 January 2024). Foreskins and Forefathers: A Constitutional Case Against Circumcision, Intact America. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  11. Jump up ↑ REFjournal Gollaher DL. From ritual to science: the medical transformation of circumcision in America. Journal of Social History. September 1994; 28(1): 5-36. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  12. Jump up ↑ REFweb Chapin, Georganne (1 November 2016). Do You Know: About the “Tipping Point?, Intact America. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
Retrieved from "https://en.intactiwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Living_with_a_foreskin_in_circumcised_America&oldid=41248"