I have dreams where I wake up and my foreskin has regrown. I know they ladies are all having their vag's done, but can we mutilated men get a similar procedure?

from season 5, episode 69 (irony?)

Kramer: (about circumcision) It's a barbaric ritual.
Jerry: It's tradition.
Kramer: Well, we used to sacrifice virgins to appease the Gods, but we don't do that anymore.
Jerry: Maybe we should.

for the record, i am. cut that is. not jewish though.

i am cut as well, and hate it. i have envied every man that i have been with that has had their foreskin. i have also wished it to regrow.

Uncut = not so cute.

Maybe it's just my circumcized sixth sense talking, but I find the very idea of having an uncut dick kind of gross. I'm hygienic to a point just shy of OCD, and I'd imagine the prospect of regular dick-cheese accumulation and its attendant removal would push me over the brink.

Also: making one's penis look like a baby bird? Doesn't really seem worth it to me. I'm just fine with my current repertoire of stupid penis tricks, limited though it may be by my circum-stances.

Yeah, yeah, uncut dick is sensual and fun, I agree. It makes it easier for guys to jack off and it makes blowjobs a breeze. BUT there are compelling public health reasons for encouraging circumcision. Pooled data from case-control studies in 5 countries showed that circumcision is associated with lower risk for HIV and HPV infection in men, as well as lower risk for cervical cancer in their female partners. (See Journal Watch Dermatology, May 14, 2002.)

Plus I remember this uncut guy I dated who claimed that condoms chafed his delicate dick, and he could never get off from intercourse. In that way he was like a girl, I suppose.

...nice touch putting this right after the daddy/daughter piece.

anyway, there was this [www.nytimes.com] about how clipping the ween might reduce the risk of getting AIDS.

In an interview from Zimbabwe, Mr. Halperin added: "I have no doubt that, as word of this gets around, millions of African men will want to get circumcised and that will save many lives."

yeah, that or go buy a box of condoms.

I'm still mourning the loss of my foreskin. I think there's even a little roadside memorial to it on the L.I.E. Exit 32. Little Neck Parkway.

I don't fully understand why I feel so strongly about this, but cut here and totally glad that I am. Uncut to me is just nasty.

Circumsized penii look just like enlarged Vienna Sausages, which makes me happy....and hungry...for trailer park food...and penii

Even the cleanest uncut guys I have been with are a little stinky down there. That said, I want mine back.

@MollyMollyMolly: @Joe_Welcome:

I bet the AIDS transmission rate would drop to zero if we just all cut our peckers clean off! How 'bout it?

Those studies are so full of holes they never should have been published.

Can we find out what Neel Shah thinks about this? Seriously.

If the 'covenant with god' (or whatever the terms of use are called in Judaism) had mandated to cut a part of the body that was normally visible (like, let's say, the earlob or the tip of the pinkie finger), would people still be doing it?

Incidentally, only in the US people get circumcised for non-religious reasons. Other countries don't even have a "circumcision rate".

I'm cut and prefer cut guys. I was with a German once and the smell from his foreskin nauseated me so bad that I had to leave. He got pissed off, said, "das ist Scheisse!", and all I could think of was, yeah jackass, you nailed it, it smells like Scheisse.

And that's that. I've been officially foreskin phobic for 20 years.

I've never entertained an uncut penis, so perhaps that's why the thought of one scares me a bit.

Also, can you introduce me to Tattooed Jewy?

I think a circumcisized penis is much better looking, and I don't know why. However, I have actually witnessed a circumcision on a newborn and it is TERRIFYING. The nurse clamped the baby down on this little tray and shoved a scapel IN HIS PEE-HOLE and then torqued it. It looked like she was opening a bottle of wine.

"a handful of sluts, a gay and a heterosexual Jew."

can that please be a new sitcom somewhere in tv land?

Jesus, yet another choice we've gotta make with our bodies? If the government would just legislate this for us, we'd all be just fine.

I am one of the sexually mutilated, and a Jew. The foreskin apparently is equal to about 15 square inches of the most sensitive skin on the body--akin to the lips or fingertips. Oh well. Some people say circumcision is what causes erotomania.

There are ways to regrow your foreskin, involving tape and small weights to stretch the skin of the glans.

Circumcised penises, like post labiasty vadges or bleached anuses, are just more aesthetically pleasing.

@backslider: Their good enough for the American government to sponsor circumcision programs in countries with high HIV rates. That's not saying much though.

When I first read the bit about the "Baby Bird" I got confused and pictured it like a shadow puppet show - Hopping Bunny, Panting Dog, Gigantic Flopping Foreskin, etc.

My parents have mine in a jar in the chest 'o drawers in their bedroom. Don't ask. Very Southern and religious...

I ask to see it when I go home because I'm angered by it and secretly want it back.

Why is it that after WWII, doctors started indiscriminately hacking on any little weiner they found?

The Greatest Generation must have had the greatest case of crotchrot.

Voluntary circumcision is one of the creeeeepier hobbies of America. It's either a) based on religious doctrine invented solely to prevent you from masturbating, or b) done based on weird, unsubstantiated "hygenic" evidence.

@plasticaisle: @GorgeousGeorge: The uncut ween is as hygenic as feet and armpits. Clean them well, no dirt. Besides, if you're OCD about dirt, what the hell are you doing with your face bobbing around inches from a rectum? And it's certainly more hygenic than sucking at someone's mouth and lips, which are filled with particles of rotting food and bacteria.

@MollyMollyMolly: I'm pretty sure they'd have the same results if they just washed hiv-infected fluids away from their skin. But after a good rape or two, you sort of get tired. It IS pretty hot in Africa, after all.

@ltflux: Umm, Saturday Night Live?

@nigerienne: So this is the cock version of Yellow Cake?

Seriously, the studies are a mess. They don't properly account for associative factors vs causative. Please don't circumsize your boy if you ever have one. Read Twizzlers For President's description. I've heard much worse from other nurses.

I knew when I got the NYTimes in my inbox this morning I would hear of smegma before the day was out.

Regarding the health links to circumcision, have studies proven that snipping the foreskin is the cause of the lower HIV/HPV/etc rates or is it some other factor, like availability of good health care?

I for one have never encountered a penis with all the original bits and I'm, like, totally intrigued.

@nigerienne: *They're. Ach. That's one of my pet peeves.

I used to think that the big purple ring around the middle of my johnson was a racing stripe.

Now that I think of it, they were probably right to throw me out of pre-med.

Where does the herpes-ridden mohel fit into the 'covenant with god' again?

uncut 1-10: 10

I blame the herepetic rabbis.

@HeatherNumber1: You'll find it in the Book of "Revelations".

@Twizzlers For President: Yikes, like a screwpull? The makers of the Rabbit need to corner this market.

Totally in favor of cutting. I've known two uncut weens and they weren't that much fun, and both dudes said they wished they'd been cut.

As long as they keep the aardvark clean 'onion rings' can be a great part of any slut's diet.

And to the slut that can't figure out how to handle the sensitive man: they don't call it a hummer for nothing.

Cut, and not happy about it. Apparently, when I arrived (mid-60's America) they didn't even ask the parents, they just cut off the end of your schwantz. They certainly didn't ask me.

Also, I'm with backslider- the people who are arguing that this will be a silver bullet for AIDS all seem to have some other agenda.

I'm just glad I was born the only girl in my not-religious-but-keeps-certain-traditions Jewish family. I'll leave the circumcision insecurities to my brothers, thank you.

I do a little (take my word for it) puppet show thing with my peen. I call it Mumenschvanz.

I mean, think of the hours of lost productivity and human suffering from the common cold... and yet, nobody is sewing up their nostrils for "common-sense reasons of hygiene."

Every time this discussion comes up online, a bunch of circumcision enthusiasts bust out their stories about the one (or two, or three) uncut guy who stank.

We're avoiding the real question here: Why are Jews and Midwesterners attracted to men who don't bathe?

so like does anybody know where to buy one of those wallets made of foreskins, you know, the kind you rub and they become suitcases?

This argument was funnier when it was made by Tobias and Lindsay Fünke.

Years ago, I was in the Worth hat shop on Madison Avenue, and, when I expressed doubt about the Borsalino I was trying on, the Caribbean salesman told me that I should try pulling it further down on my foreskin. Mirth ensued.

I understand that Joel Stein will be appearing at the Learning Annex in a presentation entitled "Wang On or Wang Off: A Douche's Perspective".

@scarletmenace: Oh hey, that's totally my favorite borderline-anti-Semitic joke too!

Up until 1978 or so, everyone had it done in the U.S> pretty much automatically. It was just something that hospitals did. My father and I (both non-Jews) are cut. My brother (born in 1979) is uncut. As a kid, I thought he was broken or perhaps his penis had not fully developed.

My partner's penis is uncut. But I still think it looks retarded. Like someone forgot something.

Not to mention that uncut dudes are susceptible to yeast infections under all that flappage. Gross.

And aesthetically, flacade uncut? Not cute-looking, bad claymation-looking.

one of my high school boyfriends used to do this trick called mouse in the house. :|

cut, please.

@What it is:
Nice. Can I steal "flacade" as my new euphemism for ED?