I'm not quite sure how the topic of circumcision came up when I met Aaron Calloway through a mutual friend recently, but it wasn't one my new acquaintance shied away from. "I just got circumcised a few years ago," Calloway told me moments after we started talking. "Is that TMI?" Read more...
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Circumcision usually happens when a man is too young to remember, so when Dave was booked in for the surgery at 21, he was a little unnerved. “I think the issue comes down to the cultural aspect of, ‘I don’t want to talk about my dick. It works fine. I don’t want to acknowledge that it doesn’t.’” Read more...
I wasn’t circumcised because my father felt it wasn’t medically necessary. He was born in Europe and wasn’t circumcised, and I think fathers have an almost primal urge for their sons to look like them. Read more...
Thanks to my hippie parents, I was never circumcised, even though I grew up in the Midwest, where circumcision is the de facto norm. Because it was slightly unusual where I lived, my sexual partners often asked me what it was like to be uncut. Read more...
Un-circumcised men sneer with scorn at the mythical plight of circumcised men. “You’ll never feel the things we do,” they say. “My foreskin is the light of my life!” “Do you even know what real sex feels like?”. Well, yes. Yes they do. Read more...
Circumcision. Depending on where you're from, the procedure is done for medical, religious, or traditional reasons. Some claim it enhances their sexual performance depending on the particular 'style' of their cut. Read more...
Growing up as a 1980s Greek kid in an Australian school of children descended mainly from the British Isles, I felt my background acutely. I was ashamed of my long surname. I was embarrassed by my parents’ foreign tongue. I wanted to bleach my brown hair blonde and swap my brown eyes for blue. But above all, I wanted an inch of skin on my body gone. My foreskin. Read more...
Andy Cohen admitted circumcising his son was an easy choice because his own ‘gorgeous penis‘ inspired him. Read more...
After a diagnosis of phimosis, I quickly had the operation. The experience was demeaning, comical and extremely painful – but I’m happy that I did it. Read more...
Bonds addresses the ‘turtleneck’ vs ‘crewneck’ debate in ad for universally comfy underwear11/8/2020 Bonds has taken to the men’s locker room in its latest ad. The topic of circumcision is disguised as locker-room chat between men clothed in turtleneck and crewneck jumpers, with both sides coming to the agreement they are comfy in their undies.
“Approximately 20% of Australian men have crewnecks today, a big change from the 1950’s when roughly 80% of the male population had the ‘chop’. Despite ‘Team Crewneck’ being a rarer breed than ‘Team Turtleneck’, we know both teams have questions and we hope this campaign gets all men talking more freely. You’re welcome”. Read more... |
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