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Mark
4/3/2020 10:40:50 am
I think I'd rather not know. Call me shallow if you like butg when a bloke gets past a certain age, you don't really want to know about his naughty bits!
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David
5/3/2020 02:52:09 pm
Circumcision gets a bit of a discussion for a few lines in his play The Habit of Art. I wonder if he ever has looked bere?
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Danny
5/3/2020 10:02:26 pm
The History Boys (film) has a reference too, with Posner's (the Jewish lad) lack of foreskin mentioned.
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David
7/3/2020 12:24:56 am
Indeed it does. As well as the lack of a foreskin for Sasch Dawan's character in the original play/film cast and the prepuce of Christ.
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otherRichard
7/3/2020 03:04:07 pm
In his published diaries Keeping on Keeping on he notes that in his youth being uncircumcised was a sign of poverty as poor parents could not afford to have it done. It became a signifier of class & status. This was very much how it was seen in my family and as someone not much younger than Alan Bennett I can relate to this. Somehow seen as a sign of respectability and decency.All this pre-NHS of course and then we know what the NHS did for circumcison rates in the UK
David H
11/3/2020 08:25:20 am
When I passed the 11+ in 1955, Mum decided to do a bit of social climbing and had my younger brother and I circumcised. More circumcised at the Grammar school than in the infants -- a few others had been upgraded over the summer holiday as well !
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If you'd failed the 11+ and gone to a Secondary Modern would you and your brother have been allowed to keep your foreskins?
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David H
14/3/2020 10:58:40 am
No was 10 at time and had not started
sail bona
15/3/2020 10:55:16 pm
Circed at 23. I understand cut guy curiosity of feeling of foreskin rolling over their heads etc. For me it was like dead skin that was ugly and impossible to keep clean. The head did seem more sensitive due to foreskin protection but the skin for me just seemed to be always in the way
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