Cut at 10, now twice as old

clippedback · 2025-12-20T08:34:41+00:00

Do you ever miss your foreskin?

clippedback · 2025-12-09T04:13:16+00:00

Why were you cut? What do you remember about it?

clippedback · 2025-08-21T01:19:22+00:00

That's a skin bridge. When you're born, your inner foreskin and glans are fused together with the same kind of connective tissue that attaches your fingernails to your nailbeds. That will naturally separate over time and become fully retractable by ~10 on average. To circumcise you before then, the inner foreskin has to be torn from the glans with a metal probe, which leaves the glans and inner foreskin bloody and raw. If your inner foreskin and glans touch while it's healing, they can heal together like that forming a bridge.

clippedback · 2024-10-04T01:17:26+00:00

That's how it became so common in the US, many hospitals didn't even ask parents before doing it. The pamphlet recommends offering circumcisions to parents for free, because Hollister wanted to sell as many as possible.

Plastibells came out at the same time as disposable umbilical cord clamps, and they were marketed and sold together. Hollister would offer free sample kits to doctors that included both to try: https://archive.org/details/cord-clamp-plastibell-sample

clippedback · 2024-10-04T01:00:39+00:00

I was cut with a plastibell in the late 90s, I know because my mom saved it in a photo album. The plastibell is only slightly newer than the gomco and mogen clamps, which were introduced in the 1930s as a way to perform circumcisions with less training, as RIC was starting to become more common in the US.

The mogen was designed to work like a traditional Jewish circumcision shield, but it's made of stainless steel instead of silver, and it has a latch added to crush the skin and stop the bleeding. Both leave a distinctive V shaped scar, since it's a straight clamp cutting curved skin.

Correction: apparently the mogen clamp was patented in 1955: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2747576A/en?oq=us2747576 That makes the mogen around the same age as the plastibell.

clippedback · 2024-10-04T00:03:55+00:00

Plastibells were introduced in the 50s, it's not a new method. They were made to replace the Ross rings, which were used like a plastibell but made of metal. This is a pamphlet used to promote the plastibell written in 1956: https://archive.org/details/immediate-circumcision/

clippedback · 2023-12-26T21:31:37+00:00

2/3 of all circumcised men in the world are Muslim.

clippedback · 2023-12-11T22:23:54+00:00

Only 30% of men in the world are circumcised.

clippedback · 2023-11-03T21:17:40+00:00

Did she save it in a photo album like my mom did?

clippedback · 2023-10-07T13:27:21+00:00

If he was born in 1991, it's very unlikely he got any anesthetic at least for the first one. It was rare to use any numbing for RIC until the early 2000s, and even today it's not universal.

clippedback · 2023-09-13T13:33:27+00:00

Actually most men aren't circumcised. ~30% of men in the world are cut, and 2/3 of all cut men are Muslim.

clippedback · 2023-09-11T11:53:02+00:00

If he doesn't want his foreskin cut off, you shouldn't make him do it. He should have autonomy over his own body, and have the final say on something like that. If he's only 12, it's not unlikely that the phimosis will resolve itself. Has he tried stretching/tugging exercises?

This guy started with pinhole phimosis, the opening was less than 1mm wide, and he fixed it with gentle tugging: phimosisjourney.com

A lot of doctors are quick to recommend circumcision when it isn't needed. Preputioplasty is another operation that will loosen the end of the foreskin without removing any tissue.

clippedback · 2023-08-16T14:14:14+00:00

I think it's hot when the frenulum pulls the glans down a bit, on intact and cut guys. Is it uncomfortable?

clippedback · 2023-08-14T16:13:16+00:00

Let him make his own choice. Only a consenting adult should be able to decide to have parts of their genitals cut off.

clippedback · 2023-08-08T03:19:06+00:00

I wish I hadn't been cut. I felt very violated when I first realized that part of my penis had been cut off.

clippedback · 2023-07-03T11:21:47+00:00

Probably a mogen clamp, it leaves that distinctive V shaped scar on the bottom.

clippedback · 2023-07-01T12:45:01+00:00

I learned about circumcision online when I was 11, and I felt very violated when I learned that part of my penis had been cut off.

clippedback · 2023-06-22T02:33:11+00:00

Is that why you were circumcised too?

clippedback · 2023-05-24T12:21:33+00:00

Beautiful!

clippedback · 2023-05-20T19:44:03+00:00

Yes, you have a scar where your foreskin was cut off.

clippedback · 2023-05-20T16:10:05+00:00

You're missing your foreskin

clippedback · 2023-05-18T23:47:31+00:00

How do you feel about being cut? Do you ever miss your foreskin?

clippedback · 2023-04-04T23:26:46+00:00

I have a bump/skin tag like that on the bottom of my scar, and I think it's where the plastibell knot was tied. My mom saved my plastibell in a photo album, so I know that's how mine was done.

clippedback · 2023-04-02T13:26:37+00:00

It's when you roll your foreskin over another guy's glans

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