CIRCUMCISED AS AN ADULT...

[Briefsboy14]

There was one uncircumcised guy on our track team in high school. Noticed this in the gang showers we took after daily after school runs. No one ever said anything, but we noticed. All the rest of us were RICed (Routine Infant Circumcision).

From what I've been told, circumcision on an adult male could cause some pain when the local anesthesia wears off.

I'll reply here rather than hijack Miguel85's story... viewtopic.php?p=41851#p41851

As mentioned I was cut at 23yrs old and it was my choice.

I had phimosis, ignored it for many years... I knew what circumcision was, I wasn't going to discuss my problem with anyone as a teenage boy. It would have been deeply embarrassing of course, but more than that I didn't want to be circumcised... I was oblivious at the time that other options were available. No way was anyone going near my willy with a knife! I was genuinely convinced that if anyone found out I couldn't retract I'd be for the chop... or more specifically my foreskin would be.

Also I couldn't of kept it a secret, having a twin brother... it would have been all over school. There wasn't really much nudity in the changing rooms after the first year at secondary school (age 11yrs) as we didn't have to shower... I couldn't recall seeing a circumcised boy, and I suppose I didn't want to be the odd one out... another shameful difference to add to being a late developer.

When I was circumcised, pain wasn't the issue - at least it wasn't for me. Sensitivity however - that was off the charts! In short the head of my penis hadn't really seen the light of day since I was circa 14yrs old, bar the odd times of over aggressive 'playing' with it. During the op, the surgeon was concerned the anesthetic was wearing off... it wasn't... it just didn't do anything to reduce the sensitivity of the glans. Frenulum removal was excruciating. Post op things calmed down within 2 weeks but really it took a few months for sensitivity to completely mellow.

On the RIC point... not gonna get into rights/wrongs, everyone welcome to their own opinion... but kinda like the fact I got to enjoy it both ways. It was cool with a foreskin and it's cool without one. Different but cool... and of course I got to enjoy a healthy amount of onanism with and without.

I didn't blindly opt to be circumcised and did some research at the time. I remember reading about John Harvey Kellogg (yep... cornflakes family). He held some very 'interesting' views on boys spilling their seed on stony ground... he was very anti onanism. He'd of had me in his sights if I was around in his time. To quote him;

A remedy [for masturbation] which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anaesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed.

Ouch!

But he went further... and girls weren't excluded from his quest to cure the population of the ills of masturbation.

Kellogg encouraged parents to tie their children’s hands to their bedposts or to circumcise their teenage boys. An even more aggressive tactic saw the foreskin of a young man’s penis sewed shut to prevent erections. For young girls, he recommended pouring carbolic acid on their clitorises.

Views and medicine move on and it's easy to look back at history and judge people harshly... but, for me, it's hard to look back and say these masturbation remedies were 'of their time'... I'm not saying circumcision itself is barbaric, it's a legit medical intervention, but it certainly is barbaric if used as a cure for a bit of harmless 'self-abuse'.

I know the Kellogg bit is going off on a tangent but like I said, didn't want to hijack Miguel85's story with details of my experience.

[PantsDownFun]

Routine Infant Circumcision is one of the greatest evils of our time and that is a hill I will gladly die on. Mine was done without anesthetic, without any type of shield, free hand, and unsurprisingly, cut too deep. The more I've learned though, the more I've come to understand that the only thing that truly would have prevented my injury was had the procedure never been done at all. Anesthetic doesn't always work, shields don't always stay in place, the only thing that guarantees that no boy will have a lifelong injury is if we just skip this surgery that serves absolutely no purpose 99% of the time (I'd be more generous and say 95% of the time, but we've found less invasive solutions for phimosis, doctors just hate bringing them up because they aren't as profitable to them).

[RaccoonBatteryStaple]

I remember reading about John Harvey Kellogg (yep... cornflakes family). He held some very 'interesting' views on boys spilling their seed on stony ground... he was very anti onanism. He'd of had me in his sights if I was around in his time. To quote him;

A remedy [for masturbation] which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anaesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed.

Kellogg certainly had a sadistic streak (and, incredibly, an enema fetish). I'd never advocate for that kind of procedure in real life, but it's certainly a departure point for story fodder if that floats your boat. The thing he doesn't mention is that most surgery done at that time was done in "operating theatres" where the public could come in and watch, so there's also the implication of an audience.