Circumcised as an adult

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. One week later, he noticed a discharge. Phimosis makes the penis difficult to clean leading to inflammation of the glans and foreskin, difficulty urinating and discomfort or pain during sex and masturbation and even penile cancer. Dave had always experienced some pain and discomfort, but until the conversation with his brother he thought it was normal. He suffered quietly, dwelling on ways to minimise it. In some cases, phimosis can be treated by a combination of stretching exercises and creams that help elasticate the foreskin and eventually allow it to retract. Blood was drawn as the stitches pulled, but the fact that they remained intact created an unnerving impression of normality.

Circumcision is performed less often in adults than in children. It takes longer and is likely to involve more tissue trauma. 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.

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Most circumcised men have no recollection of the procedure that claimed their foreskins. A human brain retains little, if any, of what its owner experiences during infancy, when the vast majority of circumcisions occur. But there are some men who not only remember their circumcisions, they booked the appointments themselves. In a few countries, actually, the practise is thriving. Some men do it to improve hygiene or because they believe a hoodless penis looks better. Others do it for reasons related to health, religion or peer pressure.