For context, I’m circumcised and expecting a son and my wife and I are torn about the circ. We’re American so from a cultural standpoint circumcision is the default choice. Thing is, there’s no real benefit besides practicing a religion we don’t believe in, and I’m uncomfortable about cutting the tip of my son’s dick off.
On the other side, I’ve met a guy who was bullied in high school so bad for it he got a circ as an adult. Apparently crazy painful recovery. I’ve also talked to women who are generally grossed out by uncircumcised men. I don’t want to make him feel like something’s wrong with him his whole life because I was uncomfortable with the idea.
From a moral standpoint I’m against it, but from a social and cultural standpoint I feel like I should do it? It’s a crappy situation. If there’s any uncircumcised American men who want to talk about their penis I’m all ears.
Edit: I really appreciate everyone’s responses I never expected to hear from so many people. With the decision hinging on social and cultural norms it’s been really helpful to be able to take the temperature like this. I obviously need to talk to my wife, but given the overwhelming support of dick hats I don’t thing we’re going to do it. Thanks, lemmings!
I definitely would leave it up to them. It is a very long recovery to regrow that skin if they have regrets or issues later in life.
To attempt to regrow… you can’t simply (or with complexity) regrow it. A bit of stretching and that’s mostly it.
I’ve seen and talked to some people that have, and they actually did get it back to a natural-looking, uncircumcised penis. But it literally took years of training with a weighted device clamped to the skin that remained. Two years of basically round-the-cock stretching. Suffice to say it’s something that should be one’s own choice, not a parent’s decision unless there’s some significant health issue that needs immediate fixing.