My foreskin never hurt anybody.

http://www.slate.com/id/2124770/

Couldn’t help but say something.

I am a victim of Routine Infantile Circumcision. My sexual capacity
and completeness as a human being was Bush Doctrined in the name of
prevention. There was no need for this to have been done to me.

I grew up not even knowing I was circumcised. I just assumed the
color difference marked by the circumcision scar was “normal”. Of
course, at the time, I didn’t even know the scar was caused by
circumcision. I did not discover masturbation when I discovered my
penis. No, I discovered masturbation when I discovered lubrication.
Without a foreskin, I could not masturbate without lubrication.

I find it insulting that it’s assumed intact men can’t maintain proper
hygiene. Women are trusted with genitalia that requires its own
doctor to maintain, why couldn’t I be trusted with a foreskin? Yet I
don’t think it has anything to do with us. I think it has to do with
ignorant mothers who can’t be bothered to deal with that which they
don’t understand. What’s cleaner, a glans snug in its prepuce, or an
exposed glans in a dirty diaper? Glans penis or glans clitoris, the
purpose of the prepuce remainst to protect its respective glans.

Much is made of what circumcision prevents. Does this mean
circumcised penises are immune? Absolutely not. A circumcised penis
is not immune to cancer, let alone AIDS. Nor should men be lulled
into a false sense of circumcised security. STD prevention should be
education, not multiation. Isn’t genital mutilation in Africa
something we’re trying to prevent, not proliferate, right?

Does it make sense for infants who are at a high risk of breast cancer
to receive infantile masectomies? No.

Does it make sense for infants who are at a high risk of prostate
cancer to have their prostates removed at birth? No.

Does it make sense for girls to have their prepuces taken without
their consent? The knee-jerk reaction is very much against all forms
of FGM. So why is it okay to reduce the sexual pleasure of men?

Why is this okay? Why was this done to me?

RIC shouldn’t be done. I’ve been so perturbed by my incompleteness
that two years ago, I began the process of making myself a little bit
more complete. Foreskin restoration, that is.

I no longer need to masturbate with lubrication. My glans doesn’t
look as dead and dry as it used to. Color is returning to it, and
it’s moist at times. There’s still much more restoring to go, but
it’s worth it.

It shouldn’t have come to this. I should have had my foreskin to do
with as I please.

I see nothing wrong with clear-thinking adults chopping off parts of
their bodies. People amputate their toes, pierce various parts of
their bodies, and put ink in their body. I don’t believe body
modification is something that should be subjected to an infant. We
should be allowed to grow up with the body we’re born with (impending
health threats aside). My foreskin never hurt anybody.

I realize your statement of purpose asked for transitioned men who
have had sex as both. I won’t lie, I’ve only had sex while I was in
the process of restoring. But, if it’s any consolation, I know the
extra slack I had made for better sense. If I pulled my skin over the
glans prior to penetration, I would slide in FAR EASIER than if I just
poked away. The difference between a broom handle and a well-oiled
piston, someone once joked.

I’ll stop here rather than reiterate what a million other angry men could.

-Timmy™