Fear of Circumcision

[Onasander]

I have a fear of circumcision. I like Jews. I used to go to the Jewish lay services while in basic training almost two decades ago.... they had good books on medieval Jewish philosophy. They let me eat cantaloupe. But I always had this creeping feeling they were out to cut my willy. This isn't a good complex to have when amo gst friends.

Then years later there was a Jewish cultural center next to my YMCA gym in San Francisco. A Jewish woman I worked with kept telling me to go inside but I pointed out it was manned by the nation of Islam guards, and the only real filter they had for checking IDs was.... well, gotta whip it out and prove your circumcised. I didn't want to do it. She said no, but as a security guard I knew.

So I read these stories of Christian men marrying Jewish or Islamic women. One guy in Indonesia was found out the night of the marriage (she knew) and they chased him despite him screaming his conversion to circumcise him. They eventually got him, it was not a good honeymoon.

I personally think it is cruel and ideologically selfish for women not to circumcise their male children in cultures where it is commonly practices. So many social doors seem to shut on the foreskin of the uncircumcised. Why can't I have a normal life? I gotta carry this sheath of guilt and social estrangement around on my pener.

 

[exchemist]

I have a fear of circumcision. I like Jews. I used to go to the Jewish lay services while in basic training almost two decades ago.... they had good books on medieval Jewish philosophy. They let me eat cantaloupe. But I always had this creeping feeling they were out to cut my willy. This isn't a good complex to have when amo gst friends.

Then years later there was a Jewish cultural center next to my YMCA gym in San Francisco. A Jewish woman I worked with kept telling me to go inside but I pointed out it was manned by the nation of Islam guards, and the only real filter they had for checking IDs was.... well, gotta whip it out and prove your circumcised. I didn't want to do it. She said no, but as a security guard I knew.

So I read these stories of Christian men marrying Jewish or Islamic women. One guy in Indonesia was found out the night of the marriage (she knew) and they chased him despite him screaming his conversion to circumcise him. They eventually got him, it was not a good honeymoon.

I personally think it is cruel and ideologically selfish for women not to circumcise their male children in cultures where it is commonly practices. So many social doors seem to shut on the foreskin of the uncircumcised. Why can't I have a normal life? I gotta carry this sheath of guilt and social estrangement around on my pener.

I'd keep away from cigar cutters, then, if I were you*.

Oh and avoid calamari rings in Italian restaurants.


* One of my brothers once had a cigar cutter confiscated at an airport security check. We wondered what a terrorist could possibly do with one of those. Threaten to circumcise the pilot perhaps? The joke was that cigar cutters were on sale in one of the airport shops! So he just bought another before getting on the plane.

 

[Rival]

Then years later there was a Jewish cultural center next to my YMCA gym in San Francisco. A Jewish woman I worked with kept telling me to go inside but I pointed out it was manned by the nation of Islam guards, and the only real filter they had for checking IDs was.... well, gotta whip it out and prove your circumcised. I didn't want to do it. She said no, but as a security guard I knew.

Sounds legit.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

What a bizarre thread.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

I have a fear of circumcision. I like Jews. I used to go to the Jewish lay services while in basic training almost two decades ago.... they had good books on medieval Jewish philosophy. They let me eat cantaloupe. But I always had this creeping feeling they were out to cut my willy.

That's right up there with sick and stupid.

 

[Subduction Zone]

That's right up there with sick and stupid.

It's true, it's true!! Save them, collect them, trade them. Gotta catch them all!!

 

[Onasander]

That's more or less what I feel in a common shower subduction like at my old community gym. I make sure to face away from everyone so they can't see I'm different. Don't want to be the weird guy out.

When 95% of society is one way, there is a pressure to conform.

 

[Rachel Rugelach]

I have a fear of circumcision. I like Jews. I used to go to the Jewish lay services while in basic training almost two decades ago.... they had good books on medieval Jewish philosophy. They let me eat cantaloupe. But I always had this creeping feeling they were out to cut my willy. This isn't a good complex to have when amo gst friends.

Then years later there was a Jewish cultural center next to my YMCA gym in San Francisco. A Jewish woman I worked with kept telling me to go inside but I pointed out it was manned by the nation of Islam guards, and the only real filter they had for checking IDs was.... well, gotta whip it out and prove your circumcised. I didn't want to do it. She said no, but as a security guard I knew.

So I read these stories of Christian men marrying Jewish or Islamic women. One guy in Indonesia was found out the night of the marriage (she knew) and they chased him despite him screaming his conversion to circumcise him. They eventually got him, it was not a good honeymoon.

I personally think it is cruel and ideologically selfish for women not to circumcise their male children in cultures where it is commonly practices. So many social doors seem to shut on the foreskin of the uncircumcised. Why can't I have a normal life? I gotta carry this sheath of guilt and social estrangement around on my pener.

Is this a joke? If it is, I'm still trying to figure out the punch line between cantaloupe and your willy.

 

[Onasander]

No joke. Actual fear. Random people are scared of everything. I have a social stigma attached to my mother's failure to get me cut as a baby.

 

[exchemist]

Is this a joke? If it is, I'm still trying to figure out the punch line between cantaloupe and your willy.

Erm, I suspect this poster has, um, ishoos, hem hem.

 

[Onasander]

No need to pick on me. I've read through several circumcision threads on this site, none address the social stigma of the uncircumcised child.

 

[Revoltingest]

What a bizarre thread.

You said so that the rest of us needn't.

 

[Rachel Rugelach]

No joke. Actual fear. Random people are scared of everything. I have a social stigma attached to my mother's failure to get me cut as a baby.

Your profile says that you're Catholic. I don't understand why you concern yourself so much (to the point of paranoia) with the religious practices of the Jewish people -- which do not pertain to you. Do you have a problem with Jews?

 

[exchemist]

No need to pick on me. I've read through several circumcision threads on this site, none address the social stigma of the uncircumcised child.

It's the fantastic notion of a Jewish cultural centre guarded by Nation of Islam guards, of all things - and then piling Pelion on Ossa by claiming you have to show your penis to get in. You remind me of the sort of bizarre fantasies my father occasionally had in his nursing home, towards the end.

 

[Onasander]

They hire them out in SF, the Nation of Islam. I lived by their mosque in Hunters Point for a while along the T Line, kids always trying to sell me pies.

But it isn't just a Jewish custom. It's a majority American custom. I'm the odd man out due to a impressionable woman hearing it is wrong to mutilate a child. It's not the case. Everyone here repeats the line. Most Americans get circumcised. Being different can cause a complex to develop.

 

[Little Dragon]

No need to pick on me. I've read through several circumcision threads on this site, none address the social stigma of the uncircumcised child.

In the UK circumcision is not practiced outside of jewish and muslim communities (as in Europe in general). It's not a stigma here. So come to the UK, your willy is safe, relatively.

 

[Secret Chief]

Free Willy.

(that's not an offer).

 

[Onasander]

It just sorta became a thing in the US, and I'm hardly the only one with the fear. The lay leader of the Jewish group in basic training was a retired 0-6 in the Navy and would crack jokes all the time.

I just think it's best for something minor but painful but near universally uniform culturally to be done very early on. Kids shouldn't be left standing out as the weird one.

 

[Rachel Rugelach]

It just sorta became a thing in the US, and I'm hardly the only one with the fear. The lay leader of the Jewish group in basic training was a retired 0-6 in the Navy and would crack jokes all the time.

I just think it's best for something minor but painful but near universally uniform culturally to be done very early on. Kids shouldn't be left standing out as the weird one.

I shouldn't worry, if I were you, about the state of your willy as being the cause of people thinking you're "the weird one."

 

[Onasander]

It's a irrational fear. I know it to be. But lots of people know their fears are irrational, still have them.