Is Foreskin Restoration the New Circumcision?
I still maintain my opinion that circumcision’s original purpose was initiation into manhood. Health benefits were discovered later. Being able to take the cut without flinching was, and in many places still is, a way to show off that one is no longer a child.
Americans have removed its significance by performing the cut at an early age, so that a man does not even remember his own circumcision, thus it is not surprising that a lot of men don’t appreciate their circumcised status.
In fact it has become fashionable to perform self inflicted, torturous manipulations, often for several years, to grow the remaining skin and create something that resembles a foreskin.
I can accept that some do it is a way to protest against their circumcision.
And of course the grass is always greener on your neighbor’s lawn, if one is told that foreskin is what he cannot have then it is what he wants.
But disturbingly a large number of young men do it as some form of new body modification, not so much to look uncircumcised, but because it is considered to be fashionable to “restore”.
In reality the process does not restore anything, whatever the claim is that a hundred billion :-) nerve endings have been cut off during circumcision they don’t grow back. Stretching the remaining skin to cover the glans mostly just negates whatever health and other benefits the circumcision has provided.
The procedure certainly seems to require a lot of suffering, makes one’s dick stink, and in many ways it looks a lot more unpleasant than undergoing circumcision does. Not to mention that you can get circumcised in half an hour while restoration takes years or prolonged torture.
I have heard a man state in a TV interview that his glans would now be painful if he kept his restored foreskin pulled back and that it was somehow a positive thing.
Who in his right mind would want to do things to his dick that makes it more likely to hurt?
And, no, producing smegma is not an achievement, it is just a disgusting bodily function that no man should be proud of.
I can understand if someone stretches his skin in protest, but as a fashion statement?
Foreskin “restoration” certainly seems to be unpleasant enough and it takes long enough to demonstrate one’s resolve.
Facing the circumcision knife used to serve as a demonstration of one’s bravery.
Is foreskin “restoration” trying to take its place by becoming the mark of sheer stubbornness?
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