Just a thought… Do you think having a foreskin leans you in a certain direction sexually, that is gay, bisexual or straight? I am uncut and Bisexual.
I will shortly post some pics… I am realitively new to this site and find the stories and comment very interesting. I live in Tasmania, Australia where the rate of circumcision is only around 2% of the male population.
I do not think that having a foreskin or not determines whether you are Gay, Bi or Straight. I am gay and have a foreskin. Most of the other gay men I know seem to be just about the US National Average of being cut or not. It also depends on the age of the person here in the US. Those of us born a home (I was) are not cut, but most of them born in a hospital seem to be cut. It seems that most of the men born in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s seem to be cut. It seemed to be the thing to do during those years.
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What is the rate of circumcision for new borns now in the USA? I there much of an anticircumcision trend there?
In Australia most babys are are left uncut, In the State I live in circumsion is down to 2% of the population…
As u say even prior to the 80’s circumcision was a popular.
Sexual orientation hinges on the relationship with one’s father, not the presence or absence of a foreskin.
From my experience a person’s sexual identity is determined more from birth than from relationship with fathers or mothers, etc. I know nuruture plays some kind of role in addition to nature, but the gays that I know all say that knew from early on they were “different,” and this had very little to do with experience with other people, parents, included. The sexual identity continuum is very broad, with totally heterosexual and totally homosexual at both ends with huge gray areas in the middle. Cut/intact has nothing to do with gender identification, and unless it is a medical necessity or religious tradition, there is no reason for males to be circumcized any more than it is for females. It is cruel and abusive treatment all around. Nature has a pretty good record of doing things well! Best wishes to all of you, both who are struggling with their sexual identity - whatever/whyever it is - and those who have accepted it.
I agree totally with Coop4 that a person is born with sexual identity and not as intact wrote from relationships. I knew I preferred boys to girls from when I was in grade school. My parents were very heterosexual and I was raised as most boys were. I used to have sexual thoughts of other boys from about when I was seven years old. I had no interest in girls all through grade and high school and started having relations with other boys from when I was about 13. Even though my parents were hetero, they always accepted me as I am and never tried to change me. They accepted my gay boyfriends just as most other parents accepted their son’s girlfriends. If I brought at boy friend over to stay the night, they never questioned it or said anything about it. I guess I had wonderful parents who loved me as I am.
When Alfred Kinsey died in 1956, he was planning a study on circ and male homosexuality.
Some suspect that the popularity of circ among well-heeled Brits until 1960 or so had something to do
with the homosexual experimentation in British boarding schools.
This thread is yet more evidence on how the English speaking people all fell in love with circ without thinking that
doing it might change the sexual ecology. Our ancestors thought that sex would go on as usual, except for two
things: first, masturbation would be rarer because less pleasurable, second, husbands would be less horny with their
wives. Both were seen as VERY DESIRABLE THINGS! Otherwise, nothing would change. By the time the USA began to study
sex acts clinically (Masters and Johnson, 195os), USA hospitals were firmly committed to cutting newborns. To this day,
we don’t really know what effect circ has on sexual pleasure or expression. The important 1997 JAMA study by Laumann et al
found that cut men (who are more educated and more middle class on average) admit to more varied sex practices than
intact men (many of whom are conservative Latinos). This may simply reflect the prudishness of unsophisticated men.
But it could also reflect a deeper truth: vaginal could be less fun for cut men, who restlessly try other things.