• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I don’t know why people keep saying you need it to do the deed, I’ve been at it for 20 years without lotion and it’s fine

      Adding lube or lotion to the equation just makes clean up worse

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        Not everyone is cut the same

        Some get more, and some get less cut off.

        Sounds like you were fortunate and got less cut off.

        Circumcision is common in US, mentioning lotion with masterbating is common.

        Like you said, no one would use lotion unless they had to.

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          This is getting to some Q levels of cope and rationalization.

          Neither is as big of a deal as weird Internet people want to make it out to be.

          Personally, I’m glad I had it done as an infant rather than risk needing it done at 13 years old.

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            Genital mutilation is a big deal

            People get angry at piercing infant ears, but somehow cutting off foreskin is normal.

            What if we were ripping off infant fingernails?

            Studies have shown that a lot of bacteria collect under them, and if we removed the fingernails, kids would get sick less.

            Why don’t you get your appendix removed as an infant?

            You wouldn’t want to risk it rupturing as an adult

            Foreskin is natural. The likelihood of you needing it removed is slim to none.

            Just look at all the other countries that don’t circumcise. Are all the adults getting circumcised later in life? No.

            The problem is you don’t know how good it is to have foreskin. It’s like you growing up with no fingernails. You wouldn’t know how good fingernails were.

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      I used to be able to, but a lifetime of manual labor has laden my hands with callouses that make it HIGHLY unpleasant without some lube

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      Nah I can do it just fine without, I’ve only ever used lotion like a few times in my life just to try because it seems like a common thing when you see a reference to “Lotion and Kleenex”. I felt like it brought nothing to the experience but an extra mess to clean up

    • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      We can. At least most of us. Though I suspect there’s significantly less play in the skin, so it may be more difficult for some.

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        Everyone in this entire thread is saying they’re fine. There’s just this weird, incel group that storms around the internet from time to time spreading bullshit about circumcision. It’s exhausting. Get a life, you douchebags.

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      I can. It is definitely not nearly as much fun though. More of a “just get the job done so I can go back to what I was doing”.

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      It depends on how far the doctors went when they removed a part of you without permission or consent. There are levels of skin tightness that some people are on the unfortunate end of, if the doctor took an excessive amount. And in general, there are a huge number of nerves in the foreskin which are significantly more sensitive, so cut members will need more stimulation than they would have, and that can lead to chaffing when attempting to receive the same results as they could have with foreskin.