Yesterday, we reported that a medical research lab is very close to finding a way for circumcised men to regrow their foreskin.
Foregen is “a non-profit organization founded to research and implement regenerative medical therapies for circumcised males” that aims to “promote genital integrity through regenerative medicine.” Lab researchers there just announced that they’ve figured out how to generate new skin using small samples of foreskin tissue. They now hope to move onto human clinical trials sometime in the near future.
The news elicited a strong response to Queerty readers, particularly on Facebook.
“To each his own,” Jerome Robertson wrote, “but I’m not a big fan of uncut ’cause some men are fucking nasty and don’t clean themselves properly.”
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(Jeez. Tell us how you really feel, Jerome.)
Naturally, this sparked quite an outcry. Robertson’s comment received over 20 replies.
“You want to talk about nasty?” David Runyan responded. “Let’s talk about trapping an open wound in a diaper with feces and urine every night. Before you cut your son make a small cut on your thigh, get some used toilet paper, get it moist with some urine and tape it to the cut and leave it over night.”
(Um. We think we’ll pass.)
“My feet get dirty because I walk around barefoot sometimes,”Jeremy Homer added, “but I’m not going to cut them off for the sake of being clean.”
(Hmmm. That seems like a bit of a stretch.)
“You’re missing my point,” Robertson rebutted. “I shouldn’t have to tell a grown man to clean his penis. That’s something he should have been taught by his parents.”
To which Cassie Elizabeth Waldeck replied with this pearl of wisdom, “If my circumcised husband doesn’t shower his balls stink. Circumcised men still need to wash their genitals.”
(This is true. Circumcised men, like uncircumcised men, need to properly wash themselves. Surely we can all agree on that.)
Then David J. Bernstein posted this super helpful flyer:
Madeline Rupert opined: “Some men are fucking nasty. And you know what? Cutting pieces of their genitals off won’t make them cleaner in any respectable degree.”
William Ortego concurred. “These men deserved to keep their penis intact but asshole parents took that from them!”
Other people had questions regarding the new reparative therapy:
“If it grows back looking like Abe Vigoda’s neck, do you get your money back?” Pablito Belanger asked.
“How can someone miss something they never had?” William Mc Gregor wondered.
And some had absolutely no interest in it whatsoever:
“Not my cup of tea,”James Michael said. “I’ll stay circumcised.”
“No thank you,” Bobby Smith politely declined.
“I think science would be more useful if they cured male-pattern baldness,” Queerty commenter Desert Boy said.
But perhaps Jorge L Mancha put it best when he wrote: “Everyone has their preferences. Why don’t we just leave it at that?”
So what do you think of the latest technology that may allow circumcised men to regrow their foreskin? Keep the conversation going in the comments section below.
NG22
Those who want to do it should do it. Those who don’t shouldn’t. I think the good thing is the availability of options. Some men already use physiological stretching techniques to regrow their foreskin. If this treatment makes it easier, so be it.
People feel passionately about this subject. So there’s nothing wrong with staying as you are, or being able to regrow or remove foreskin later in life. It’s not my business to tell anyone what to do.
Cam
I can’t really whip up a bunch of concern either way on this one. If somebody wants to grow it back, more power to them, not sure what the issue is.
petensfo
“Soon”
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Ladbrook
If a group of scientists can develop a technique to regrow foreskin and a group of cut men want to take advantage of it, then so be it. Why is everyone trying to turn this into some crazy philosophical debate worthy of Plato? Choice it, don’t choice it… whatever. It just seems as if some are trying to skin-shame the other side and vice versa. An odd thing to go to war over if you ask me.
What next… paper or plastic?
Daggerman
…can men really mean this? For a start a circumcised penis is cleaner, smells better and stops the spread of STI’s. Why would any man want to grow his foreskin back? Absolute idiots and disgusting filthy fuckers is all I can say…
Texan78730
The uncut look is a huge turn off for me. Dicks look like sausages. No thanks.
Ronbo
@Texan78730: Is it truly a”turn off”? It takes all kinds, even foreskinic homosexuals.
My grandma used to say, “Friction is the enemy of your bottom. God put that extra bit of skin there so that butt-fucking your grandfather is smooooothe pleasure.”
polarisfashion
@Daggerman: I have been with intact men before and I have never once encountered someone that was unclean or had an odor emitting from their penis.
ingyaom
An article today about comments on an article from yesterday? There’s got to be more gay news than this.
John Paul
As a man who has grown back his foreskin, I believe I have a unique perspective on this subject.
When we are mutilated as infants, we never know anything other than what we have as a penis.
To us, what we have works perfectly, but this is because we don’t know what it should have been.
I thought my dick was great!
After watching Penn and Teller’s show on genital mutilation I decided to regrow what what was stolen from me and see if there was a difference.
The process is stretching what skin you have it is a slow but painless process.
After two months I realized that the head of my dick had been as callous as the heel of my foot!
When it became smooth I could feel so much more,
also all the new skin grown also made more nerve cells and I could feel them also.
There was also a curve to my dick when erect, with new skin my penis was abel to be straight forward.
I went from being a bottom to a top because I could finally feel the sensations in my penis.
I feel robbed for all the years of enjoyment that was stolen from me.
That shouldn’t happen to any child.
John Paul
@Daggerman: all my friends from college were cut, they got STDs and are now dead. Cutting only reduces pleasure, it doesn’t stop disease. Condoms stop diseases.
LubbockGayMale
Remember, circumcision was a religious ceremony enforced on kids by old men who had taken a vow of chastity!
FrankSF
My first boyfriend (I was 14, he was 15) was uncut. To this day his was one of the most beautiful dicks I have ever seen. I’ve had many other boyfriends over the years, and a pretty dick is a pretty dick, but the sight of an erect uncut penis with just the glossy head peeking out from the hood makes my heart beat faster. Also, of all the uncut boys and men I have known, only one had a problem keeping it clean, and he had a dick so big that maybe just the area of it intimidated him. 😉 My current boyfriend is cut, as am I, so lack of foreskin isn’t a dealbreaker, but if he wanted to grow his foreskin back, I’d be all for it.
Paco
@John Paul: I am circumcised and have never felt “mutilated”. Mine still functions and has brought me much pleasure in my life. Is “mutilated” the new offensive word gay men are going to start throwing around when referring to those that have been circumcised?
I am Gay (just like you), Black, HIV-Positive, and Back Bitches!!!
You bunch of fake bitches! Everybody’s trying to offer their best soundbite statement hoping that they get picked to be in a future Queerty Readers Response column! Bunch of fucking sell-outs! It should be remembered how childish the whole lot of you lame douches reacted when they chose BJ Frisk that one time!
Jealous much? Yeah, I should say so! And much!!!
John Paul
@Paco: I feel raped, sorry that offends you. Since you have never had foreskin, you don’t know what different would feel like. You show your ignorance.
Paco
@John Paul: And I think therapy would have been a better use of your time than stretching your dick.
John Paul
Paco, I spent $50 on my restoration.
If you are so happy, why do you feel so threatened by an article like this.
Maybe you are the one needing therapy.
Paco
@John Paul: “I thought my dick was great!”.
Did you feel raped before or after Penn and Teller told you that you should feel “mutilated”?
I took offense with your use of the word “mutilation” when talking about male circumcision. It is not a word I want to see catch on in our community that has a tendency to pick the most offensive words to describe something they don’t like or consider undesirable and then call it a “preference”. If a guy wants to regrow his foreskin because someone convinced him he is damaged, then more power to him. Just keep the offensive labeling to yourself.
manjoguy
I would like to think that medical innovation has more important things to concern itself with (but I’m sure there’ll be money it). If a person wants a foreskin who’s to stop him? I was circumcised at age 32, and the issue of reduced sensitivity is ridiculous. I notice absolutely no difference in sensitivity. Overall sexual enjoyment is better without a foreskin getting in the way. In adults, cleanliness is not an issue certainly but for children (as I recall with my same-age playmates back then) it can be if parents don’t instruct about the extra cleaning care required).
TLCTugger
Hundreds of thousands of men are already enduring non-surgical foreskin restoration to undo some of the sexual damage of forced circumcision. It’s easy and painless; it just takes time.
Foreskin feels REALLY good. Seriously, it’s the best part.
NiceNCool1
It’s not the same. I don’t want to regrow it back. I want MINE from DAY ONE.
passingthru
@Paco: Mutilation: to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts
Like it or not, it is mutilation. This is especially true for a baby who has no choice in the matter. Grown men can make choices and it’s great that here is possibly a new choice. Babies cannot make choices.
Paco
@passingthru: My circumcised penis is not injured, disfigured, imperfect or irreparably damaged. If you are circumcised and choose to feel that way, then I feel sorry for you and hope you can come to terms with it or repair what you think is broken. Don’t speak for the rest of us.
Bill
My husband and I have already decided we’d do it.
passingthru
@Paco: I am not speaking for anybody. I’m just stating fact. I never gave any opinion about myself and least of all, about you. Why are you so insistent on believing that people are attacking your penis? If you are happy about an unnecessary surgical procedure that was forced upon you, then good for you. Weather you like it or not, it is disfigured from how it was naturally. That is a fact – ask your doctor. But who cares, go on and toot your horn all you want. Frankly, I don’t give a damn.
jantheman4903
how fast would it be outlawed in the usa if a baby GIRL was being tied down and her vaginal lips trimmed or the clitoris for either religious reasons or so that she looked like mommy? the outcry…god. we have just gotten used to it. no matter the reason it is altering a BABY surgically. if concerned..come up with a wipe or gel that kills the virus/bacteria. i think it is a huge double standard.
Blackceo
Yeah I will stay with my cut penis. Whoever wants to regrow foreskin, more power to you. In my experiences, I prefer cut but if you are uncut I prefer you don’t have enough skin to be able to take some off to help a burn victim. And unfortunately yes, I have had a few too many bad experiences going down on uncut and the smell made me gag. If it was up to my mother I wouldn’t have been circumsized. Thank heaven that is a decision my father vetoed her on.
Paco
@passingthru: The problem is you keep trying to assign a negative word to being circumcised. “It is disfigured from how it was naturally”.
Disfigured: Spoil the attractiveness of.
Mutilated: Inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on.
A circumcised penis is surgically altered, and many would say more attractive. Probably as many that think an uncircumcised penis is more attractive. Even if it was done to me as an infant, which I have no memory of, it has not been a negative event in my life and have never had anyone tell me how disfigured I was for being circumcised.
If some guys are upset about not having been given the choice, then just say so. There is no need for the inappropriate and negative labels of disfigured or mutilated unless you want to claim those words for yourself only.
Desmodius
@Paco: The comment writers here didn’t come up with the idea of mutilation. Medical communities have been using the term for many years. Even the World Health Organization uses the term. Genital mutilation has been a topic of conversation for hundreds of years; religious vs. non-religious, healthy vs. non-healthy. Much of it based on improperly performed surgeries and female genital mutilation and the discussion of whether ritual outweighs the physical well-being of a person. Many people suffer horribly later in life after these procedures from pain during sex, or even just painful erections.
Paco
@Desmodius: I just went to the WHO website and they call male circumcision, male circumcision. They only call female circumcision a mutilation because there are no health benefits to it. To compare the two, the glans of the penis would need to be removed as well. WHO is even pushing the health benefits of male circumcision and say that the risk of adverse events, in a surgical setting, are minimal and rare.
If you or the other crazy “intactivists” want to call yourselves mutilated, then have at it. It is not a label I will ever accept. I doubt it is a label millions of other men would accept either.
TemptyK
Who cares what intactinuts think?! Someone who spends their entire days just going through the Internet to see where foreskin is the topic just so they can chime in with their two cents? Yeah, not very stable, if you ask me. I’d get a hobby or something, and worry less about other people’s children’s penises! Hell would freeze over should I EVER be with any man, irrespective of his looks, assets and abilities, who isn’t circumcised.
passingthru
I have a son. He is among the billions of men on the planet who will have a choice. Maybe thanks to this new procedure as well as other options, many more men will have a choice. Opinions regarding people’s personal preferences really aren’t relevant to the subject of the article. Bottom line, it’s good to have a new option if it works out.
Peter
@Daggerman: Totally agree, I had mine done in my 30s and wouldn’t want it back.
vive
@Paco: “They only call female circumcision a mutilation because there are no health benefits to it. To compare the two, the glans of the penis would need to be removed as well.”
Incorrect. There are various types of female circumcision. Some are less invasive than male circumcision, involving for example just a small incision or pinprick of the clitoral hood – yet they are all called mutilation and banned in most Western countries.
vive
@Ronbo: “My grandma used to say, “Friction is the enemy of your bottom. God put that extra bit of skin there so that butt-fucking your grandfather is smooooothe pleasure.””
Yes, this isn’t repeated enough. Bottoming is so much easier if the top is uncut – I’ve had both kinds of boyfriends and have a much more pleasant time with the uncut ones. Even for many women vaginal sex is easier with an uncut man, since the penis can move back and forth in its own sheath – it doesn’t eliminate friction but reduces excessive rubbing. Vaginal lubricants are not really a thing in Europe like they are in the U.S., for example, because they are simply less necessary.
It’s indeed ironic that so many American men are having their assumed straight boys undergo surgery so as to be worse lovers.
Paco
@vive: Honestly, I can’t tell a difference between cut and uncut when it is wrapped up in a condom.
Disciple
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ive
So many people told me that I should of gotten my children’s penis circumcised but in my family none of the men are and my kids now are both older and be we have had an infection or have had a problem with their member. If a man cleans himself correctly and bathes every day he shouldn’t have a problem. Atleast my child can have a choice to get a circumcision later on in life. Once they cut that skin off it truly doesn’t grow back. Even if they get new skin it’s still not the same
ive
@ive: they have never had s problem.