Post by p***@yahoo.co.ukPost by n***@gmail.comhe should of known by then the importance of daily washing and pulling back the foreskin!!
He had PHIMOSIS. That means he COULDN'T pull it back and wash it.
That seems to be the condition of most uncircumcised boys for the first few years of life and in some cases they are unable to retract the foreskin in adolescence and later in manhood. I attended private boys boarding schools in the UK for both my primary and secondary education (as we say in the UK, a preparatory school and a public school, although those terms mean something quite different in other parts of the world). In those days, this being the middle of the past century, most boys of our background were circumcised and frankly we were very hard on the uncircumcised boys, calling their penises "silly", "smelly", "wormy". and the like. In the sex games that were common in those boarding schools at that time, the uncircumcised boys were often excluded or expected to take demeaning positions. Often the uncircumcised boys could not retract their foreskins so we demanded mercilessly that they show us the head of their penis. They were obviously much discomforted by not being able to produce it and seemed fascinated by ours. One boy had to leave the school for a few days when he was about 14 or 15 in order to get circumcised because of problems his phimosis was causing. I remember we were quite shocked by this and felt his parents had been most remiss in not having him circumcised long before. Also attempts at masturbation seemed to hurt some of these boys, and there was one boy who either yanked his foreskin too hard or had it yanked iby somebody else, and he cried out in great pain and started to bleed which really horrified us. I felt quite sorry for the uncircumcised boys then I feel the same today. Parker is right, that in various on line forums the pro-foreskin element routinely advises against circumcision even if the foreskin cannot be retracted. Apparently they prefer a state of congenital deformity to releasing the glans from its prison to enjoy air, light, and human touch. In my view this is pure fanaticism.