There are circumcised men out there who are willing to go to some seriously extreme lengths (pun acknowledged but unintended) to get their foreskins back.
These men feel they were “robbed” of something before they were old enough to have a say. They want the right to decide how their bodies look and function.
Last night, 60 Minutes brought us the story of one of these men, Elwyn Moir.
28-year-old Elwyn was circumcised when he was born and says he has lived with a “sense of loss” since he was old enough to understand what happened.
Elwyn doesn’t blame his parents – he says they did the best they could for their son at the time – but he told reporter Tara Brown that he has always felt an overwhelming sense that he had been “interfered with”.
“(I was) robbed in some way. Just that realisation that there were parts I didn’t have… And I wanted to have the whole set,” Elwyn said. “I experienced it quite a lot as anger; this sort of brewing anger, resentment and even rage.”
To overcome this sense of loss, Elwyn has taken the dramatic and painful step of manually stretching the remaining skin on his penis to try and get a foreskin back.
Top Comments
Because I came close to being circumcised as a child I am grateful every day that I can adore my foresking and enjoy my penis as nature intended. OMG I cannot believe that helpless little babies and defenseless children are taken advantage of. A society needs to protect the vulnerable, as a man I will never be circumcised. Protect children and babies. They will most likely appreciate a whole body.
I'm super happy to be circumcised as an infant. By no means should it mandatory, but making it illegal is a pretty backwards thing to do. If parents want to do the best by their kids, why not?