Friday Faves: Pig in a Blanket – An Acquired Taste?

January 14, 2011     Posted in Relationships, Sex


By CC Staff

My first boyfriend was uncircumcised. At the young, inexperienced age of fourteen, I realized this only because one day while chilling on the futon in the den having a post BJ-sesh chat, he informed me that some of the girls he had been with (because as a sixteen-year-old senior, he was far more sexually experienced than my freshman self) were initially freaked out by the au natural state of his Scottish-born ween. Huh, I remember thinking. He’s not circumcised. So THAT’s what that looks like.

It’s not like I was totally ignorant. I had been reading Seventeen and YM since I was nine. I knew all about hymens and G-spots and that you couldn’t get pregnant from a boy shooting his load into the open waters of a hot tub, so I certainly knew that some gents had foreskins and some did not; I just wasn’t really sure what that meant, anatomically.

I didn’t actually fully experience the difference between the two until about ten months later when my boyfriend and I were “on a break” and I hooked up with another boy, birthed in the good old U.S. of A. and fully shorn to prove it. As we sweatily made out on the couch, I jammed my hand in to his shorts, confidently grabbed a hold of his manparts, and…proceeded to give him the rawest handjob in the history of the earth.

For those of you who are lost, allow me to explain. On an uncircumcised boy, one can give some kind of an HJ without any sort of lube at all. Granted, as I have aged I have learned that some lube is certainly preferable to none in any case, but a fluid up and down motion causing some pleasurable sensations is achievable. But on the circumcised penis? Without the pliable sheath of the foreskin acting as a kind of…sleeve or whatever*, all that an unlubed HJ will achieve is some serious chafing and sad faces all around. Aww.

Since these initial awkward adolescent escapades, I have gained a world of experience in both the skinned and not skinned camps; in fact, I’d say of all the boys I’ve been with, about 40% are uncircumcised. Which is why it surprises me that many ladies I meet are not only ignorant to the ways of the shrouded wang but downright disturbed by it. Just last summer, a friend of mine was recounting her hookup from the night before and informed me that the kid was the first uncircumcised experience she had ever had and it was, “Really weird. I don’t think I liked it.”

“Really?” I asked, surprised. “What do you mean?”

“I just kind of…creeped me out,” was her response.

Maybe I just meet penilely conservative girls, but I hear something to this effect pretty often. While I kicked off my sexual career with a UK wang where approximately 20% of males are circumcised, most ladies in the U.S. are hooking up with dudes from the U.S., where three out of four males are unsheathed. While the practice of circumcising boys has been on the decline in recent years, the pervasive notion in America is still that penises should not resemble the worms from Tremors.

So what of these turtlenecked organs? Are, they, in fact, inferior to naked ones? For years it was touted that being circumcised was more hygienic, made for a lower risk of STD contraction, and allows for greater sensation during sex. However, in 1999, the American Medical Association issued a statement saying that removal of an infant’s foreskin for any reason other than medical issues or ritualistic tradition is not necessary and not advised, and since then, the number of circumcisions performed annually has dropped by about 35%. Recent scientific studies have indicated that keeping the old skinjacket does not have any notable adverse effects on most guys, though there is some debate as to whether or not circumcision can help curb the spread of HIV in high-risk regions. However, here in Western civilization it seems that our notion that skin free is the way to be is merely a social construct.

And as for me? Well, I can’t say I’ve noticed much of a difference either way. Aside from the aforementioned HJ discrepancy, a penis is a penis is a penis as far as I’m concerned. Some are short, some long, some thick, some thin, some sheathed, some not. At the end of the day, I don’t think it matters much what it looks like; what matters is the dude attached to it and how he uses it.

*God, I hope my mother isn’t reading this.

Likey? Don’t worry, there are plenty more faves where this came from.

19 Comments on "Friday Faves: Pig in a Blanket – An Acquired Taste?"

  1. Jenna says:
    Fri, 14th Jan 201111:04 am 

    What is it with you yanks and chopping off bits of your children's willies. It's kind of like cutting off someone's eye lids. It just seems in incredibly strange custom.

  2. Caudoviral says:
    Fri, 14th Jan 201111:49 am 

    As a matter of religion or tradition I think that circumcision is entirely unconscionable and a little barbaric (although I do not, as some do, set it on the same level of horrific as female genital mutilation).

    As a medical matter…things are less clear cut. When the penis is circumcised, the glans thickens and toughens up due to not being protected from abrasion. The end result of this is that there are less likely to be micro-tears in the glans that could allow the ingress of disease. And specifically the studies about this have been done with HIV. Now, there are many other safeguards one can take to not contract HIV so I still think that the chop might be a little bit overzealous. On a more recent note there has been suggestion that circumcision helps prevent the transfer of HPV, but I must emphasise that I don't think any of that is conclusive yet.

  3. Olivia says:
    Fri, 14th Jan 20111:03 pm 

    My boyfriend is uncut. I didn't think it was odd at all because the only other guy I have been with is European… so I honestly have nothing to compare it to haha

  4. Michael Scott Hertzberg says:
    Fri, 14th Jan 20111:45 pm 

    This was a very well written article, and I commend you for articulating your thoughts the way you did. It's definitely an interesting and well debated subject. I don't consider it to be more hygienic to remove the foreskin, as a person can easily clean that part of their body, as they would their ears, nose, and other areas. Condoms help significantly in preventing the spread of disease including HIV, and HPV can be transmitted regardless of whether or not you're cut or uncut.

  5. Genny says:
    Fri, 14th Jan 20116:04 pm 

    It really depends so much on the country and the culture. Most guys I know here in the U.S. are circumcised simply because of social norms (not religion) and it's just what their parents decided to do. It seems to be a huge thing in the U.S., whereas in other parts of the world it doesn't seem to be as popular. I spent two months in Argentina and was with an extremely gorgeous/doctor/smooth-talking argentine man who was definitely not circumcised…so if he can still get all the ladies with foreskin, it seems to not be much of a problem there (in Argentina, at least). Just an interesting thought.

  6. Becky says:
    Sun, 16th Jan 20112:02 pm 

    My current boyfriend is uncut and it's so nice! He was my first boyfriend that was uncircumcised, so I did think it looked a little odd and thought something was wrong with his penis. It just look so abnormal from what I was used to, but sex feels so nice and makes handjobs so much better. If I do end up with another guy I do hope he's uncircumcised.

  7. smilingonedayatatime says:
    Mon, 17th Jan 20117:26 pm 

    I've only ever been with circumcised guys. I feel like I'd be kind of caught off guard if he wasn't circumcised!

  8. Dallas Valerian says:
    Tue, 18th Jan 201112:22 pm 

    In my experience, the problem with the author's handjobs doesn't lie in circumcision. Most guys I've ever known use the rapid up & down grip, at least when they first try masturbation. That's why that motion is the common hand sign for insincere or ineffective activity. Being American, most of the guys I know are circumcised.
    What circumcision avoids is the tissue tearing that sometimes occurs to accommodate the grown penis thrusting through a too small opening of the foreskin during intercourse. Marked as a rite of passage by some and a painful medical problem by others, it also seems likely to exchange disease between partners.

  9. Annie says:
    Wed, 19th Jan 20118:49 pm 

    Hahaha I love this article so much and I also enjoyed the note at the end about mom. I am definitely adding this to our "Links We LOVE" section of our site this week, great job ladies :)

  10. Lila says:
    Sun, 23rd Jan 201112:39 am 

    You were giving BJs at fourteen? Classy.

  11. intoyourblueeyes says:
    Wed, 2nd Feb 201112:03 pm 

    I really have fun while reading this….
    I have just two words for it "ha ha…"

    How To Make a Guy Fall In Love With You

  12. hair37 says:
    Sun, 13th Feb 20118:59 am 

    Well…she IS a slut after all.

  13. Idy says:
    Sun, 13th Feb 20111:12 pm 

    I had so many LOLs reading this.

    Personally, I think a turtleneck needs more precision when cleaning. I can't recount how many times I've sent someone to refreshen, only to pull down the foreskin & discover some urine-y smell lingering there.

  14. yo momma says:
    Sun, 13th Feb 20119:43 pm 

    BITCH

  15. TMT says:
    Wed, 23rd Mar 20118:36 pm 

    I don't think it matter so much personally. I mean, I'm a guy that had it snipped for medical reasons about five years ago, and the plan decided by me and my gf was that I was going to have foreskin restoration after some time, we really didn't consider anything else at first since we're in a country where circumcision isn't that widespread. This was reflected in the type of circumcision I had, it wasn't "complete" meaning the incision was done in a manner to facilitate restoration at a later point.

    A couple of weeks before I was going to my doc for staring the process of restoration, I had a chat with my girlfriend, turns out she really enjoyed "not having the hat on" and how she liked not having any excess skin to deal with, especially when performing a bj – and she basically asked me to consider to keep it circed. I thought about it for some time, and decided to keep it circed. We went back to the doctor to complete the circumcision, i.e. making it look "tighter" for aesthetic reasons.

    Now, after five years we're both happy with it. She likes the look of it, and I perform much better in bed. It's much easier to do tantric sex techniques such as dry orgasms (orgasms withou ejaculation) and "cum on command" so we're happy

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