This is the first time I've actually written a post here, been lurking and enjoying this forum for quite a while now. Just saw this poll and felt the urge to chime in for what it's worth.
My family in general tends to avoid sexual talk out of some sense of embarrassment or impropriety, but my mother has always been the one to push the envelope in that regard. She'll always be the one to bring up awkward sexual stories in casual family conversation and still will, because she's just more comfortable with it than anyone else and even seems to find it particularly amusing or scandalous to bring up.
I'm the only son with two older sisters, and I'm uncut. Mostly because my father was routine-infant-circumcised and once he learned what that meant he's been staunchly opposed to it on principle as a violation of a man's right to choose what happens with his own body. So I was spared the knife, but my parents also didn't really know how to deal with a foreskin either, apparently.
I remember vividly as a child getting baths from my mother and being instructed to retract my foreskin and rinse it in the soapy water while she watched. I also remember growing up never retracting my foreskin (which has a bit of overhang when soft) to urinate so my stream would always come out thick and slightly unwieldy, leading to some splatter which caused some irritation with my mother. This prompted some rather awkward sessions with my mother standing beside me while I went to the bathroom because she wanted to watch how I did it, and that's when I was taught I needed to pull it back fully when I peed, which was truly a revelation to me. Suddenly I had such a fine, thin stream that shot out with greater force and I enjoyed that, but that experience was definitely a strange one for me.
I will also mention that my eldest sister used to toy with me occasionally. I was a "happy accident" child, so both my sisters are a bit older than me than usual siblings would be. She was probably about 15-16, while I would've been 6-7 at the time. I assume she was dating boys already by then and she was curious about me and what I had, for whatever reason. I remember her coming in my bedroom and pulling the "playing doctor" thing, which I'd heard about but never actually did myself, so I was curious enough to let it happen. She then proceeded to lay me in the bed and pull my shorts down and go to town inspecting me, pulling and peeling the foreskin back, asking me if it hurt and just toying with it for a while. I'm sure she probably never saw an uncut dick before since we lived in the Midwestern US, so maybe she was comparing me to other boys she'd been with in high school? Maybe she just wanted experience with dicks in general?
She'd done similar things a handful of other times, but it didn't last very long because I think she quickly became an adult and realized what she was doing or something like that.
I can also say as a kid running around in the woods with all the neighborhood boys, we'd always just pee outside wherever we were, which I'm sure most of you here probably had similar experiences with that. And I was always the only uncut one in the whole group, so I got a lot of negative attention from everyone. "What's wrong with your dick?" questions nonstop every time, especially because I was usually pissing without retracting back then.
All of those experiences have lead me to a lifetime of shame about it pretty much, haha. I know it's a great thing to have and to at least have my own choice over it now. But I'd always use stalls to pee all throughout school because I didn't want to be seen. Never showered in gym class for the same reason, no girlfriends until after college out of shame, etc. And even then I was (and still am) incredibly nervous about the first "big reveal" to a new girl.
Getting back to my mother, now that I'm an adult (31) and bring girls around to meet my parents and was even briefly married (recently divorced sadly), my uncut status has always just been completely free game for her to talk about openly. We'll be at the dinner table over thanksgiving with my girlfriend, my sisters and brothers-in-law, uncles, etc. And if for some reason some medical topic comes up, my mom will typically chime in with some off-handed comment about how when I was born the nurses were really pressuring her to have me circumcised and she just refused because she thought I was perfect as-is. Just brazenly discuss my penis openly with our whole family, which just has me burning red with embarrassment every time. She also brings it up with my girlfriends casually, usually by saying something along the lines of, "You know he isn't circumcised, right? You're welcome!"
Anyway, if anyone actually reads through this huge post, I hope it was interesting for you! I've been a big fan of this forum for a while and the community seems pretty cool here. I'll try and maybe post a little more often around here. I'm happy to share any more stories or details if anyone's interested, I find this kinda fun and cathartic in a way. Most of this stuff I can't share with anyone IRL, but the relative anonymity of the internet relieves a lot of that pressure, eh? Haha.
