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> # circumcised at 19 years old.
> Written by B at 14 Dec 2006 19:18:51: Dear Sirs : I felt an enormous relief of chronical suffering being circumcised at 19 years old. I was never regreted on do it, in every sense. During all my teenage years, from 13 to 19 years old, I had an uncircumcised penis, suffering of a chronical irritation on my head penis ( balanites ). I was only circumcised at the end of my adolescence. Let me explain the whole torment of my teen years : My suffering and the treatment was so bored that my mother used to bath me till my 19 years old and when she coudn't do it, that job was done by an old maid servant, who was eventually my nanny. I was not circumcised as a baby, because that is not a custom in my country and was not operated on my early teens, when all the trouble began, because my pediatrician, who was also a pediatric surgeon, thought that to achieve a perfect "low and tight" circumcision, taking off all the foreskin, mainly the inner skin, indispensable to cure my chronical balanites, it was necessary the full growth of the penis, on my 19 years old, as was done later. Following the prescription of the doctor, she or the nanny, during the bathes, carefully washed my glans and the rolled up foreskin, using a kind of a bacteriologycal liquid soap, drying both with a towel, and just after rubbing both with an antibiotic pomade, in order to difficult the growth of microbes. Those assisted bathes extended till I did my very tight circumcision, at my 19 and a half years old, which cured me completely just afterwards. My mother didn't have the necessary confidence on me to do that cleaning and treatment by myself. Any way, she, during all her life, was obsessed with cleaness. Those bathes were taken together with a brother four years younger than me ( who suffered of that same balanites and was also circumcised and cured later, as me ), and a little sister, 8 years younger. I had another sister, only 2 years younger than me, who never was bathed together with us, but by herself. It was established, I think, that she was a "young lady" and coudn't be bathed together with her "little siblings", even being myself 2 years older than her. We were treated as children and she as a young girl. I say that just to confirm the double standards of modesty concerning the nudity of boys and girls, not only in the United States, but in the whole world. B, Answers: