So, "doesn't magically clean itself"=bad?

Moreover, a study of British schoolboys found that penile hygeine does not exist [73].

Bwah!

You're divorced now, -t. I think there was an errant tag drop.

Yay!

It's true. I remember looking at you two at Nillyfest. I think it was when you were feeling a little overwhelmed and tired, toward the end of the evening. You were off, in the kitchen or the foyer, maybe, and he was just holding you, and it made me go all schmoopy. A lot of times, when you talk about you and Tom, I see that picture in my mind's eye. t /shipper

My borther is uncircumcised. I'll have to ask him if he takes several showers a day to avoid the stench. Certainly he didn't as a child.

Good fucking grief.

Thanks for the circumcision arguments, guys. I'll bring those up the next time I'm arguing about it, as reasons outside of religion circumcision might be a reasonable thing.

Wait, smegma only happens to the uncircumcised penis?

I think it is a six-of-one, half a dozen of the other enterprise. On the one hand, there's the if-it-ain't-broke-don't-fix-it point of view. On the other, there's the an-ounce-of-prevention-is-worth...

Oh, my. I'll stop here, before I find out if I work any more cliches into this post.

I can think of about 100 ways in which you're a hussy for having sex with your husband.

Wow! I can only think of about 43. Teppy is well educated in the hussydom.

I've only "known" one uncircumsized man. He was obsessed with cleanliness. Not only below the belt, but all over. He even went for manicures regularly. I wasn’t sure if it was his general habits, but he always went directly to the bathroom and washed with soap and water after sex.

Wait, smegma only happens to the uncircumcised penis?

No, but it collects under the foreskin until it's cleaned out by the owner.

If you're doing it for yourself, that's one thing. It's all I can do to hold down a squirming toddler to clean the poop off his ass, let alone retracting a foreskin.

My mother indicated that there was cleaning to be done in that area anyway, so it was no big deal (upon questioning). The other 40 years have been pretty simple too.

Re circumcision: I have a friend who decided to have her son circumcised largely because back in her dangerous-living 20s she had worked for an escort service, during which time she'd had over 300 assignations, which she felt was a decent enough sample size on which to pass fairly informed judgment.

She said that (whitefonted 'cause not everyone necessarily WANTS to know all this) the average circumcised man's penis was cleaner, better-smelling and better-tasting than the average uncircumcised man's, and on a par with the above-average squeaky-clean uncut. Her clients were mostly well-to-do businessmen, all reasonably well groomed and some outright fussy in their hygeine, but even so, it was clear that the uncut cocks were higher-maintenance and more prone to unpleasant funk than the cut ones.