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  • I’m uncircumcised and my son is uncircumcised. Really goes a long way on understanding how to deal with a normal uncircumcised penis. Cleaning it doesn’t take any extra effort.

    Unfortunately for you the information on how to care for a normal uncircumcised penis on a younger child is not easily available because of the expectation that all American children are circumcised.

    You are not supposed to retract the foreskin until later in life. When? Well it’s different for everyone but can be as late as age 10 or more. Until that time it’s “self-cleaning” just wash the outside. Tell the kid to keep trying to gently retract it when he pees or baths, if it doesn’t pull back easily it’s not ready.

    You don’t need to get soap up in there until it starts retracting on it own, the skin begins to naturally separate. If you force it, you can cause scaring and damage, you’re literally ripping the skin from the glans. Once it retracts, pull the foreskin back wash the glans and ta dah… clean dick.

    It’s made out to be this big inconvenience and believed by men with their foreskin removed. It’s not at all an inconvenience. You also don’t have any idea what your missing out on by having a circumcised penis.

    Anyway thought I’d share before you mess up your kids dick. Lot of doctors I’ve talked to I had to correct on the proper way to take care of an uncircumcised child’s penis, it’s very unsettling and you might have got incorrect information yourself.

    Lucky for me a have the proper equipment to know what I was talking about.



  • I hear this, but overall their has been a medical scare on the overuse of painkillers in general. So I think it’s more what type of doctor you have than “who you are”.

    I (male) had shingles during COVID lockdown and was only allowed 2 strong painkiller capsules. I asked for more and was told essentially to just try and ignore it and take common over the counter painkillers. They did absolutely nothing and the doctor knew they did nothing.

    I recall sitting in agony a lot not able to do anything else because the pain was so intense. Just sweating and wincing, trying to not think about it. Last time I used that doctor for anything.

    Meanwhile my parents had a literal shoebox filled to the top with fentanyl patches left over after surgeries they both had because their doctor was just throwing them at them. They had serious pain, but their doctor just didn’t give a fuck and would throw things anytime they asked. Probably because he thought they were going to die soon anyway.



  • MeatPilot@sh.itjust.workstome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    I think the argument is that artists will create art even with limited tools regardless.

    I’m an artist that works on computers all day doing things like Photoshop touch-ups. But to use those tools, I started out by scribbling on anything and everything with whatever I had available all my life. Doing so let me understand the the finer details as well as how to achieve certain looks. I carried those skills into my digital work.

    If I don’t have a computer, I still create art even if I have not used the medium before. I might not pick up a paintbrush and become Caravaggio, but what I will do is draw on my experience to make something a tad better than someone who has never made anything themselves.

    This person probably never drew on a rock with charred sticks. But they probably used a pencil on paper and those skills are similar.







  • My ma (Boomer) likes to talk about how her and her siblings used to chew on road tar like gum and than she laughs about it, har har. Whenever I mention something I’m being cautious about with my kids.

    She also had lung and breast cancer, could be unrelated but maybe it didn’t help.

    I’d like to add that neither of my parents believed that second hand smoke was “real” either. So I got blasted with carcinogens from birth until I moved out at 17. I’ll be lucky if I don’t get cancer.