Episode 339: Afterskin

[PersonFromPorlock]

Are you, in response to my post about the horrendously offensive comic in which a giant blond intactivist fights and defeats villainous mohels depicted in some very grotesque stereotypes, highlighting some sort of irony that, in your experience, Jewish people are aggressors?

Because I have a few concerns with this impulse to compare...

Or perhaps this is in response to the wondering about there not being antisemitism in the episode. To which i still wonder... is your point "well actually, the jews..." ? Cuz it REALLY feels like that's your point.

Not all -- I certainly wouldn't want antisemitism in the episode, and I'm not replying to the comic at all. I'm just mentioning that it's strange the only group I ever hate from from an Orthodox group. One even found my phone number and called to cuss me out.

[PersonFromPorlock]

They were mostly objecting to history page that discussed the epispastikós -- Jews who restored their foreskins in Greek-conquered areas that were predominately Jewish in order to participate in games, which were played in the nude games. Greeks had no issue at all with nakedity but considered  exposing the glans indecent. Jews could tied it up with a kynodesme, or they could uses the Judaeus pondum to restore it, a Roman invention that consisted of a heavy copper tube to stretch the foreskin and encourage mitosis.

[Shell Game]

I'm not entirely sure what you think you're accomplishing so I'll just say maybe you should read the room, if you will, and keep some of these details to yourself.

[sea hag]

I think if there's one lesson we've all learned from this podcast, it's that people can't shut up about their dicks.

[PersonFromPorlock]

I'm not entirely sure what you think you're accomplishing so I'll just say maybe you should read the room, if you will, and keep some of these details to yourself.

Nothing at all, really. Just expanding on the topic of foreskin restoration. It was also practiced during the Holocaust to prevent abduction and execution. It seldom worked because it takes too long. Surgical reconstruction was more commonly done. It's still available in some places, notably Germany. Other country's urological surgeons recommend non-surgical techniques. They're slow, but provide much better results.

I think if there's one lesson we've all learned from this podcast, it's that people can't shut up about their dicks.

True, that. The website was purely informative -- I never sold anything, I never used any specialized equipment.

Edit: I don't recommend growing the remaining skin with tapeless devices that squeeze the remaining foreskin between two clamps. It's dangerous, for one, and does nothing with much of the skin for another. There's not enough in most cases to stretch more than the shaft tissue. It's not elastic enough to close. "Finishing surgery" is possible by removing a wedge of skin to tighten it, but most give up long before then. It requires rather a lot of dedication. And neither did I advocate not circumcising nor foreskin restoration -- it was entirely for those already decided.

[Shell Game]

Okay then.

[Mix]

ok since people LITERALLY KEEP ASKING on here and other sites, i didnt put any anti-semitism in because it's not fun to read or listen to. that's it! mystery over. stop fucking asking.

cant believe i have to fucking quantify that bigotry is bad but, well, that's the internet!

[Shell Game]

ok since people LITERALLY KEEP ASKING on here and other sites, i didnt put any anti-semitism in because it's not fun to read or listen to. that's it! mystery over. stop fucking asking.

cant believe i have to fucking quantify that bigotry is bad but, well, that's the internet!

Yeah people seem to forget that, as illuminating as they can be, these episodes are about having a good time with the weird, not doing full exposes.

[dijon du jour]

if you mention your shitty dick one more time I'm going to mail you a box of feral rats

[Puppy Time]

Yeah people seem to forget that, as illuminating as they can be, these episodes are about having a good time with the weird, not doing full exposes.

There can be a real cathartic feeling of hearing someone else get mad at and/or mock some hardcore bigots, but it's definitely not something I'd want to inflict on the readers!  Also these days I feel like there's enough of that mess just floating around in general that it's not worth adding more of it to one's life.  Especially when you can get something entertainingly weird and/or questionable instead. 

It's like, I could hang out with people smelling and reacting to stinky poop, or I can hang out with people smelling and reacting to... I don't know, a whale corpse full of dead ladybugs. One of those is considerably more interesting!

[Vinny Possum]

The content is coming from inside the thread

[PersonFromPorlock]

if you mention your shitty dick one more time I'm going to mail you a box of feral rats

Hey man, you ain't got to read it if you don't like it. This podcast is relevant to my interests and I enjoyed it -- intactivists are some crazy people. I only wish the Silent Hill theory was mentioned.

And my foreskin is real enough. I was circumcised with Gomco clamp that wasn't tightened enough and slipped, requiring a free-hand cut and sutures. And this was in the early '80s -- I was entirely unanesthetized. It was unsightly and far too tight to be comfortable. The outer skin is cutaneous and the inner skin is a mucosa membrane. It's been enough to fool urologists, who assume I was uncircumcised until they pulled it back a little and reveal the scar. Even then, they assume it was only a partial circumcision: removing just what the Greeks called the akroposthion, or the part of the foreskin that extends beyond the glans. C-10, in modern terms. Few believe tissue expansion alone is possible from CI-1 to CI-9.

As I said, I did it before modern social media and never had much contact with intactivists. Still, I've found them more misogynistic than antisemitic. So many blame their mothers.

[Shell Game]

if you mention your shitty dick one more time I'm going to mail you a box of feral rats

Hey man, you ain't got to read it if you don't like it. This podcast is relevant to my interests and I enjoyed it -- intactivists are some crazy people. I only wish the Silent Hill theory was mentioned.

And my foreskin is real enough. I was circumcised with Gomco clamp that wasn't tightened enough and slipped, requiring a free-hand cut and sutures. And this was in the early '80s -- I was entirely unanesthetized. It was unsightly and far too tight to be comfortable. The outer skin is cutaneous and the inner skin is a mucosa membrane. It's been enough to fool urologists, who assume I was uncircumcised until they pulled it back a little and reveal the scar. Even then, they assume it was only a partial circumcision: removing just what the Greeks called the akroposthion, or the part of the foreskin that extends beyond the glans. C-10, in modern terms. Few believe tissue expansion alone is possible from CI-1 to CI-9.

As I said, I did it before modern social media and never had much contact with intactivists. Still, I've found them more misogynistic than antisemitic. So many blame their mothers.

You paid $10 to troll a website that doesn't care about you or your theories on dick. What's it like?

EDIT: I reported you actually, because continuing to talk about your penis after someone's let you know it's tmi and they're uncomfortable and you should stop is sexual harassment. So... Yeah, bye.

[Antivehicular]

Hey, dijon, can I chip in towards the box-of-feral-rats fund

[PersonFromPorlock]

You paid $10 to troll a website that doesn't care about you or your theories on dick. What's it like?

EDIT: I reported you actually, because continuing to talk about your penis after someone's let you know it's tmi and they're uncomfortable and you should stop is sexual harassment. So... Yeah, bye.

Believe it or not, I'm not trolling and I haven't actually put forth any dick theories. As I said, enjoyed the episode. I'll stop posting now as it seems some people don't like Irregular-like discussion.