I didn’t see an uncut cock until I was in my early thirties. Growing up in a very white, central Canada area, I had only seen uncircumcised dicks in European porn and maybe the odd foreign film. My friends, guys in college I fooled around with, and guys I fucked in my twenties—-all cut. That all changed shortly after moving to Los Angeles. In a city where a large portionof the population is Latino, many of them uncircumcised, it was only a matter of time before I got my first taste of cock from the other side of the tracks. I remember being in the showers at the gym 10 years ago. Across from me was the most beautiful Cuban man I ever saw, shower curtain askew, stroking his enormous uncut cock. He continued to show off for me until we both shot our loads. All I remember is how enormous and erotic his cock was, and how the foreskin slid up and down his shaft as he jacked off. It was such a turn on. But not everybody would have thought so. Like Coke vs Pepsi or Mac vs PC, we all have our preferences… and cock is no different. In the cut vs uncut debate there are no shortage of opinions on what kind of dick we like to suck on , fuck with, or even just look at. For many men, like my friend David, any cock will do. As long as he has a hot face and decent bod… a dick is a dick… I’m an equal-opportunity cocksucker,” he tells me. “Once his cock gets hard it’s all the same to me. Plus when the guy’s legs are behind his head and I’m pounding his ass I really don’t care about his dick. My friend David is a top, so maybe the look and feel of a guy’s dick is not his first priority. But most men are actually pretty picky about their penis proclivities. And when it comes to what kind of dick is on the menu, most gay guys I talked to don’t mince words when it comes to what they like to put in their mouth or up their butt. For those in the pro-cut camp it seems to be all about aesthetics. The head is exposed, it seems more erotic, as opposed to it being covered up. “It just looks hotter and more masculine,” says my friend Michael. “Uncut cocks don’t look sexual or arousing to me. I like to suck on the head like a lollipop and all that extra skin just gets in the way. And when I see a guy that is semi-hard and he is cut, it is such a major turn-on. All I can think about is getting fucked with nice smooth pole. I just find it way more provocative to see a hot naked guy with a big cut dick hanging between his legs.” Anthony, an uncut English boy I met in London, tells me cut dick is just the epitome of what he finds sexy and masculine. “I grew up around other uncut European boys and whenever I meet an American guy I can’t wait to get in his pants. There’s a real thrill in getting to experience sex with a hot American guy with a big cut cock. It’s like a conquest.” So maybe it’s just a matter of being attracted to what you don’t have yourself? Not for everyone. Some guys are as picky with their cock as they are with their shoes. “I personally find uncut cocks a huge turn-off—they always remind me of aardvarks…and personally, I find nothing sexy about aardvarks,” says my friend Don, who is cut. “I don’t mind how they look when they are hard, sure, but if I had to choose, then it’s cut all the way. Cut cock smells good and clean.” And Don is not alone. Several of the men I asked about uncut dick winced at first, and then proceeded to express colorful statements of disapproval. But for every Don there seems to be twice as many men who absolutely love uncircumcised guys. The unfair stereotype about uncut meat is that they are somehow dirty dicks is exactly what turns some men on. In fact, for guys who love uncut dick, it’s less about aesthetics and more about the experience. It seems that sucking a nice big uncut dick is the ultimate experience for many men. “I love the extra flesh and the extra sensitivity, and I crave the scent of the tastey thick juices oozing from the foreskin”, says Matt. “I also love sliding my tongue under the skin and pulling the guy’s foreskin over my dick while we jack off together. My ultimate fantasy is getting gang-banged by a dozen swarthy uncut men… their hot meat all over my body.” “I love that they seem meatier. I love how you can make the skin come over and below the head and that you can stretch the foreskin,” says Kirk. “I prefer uncut… the way it’s like unwrapping a present… although I wouldn’t turn down a cut cock at all. Uncut just seems so raw and natural to me, and that’s super hot. Nothing turns me off more than a hairless pretty white boy with a standard-issue cut dick and a prissy attitude.” And what about the proud owners of this much debated variety of cock? Do uncut guys really get more pleasure from jacking off, fucking, and getting sucked? According to research quoted in the LA Times the answer is no. But the answer seems to be a resounding “yes” for those on the receiving end. Says my friend Darren, “It feels so much better when I get fucked by an uncut cock. It just slides in better and the sensations in my ass are different. It’s hard to explain but it feels so fucking good and it just seems easier and more natural. And jacking off a dick that has foreskin is way more fun.” Some guys appreciate uncut dick so much they try to reverse their own circumcision. They eroticize the process with toys, weights, and other devices. Others go as far as having surgery. “I’m angry that my parents circumcised me without my permission,” says Brian. “I have been doing the stretching technique to get my foreskin back, and my boyfriend loves it. The whole reversal process is erotic as well, so it works out for both of us.” It is also undeniable that the thirst for uncut cock is a huge money-maker in the gay porn industry. Just browse some of the titles online and you’ll know what I mean. Uncut Cock Pool Party. Young and Uncut. Uncut Amateurs. Latin and Uncut. Uncut Bareback. Big Uncut Dicks. The list is endless. The sheer amount of porn with the word “uncut” in the title is testament to its popularity. There are even dildos on the market with realistic foreskin. And even though you can find plenty of gay porn with exclusively cut men, being cut just isn’t exotic, so it rarely gets played up. “I would love if someone did a series called Big Juicy Cut Cocks or something like that. I’d buy them all,” says Jared. The closest thing I could find to what Jared’s appetite was a title from Wurstfilm called, My Israeli Platoon. Judging from the many men I talked to there’s a huge market for guys who fetishize big cut cock. I imagine if a major porn studio released titles like Big Juicy Cut Cocksuckers and Bareback Cut Fuckers they would make a lot of money. In the USA about 80% of all males are circumcised as opposed to about 25% in the rest of the world. But statistics show that uncut is on the rise in North America. Increasingly more new mothers are choosing to leave their baby’s foreskin alone. A hipster trend? Maybe. But perhaps one day in the future the image of a hot stud proudly wielding his big uncut dick will look just as American as the next guy. Uncut meat has been getting lots of celebrity exposure on the internet lately too. David Beckham, Jude Law, Daniel Radcliffe we’ve all seen the pictures of these hot Brits naked. Either way, it’s good news for uncut cock aficionados, and for all of us really. Light, dark, cut, uncut? Variety is the spice of life, right? So the next time you go home with that hot guy at the bar that has an uncut surprise in his pants, consider yourself lucky. I found out by accident how hot an uncut dick can be. Go ahead and try em’ both becuase you might like them equally.

(by James Aucoin)

How did someone, most likely a horny and creative man, one day long ago decide to slip something around his “Johnson” in an unabashed fashion and exploration into the unknown territory of heightened sexual arousal?

Was it necessity, curiosity or just a stab at dick jewelry?  The first written confirmation of the existence of the lovely cock ring appears in historical records from China circa 1200. Rings were made from the eyelids of goats with eyelashes intact. The flexible eyelids were tied around men’s erections and the hardened lashes were said to increase the pleasure of intercourse. Most likely used by royalty whose ability to have multiple brides, concubines and boys on the side demanded longer erections. Wacky by today’s standards but, according to historical records, effective and extra points awarded for good use of uneatable animal parts. Sort of going ‘green’ in it’s own twisted way. Way to get the ball rolling ancient Chinese cock hounds! Early 1600’s-led by the perpetually erotic needs of the Chinese-the modern day cock ring rears its blood engorged head. The ring, artisan crafted and carved into supine shapes of dragons and serpents from ivory, begin to make their way into erotic writings of the time. Brisk European trade has also shown up in the Far East. Much sought after wonders of the orient like pottery, silk, and cock rings from China join the long journey home to Europe and beyond. Between 1791 and 1844 two significant events occur to help promote the popularity of the littlest treasure of the sex tool trade.  First: the rise of the Marque de Sade and his mad need to test sexual limits, publish the findings and unabashedly promote sex for sex’s sake. The other: invention of vulcanized rubber. With the advent of rubber the bearer of the ring no longer endure the hard lump of the bone or wood contrivances of earlier models. As the Industrial Revolution begins so does the whirling wheels of the sex crazed inventors. It’s only a matter of time till some robber baron decides its time to try a ring mold in his size. Next evolutionary improvement in the cock ring realm: 1930 and the developmentof latex rubber. Once this process was perfected the ripple effect reaches into the sex toy industry. The more pliable material brought our beloved cock collaborator into it’s own. With the advent of WWII and the mass enlistment men from small towns were soon rubbing up against their more learned city living countrymen and the prevalence and use of the cock ring zeniths. As the war ends and millions who served were released from duty most large cities where the military mustered out saw Queer communities explode. The cock ring had found its champion at last and the age of the modern Gay man began. By the 1960-70’s we see rings appear in both print and filmed porn. Publicly its proudly worn around the neck as a thin, leather strap of a dick lariat and snapped around the wrist like a cuff for quick and easy access by the sexual revolutionaries of the time who believed that every act of sex-both overt and covert-is a slap in the face of the society that oppresses them. By now the cock ring is made of multiple types of materials and the choice is expansive. As AIDS rears its decimating head at the start of the 1980’s sex became taboo again until the anger and rage of the political situation pushed thousands into the street in groups like ACT UP and Queer Nation. They once again waved the flag of sexual freedom and sported cock rings like badges of honor on their leather jackets. Wearing them openly declared to all who saw them that “Gay Sex is Good Sex!’ Cock rings had at last arrived as Punks, Dykes, Queer Activists, and every day folks began to sport them as sex toys, political fashion and Queer pride. Today’s choice of cock ring is so wide and varied it would take ten articles to cover all of them. The little ring that began its journey into sexual infamy in China more than five centuries ago has now earned a place at the table with sex toy big boys like the dildo. If you’ve never tried one on or thought it was something just outside your comfort zone let me encourage you to be part of our long historically rich sexual journey as Queers and one whose story is still in progress-besides-it feels REALLY good!

(written by Waiyde Palmer)

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