I went to one end of the urinal and turned away. It was the practice at the time in Australian hospitals, but not in the Greek one where I was born.Īt first, I tried to hide my shame. The majority of my male classmates had been circumcised. I already had enough angles from which classmates could attack me. "Eww, why does your willy look so weird…?!" was a refrain I often received. A new feature-length documentary on Netflix American Circumcision, explores both sides of this controversial and taboo issue.įor me, it’s a topic which remains very personal. It was a reminder of my difference in the most personal and intimate of places. But above all, I wanted an inch of skin on my body gone. I wanted to bleach my brown hair blonde and swap my brown eyes for blue. I was embarrassed by my parents’ foreign tongue. Growing up as a 1980s Greek kid in an Australian school of children descended mainly from the British Isles, I felt my background acutely. I know I certainly did when I was at school. The cold, stainless steel urinal is a place where many men feel self-conscious.
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