CUT OR UNCUT...THIS IS NOT THE QUESTION, SADLY

The Birds and the Bees and the Stinger

After my last class today, with the seniors, our conversation has veered to something taboo to most people. We talked about the biology of human sexuality. With my medical background, conversations about the birds and the bees and how they sting are so ordinary. The topic is but factual and should be treated as such - a fact - without any hint of malice or prudish modesty. The conversation was met with hilarious uproar, obviously trying to mask the uneasiness that always comes with topics like sex and sexuality. I just pity these students who are already sixteen or seventeen year olds and still with no healthy concept of sex and sexuality. When S-E-X makes one uncomfortable, then clearly it is both psychologically and socially unhealthy.

We are not prudish by birth but by influence from our religion and the elderly who profess that sex is evil. Sexuality, sex and all that come with it are one of God's greater gifts to humankind. Sex and sexuality are not supposed to be equated to the mere organs of copulation and the act consonant to them but to the deeper and more complex relationship inherent to it which goes beyond physical contact. Sex and the sexual act is the ultimate expression of one's undying profession of faith and trust to somebody one loves. However, it must be done within the grace of marriage.

But humans are culpable to sin. In as much as we try not to venture into the unknown, man has no power over his frailties. The more sex has been viewed lewdly by many, the more it has become enticing to all. Nothing sells today without a hint of sex. Nothing we read interesting today has no innocent streak of sex. We see sex in the morning, live with sex the whole day, retire with sex in our minds and dream of sex in the deepest of our slumbers. Sex and sexuality permeate man's being. And this is by default, by design of the Supreme Architecture. It is not accidental nor chance encounter with the unknown. We are so programmed to it and re-circuiting algorithms just won't do us any good.

Because sex has not been openly discussed within the family nor in school with professionals, a lot is left to one's imagination regarding the birds and the bees. When I jokingly told my class today that I am uncut, the class bellowed their hearts out that I told them my prepuce had just regenerated. Two more students - both serious guys - added that they were also uncircumcised and the whole class fell silent. They just cannot believe that indeed there are uncut men. How sadly naive! When a girl asked how was it for us to pee, I nearly peed in my pants, I though I would die with my schlong out of my throat. Can uncut men get girls pregnant? I was bitterly disappointed of how little these students knew of real life.

Can uncut men get girls pregnant? This rhetorical question which seemingly is very innocent must have been one of the reasons of so many teenage pregnancies. This ignorantly came from a girl who is supposed to have known this long before she had her first menstruation, otherwise her bubble could have been burst and nine months later a new life would have been born out of utter guilelessness. When we view sex lewdly as something only married people have the right to talk about, then we are putting the younger unmarried generation in the most compromised situation. We have withheld from them the beauty of sex and sexuality which the Supreme Architect has so designed for all of us to marvel, to appreciate with awe and thus for people of all ages to give the respect due it.

I am uncut, jokingly. Two of my students are uncut, seriously. However, much of humanity is ignorant, sadly!