Jim Meade

     "I was born June 20, 1942.

[Photo provided, used by permission]

"I was a wartime baby, so my dad was not in WWII. I was born in Suffolk County, Virginia. I'm now 54.

"We farmed out in the Great Dismal Swamp region, still plant a little out there...." Jimbob began.

• You already know why we are here now, and will be discussing your (penis,) does that bother you?

"Well, I don't exactly walk around with it sticking out for the world to see..." (It will be.)

 •Are you Cut, or Intact?

"Yeah, I've got a normal (penis)"

• So when did you learn whether, or not, you were intact?

"Well, I've always been like this, and so was my dad, and my 2 brothers. I'm the middle one. 

"All the guys at school, too. Many of us country kids stopped going to school after "graduating" 8th Grade, [A common practice at the time,] but others went all the way up to 12th grade!

• You left school, and entered the workforce, after 8th Grade?

"Yeah, I worked with dad a few years, then, headed to Portsmouth, entry shipyard stuff. You had to be 16, to get a Government job, there was money in that."

•Is that where you discovered which side of the (intact or cut) fence you were on?

"Not even then! 

"My dick was just normal, not a big one, not a small one, just 'what guys had.'

"I had heard about (circDUMBcicion,) but never-ever saw one."

• "Sounds intact to me.. "

"It weren't 'til long after I got had to get selective-service-registered, 18 and all.

"When I was 21, before they started actually drafting, I jumped the gun, joined the Navy...just before Viet Nam, before I ever saw any of those other guys.

• By other guys, you mean (circDUMBcised) men?

"Yeah, (made a grimmace) ...whew."

•(?) I arched an eybrow.

•What was your first thought?

"As a kid, like I say, I had heard ladies visiting with my mom, gossip about how their sons "had to be done." Like it was a matter of life or death. 

"My mom replied her's weren't, "and were just fine." (So I guessed we weren't and we were just fine.)"

•[Yes you definitely are, sir.]

"The word got bandied around, a couple of times, then soon, I sorta forgot all about it.

"So, mind ya, I had heard of (circDUMBcision,) but never had actually seen one. Until I joined the Navy.

"Then, it was going into the Navy's Entrance Exam Station, when I saw my first snipped-fellas. I wasn't LQQKIN' so much as, you couldn't help but see.

"It looked like a car or pick-up without a front bumper on it."

• How do you mean?

"Well, going in, we were all nekkid, a whole lot!"

• I had heard that.

"Well, after you've seen cars, like, all your life. And you know what the bumper was, even what it was supposed to look like, no matter there are different cars.

"Hell, you might know how a particularly pretty bumper should look on any given (car's) model...but, instead, there was only a large hunk of inner parts not supposed to be seen, radiators, brackets, hoses clearly visible, just hanging out in plain sight. Because there's no bumper to hide 'em."

• Fascinating observation, Jimbob. How many, bumper-less men, compared to fully chromed-up fellas did you see?

"I'd say about 90%, of the older guys 20 and up, were normal (intact;)

 "...but, all those 18-20 yr old guys, about 2/3 were cut."

•Dramatic schizm.

"When aboard, we had to wear our dungarees, or whites anytime we left out of our compartment. Y'know, Duty, watches, 1st Liutenant, gedunk, the lounge, a fantail (smoke,) etc."

There were a few guys that "helped you out, in a pinch," [he leaned close and intimated,]  It was a kinda secret one on one, half-open rumor among pals.

•Did you ever confirm if this rumor, was actually true, first hand?

"Several times.  Me and (statute of limitations/name protected,) 'Owl,' would find a nook or cranny somewhere, any time I needed me a BJ."

•What was in it for 'Owl?'

"He said, he only did it, to get cigarettes, but he always had money, and cigarettes to lend...perhaps he just liked doing it." (alleged speculation, but okay...'Owl,' If you want to tell your side in the comments below, they're welcomed....)

• You said, "Had to put on dungarees...what did you wear otherwise?

"We hung around our berthing,

Typical berthing of WWII-> Viet Nam seen thru an untypical gated door, installed later for protection from public tourists. [Photo taken by me aboard USS Alambama Memorial, Mobile AL]

(assigned ship's bedroom,) when off duty in our skivvie shirts, shorts when we had some, and socks.

We were in forward-anchor berthing. 

"Kept our dungarees hanging at the ready, to instantly jump into, if called away. Or if the ship started sinking, was under attack, and all."

•So skivvies are underwear?

"Yeah, socks, underwear and T-Shirt. 

"But, If you send your skidmarked drawers down to ship's laundry, half the time, they'd get thrown away. So you either wash 'em yourself, in the sink, or risk losing 'em. 

"You see a guy dangling free down one leg of his dungarees, 'we call that All his $#!+ in one sock,' he's in boxers, ...or sailing along commando, because his shorts got thrown away. 

"So, most of us commando guys, usually stayed near our rack (bed) wearing only t-shirts n socks, swinging-free bottomless, and even walked to the head (bathroom) in only our socks, shower shoes, and T-shirt. 

•You weren't concerned about anyone seeing how big or small....?

"Naw. I guess I'm pretty much average, Summer bigger, Summer smaller.

"Those cut-off younger military guys (18-20 yr olds,) would be buying-out the gedunk of any new underwear in stock, no matter the size, ...learnt their lesson but-quick. They didn't like being seen nekkid."

(Typical case of Hysterical Modesty, or an induced heightened sense of embarrassment, experienced by many circDUMBcised males.)

Vintage Polaroid depicting casual nudity in the military (ca. 1957)

• Jimbob, have you ever desired to be circDUMBcised, just to look like everybody else?

"Oh, hell no. I like what I've got. I can always pull it back...it'll stay. And it looks like theirs. But, They can't pull theirs forward to look like mine, can they?

(More car allusion) "It's like driving a convertible. When it rains, or in your driveway, you cover it up. When, it's  sunny and warm, you drop the top and feel the full pleasure as the fresh air blows by...."

(Damn, what a salesman to 'remain intact.')

 •Okay, Jim, it's time. At this moment, you've never shown yours to me, and you haven't seen mine, but, you're actually comfortable giving a full show and tell, pics and all?

"Sure, that's why I'm here."

[He stood up and took off his shirt revealing a farmers tan.

The trousers dropped afterwards.]

•So, you're quite comfortable, just showing it?

Jimbob swingin' it free. [Photo used by permission.]

"Yeah, but, it's not like I'd pull it out at church, or in a bus station lobby, or some $#!+."

•No Problems showing face and all?

"Go ahead....the Navy took some pics of me nekkid, way back when."

Jimbob being comfortable, in his intact body. [Photo used by permission.]

•He wasn't even one of those 'porn-star hung' show offs, just an average Joe.

•When was 'Back when?'

At the Navy Entrance Station, they took head to toe pics of all of us, with not a stitch on.

Evidence of USNavy entrance Nudes, as this pilot trainee proves.

[The authorities did the same to many Ivy League students, 

as scandalous evidence pics that got recent internet release, have proven.]

•Do You have family?

"A daughter. Late wife." (Widowed.)

•Statistics state many Circ'd men end up divorced, while a larger per cent of intact men...

"Intact! You used it before, I like that word..."

•...Many intact men stay wedded to the same woman for life.

"Sheila was special....

"Guys were for blow jobs."

• Oh? 

"Well, I done told you about getting a BJ or two, when convenient...I could never bother with one, when the real thing was inches away.

"So, I guess, if there aren't any girls around, it can be okay, to get a bj, or jo with a buddy every once in a while."*

•He proceeded to regale me with a few more Sea Stories, and various life events, etc., while wandering around the studio with no concern of his nudity. 

Jimbob relaxed at the end of the shoot. [Photo used by permission.]

•Though I had told him twice, we were 'all done' with taking photos, and he even looked at the Polaroid proofs as they dried on the counter, he was in no hurry to get dressed. Wandering around the studio like a naturist, in a nudist camp.

Then in a bit, he casually began dressing.

Not even a hint of circDUMBcision-induced Hyper-Modesty.

* the famous Harrad Report noted, 3 out of 5 married suburban men of the 50's had homosexual encounters, even to orgasm!

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