Why a growing number of circumcised men are submitting to foreskin-stretching devices—and even surgery—to reverse the unkindest cut of all.

-By Elisa Ludwig
-Photographs by Dan Forbes

Jonathan started seriously thinking about his foreskin—or, to be more precise, its absence—the night he and his wife, Linda, went to a live sex talk show in downtown Los Angeles. Jonathan and Linda (their names have been changed) were seated in front, a few feet away from the sexologist host, Dr. Susan Block, and her naked guests. One guy, a porn star who was well-endowed and uncut, drew Jonathan's attention—and his wife's. "Her eyes were just glued to that cock," he says. "She'd never seen or touched an intact penis. She was fascinated by the foreskin."

Young, single men terrified of unwanted pregnancies, and sick of condoms, are turning to vasectomies for liberation.

-By Richard Morgan
-Photographs by Paul Graves

Sex scared Marcus Whitlock. It was a tense, fraught ordeal. He couldn't get through it without being gripped by panic that it would lead to pregnancy. Then one day in April, Whitlock, an athletic 23-year-old college student in Illinois, says he walked into a doctor's office, told the receptionist he was 30, and had an hour-long consultation. A week or so later he returned, paid $850, and walked out after a 15-minute vasectomy. The way Whitlock saw it, he was free. He wouldn't have to worry anymore about whether his partner was on birth control.