My parents later told me that the paediatrician had told them, when I was about two years old, that my foreskin was entirely too long, and should at least be trimmed, if not removed altogether. Neither country practices routine circumcision of baby boys, except for religious minorities, so my father was uncut and my mother accepted the uncircumcised penis as normal. This is why they didn’t permit the doctor who delivered me to remove my foreskin. So I came home from the hospital with all I’d been born with.