If you live in America, chances are the majority of penises you’ve seen in person, either as a man or woman, are “cut”, or circumcised. This means that the foreskin, a layer of skin that protects and covers the penis when it is not erect, has been cut away at infancy, leaving the “plain penis” that most people in the US are familiar with. The reasons for doing this procedure are many, be they cultural (the parents want the child to “fit in” with other circumcised boys later in life), or religious – the most well-known of which is the Jewish tradition of a Bris. A Bris is a religious event in which the foreskin is ceremonially cut away from an infant boy by a Rabbi.
