Supot

A group of Filipino men today decried what they described as the oppressive local culture that discriminates against uncircumcised males, who are usually derogatorily called “supot.”

“Being supot is not wrong, bad, unhygienic or unhealthy,” said Dr. Reynaldo Joson, who chairs the Department of Surgery at the Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center and is president of the Supporters of Untouched Prepuces Organized Taskforce (SUPOT).

He made the comments in reaction to several medical clinics offering free “tuli” or circumcision procedures to young boys all over the country this summer.

“It’s a common misconception that if you’re uncircumcised, you’re less of a person. But this perception is almost only concentrated in the Christian parts of the archipelago,” he said. He cited a column by University of the Philippines sociologist Michael Tan, who refuted many of the myths associated with circumcision.

Joson said he would take his advocacy nationwide to convince parents that they do not have to make their kids undergo circumcision.

He said they had recruited some uncircumcised celebrities to help their cause: Sam Milby, Troy and KC Montero, Jon Avila, Gerald Anderson, and KC Concepcion.
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