Circumcision is a big part of machismo culture in the Philippines. All boys need to undergo this procedure before entering puberty. However, hospitals are not accessible to majority of the families living in rural areas. The procedure is performed by a non-medical practitioner and there is no anesthetic med used. During the procedure, the guava (bayabas) leaves should be chewed to take the attention of the child away from the sharp knife. He then should spit the chewed guava leaves (they say it's anesthetic) onto the wound after the procedure is done. This tradition is still conducted as of today but is not recommended anymore because of high risk of contracting an infection. Hence, every summer, free circumcision missions are conducted across the country to avoid this practice.
In addition, I don't think they use a bolo. This is probably just to exaggerate. From what I hear, they use "labaha" /razor. Circumcision has health benefits, as seen from a medical POV (Mayo Clinic supports it). Meanwhile, this has biblical relevance and we are generally Christians, so you know. It's just most people don't know that anymore.
:) some use a bolo. I went through the procedure using a small jungle bolo. I was 10 years old and it was in summer during school break that I had to go through it because some of my friends in the same age had to go through it also. Else your friends will tease you, calling you "Supot" (uncircumcised). It was scary but at the same time fun because you're not the only one. Five of us lined up chewing guava leaves waiting for our turn. Hahahaha.
me also, my uncle use a bolo knife to circumcised me before I was too afraid because I thought it's gonna be hurt but when I close my eyes in a minute while i'm chewing guava leaves and then I opened it's already finished.. and then my classmates stop bullying me because I already circumcised..
Because way way back kids in the provinces are born at home with herbal doctors and not in the hospital. Also it is some sort of gives bragging right for a kid and it is like some kind of a counterpart to girl's menstruation. Somehow symbolizes their transition from being kids to puberty or manhood.
Everything what Mikey said is so true but thinking that i actually did this is kind of funny and it was scary. The only different is that I did mine when i was a kid. That was great reactions again you guys. I was smiling and laughing the whole time LOL.
Me and my friends had the exact same experience on the summer before high school. Mikey's video is very accurate - the bolo, the wooden stick which served as "chopping board", the guava-leaves chewing, the wearing of skirt afterwards, et al. Before the "procedure", the uncle (he's just some middle-aged guy in our village who knows how to do it, let's just call him uncle) asked us to chew the guava leaves. After it was done, he asked me to spit out the chewed leaves onto the fresh wound. I stared at him blank-faced... I unwittingly swallowed it! I remember the horrified look on the uncle's face. The uncle and all of my friends panicked. "Quickly, chew again!" And then my friends were scrambling to pick leaves from the guava tree. Two of my friends were holding my shoulders from both sides (for fear of me passing out), one was shoving guava leaf in my mouth, the uncle was shouting "chew!", "this time don't swallow!" and "spit out!" in rapid succession. It was hilarious! It was scary, but at the same time it was fun. I wouldn't trade it for any doctor procedure.
brebreboo lardoo Fact: foreskin self-lubricates the head during sex, without that you have BUY SOME to feel anything, you've been duped by fake doctor's with their fake "facts" about HIV prevention all so they could make a buck off you late lifeline with your little "free" medical procedure. NOT A GOOD THING!
John Cena cursing doesn't make what I just said any less true. You had half a brain you'd research it online instead of gossiping about this dark aged "tradition" of yours like it's no big deal. Just cus I'm American doesn't mean I agree this dark aged outdated-science both the Philipino's and USA people force unto unwilling children , asshole. It's truly terroristic.
I've been thru this!!! 🤣🤣🤣 But damn that bolo is too big, the magpapaltak (The one doing the circumcision) must've felt Mikey's skin felt like buffalo skin or rubber! Just kidding 😅😅😅 I can still remember one of the boy ahead of me swallowing the guava leaf instead of spitting it out! 🤣🤣🤣
i was circumcised when i was in grade 3 or there after the school year together with a group of kids also in my age then but there was one boy at his 13th to 15th year old, most likely just what mikey bustos has shown. this is a very true story especially in the rural areas, no kids has been circumcised during after d the days of their birth. circumcision in the phils is a big thing, there's always is an impression that without being circumcised, girls will be turn-off and a belief that wives will turn away.
I remember circumsizing my cousin some years back through a proper medical procedure (with anesthesia, sterile instruments, gauze, and everything....plus a lovely nurse too). After the very successful procedure (of which i was medically trained)....my cousin asked me "kuya, did you experience any circumsicion complications with your patients before?"......i quickly answered...."NEVER". Because you are my first patient. Hahaha. His face turned red....so i said i was only kidding. Later on that same day....i saw him riding his bmx bicycle. 😉
In Philippines circumcision usually done during 7 to 8 years old when boys are old enough to take care of his woulds.. In modern time it is now likely done in hospitals. But in provinces children still cut this things through a big bolo and w/o medicine only using leaves of guava for the woulds. Yes it is a tradition that every summer children are line up for circumcision usually near the river as you saw in the video.
I was circumcised when I was still a baby. That was 46 years ago. My son got circumcised when he reached grade 7. I accompanied him. Father son bonding 😀
Hahaha i’ve been in that situation when my tito in the province asked me to go the traditional filipino circumsion. I have the guava leaves in my mouth and then the old man have this big knife then cut the part of my skin then afterwards they asked me to jump into the river funny but it’s true😂🤣😂🤣
In other countries yes youre right..but here in the philippines its a traditional/cultural thing..we called it "pukpok" here..even now..mikey as you noticed was chewing guava leaves..is a sort of a herbal thing where once the pukpok was done he will spit it out directly to the wounds...yeah its happening here..😊
Circumcision in the Philippines is done to boys ages of 9-13. It actually depends on the foreskin appearance I think, I haven't observed any since I'm a woman. But I got nephews and we have a family doctor so he decides when will be the right time to do it. This has become part of the tradition though I'm not sure if it existed even before the Spaniards came. And that process Mikey showed was the traditional, I mean the ancient way of doing it. But now, it is mostly done in a medical facility. It was usually done during summer, when there's no class and wearing skirt is true or Big shorts to prevent the fabric from touching the wound. After few days when the wound is a bit dry, some boys would swim in the beach since salt water helps clean and heal the wound faster.
They don't use that type of 'knife', more on the one they use for 'shaving' in old movies (it's lantseta or lancheta) just to 'skin' the little guy. In western culture (I heard) they had the baby boy circumcised after birth, though some private hospitals are doing it nowadays. Filipino men aren't tall (mostly) that's why some have to wait for 3rd grade, but it still depend on what the nurse or doctor will say. And that old practice is still popular in provinces where hospitals and public health centers are barely reachable by foot, so they go to an expert and be doe with it.
Don’t know if you already got answer for your question, but circumcision is done that late in the Phils due to the same reason other cultures has different ways of becoming a man. If it’s the walkabout in Australian abbo culture, or bar mitzvah for Jewish, it’s circumcision in the Phils. I’m sure that you already got the answer that the vid is still exercised in the provinces or for folks who can’t afford a doctor, but yes many also go to the doctor.
I had mine when I was in grade school.. I am smiling throughout the video.. I really could relate to it. And watching two ladies reaction about it and having a different concept of how it is done. I really enjoyed your reaction..
Many filipinos are still doing the traditional way of circumcision for reason there are still communities which don't have access to hospitals. Filipinos are always conscious of having a clean body and we believe circumcision is a way to a hygienic and sanitary way of living. Its usually done during before puberty period because it is common belief not to have babies undergo it because of the risk that the organ can go back to its original state as the baby boy grows to puberty.
In the Philippines, circumcision is like a cultural rite of passage from boyhood into manhood. And a man who is not circumcised is laughed at by anybody who finds out, even his girlfriend, fiancé, or wife. It's like he had avoided a test of courage. A circumcised man is "normal" to Filipinos, even though it might have been done while he was a baby, but the cultural pressure is not as strong nowadays. In previous decades and centuries, a man who was uncircumcised was considered as a pagan or foreigner (not a baptized Catholic), a coward, a gay/homosexual, a weakling, or "all of the above." The pressure to conform in Filipino society is immense even now so even the Muslims and the Chinese adopted the practice rather than have their sons bullied and taunted by his peers and elders throughout their teen years as "supôt" (uncircumcised). Actually, it's one more trait common to Jews/Israelis and Filipinos (there a few others).
Back in the days, all of the boys to undergone circumcission, submerge in the water before cutting the skin while chewing the leaves of guava then spit it out and put on the wound. Memories of Philippine tradition
It's cultural thing po. You need to feel pain as part of puberty stage in the Philippines. It's not really that traumatizing. And they circumcise the boys here around 11 or 12years old, not grade 3
dont be so scared ,this circumcision is not that bad ,scary yes at first.. Its is being done usually by a Licensed Doctor in the philippines, or even nurses.with anaesthesia of course,if you are not "tuli" you will be onthe receiving end of bullying .Its our culture,usually done during our pre puberty age, so usually at grade3(9 yrs old)-grade 6(11 yrs old),me when im grade 5,im just 10 yrs old(i started early in my kindergarten days so im 1 year younger than my classmates).
It was common in the rural areas 10-20 years ago. But now there are clinics in the rural areas already with medical staff that can do the procedure. But it was a fun period of getting into adulthood of boys in Philippines because everybody is looking forward to having it done coz everybody will be proud that you're already a man.
It's basically become our adulthood initiation pain ritual. You know how tribes in aftrica or new zealand would have to undergo some weird pain initiation (get tattooed, covered in ants, etc) before they're declared a man? It's the same thing.
Circumcision in the Philippines became a culture of who's man enough and who are coward, unmanly, or sometimes connecting it to being gay. But some circumcised guys change their minds and personalities and ended up being gay, bisexuals, or transgenders making the connection between circumcision and being a true straight guy or real man (in context of Philippine culture) blurry. So some people connect manhood or being real man with psychological, social, and moral or gender preferences than physical standards like gender roles, endurance, bravery, being gentleman, and being responsible to family or towards their girlfriends, fiances, or wives, than of being just circumcised. Being a real man is a gender idea that is still debatable for some to put standards. In case of the Philippines, circumcision became a physical standard of being a real man. Like who can really tell who is a real man? one who is circumcised? one who respects women? one who is gentleman? one who is brave and courageous? one who likes women? one who is stick to one? one who is playboy? one who only had one girlfriend and who also became his wife? one who had a lot of girlfriends? one who have many girlfriends at the same time? one who is not virgin already before marriage? one who is responsible as a boyfriend or husband? one who drinks beer or smokes cigar? one who is brave enough to be a soldier or police? one who does carpentry than cooking? one who does "man" jobs or "manly" things? Who is a real man anyway? hehe. I am circumcised but I am just questioning this social stigma placed upon young boys telling that a real man is circumcised or should undergo circumcision, and for me there is more to being a real man than just being circumcised or enduring pain in circumcision. Kids should be told also how to be responsible guys especially to the women, be a good man for girls, be loyal, be someone who girls can get courage and lean to, be a responsible father in the future, protect and respect rights of women and other genders, and other social culture we have as Filipinos and not just get circumcised and you can exercise already your manhood without being responsible. Yet we cant put standards or criteria on who is more man than other in a world where gender fluidity and gender equality is existing where guys choose to be cooks or designers than traditional carpenters and engineers, where guys choose to work in a traditional women's job than in a traditional men's job, where some guys are becoming "house husbands" and are the one's raising children and do chores at home, where guys also show their emotional side than the traditional culture of men being emotionless especially in public, where guys don't learn to fight back unlike traditional where guys are the one's most getting in troubles and fights, and where guys come in all shapes and sizes with different personalities and preferences or with different fluidity in gender or sexual orientation. We are not sure now who's really a real man and who's not. We can't put standards, divisions, categories, criteria, or call names as if the distinction of being real man and real woman is getting blurry or gradually is disappearing in our collective world culture. It's up to the person if he identifies himself as a man, for we can't judge right away these present times for sometimes who we think as real man is not a man for other's eyes and preference and who we think is unmanly is more manly for others.
My son had his circumcision when.he reached grade 3. I never heard him complain pain thou when it was healed, ... first thing he said was " mommy it was beautiful " 😂😁
to tell the truth, there are still some people especially in the countryside of the Philippines, do circumcision in a traditional way which well you can imagine it while watching Mikey's vid hahahahaha. My husband did the traditional one it was a great experience he said hahaha and by the way a little fun fact if not most well some females in the Philippines always have an issue with a man whose not circumcised we always think it's not hygienic hahahaha
I had circumcision when I was 12 and my friend who is Half American Half Filipino had his done when he was a baby so I asked my mom why she didn't do it when I was a baby and she said sometimes the skin can come back and you'll have to do it again once you're older.
the right time to be circumcise is from the age 8-12 y/o..it is because the kid undergoing circumcision must have fully expose glans (head of penis) and foreskin is completely detached to the glans, a good requirement to have a clean and very good looking cut. and also at this age's we are mentally and emotionally prepared a bit.
Slide Vid or option #2: NOT GET IT DONE AT ALL and actually enjoy sex without forcing your bullshit disease superstitions upon helpless children and drying out their penile glands! your country has a serious "fox without a tail" mental problem running in your families!
here if your a guy and still you are "Sopot" (not circumcised) at teenage year, youll get teased a lot. but that vid is a bit of exaggeration. they don't cut anything. and no they don't use that kind of instrument we call "bolo".
This tradition is still happening in some rural areas, but is not practiced anymore in most urban areas like cities and the National Capital Region. The Department of Health is respecting the tradition but is advising to stop this practice and see those medical practitioners with much knowledge and experience or even those non-medical practitioners but are licensed by the health department to practice free medical or clinical circumcision in medical missions conducted by the national or local government units. It is rare in the Philippines to circumcise a young boy when he was still newborn or a young baby like what is practiced in some Western countries. Circumcision in the Philippines happens every dry season or summer/long summer vacation (commonly around March to May) for every young boys ages 8 and above. One important thing is to make sure that the male genitals' glans can be seen when the foreskin is pulled towards the body to make the glans visible, or else the young boy would wait next year until his body is ready for circumcision. Aside from physical readiness, emotional and psychological readiness are also required. True that it had been a culture of machismo in the country that real man should undergo it before or during early puberty, and men who don't undergo this are placed under social pressure, embarrassment, and even bullying at some point because they are seen as unclean and unmanly enough or sometimes connecting it with cowardice or being gay which is still quite unaccepted for most in the Philippines unlike in the west except for parents who are open to this gender or the western perspective of this gender. Yet some young guys or adult guys who underwent circumcision still change or can change their gender expression, gender identity, or sexual orientation and preferences in the future making this connection between being circumcised and gay unreasonable. Women are also used to have or prefer the most that their husbands or boyfriends are circumcised which indicates they are clean and real man, which in turn adds more to the social pressure to young boys that they should undergo this procedure in order for them to have girlfriends or raise a family in the future. It also became a sense of bravery, courage, and pride for kids to compare each other on who had circumcised first or between who are circumcised already and who still aren't around the puberty age. It's a part of culture, a part of stigma, a part of social pressure, a part of Philippine manhood, and a part of women's preference with their boys (kids, boyfriends or husbands). Some Filipinos are gradually embracing the Western culture of circumcising the newborn or young baby boy, some are also gradually embracing to still prefer guys who aren't circumcised, but most still prefer the tradition. That's why young boys are trained by older brothers, elderly people, older male cousins, uncles, or their dads to be brave, hide emotions, endure pain and wounds, and do male gender roles at an early age to prepare their kids for this tradition and for manhood.
In the Philippines,baby boys that are born in the home so are not circumcize,when they are around six or seven years old that is when they are circumcize,it is just cultural and right now it is done by medical people. Because if your not circumcize you are ashame kids will tease you that you are not circumcize and call you names..
That's true 85 % of Filipino are already circumspect , so there clean that is our culture . So if Filipino is not , they gonna tease you your guy ! No worries of cleansing your things .
Let the boy CHOOSE when he is 18 or legal age. Parents should NOT make a decision that will affect his entire sex life. Sexual pleasure is GREATLY reduced, and if someone wants to do that to themselves, that's their decision. TORTURING baby boy's needs to END!
before there a lot of babies born at home but now its being done at the hospital. all my brothers went through that because before youll just do circumcision that way what mikey explained on the video so men will grow more taller. for me i like the american way of doing it when they were born.
Carolyn S. I think so... but only very rarely because most people just wait for the free tuli (circumcision) that is held every year usually during summer vacation...
oh dear, I remember when we were young and my male cousins had to get circumcised during summer vacation and they had to wear skirts or dresses so as not to irritate their pee-pees :D hahaha
Holy molly! I'd been circumcized when i was grade 4 (9 years old) we used to chew guava leaves when the procedure was going on and there's this old man will do the circumsision, and when he hammered the blade that was placed on my 'you know' i swallowed the guava leaves i was chewing, others are fainting in sudden shock of pain!
its just a tradition here. and the most of the boys are actually excited about this, its like a coming of age thing, being one step closer to be a man, and bragging rights.. etc. its like ear piercing for girls here.
mam your correct with the grade 3 thing, it was fully develope.. that take place in the province with no doctor around.. love your reaction for out tradition hehe i remember the same thing hehe
Elementary days circumcision is more of a rite of passage for boys. I had mine in a hospital but my brother, who's only 3 years older than me, got his in the province where he had to chew guava and spit on his private after the foreskin was sliced. I used to tease him that his looked like a cauliflower lol
Circumcision of boys in the Philippines is engrained in the Filipino culture. It's not an option. It's a must do. Being uncircumcised male in the Philippines not a good thing. Your peer will look at you differently and probably disrespect you as a man. Above anything else, boys do it for religious reasons. Being a predominantly christian country, the bible encourages it. So Filipinos do it no matter what.
Circumcision is an important tradition in the Philippines, when a child is on grade 3 those little boys will be circumcise we called it "TULI" hehehe...
This is actually a leftover practice from pre-colonial Philippines. You see a majority of the islands that would become the modern-day Philippines were islamic polities hence the need for circumcision. Muslim tribes that still practice this call it pag-islam literally, "to induct someone to/enter Islam" since, in addition to being a boy's rite of passage, it's also a religious practice. Don't worry though since traditional circumcision has been largely replaced by modern circumcision so it's not as painful as before 😅.
I did it after 4th grade but in the hospital, but people still do it with the itak (short sword) even now. You chew the guava leaves then apply it to your thing to avoid infection. Crazy thing is, now that I think about your saliva has more bacteria that could cause infection
Until now it's happening in our province this kind of circumcise they call it batakan!!!! I am one who got to experience of this kind of circumcise hahahaha
I'm grade 4 when I circumcised, 3 of us and first we go to River and bath there for about 15 minutes, that's our anesthesia 😂 we chew guava leaves while circumcising , I swallowed I think half of the leaves😂 and cried.cuz too much blood in my body😂😂 nice reaction btw
Reason it became a tradition because in the old days, most babies are born at home with a help of a midwife. This is also because of hospital are far from most towns and only few of em. It's a "manhood" thing because when you get to an age, you know what hurts and what's scary and kids being told their ___ is getting chopped off...you want to avoid going to the clinic as long as you can lol! The older you get and still uncircumcised, other kids starts to teased you. I had a neighbor who was running around the neighborhood crying because his parents told him he need to get his circumcision and they had to drag him all the way to the clinic lol! He came home a tougher man😂🤣
Circumcision is a big part of machismo culture in the Philippines. All boys need to undergo this procedure before entering puberty. However, hospitals are not accessible to majority of the families living in rural areas. The procedure is performed by a non-medical practitioner and there is no anesthetic med used. During the procedure, the guava (bayabas) leaves should be chewed to take the attention of the child away from the sharp knife. He then should spit the chewed guava leaves (they say it's anesthetic) onto the wound after the procedure is done. This tradition is still conducted as of today but is not recommended anymore because of high risk of contracting an infection. Hence, every summer, free circumcision missions are conducted across the country to avoid this practice.
Oh wow, very interesting. Thank you for the information :)
Angelina Eonni88 guava leaves are actually a natural disinfectant...
In addition, I don't think they use a bolo. This is probably just to exaggerate. From what I hear, they use "labaha" /razor. Circumcision has health benefits, as seen from a medical POV (Mayo Clinic supports it). Meanwhile, this has biblical relevance and we are generally Christians, so you know. It's just most people don't know that anymore.
:) some use a bolo. I went through the procedure using a small jungle bolo. I was 10 years old and it was in summer during school break that I had to go through it because some of my friends in the same age had to go through it also. Else your friends will tease you, calling you "Supot" (uncircumcised). It was scary but at the same time fun because you're not the only one. Five of us lined up chewing guava leaves waiting for our turn. Hahahaha.
me also, my uncle use a bolo knife to circumcised me before I was too afraid because I thought it's gonna be hurt but when I close my eyes in a minute while i'm chewing guava leaves and then I opened it's already finished.. and then my classmates stop bullying me because I already circumcised..
Because way way back kids in the provinces are born at home with herbal doctors and not in the hospital. Also it is some sort of gives bragging right for a kid and it is like some kind of a counterpart to girl's menstruation. Somehow symbolizes their transition from being kids to puberty or manhood.
All mikey said in the video is still practiced in the province today.its a right to passage from being a boy to being a man😁😁😁😁
indeed in rural areas
Everything what Mikey said is so true but thinking that i actually did this is kind of funny and it was scary. The only different is that I did mine when i was a kid. That was great reactions again you guys. I was smiling and laughing the whole time LOL.
FLipSide I just did it now
Me and my friends had the exact same experience on the summer before high school. Mikey's video is very accurate - the bolo, the wooden stick which served as "chopping board", the guava-leaves chewing, the wearing of skirt afterwards, et al.
Before the "procedure", the uncle (he's just some middle-aged guy in our village who knows how to do it, let's just call him uncle) asked us to chew the guava leaves. After it was done, he asked me to spit out the chewed leaves onto the fresh wound. I stared at him blank-faced... I unwittingly swallowed it! I remember the horrified look on the uncle's face. The uncle and all of my friends panicked. "Quickly, chew again!" And then my friends were scrambling to pick leaves from the guava tree. Two of my friends were holding my shoulders from both sides (for fear of me passing out), one was shoving guava leaf in my mouth, the uncle was shouting "chew!", "this time don't swallow!" and "spit out!" in rapid succession. It was hilarious! It was scary, but at the same time it was fun. I wouldn't trade it for any doctor procedure.
We endure the pain coz anesthesia isn't available in some provinces. But we're proud of it, that makes us more like a real men. 😂
me too haahahaahaha fuck that hurt
Do you think kayo lang? Hahaha nangisay nga mga kasama ko dati eh😂
I had anesthisia
dahon ng bayabas anesthesia ko
@@sgtelizerjayc.villanuevapa7543 and the anesthesia is guava leaves.
I enjoyed your reaction. Thank you for doing my request.
grade 3=around 9yrs of age. bragging rights. Provincial areas. Old Skool. cultural thing. ;)
yep...that's how we do it here in the Philippines.... I love your reaction videos by the way.. You both ROCK!!!!
in our town it's usually done after grade 6 before entering 1st year high school 😅
Got my circumcision after I graduated in elementary. It's actually feeling good and to become a man. Like a warrior. XD
brebreboo lardoo I remember one of my cousins was circumcised when he was already in high school we used to tease him for being a late bloomer lol
yeah thats true haha. i remember i've been circumcised in my school it was free.
brebreboo lardoo Fact: foreskin self-lubricates the head during sex, without that you have BUY SOME to feel anything, you've been duped by fake doctor's with their fake "facts" about HIV prevention all so they could make a buck off you late lifeline with your little "free" medical procedure. NOT A GOOD THING!
That Rabbid Nerd even in reactions u keep ur america deepshit
John Cena cursing doesn't make what I just said any less true. You had half a brain you'd research it online instead of gossiping about this dark aged "tradition" of yours like it's no big deal. Just cus I'm American doesn't mean I agree this dark aged outdated-science both the Philipino's and USA people force unto unwilling children , asshole. It's truly terroristic.
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This is an ancient practice by the Hebrews and some Filipinos are part Hebrews 😊
Wow
We're not. We're Gentiles
@@darwindelosreyes8413 if you are gentiles you are supot 😄
Haha. Supot
We need to be circumcised for hygienic reason. Logically you can't eat bananas without removing the skin....hehe
Yepp
iba nasa utak ko ahh?🤣🤣🤣🤣
I circumcised when i was in 5th grade i think i was 12 or 13 LOOOL that was a great tragedy of my life ! I also wear very big skirt. HAHA
That is awful! 🐧💙🍎🍏
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I've been thru this!!! 🤣🤣🤣
But damn that bolo is too big, the magpapaltak (The one doing the circumcision) must've felt Mikey's skin felt like buffalo skin or rubber! Just kidding 😅😅😅
I can still remember one of the boy ahead of me swallowing the guava leaf instead of spitting it out! 🤣🤣🤣
i was circumcised when i was in grade 3 or there after the school year together with a group of kids also in my age then but there was one boy at his 13th to 15th year old, most likely just what mikey bustos has shown. this is a very true story especially in the rural areas, no kids has been circumcised during after d the days of their birth. circumcision in the phils is a big thing, there's always is an impression that without being circumcised, girls will be turn-off and a belief that wives will turn away.
I remember circumsizing my cousin some years back through a proper medical procedure (with anesthesia, sterile instruments, gauze, and everything....plus a lovely nurse too). After the very successful procedure (of which i was medically trained)....my cousin asked me "kuya, did you experience any circumsicion complications with your patients before?"......i quickly answered...."NEVER". Because you are my first patient. Hahaha.
His face turned red....so i said i was only kidding.
Later on that same day....i saw him riding his bmx bicycle. 😉
Thank you thank you😊😊😊😍😘😘😘
I got the traditional and im proud of it ahaha 😊
In Philippines circumcision usually done during 7 to 8 years old when boys are old enough to take care of his woulds.. In modern time it is now likely done in hospitals. But in provinces children still cut this things through a big bolo and w/o medicine only using leaves of guava for the woulds. Yes it is a tradition that every summer children are line up for circumcision usually near the river as you saw in the video.
Hahhaa you're funny guys😅😅😅
Hahahaha nice reaction guys
its makes me laugh over and over... its completely awesome music video .... and also the two lovely beautiful girls they were also awesome....
I was circumcised when I was still a baby. That was 46 years ago. My son got circumcised when he reached grade 7. I accompanied him. Father son bonding 😀
Hahaha i’ve been in that situation when my tito in the province asked me to go the traditional filipino circumsion. I have the guava leaves in my mouth and then the old man have this big knife then cut the part of my skin then afterwards they asked me to jump into the river funny but it’s true😂🤣😂🤣
he was referring to grade 3 as just typically in the 3rd grade of school around 9 years old. i also got mine in the summer of third grade.
Traditional circumcision are very common in a place where theres no health care provider in a far flung places in the Philippines
In other countries yes youre right..but here in the philippines its a traditional/cultural thing..we called it "pukpok" here..even now..mikey as you noticed was chewing guava leaves..is a sort of a herbal thing where once the pukpok was done he will spit it out directly to the wounds...yeah its happening here..😊
Circumcision in the Philippines is done to boys ages of 9-13. It actually depends on the foreskin appearance I think, I haven't observed any since I'm a woman. But I got nephews and we have a family doctor so he decides when will be the right time to do it. This has become part of the tradition though I'm not sure if it existed even before the Spaniards came. And that process Mikey showed was the traditional, I mean the ancient way of doing it. But now, it is mostly done in a medical facility.
It was usually done during summer, when there's no class and wearing skirt is true or Big shorts to prevent the fabric from touching the wound. After few days when the wound is a bit dry, some boys would swim in the beach since salt water helps clean and heal the wound faster.
see how much pain we need to overcome for you girls lol, Pilipino is clean our penguin hahaha
They don't use that type of 'knife', more on the one they use for 'shaving' in old movies (it's lantseta or lancheta) just to 'skin' the little guy. In western culture (I heard) they had the baby boy circumcised after birth, though some private hospitals are doing it nowadays. Filipino men aren't tall (mostly) that's why some have to wait for 3rd grade, but it still depend on what the nurse or doctor will say. And that old practice is still popular in provinces where hospitals and public health centers are barely reachable by foot, so they go to an expert and be doe with it.
ha ha ha ha! i already watched this parody but i watched it again here.
Don’t know if you already got answer for your question, but circumcision is done that late in the Phils due to the same reason other cultures has different ways of becoming a man. If it’s the walkabout in Australian abbo culture, or bar mitzvah for Jewish, it’s circumcision in the Phils. I’m sure that you already got the answer that the vid is still exercised in the provinces or for folks who can’t afford a doctor, but yes many also go to the doctor.
i think aside from circumcision being a tradition, it is also for personal hygiene
bullshit
IT’S SACRED!!!!🤣👍
Everyone who got that when they were a baby, lucky you. I got mine when I was 9
im a filipino i been Circumcise in grade 2 hahahaha
I had mine when I was in grade school.. I am smiling throughout the video.. I really could relate to it. And watching two ladies reaction about it and having a different concept of how it is done. I really enjoyed your reaction..
Many filipinos are still doing the traditional way of circumcision for reason there are still communities which don't have access to hospitals. Filipinos are always conscious of having a clean body and we believe circumcision is a way to a hygienic and sanitary way of living. Its usually done during before puberty period because it is common belief not to have babies undergo it because of the risk that the organ can go back to its original state as the baby boy grows to puberty.
the guava leaves used to stop the bleeding. ice is also used before the circumcision to not blead heavily.
In the Philippines, circumcision is like a cultural rite of passage from boyhood into manhood. And a man who is not circumcised is laughed at by anybody who finds out, even his girlfriend, fiancé, or wife. It's like he had avoided a test of courage. A circumcised man is "normal" to Filipinos, even though it might have been done while he was a baby, but the cultural pressure is not as strong nowadays. In previous decades and centuries, a man who was uncircumcised was considered as a pagan or foreigner (not a baptized Catholic), a coward, a gay/homosexual, a weakling, or "all of the above." The pressure to conform in Filipino society is immense even now so even the Muslims and the Chinese adopted the practice rather than have their sons bullied and taunted by his peers and elders throughout their teen years as "supôt" (uncircumcised). Actually, it's one more trait common to Jews/Israelis and Filipinos (there a few others).
Mikey Bustos should have a recognition in the Philippines
This is still being practiced in many areas. It's a rite of passage.
when mikey bustos said: to turn my turkey to penguin..
ahah that so funny ahahha.
Back in the days, all of the boys to undergone circumcission, submerge in the water before cutting the skin while chewing the leaves of guava then spit it out and put on the wound. Memories of Philippine tradition
It's cultural thing po. You need to feel pain as part of puberty stage in the Philippines. It's not really that traumatizing. And they circumcise the boys here around 11 or 12years old, not grade 3
Circumsion is still being done like that specially in the provinces in the Philippines.Its like a tradition of transitioning to manhood.
dont be so scared ,this circumcision is not that bad ,scary yes at first.. Its is being done usually by a Licensed Doctor in the philippines, or even nurses.with anaesthesia of course,if you are not "tuli" you will be onthe receiving end of bullying .Its our culture,usually done during our pre puberty age, so usually at grade3(9 yrs old)-grade 6(11 yrs old),me when im grade 5,im just 10 yrs old(i started early in my kindergarten days so im 1 year younger than my classmates).
It was common in the rural areas 10-20 years ago. But now there are clinics in the rural areas already with medical staff that can do the procedure. But it was a fun period of getting into adulthood of boys in Philippines because everybody is looking forward to having it done coz everybody will be proud that you're already a man.
i was so amazed of his joke voice
It's basically become our adulthood initiation pain ritual. You know how tribes in aftrica or new zealand would have to undergo some weird pain initiation (get tattooed, covered in ants, etc) before they're declared a man? It's the same thing.
Love it.... Mikey.. M
Circumcision in the Philippines became a culture of who's man enough and who are coward, unmanly, or sometimes connecting it to being gay. But some circumcised guys change their minds and personalities and ended up being gay, bisexuals, or transgenders making the connection between circumcision and being a true straight guy or real man (in context of Philippine culture) blurry. So some people connect manhood or being real man with psychological, social, and moral or gender preferences than physical standards like gender roles, endurance, bravery, being gentleman, and being responsible to family or towards their girlfriends, fiances, or wives, than of being just circumcised. Being a real man is a gender idea that is still debatable for some to put standards. In case of the Philippines, circumcision became a physical standard of being a real man. Like who can really tell who is a real man? one who is circumcised? one who respects women? one who is gentleman? one who is brave and courageous? one who likes women? one who is stick to one? one who is playboy? one who only had one girlfriend and who also became his wife? one who had a lot of girlfriends? one who have many girlfriends at the same time? one who is not virgin already before marriage? one who is responsible as a boyfriend or husband? one who drinks beer or smokes cigar? one who is brave enough to be a soldier or police? one who does carpentry than cooking? one who does "man" jobs or "manly" things?
Who is a real man anyway?
hehe. I am circumcised but I am just questioning this social stigma placed upon young boys telling that a real man is circumcised or should undergo circumcision, and for me there is more to being a real man than just being circumcised or enduring pain in circumcision. Kids should be told also how to be responsible guys especially to the women, be a good man for girls, be loyal, be someone who girls can get courage and lean to, be a responsible father in the future, protect and respect rights of women and other genders, and other social culture we have as Filipinos and not just get circumcised and you can exercise already your manhood without being responsible. Yet we cant put standards or criteria on who is more man than other in a world where gender fluidity and gender equality is existing where guys choose to be cooks or designers than traditional carpenters and engineers, where guys choose to work in a traditional women's job than in a traditional men's job, where some guys are becoming "house husbands" and are the one's raising children and do chores at home, where guys also show their emotional side than the traditional culture of men being emotionless especially in public, where guys don't learn to fight back unlike traditional where guys are the one's most getting in troubles and fights, and where guys come in all shapes and sizes with different personalities and preferences or with different fluidity in gender or sexual orientation. We are not sure now who's really a real man and who's not. We can't put standards, divisions, categories, criteria, or call names as if the distinction of being real man and real woman is getting blurry or gradually is disappearing in our collective world culture. It's up to the person if he identifies himself as a man, for we can't judge right away these present times for sometimes who we think as real man is not a man for other's eyes and preference and who we think is unmanly is more manly for others.
My son had his circumcision when.he reached grade 3. I never heard him complain pain thou when it was healed, ... first thing he said was " mommy it was beautiful " 😂😁
For adolescent boys, it was a rite of passage to manhood.
to tell the truth, there are still some people especially in the countryside of the Philippines, do circumcision in a traditional way which well you can imagine it while watching Mikey's vid hahahahaha. My husband did the traditional one it was a great experience he said hahaha and by the way a little fun fact if not most well some females in the Philippines always have an issue with a man whose not circumcised we always think it's not hygienic hahahaha
I had circumcision when I was 12 and my friend who is Half American Half Filipino had his done when he was a baby so I asked my mom why she didn't do it when I was a baby and she said sometimes the skin can come back and you'll have to do it again once you're older.
That's exactly what i think :)
the right time to be circumcise is from the age 8-12 y/o..it is because the kid undergoing circumcision must have fully expose glans (head of penis) and foreskin is completely detached to the glans, a good requirement to have a clean and very good looking cut. and also at this age's we are mentally and emotionally prepared a bit.
Slide Vid or option #2: NOT GET IT DONE AT ALL and actually enjoy sex without forcing your bullshit disease superstitions upon helpless children and drying out their penile glands! your country has a serious "fox without a tail" mental problem running in your families!
Hahaha that happand to me to. It hurt so much!!😢
here if your a guy and still you are "Sopot" (not circumcised) at teenage year, youll get teased a lot.
but that vid is a bit of exaggeration. they don't cut anything. and no they don't use that kind of instrument we call "bolo".
This tradition is still happening in some rural areas, but is not practiced anymore in most urban areas like cities and the National Capital Region. The Department of Health is respecting the tradition but is advising to stop this practice and see those medical practitioners with much knowledge and experience or even those non-medical practitioners but are licensed by the health department to practice free medical or clinical circumcision in medical missions conducted by the national or local government units. It is rare in the Philippines to circumcise a young boy when he was still newborn or a young baby like what is practiced in some Western countries. Circumcision in the Philippines happens every dry season or summer/long summer vacation (commonly around March to May) for every young boys ages 8 and above. One important thing is to make sure that the male genitals' glans can be seen when the foreskin is pulled towards the body to make the glans visible, or else the young boy would wait next year until his body is ready for circumcision. Aside from physical readiness, emotional and psychological readiness are also required. True that it had been a culture of machismo in the country that real man should undergo it before or during early puberty, and men who don't undergo this are placed under social pressure, embarrassment, and even bullying at some point because they are seen as unclean and unmanly enough or sometimes connecting it with cowardice or being gay which is still quite unaccepted for most in the Philippines unlike in the west except for parents who are open to this gender or the western perspective of this gender. Yet some young guys or adult guys who underwent circumcision still change or can change their gender expression, gender identity, or sexual orientation and preferences in the future making this connection between being circumcised and gay unreasonable. Women are also used to have or prefer the most that their husbands or boyfriends are circumcised which indicates they are clean and real man, which in turn adds more to the social pressure to young boys that they should undergo this procedure in order for them to have girlfriends or raise a family in the future. It also became a sense of bravery, courage, and pride for kids to compare each other on who had circumcised first or between who are circumcised already and who still aren't around the puberty age. It's a part of culture, a part of stigma, a part of social pressure, a part of Philippine manhood, and a part of women's preference with their boys (kids, boyfriends or husbands). Some Filipinos are gradually embracing the Western culture of circumcising the newborn or young baby boy, some are also gradually embracing to still prefer guys who aren't circumcised, but most still prefer the tradition. That's why young boys are trained by older brothers, elderly people, older male cousins, uncles, or their dads to be brave, hide emotions, endure pain and wounds, and do male gender roles at an early age to prepare their kids for this tradition and for manhood.
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In the Philippines,baby boys that are born in the home so are not circumcize,when they are around six or seven years old that is when they are circumcize,it is just cultural and right now it is done by medical people. Because if your not circumcize you are ashame kids will tease you that you are not circumcize and call you names..
That's true 85 % of Filipino are already circumspect , so there clean that is our culture . So if Filipino is not , they gonna tease you your guy ! No worries of cleansing your things .
Let the boy CHOOSE when he is 18 or legal age. Parents should NOT make a decision that will affect his entire sex life. Sexual pleasure is GREATLY reduced, and if someone wants to do that to themselves, that's their decision. TORTURING baby boy's needs to END!
before there a lot of babies born at home but now its being done at the hospital. all my brothers went through that because before youll just do circumcision that way what mikey explained on the video so men will grow more taller. for me i like the american way of doing it when they were born.
I'm laughing not on the video but to 2 of u..hahaaha
Mikey ur the man HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA
I know this happens in the provinces and not in the cities but is it still happening these days, in this decade? i'm curious
Carolyn S. I think so... but only very rarely because most people just wait for the free tuli (circumcision) that is held every year usually during summer vacation...
yes. even in cities some still choose that method. all about preference i think.
Carolyn S. continue its happen this tradition until now here in the Philippines..
It is till happening in provinces, it's our culture we are the original hebrews. ua-cam.com/video/9wXS-ckrm0U/v-deo.html
yes
We Filipino cut our stuff when we turn grade 3 or 4 I did it when I was 12 yrs THATS OUR TRADITION 💪🇵🇭
in Philippines, circumcision is a rite to manhood.
oh dear, I remember when we were young and my male cousins had to get circumcised during summer vacation and they had to wear skirts or dresses so as not to irritate their pee-pees :D hahaha
Holy molly! I'd been circumcized when i was grade 4 (9 years old) we used to chew guava leaves when the procedure was going on and there's this old man will do the circumsision, and when he hammered the blade that was placed on my 'you know' i swallowed the guava leaves i was chewing, others are fainting in sudden shock of pain!
its just a tradition here. and the most of the boys are actually excited about this, its like a coming of age thing, being one step closer to be a man, and bragging rights.. etc. its like ear piercing for girls here.
mam your correct with the grade 3 thing, it was fully develope.. that take place in the province with no doctor around.. love your reaction for out tradition hehe i remember the same thing hehe
Elementary days circumcision is more of a rite of passage for boys. I had mine in a hospital but my brother, who's only 3 years older than me, got his in the province where he had to chew guava and spit on his private after the foreskin was sliced. I used to tease him that his looked like a cauliflower lol
Circumcision of boys in the Philippines is engrained in the Filipino culture. It's not an option. It's a must do. Being uncircumcised male in the Philippines not a good thing. Your peer will look at you differently and probably disrespect you as a man. Above anything else, boys do it for religious reasons. Being a predominantly christian country, the bible encourages it. So Filipinos do it no matter what.
Circumcision is an important tradition in the Philippines, when a child is on grade 3 those little boys will be circumcise we called it "TULI" hehehe...
Nice mam thank you for your information mam
This is actually a leftover practice from pre-colonial Philippines. You see a majority of the islands that would become the modern-day Philippines were islamic polities hence the need for circumcision. Muslim tribes that still practice this call it pag-islam literally, "to induct someone to/enter Islam" since, in addition to being a boy's rite of passage, it's also a religious practice. Don't worry though since traditional circumcision has been largely replaced by modern circumcision so it's not as painful as before 😅.
Great reactions, I wish you wouldn't cut the full video reaction.
I've 2 cousins running away after they know that they have to do it.. but yeah" they have to do it", theres no choice.
I did it after 4th grade but in the hospital, but people still do it with the itak (short sword) even now. You chew the guava leaves then apply it to your thing to avoid infection. Crazy thing is, now that I think about your saliva has more bacteria that could cause infection
In the Philippines, elementary boys get circumcised around the age of 7 - 11, usually.
Nowadays circumcision are mostly done by doctors during summer months but olden traditions remain specially in provinces
Grade 3 because it rhymes...,but most do it before being a teenager....
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Until now it's happening in our province this kind of circumcise they call it batakan!!!! I am one who got to experience of this kind of circumcise hahahaha
Walanghiya ka mickey 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
circumcising is the God's will...that's why filipino have that tradition in century and even a thousands years
Lol that's how they used to do it with that big knife......
We do it cuz it gets smelly when we don't do it.....
,,,it should be performd near a river,,haha,
To turn the turkey to penguin,,😂😂😂,yes you can,😂😂😂
I'm grade 4 when I circumcised, 3 of us and first we go to River and bath there for about 15 minutes, that's our anesthesia 😂 we chew guava leaves while circumcising , I swallowed I think half of the leaves😂 and cried.cuz too much blood in my body😂😂 nice reaction btw
Reason it became a tradition because in the old days, most babies are born at home with a help of a midwife. This is also because of hospital are far from most towns and only few of em. It's a "manhood" thing because when you get to an age, you know what hurts and what's scary and kids being told their ___ is getting chopped off...you want to avoid going to the clinic as long as you can lol! The older you get and still uncircumcised, other kids starts to teased you. I had a neighbor who was running around the neighborhood crying because his parents told him he need to get his circumcision and they had to drag him all the way to the clinic lol! He came home a tougher man😂🤣
That why he said to become a RealMan. To face your fear.
Its true this the tradditional way here in phillipines