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The Foreskin Diaries

 
Kate Copstick Review by Kate Copstick 2 Published: 1 Aug 2025 Laughing Horse @ Bar 50 Show Dates: 31 Jul 2025-24 Aug 2025

One person speaking their truth with passion should, I believe, be applauded – in principle. And so I cannot dismiss Ron Low's hour delivering The Foreskin Diaries out of hand – if you'll excuse the pun.

Owners and lovers of the foreskin might find their people here.

Ron is about as militant as it gets when it comes to the foreskin – he calls himself an 'intactivist' – and invented the TLC Tugger, the purpose of which is to restore the foreskin of a circumcised male.

It has, to date, restored over 63,000.

His hour comes to you in the Musicals and Opera section of the programme. So, horrendous details of devastated relationships, ruined sex lives, suicide and gruesome photos (yes, you will see a lot of male junk here) are interspersed with songs. To my ear, it did sound more like one song in several variations, with lines like "Between your thighs, my fragile pride abides" and titles like Love Through My Boy's Eyes.

Ron’s outrage is expressed in a 'more in sorrow than in anger' tone. But words like mutilation, penetrative assault, and amputation fly freely. We are asked to close our eyes and imagine a world without male circumcision and exhorted to persuade pregnant friends to leave their boys intact.

Owners and lovers of the foreskin might find their people here, Upstairs at Laughing Horse @ Bar 50.

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For two decades Ron Low helped over 65,000 circumcised men undertake non-surgical foreskin restoration using TLC Tugger devices he invented. Enjoy Ron's fun and poignant musical memoir and slide show. He keeps you laughing while you learn what the foreskin is and does, how and why men restore, why we need to protect healthy male, female and intersex children from forced genital cutting, what efforts have succeeded and what could happen next. Ron performs on an exotic stringed instrument called a Harpejji, accompanied by backing tracks, while wearing one of his tugging devices under his kilt.