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Written by halfclip at 04 Sep 2001 22:52:25: Re: attached foreskin
As an answer to: attached foreskin written by bill at 03 Sep 2001 21:51:25:
> I have discovered that my foreskin is attached to the base of my penis. Is this normal?
I beleive you may have acquired adhesions. When the penis forms, the foreskin adheres to the glans. In most cases, during the development of the feotus and during the first couple years, the two skins separate, a process that is helped by retraction.
Consider smegma. It is generated by the skin shedding a layer of dead skin and under the foreskin, the glans and foreskin "ditch" their top surface, so they don't fuse. But if your foreskin remains fused to the glans from birth, then the skin doesn't shed its "external" layer because it isn't external.
Adhesions are also common for boys circumcised at birth when parents don't take proper care of the penis and the remaining skin (especially at the scar) fuses to the glans and it becomes permanent.
I *beleive* that the only solution for such acquired adhesions that have been there all your life (very permanent) would some surgical separation (essentially a scalpel to separate the 2 skins).
All the above applies to situations where the skin is actually "glued" to the glans. You may instead have a situation where the frenulum prevents you from retracting the skin fully, but in such a case, you should still be able to insert a small pen (or ither thin object) under the skin to go all the way beyond the coronna (rim) of head.