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Re: Advice

Written by Paul B. at 10 Oct 2001 13:02:45:

As an answer to: Advice written by AJ at 10 Oct 2001 11:47:43:

> Andrew, I really think you should consider going to see a Doctor, and discuss him referring you
> to a specialist so you can get a professional opinion and review your otpions with him.

That seems a bit of an over-reaction. Andrew has certainly been enthusiastic in spreading his multiple queries over at least three forum sites to my knowledge, but careful analysis of his actual enquiry, and his agreement that his personal observations in fact match the pictures referenced of a normal penis quite nicely, indicate that he has no abnormality at all beyond a simple phimosis.

> You obviously have several concerns, and unfortunately, based on the below picture, I think you are be right to have them.
>

AJ, your previous posts indicate that you were circumcised for phimosis and therefore like Andrew, actually have no familiarity with a normal penis either!


That photograph illustrates a perfectly normal penis with the foreskin pulled back in the flaccid state. To a person as you are, unfamiliar with normality, it may appear that the penis is being "pinched", is uncomfortable and at risk of injury. It does not; it merely shows that the fraenar band at the "tight" part is highly elastic and bunches just as an elastic sock or stocking does on your calf. The pressure of erection however, readily overcomes this compression, causing the fraenar band to spread out as shown between the first and second pictures below, taken from the same site (but not necessarily of the same penis as the other picture).

As you see, what looks to be an uncomfortable constriction in the first picture, has entirely vanished in the second.

> Also, I would suggest that stretching will most likely not get you the results you are after.

You may suggest it will not, but skin expansion is a well-established principle in plastic surgery (treatment of burns, treatment of male-pattern baldness). It would appear that (cheap) appliances to effect this in the case of phimosis are not commercially marketed, or not well known, but as I was discussing in this message and those in the same group, it should be quite possible to find quite suitable stretching appliances amongst the plethora of plastic mouldings cast off by our modern industrial society.

> Stretching is not as viable an option as some would like to have you believe.

On the contrary, stretching is a far more viable an option than you in particular, having not persisted with it (if indeed you tried it at all), would have us believe.

> In your case I would certainly say that it won't do any good at all and could possibly lead to damage in that region.

And indeed, given your choice not to pursue it, we expect that you would say that, but that does not make it correct. Do also remember that surgery is very likely to lead to damage in that region!


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