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Written by Ralesk at 20 Oct 2003 02:43:44: Re: Cream
As an answer to: Re: Cream written by AJ at 19 Oct 2003 22:33:03:
>Personally I would disagre with Ivan. There are several reasons why a foreskin will not retract (tightness, phimotic ring, frenulum), it's not really simple.AFAICT, "tightness" and "phimotic ring" is the same thing. And there is no such short frenulum that would allow /no/ retraction of the foreskin. I.e. if this is not a developed problem -- and I recall this guy is one of those who have never been able to retract his foreskin -- this is a simple tightness problem (i.e. the frenar band aka. phimotic ring is not wide enough to let the glans through). If he can then retract right behind the glans but not further without severe bending of the glans or experienceing pain (btw, my own glans bends a little downwards if I pull further back when not fully erect, yet I seem to have zero problems with my frenulum), then we can look into the frenulum problems.
>A couple instances of this misdiagnosis have happend here in the past. Wherein advice was given to stretch the foreskin, when the fault was with a tight frenulum and/or vica-versa.
I know what you mean --- but as I said, it is impossible that if there is a, say, 1 cm long overhang that's not retractible, that the problem would be the shortness (not tightness, that doesn't make sense, AJ) of the frenulum.
Furthermore I do not recall anyone besides you and Robin and I think Harmen suggesting frenulum shortness when the problem seems to be clearly a not-at-all retractible foreskin where the owner can barely even see the meatus, let alone push the glans through the tight part of the frenar band (aka. phimotic ring).> Unless you are 100% sure what is causing the problem I would strongly recommend seeing your doctor or a specialist to determine the cause and then get the prescription from them.
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R.