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Written by Ralesk at 30 Mar 2004 23:54:36: Re: No Return
As an answer to: Re: No Return written by J at 30 Mar 2004 22:38:28:
>Thank for speedy and helpful replies AJ and Ralesk... she is leaving in about a month and for indefinitely... so i think i will start at that time and come back here to talk about concerns and progress...
Okay :)
>just 1 last thing i found out recently.. i know there is another problem ppl might have beside phimosis... related to the frenulum being too short and as soon as when they retract the foreskin it pull it forward again and breaking it... etc... my question is:
I haven’t heard many people reporting that they broke their frenulum, but it’s just as much not a big deal as girls’ hymen breaking — it’s anatomically the same thing, last I checked.
>1) now is that thing fixable during strectching too (by pulling forward to make it longer)... or that a frenuloplasty operation in the doctor's office is the ONLY way to fix it..?
Some will say this, some will say that. I say, if you can lengthen other skin with all kinds of stretching methods, it should logically work for the frenulum. It’s never a bad idea to give it a try.
>2) for me... since my head had never been retracted before... does this mean that my frenulum is definitely going to have the 'short' problem even if i can successful conquer phimosis because during puberty the head was not up to allow the frenulum room to grow long?
It can well be that since you have not been retracting your foreskin, the frenulum never got the information that it needs to grow longer. In any case though, both stretching methods put tension on all parts of the foreskin, therefore also on the frenulum — it’s simply that you can have a lot better control with the pull-forward method Ivan and I describe every so often. And as a result, can “focus” on the bottom area when needed (by pulling on the bottom, as opposed to the more usual finger placement, which is on the sides).