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Re: Forskin not fully retracting

Written by Ralesk at 27 Apr 2004 22:46:23:

As an answer to: Forskin not fully retracting written by CJ at 27 Apr 2004 21:59:39:

>Anyhow I'm 27 now and recently I've spit one of the weird peices of skin that were holding the inside of my foreskin to my glad (head) of the penis. Now before it all seemed to work fine and thought it was normal. There were 2 small strings/membranes of skin that were fixed to the head of the penis which prevented me from pulling my skin right back past the head.

Ah yes, the frenulum. Interesting you say two.

>Anyhow after intercourse and me splitting one of these membrane things I was horrified cos it looked gross. Dont even ask how the g/f felt. Whether it was a good thing or not I had a couple glasses of wine, got into a bath and cut the other membrane with a pair or sharp (sterilised) nail sissors.

Not sure if that was a remarkably good idea, but since it didn’t get infected (at least you didn’t say it did), I won’t say anything.

>I'm happier now but I've still got an even bigger flap of skin holding on to the gland which was previously hidden by the first two on either side. This looks too big for me to cut so can you guys suggest anything to help?

(remark: “glans” is the name)

Oh now I understand on the third read. On the sides, that’s not the frenulum, the one in the middle is. The sides, that’s different with each person how thick that is. Interesting that one of those is what you tore and not the frenulum itself.

I don’t suggest you try to cut the frenulum, there are rather thick veins below and you could do more harm than good. I think the best course now would be to leave it alone and let it rest and heal. Also don’t have sex for a little while. You’ll see that you’re already able to retract further than right behind the head — if your frenulum indeed rips later, you’re still better off than home-made meddling with a scissor: it’s unlikely that that would do great harm.

>Does the skin *have* to go back all the way? All in all I'm so glad I'm not alone with this issue and have been reasured by the other posts on this forum.

No. The more freedom it has, the better, but it isn’t necessary that you can pull it back right to the base.


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