[ ARC forum 2 ]
Written by Ivan at 11 Aug 2004 04:56:09: Re: Is there a limit to how far you can stretch?
As an answer to: Is there a limit to how far you can stretch? written by Andy at 10 Aug 2004 19:53:22:
>Hi,
>I'm 21, and until about 2 and a half years ago, i couldn't retract my foreskin at all. Sex would hurt and i found it almost impossible to get any enjoyment out of it (if you know what i mean). I looked on the net and found this page - and after taking the advice about stretching the foreskin i started by just trying to roll it back more and more. It slowly began to work (I noticed that if left alone for week or 2 the foreskin would tighten again slightly, but would be easier to free-up back to how it was before), until the point where i could get it all the way past the head, and i could introduce 2 fingers from each hand into the foreskin and pull outwards to stretch (this took nearly a year). I stopped consciuosly trying to stretch it about 18 months ago and regular(ish) sex/masturbation seems to keep it at a constant level of tightness. These days i can pull my foreskin back over the head when erect, but it doesn't stay back - and there is a noticeable hourglass effect characterised by the thin white phimotic band when erect, although i can live with this - sex is now much more enjoyable - even 'normal' which is what i set out to achieve.
>I realise that i am quite lucky in that i have a reasonably loose phimosis these days, but i would like to be able to pull my foreskin all the way back and without the painful pinching of the hourglass effect. My question to you is - do you think further stretching will loosen the phimosis even more until this is achieved? Or have i reached a limit, if you like - the 'phimotic wall' :)
>It may be worth mentioning that i remember as a very small child having to administer drops down my foreskin as it stang when i peed - possible balanitis or something which may have something to do with the phimosis?
>Anyhow, any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated - and if you're reading this worried about having never made acquaintance with your bell-end - don't worry - i hadn't until about 2 years ago, just be patient and stretch (and w*nk a lot), it does work!!
>Andy.
No, there's no limit - like the African tribes of yore that stretched lips with plates, the body will respond to the forces on it. You aren't far from total comfortable mobility, and it would probably come naturally but you can encourage things deliberately as well. By the way, when I was a kid, my glans was awesomely tender too - it's supposed to be that way. You just had an idiot doctor that did not know what a healthy penis for that age child should be like - occasional cool water swished under the skin would have provided cleaning and acculturation much more pleasantly. Too many of the doctors in America don't have much notion of a healthy penis as God made it.