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Partial circumcsion: heal retracted or not ?

Written by halfclip at 07 May 2002 14:30:05:

When I was partially circumcised many years ago, the remaining skin was left retracted and bandaged that way. Once it was all healed up, the skin was happy to stay retracted and I had to pull it over the head quite a few times so that it woudl stay to cover part of head. And it is so wide/loose that it retracts without ay resistance or need to stretch to accomodate the wider rim of glans. (this caused me many a embarassing erection !)

Recemtly however, now that partial circumcision is becoming popular, I seem to hear that they bandage the scar with the skin over the head. For those of you who have had the operation, is that the case ?

Aren't there any issues with allowing the scar to heal over a narrow part of the glans ? Does this cause a temporary phimosis during the healing ? Would it make erections hurt ? How long does it take before skin is easily retractable ?

I can see one major advantage to this though: if the tip of the foreskin has a narrower band that must stretch when retracting, it would mean that the remaining skin won't retract so easily in underwear. Not sure if it makes a difference in long term ?

Another issue: because I left my skin retracted during the healing, is it possible that once all the swelling was over with that the remaining skin became effectively shorter ? I ended up with a foreskin that was shorter than expected.

Any comments ?


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