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Re: Worried Teen

Written by Ralesk at 30 Aug 2002 00:32:00:

As an answer to: Re: Worried Teen written by AJ at 29 Aug 2002 22:33:11:

Hello Ed,

Let's see what I can plug in here...

» Before you can do anything, you really need to determine what is
» causing the problem that is preventing your foreskin from retracting.

Did I read somewhere that Ed CAN retract?

» It is really important that you establish the cause, as it's no good
» stretching/elongating your foreskin (see Jim's premature advice below)
» if it is the frenulum that is the cause.

The frenulum doesn't cause hourglass effect. And Jim's advice is not at all premature. It is honestly lot less invasive as:

» 1) Circumcision
» 2) Partial-Circumcision

Which latter has another nickname: Loose circumcision. Both of which remove the tip of the foreskin, which I believe you have already found a quite sensitive thing. Just give it a light touch of the finger and you'll know.
Circumcision means "cut around", and that's what happens: they cut you around, and remove a bit of your foreskin, or in the worse case, about all of it. In either case, that wrinkly tip which *happens* to be the most sensitive and most nerve-packed part of *the whole penis*, is removed.
As you described in the thread-top post, makes me conclude that you can more or less easily retract, but you don't tend to usually. In this case, circumcision is definitely not needed.

» 3) Dorsal Slit

Now, dorsal slit is another thing. They at least don't remove stuff (at least far not as much as any circumcision does). However, they make a slit and thus solve any tightness problems. But, with this move, not only you get the possibility to get infected or whatever conclusions an operation might have (with whatever obviously small chances), but also the foreskin will not function the same way as it does when whole (which only needs just a little sense for physics to understand...). Despite everything, this is the cheapest of the operations, and doesn't take far as much, doesn't do far as much damage, as a circumcision does.

3.b) Preputioplasty.

AJ doesn't like to mention this for some reason. It is derived from the dorsal slit method, but is includes plastic surgery methods on healing up the wound properly and making it look nice later. Costs helluvalot. In my opinion the operation with the best results in the long run.

» 4) Stretching

Last but not least, the non-surgical solution, stretching. Despite what the name tells you, it's not about stretching the skin cells, but rather about applying stretching forces to make the skin grow. It works on just about every burn victim and it definitely works in good old China. Both cases use inflatable balloons under the skin area they'd want to stretch. And it just works... The manual stretching is what I advise, without the use of any additional devices. The backdraw of it is that it's not constant and therefore less effective than when someone uses devices. It needs to be noted that the use of devices should be considered well and done carefully; however, I doubt that any sane person would bear doing any serious damage to his penis, especially with a never or barely ever uncovered glans, which is VERY sensitive. Being able to do damage with a device is indeed a risk, but it's more unlikely than if you go and have a surgical procedure to remove bits of your foreskin (which, how ever I look at it, *is* doing damage). Now anyway, the deviceless methods have been explained in my above post, directly under yours. There is one thing you can also try doing, although it doesn't have much effect on the tip of the foreskin, which is what is tight anyway: try holding your foreskin closed when peeing, and let it balloon up to a conveniently tensed state, but don't allow it to cause pain. Try not to pee all over the room when you release, though! :) So anyway, this also should help loosen things.

Now to the rest of the message:

» If it's a tight frenulum then there's a couple of surgical options for
» resolving this (removing, snipping). Circumcision is not neccessary to resolve it.

It stretches by use, also, just like any skin on you. Should be handled with care, but I do believe you'll *feel* when you're doing too tough and stop doing so.

» Whatever you chose to do, I strongly suggest you speak to
» your doctor (someone you know is a real doctor and not a
» "net" doctor - who knows what they really do?) and discuss
» the pro and cons of stretching the foreskin and/or frenulum.

Yes, and by any means, do discuss what pros and cons circumcision has. If you hear barely any description or cons, go to another doctor. The one you're talking to is probably perfectly in the belief that he'd be removing feelingless bits of skin.

» Hope this helps. All the best.

Yes I sure do hope my posts help.

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Ral


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