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Written by Paul B. at 26 Sep 2002 21:22:04: Reducing paraphimosis - approach is straightforward.
As an answer to: Dunno what to do written by Alex (Midlands) at 26 Sep 2002 18:08:58:
> I hope this is the proper place to ask this question.
Of course it is.
> It isn't about circumcision.
I'm glad you understand that. Circumcision is a procedure for the fulfilment of a particularly bizarre, if common, perversion.
Jim's answer to you focusses on the matter of "pinching" or squeezing excess blood out of the glans, and the use of ice to reduce any swelling you have of the retracted foreskin. Let me mention what you do next.
Quite simply, you need to pull the foreskin forward, and that's exactly what you do. Your problem of course, is to get a proper grip on it. This is actually fairly easy - you grab ("pinch" in a sense) the skin on each opposite side just behind the tight part, and just pull the two sides simultaneously forward so that the tight part is progressively pulled forward over the glans. It will "pop" over and then you are as you were before.
Now this may well be easier if you have a little lubricant on the tight part or in particular the glans ("corona" at the back of it) over which it has to slip. For this purpose any available clean vegetable (cooking) oil should be fine. Of course, you have to get it on the tight part or glans and not where you need to grab and pull the skin, so you have to be careful about this.
In the longer term, you need to stretch your foreskin so it slips back, and forward again, easily. I suspect from your description that this little event is actually stretching it already, and whilst you may need to stretch it without retracting, such as if you can get your two little finger tips inside the tight part, if you successfully implement the "pinch and pull forward" method I have described, you will actually be able to stretch it by deliberately pulling the foreskin back over an erection and pulling it forward again afterward, often. It will become a little easier every time.