[ ARC forum 2 ]
Written by Paul B. at 31 Dec 2002 10:05:02: Twice from either end to the middle.
As an answer to: Re: How long's as a piece of string... written by glider at 31 Dec 2002 00:44:17:
> 1. I think this is more than just likely, and is in fact pretty much inevitable given that the frenulum is continuous with the rest of the foreskin.
> 2. This is a slightly unusual take on frenulum breve to be sure, since it suggests the frenulum is not really the problem.
And indeed that is the nub of it - the fraenulum is not really the problem. As you have postulated - to what does the fraenulum attach? To the foreskin of course, there is nowhere else it could. That is after all why (some of) those who have had a circumcision feel the need to have further surgery on the fraenulum - having had the lower part of the foreskin removed and the remnants sewn together, the attachment of the fraenulum is foreshortened to the extent that it becomes a problem on erection that it was not previously.
Erections, notably nocturnal ones, generally guarantee that both the foreskin and fraenulum stretch to accommodate; where the foreskin does not retract, then it stretches to fit in the un-retracted state and a short fraenulum is only then noted on attempts to retract the foreskin.
> According to this way of looking at things, the problem is that the lower side of the foreskin is too short to permit full, even retraction.
Exactly. Stretch the foreskin sufficiently, and the attachment of the fraenulum no longer matters.