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Stretching efficiency and permanence

Written by Paul B. at 07 Jan 2003 21:57:29:

As an answer to: Stretching written by Mark at 07 Jan 2003 17:51:46:

> When i start stretching how long should it take to see some results

The general opinion from this forum would appear to be "a couple of weeks" - that is, the time to see some results. However, the entire project may take quite a bit longer, depending on many factors including just how tight the foreskin is to start off, how effective is the method you use to stretch, and that including how often you perform the stretching and for how long each time, and your age and skin parameters.

I saw a rather sad young lady (under 20 years) a few days ago, who had rather too stretchable skin - her boobs had lost weight as a result of the cycle of pregnancy and subsequent weight loss - the latter quite probably desired in itself, but as a result they were almost all a mass of wrinkles and stretch marks. This is not too uncommon, one reason why women in general are none too keen to show off their bodies, and vividly illustrates the next point.

> and once stretched is it permanent i.e it doesn`t go back to its previous state when you stop stretching after a while?

Be very certain that skin stretching is permanent, albeit when you actually stretch beyond the elastic limit of youthful skin. All the women you may chance to see with drooping boobs, and I'll wager you have seen them, illustrates this only too clearly. When you do the stretching, to the point that you make the skin loose enough to slip over the glans easily - which is to say, the point to which you stretch is a little more than that, allowing for the degree of the tendency for the skin to spring back immediately, and "firm up" if you cease the stretching - then that stretch will be permanent.

So what of the cases where people say their foreskin "tightened up again"? Well, of course, this may have occurred, and there would then be a reason for this. It depends in the first place, entirely on why the foreskin was tight. We are presuming in your case, that you have a foreskin that is tight because it grew that way - that is, as you grew, you did not retract it regularly (indeed - not at all). Tightness thus becomes a self-perpetuating condition - it is tight because you do not retract it, and you do not retract it because it is tight. Thus your penis has grown, but the foreskin has not.

If this is the case, then we would expect that once you can retract your foreskin, after stretching it, you will thereafter continue to do so, on a regular basis (such as - whenever you pee, as well as part of masturbation which you presumably do quite regularly) and thus, this if nothing else, will ensure the foreskin remains flexible.

The situation is different for those men whose tight foreskin is a new phenomenon, due to some disease, most commonly severe "thrush" (Candida Albicans - the same condition which plagues women, so it is nothing rare or poorly understood) and in rare cases, "LSA" (Lichen Sclerosis et Atrophicus of the foreskin, often called "BXO" though this is no longer favoured in specialist medical parlance).

These conditions require treatment, so a foreskin which previously worked well but has tightened, can only be stretched back again if the condition causing it is correctly diagnosed and treated, and may of course happen again at a later date if the condition comes back, in which case it will need to be treated again. A characteristic of this situation is however, that stretching is generally relatively easy as soon as the underlying condition is effectively treated.

Now getting back to the matter of how soon you see results, what is particularly important is that once you see some results, you are immediately convinced of the connection - stretching makes it stretch - and that you then realise with complete clarity that the only limit to how effectively you can stretch your foreskin to whatever degree you need, is whether you choose to persist with it. Any limitation which you encounter in the process, will be overcome with patient persistence and/ or a re-assessment of the technique that you are using, to ensure it continues to be the most effective at that given stage of the process.


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