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Stretching and not Beta-methasone

Written by Paul B. at 20 Jul 2003 21:28:11:

As an answer to: Stretching & Beta-methasone written by QW at 20 Jul 2003 17:59:58:

> Hi. After reading most of the pages on the site, I think that I have primary phimosis - basically, I have never retracted my foreskin and can't seem to remember ever thinking that was not normal.

It would be interesting to know your age, and an indication of how far back you can actually expose your foreskin, perhaps from the picture page we love to quote.

> As far as I understood, the use of topical steroids is likely to help in this case, failing which circumsision is the option.

Oh dear! As Ralesk has mentioned, that isn't right at all. If you feel that circumcision might be considered as an "option" for the minor concern you have (It is minor - I am sure it hasn't ever stopped you having sex - and remember, "sex" includes masturbation!), we have entirely failed to convey the "facts of life". Not that I am surprised, given the confusing welter of bizarre opinions you will indeed find here.

Circumcision does not - cannot give you a fully functioning foreskin to assist in both masturbation and intercourse. Circumcision removes the foreskin, and even if only a "limited" procedure as some will claim, is performed, the part removed is the most functionally important. Circumcision is an option only for those who for whatever reason, value a particular appearance over function. If you value the (lifetime) function of your penis so little as to consider circumcision as any form of "option", then you may not approach the business of stretching with the necessary attitude.

> The one thing that I have been unable to determine is the correct combination of application of the beta-methasone & stretching.

Than you may not have read back far enough to find it.

> I seem to gather that I need to retract the foreskin as far as possible and apply the creme in the front inch or so...

Close! If you read the link I just mentioned regarding the (minor) part that the ointment plays, then it includes advice on how best to use it.

> I need to do this twice a day for a period of time ranging from 14 days - 1 month.

You need to stretch it as often as possible for however long it takes. It's not a matter of "apply twice a day" - it requires skill and persistence. If you do this twice a day, then the result will correspond to twice a day. If you do it twice a week, then the time it will take to get the result you want, will be greater by that same proportion! Doing it more often than twice a day may achieve faster results in proportion also, but if you were to do it too much more often than say, four times a day, then we would be somewhat concerned that you were taking the matter more seriously than it should be.

To re-iterate, your foreskin has served you particularly well for masturbation to this point, and while there is no doubt it should function otherwise - that is, retract easily - for optimum convenience, to ever think of it as a "problem" that you need to "get rid of", would be a bad error indeed.

> There seem to be numerous, and somewhat confusing, answers...

And there will no doubt be confusing answers to your query here. That's life, and you will need your wits about you to sort the gems from the dross. I wish you well.


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