Foreskin Retraction -- or lack of!

namodomok: [quote author=Mr._dB link=board=health;num=1068334530;start=0#13 date=02/17/04 at 07:43:08]

I'm just amazed by how many people aren't even aware that their genitals have been modified.[/quote]

I know exactly what you mean...but isn't that the beauty of this forum? Where else can you go to get advice without being ridiculed? Society makes our sexuality so forbidden, that we know more about how to hold and shoot a gun, than we do about our own bodies. (Yeah..I know..there's a few jokes just waiting to be born in that last sentence about holding and shooting your gun!!!)

Yeah, mok, the playing field is wide open. Lets examine the kinds of guns. We have shot guns, rifles, bazookas, cannons (that's the one I like), and then there are the pistols of all makes, sizes and calibers. There's gotta be stories out there! ::)

Luke :P

[quote author=RoysToy link=board=health;num=1068334530;start=0#14 date=02/17/04 at 09:38:58]Until the last few days, thanks to you guys posting on LPSG, I never knew anybody possibly could have an altered dick and not be aware of it. * I'm learning more and more about manly parts these days and getting more eager to learn as I go! ::)[/quote]
Surprisingly, most men don't know if it has been modified. I'm sure I'd remember body modification.

SuperJunior: i also had this problem. my doctor told me about it one day and warned me that i might tear my foreskin during intercourse. i went to the urologist and he took a look at it and then gave me the choice of circumcision leaving it alone or a dorsal slit. a dorsal slit is a short incision along the top of the foreskin. i chose to go w/ the dorsal slit and after a while i was able to pull the foresking all the way back. i was astounded by how much pleasure i had missed out on until this point. the procedure left me unable to masturbate for about 2 weeks and the foreskin was sensitive for a while (maybe another 2 weeks), but i am glad that i got it done, as my foreskin didn't even go all the way back while i was flaccid (maybe about half way).

Mighty_Joe: In talking once with a guy I met that was stationed at an Air Foce base in a city where I lived, somehow the subject of circumcision came up. I had to explain to him what it was. Duh! I never did get around to seeing if he was or not but I could not believe he was so uniformed.

ORCABOMBER: It's amazing really, when you come to think of it, how men can know so damn little about their own bodies!

Vigilante: I believe it is the parent's faults. They don't explain to their children about sexuality until it's way too late, I was taught about it since I was born and I'm well off because of it. I wasn't circumsized and I'm proud of it. I believe only blind, automaton parents get their kids circumsized. If it wasn't for the fact that you can't grow back your foreskin by believing in god, I'd think it was the mark of the beast, at least the male mark of the beast, maybe it's different for girls. Anyways I loathe parents who are so selfish they won't tell their kids about sexuality and their bodies, Plus, it's your parents faults that you have foreskin problems, your supposed to retract every time you go to the bathroom, OR AT LEAST everytime you take a bath/shower. In nature humans would clean themselves their too, eliminating foreskin trouble.

The 'cleanliness' excuse would only make sense if you were the type of person who, upon hearing that a whole day's work could be completed with the push of a button, says "Oh, man, I have to push a button?" Sadly, many Americans are that lazy.

namodomok: I agree with you totally, Vigilante. I just visited a friend whose little boy (4) was always itching his dick. Then his mother complains that she can't get him to aim in the toilet bowl. I realized he was spurting in all directions when he peed because he wasn't taught to retract his foreskin....it had nothing to do with his aim. He was also itching because his mother wasn't washing behind his foreskin, and when I brought it up she said, "I'm not touching that!" I was there for four days, and my kid( a girl) and her boy were bathing together. She never once retracted the foreskin on her son to wash it. She's a very intelligent woman, her husband is uncircumcised, but she had a problem touching her own son at 4 years old. I mentioned ithis to the boy's father who said he had repeatedly told her she must retract the skin when she bathes the boy, but she thinks it's some form of molestation. I just couldn't believe how stupid she was. My mother had drilled it into me since I was a boy, and I was lectured about what would happen if I didn't wash properly. I'm so glad she did it.

[quote author=namodomok link=board=health;num=1068334530;start=20#23 date=03/22/04 at 0924]She's a very intelligent woman, her husband is uncircumcised, but she had a problem touching her own son at 4 years old. *I mentioned ithis to the boy's *father who said he had repeatedly told her she must retract the skin when she bathes the boy, but she thinks it's some form of molestation.[/quote]

In this case, it's up to the father to notify the boy's pediatrician so the doctor may instruct the mother how to care for her son properly.

I think it is time the father got in there and looked after business.
If the father told the mother that it was necessary to retract and wash and she isnt I dont think the doctor's advice will make a hell of a lot of difference.
The father should be swift enoug to take over the wash duty to make sure the itching etc stops and nothing worse develops. Time is a wasting!!!!!

namodomok: Pecker and Kurios have raised some very good points, but unfortunately the father works 12-14 hr days, and the kids are in bed(and washed) by the time he gets home. He does wash duty on the weekends when he's home, but a whole week of not retracting the foreskin could end in trouble. It's just sad all around.

Vigilante: The itching is probably caused by an overload of smegma...what you can't retract you can't clean. In nature boys have instinct to touch their penis...therefore they wouldn't have such trouble...but parents (especially THOSE catholics) tend to agree that masturbation and or touching themselves is bad...Amazing what we sacrifice for religion, I'm surprised the catholic church hasn't sacrificed god from their agenda yet...People believe in the church not god

hung: An American Boy here responding. I was born many years ago and my parents left me normal or natural or uncut as we like to say. I never had a retraction problem. I was never instructed on keeping my penis clean. I can really state that I was always fascinated with my penis. I peeled it back just to see the thing pop out. Once I discovered self pleasuring I usually gave my penis and the foreskin a brisk daily work out. No body had to tell me about keeping it clean. I figured it out all by my self. I did enjoy and also like my body from a very early age.

Well I'm also an uncut American, born in 1956. As the only uncut member of my family, the parents didn't know what to do with it, so they did nothing. I was never given any guidance about how to care for a foreskin, but I never had any trouble from it.

I was a late retracter -- my foreskin was quite firmly attached to my glans, I equate it to the way your fingernail is attached to the quick, until I was about 9 or 10. Until then, I never saw my glans, not even the tip of it. I didn't really understand how the whole foreskin system was supposed to work until pre-pubescent spontaneous morning erections caused me to start "coming out."

I don't know if things would have been any better or any worse if earlier retraction had been attempted. I suspect worse. Forcing it back, or trying to clean it, might have led to the sorts of irritations, infections, itching, and smells that would have led to medical intervention.