Child Foreskin Retraction

Fanof4skin · 05-05-2008

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Originally Posted by SirConcis

You need to take the "anti-circ" stuff with a grain of salt. Some of their "do not touch" recommendations were in response to pro-circ arguments that it was simpler for parents to care for circumcised babies, so the anti-circ just countered that you shouldn't try to retract the skin at all , ever, making it simpler to care for the ucnut penis than for a cut one.

The answer lies in the middle.

You must NEVER try to forcibly retract the foreskin.
But you can gently try to pull it back at regular intervals to monitor its progress. GENTLY is the word here. Once you feel it no longer easily/freely moves back, you stop there. In time, you will notice more and more of the glans that can easily be exposed. Always bring the skin back over the full head afterwards.

Once the foreksin does become partially retractable, you probably wnat to rinse under it in the bath. (retract foreksin as far as it can easily go and just wipe the gunk out gently with water (no soap).

as long as the foreskin is fully adhered to the glans (and thus fully unretractable), gunk won't accumulate between foreksin and glans, so infections won't happen much. But as the foreskin starts to separate, the process of keratinisation of glans/foreksin begins and both layers start to shed dead skin cells, and urine will become ttrapped under foreksin.

The process of the ofreksin separating from glans and becoming loose enough to retract varies from child to child. Hence some people outside the USA recommending common sense verification of the progress of the foreksin's retractibility.

Keyword here is to check for foreksin retractibility, NOT to make foreksin retract.

Don't bother doing this. There is just no reason why parents need to mess with their son's foreskin. It's a violation of his privacy to move his foreskin around on his penis. That's the why intact men masturbate themselves. I don't think any parent wants to do that to their son. At his age, the only thing you son needs as far as penis care is to soak in the bath. That's it. You might be worried about smegma but that is nothing to be concerned about until puberty. By that time, he'll be taking showers, washing his armpits, clipping his toenails, and rinsing under his foreskin

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Big Swinging Dick · 05-05-2008

But if a man wanted one they could get it done couldn't they?

They wouldn't be denied one?

Big Swinging Dick · 05-05-2008

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Originally Posted by Fanof4skin

Don't bother doing this. There is just no reason why parents need to mess with their son's foreskin. It's a violation of his privacy to move his foreskin around on his penis. That's the why intact men masturbate themselves. I don't think any parent wants to do that to their son. At his age, the only thing you son needs as far as penis care is to soak in the bath. That's it. You might be worried about smegma but that is nothing to be concerned about until puberty. By that time, he'll be taking showers, washing his armpits, clipping his toenails, and rinsing under his foreskin

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Like a moth to a flame.

dxjnorto · 05-05-2008

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Originally Posted by snoozan

What I noticed online when I read up on anything related to parenting was a lot of misinformation, contradictions, crackpot advice, and pure ignorance.

Heck, you can get that from your doctor too. It just costs a lot of money. Caveat emptor in all things. I am very skeptical of anything until I've learned something about it myself - especially health care things. Heck, the last year for which stats are available, I think 2003 or 2004, in excess of 90,000 people died because of medical mistakes. The U.S. national highway death toll is in the 50,000s!

dxjnorto · 05-05-2008

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Originally Posted by Big Swinging Dick

They wouldn't be denied one?

The National Health Service in the U.K. won't pay for one unless there's some medical need because it's elective/cosmetic surgery.

dolfette · 05-05-2008

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Originally Posted by Big Swinging Dick

But if a man wanted one they could get it done couldn't they?

They wouldn't be denied one?

in the uk?
well not on the nhs. that is, you'd have to pay to have it done unless there was a medical reason.
that's in a country where we're used to the gov covering all health care costs.

the nhs tends to look at cost effectiveness.
if there's no proven benefit for snipping all boys then they'll stick to snipping the very few that have any problems.

Mr._dB · 05-06-2008

Mine wouldn't retract 'til I was 10 or 11, they detach at different rates for different boys.

I was lucky, since I'm the only uncut member of my family, my parents were completely ignorant of what to do with it, so they did nothing.

samymur · 05-06-2008

I had the 'problem' when I was younger that my forskin would not retract. The doctor told my parents to get me to attempt to retract it when was in the bath. I found this quite painful so I didnt do it often. I found however that left alone, my foreskin naturally detached and be able to move freely over the glands.
My advice would be to explain to him when his is older, that the foreskin is supposed to retract and that he should try to do so, gently, at times. If this is painful tell him to stop and not to cause a problem. If, by the time he finishes puberty there is still a problem, then he will be old enough to make his own decision to go to the doctors to get it treated

dxjnorto · 05-06-2008

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Originally Posted by Mr._dB

Mine wouldn't retract 'til I was 10 or 11, they detach at different rates for different boys.

I was lucky, since I'm the only uncut member of my family, my parents were completely ignorant of what to do with it, so they did nothing.

Yes thank you. The human body developing normally without any foreskin fiddling by misguided or misinformed caregivers. Imagine that!

Thanks dB.

komodoman · 05-07-2008

Hi permio: I have to agree with everything that dxjnorto has said. I'm about his age, and uncircumcised, and never had a problem in my life. There's a lot of nonsense floating around about infections etc. Remember, a foreskin is the the design that we evolved with. It's the perfect design. I don't know why we mess with it. I can't say it any better than dxjnorto...leave it alone, it will do what it's supposed to do. Your son will naturally learn how it all works. It's not the big mystery that everyone makes it out to be. It's just a cock for God's sake!

Child Foreskin Retraction

Originally Posted by SirConcis You need to take the "anti-circ" stuff with a grain of salt. Some of their "do not touch" recommendations were in response to pro-circ arguments that it was simpler for parents