Frenulum (again)

I have a rather short and quite thick frenulum, which can cause my skin to slip forwards. It also gets quite sore if it gets heavy use. So, I am going to try an experiment with it. I shall massage it using E45 cream three or four times each day, to see if it can be stretched or thinned (or both!).

First Polls

The first two polls are now closed.

The first one, about being skinned back, was very encouraging: out of 122 votes, 52 said they were skinned back full time, while 49 said part-time. This is 101 guys going about with their forekins pulled back - plus another 8 who have short skins that roll back naturally. Of course, there is no indication of where these guys are from.

The second, about underwear, just comes out in favour of loose boxers, which got 28 votes out of 70, while briefs came second with 23. Tight boxers (boxer-briefs, trunks) were the least popular with 14. I did leave out some types, so this is not so representative - jocks were not included, for example, nor thongs. Perhaps those who wear them voted under briefs! But ...there were also 5 votes for commando, so allowing that no underwear is much the same as loose boxer shorts, 33 votes went for letting things hang free.

Wanking: forward or back?

A number of guys I have chatted with about permanent retraction say that they still use their foreskins for wanking. I can't see the sense in this: if you want a bare glans, then surely you keep it bare at all times! I have to tell partners (circumcised and not) not to pull it forward over my glans.

I like to wank by rubbing the glans in a loose grip, without any lube. Sometimes I pull the skin as far down the shaft as it will go, at others I leave it where it is behind the corona. Occasionally I use lube, and that really does heighten the sensations - almost to an unbearable degree.

How's it hanging?

Well, if you wear loose boxers or other shorts, then it hangs as it will! But if you wear tighter styles, you have make a decision about the position of your dick. Do you have it pointing straight up, or across to the right or the left, or pointing straight down, over your balls? A lot depends, I think, on the size of the flaccid cock, and the position it wants to take naturally.

Let me know!

underpants ...

Rather a long time since the last post - life gets in the way!

I have been thinking about what kind of underwear is best for skinning back. Of course, if your foreskin goes back and stays there without any assistance, then you don't really need to worry, and you can wear what you like! I am interested that the poll on the front page indicates that loose boxers are (just) more popular than any other kind. I've been trying various kinds recently. (The pics are not me - but just trawled from the net, so I can't guarantee they are skinned back!)

Loose boxers (or other shorts). Allow everything to hang free; no pressure on the glans; gentle rubbing of the glans on the shorts can keep it slightly aroused helping the skin stay back.

Tight boxers/trunks. Hold everything in place, but I find they are not very good if the skin slips forward - difficult to readjust it! The kinds with a built-in pouch and no fly opening are best.

Jockstrap. So far my favourite! The tightness of the pouch keeps everything where it should be - including the foreskin, although (depending on the make and style of pouch) it does not compress the glans but allows it to swell.

Commando (freeballing). Not wearing any at all has much the same advantages as loose shorts, but is even easier to make a readjustment in case of 'slippage' - just put your hand in your pocket and reach across!

More pics of CJ

CJ sent me these to put up - always glad for more from anyone! As readers will know, he is commando 24/7 as well as skinned back.

Charles' story

As I was approaching puberty, I got a real shock when I switched schools and for the first time was thrust into a locker room environment where all the boys shared dressing and shower facilities in common.I had no idea until then that I was indeed a sheltered child raised like a mushroom. Nearly all the other boys appeared to have their foreskins pulled all the way back, all the time! How did they do it, and why? I felt like a freak, and was embarrassed no end to have to shed my clothes together with them. But the real shock of all came when I soon discovered that my own older brother and a cousin also lookedl ike the other boys. Then I really felt alone. But they comforted me and told me I had to do the same thing that they had learned to do. None of us even knew about circumcision yet.

At first it was difficult. My foreskin wouldn't stay retracted and when it did it was extremely sensitive and uncomfortable wearing clothing. But if my brother and cousin and friends had done it, somehow I knew I could too. More important, I knew I had to. In the early years, I would keep my skin retracted only when I slept or when not physically active. I used rubber bands, looping two together to make a figure 8 pattern, and putting one loop around my balls and the other around the penis over the retracted skin (either top or bottom), to hold it in place. I also tried tape and other things, with various degrees of results, none very good. One of a number of things I tried was to tie a piece of cloth around my ball sack, with the skin bunched up so as to pull back on the foreskin as much as possible. One day I found out that unruly bulls were often castrated by having a stiff wire tied around their ball sacks, which cut off blood flow and caused the balls and sack to die and fall off. Would this work on a foreskin? Actually, it does, with the Gomcoclamp and Mogen ring, but I didn't know about that stuff back then. I fashioned a ring out of a strip of flat aluminum, to fit around my penis just behind the head. Then I pulled the retracted foreskin forward, over the ring, and placed a tight rubber band around the outside of the foreskin, on top of the strip ring that was now on the inside. But it started throbbing and began to hurt, so I could only wear that for about an hour. Back to the drawing board. Gradually, I noticed that the foreskin was beginning to cooperate a little, and the more frequent exposure of the penis head seemed to let it grow out better. Hypersensitivity of the head also began to level down to a more comfortable feeling. Eventually it even became erotic to feel clothing rub across it, and I was walking around with a half hard for much of the time. By then, any erection would cause the foreskin to retract completely, an experience which I welcomed. During the following summer I finally achieved more or less permanent retraction. But although nothing could have made me happier, I had to wonder what the other boys would think when school started again. I still felt like wearing my foreskin peeled back was a prelude to something sexual. Would I be sending that kind of message?I put the thought out of my mind. I finally had what I needed and wanted, it no longer caused me automatic erections at the most awkward times, and now I would blend in with the other boys. Besides, I had already noticed that I wasn't the only one. Other boys' puberty stages had caused a few short foreskins to auto-retract, and others appeared to have done exactly what I had done. I wanted so much to talk to them about it, but couldn't muscle the nerve. It was at least another year or so before I began to learn of other uncut boys and their stories. After many years now, my dick looks a lot like the one you posted of CJ's. No one seeing it has asked me if I am really circumcised or not. Charles II