Oh thank god I can finally stop wearing this dick toupee
[NSFW] ysk: you can restore your foreskin
Submitted 1 month ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreskin_restoration
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AlternateHuman02@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Been doing this on and off for years, definitely works but the process is slow. Especially when you aren’t consistent. I have thought about starting a community for it if anyone is interested.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 month ago
question. any difference in general?
like does sex feel better or the same?
AlternateHuman02@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Totally! Once you can get the stretched foreskin skin to stay over you glans regularly the glans skin starts to become more soft and sensitive from not rubbing on fabric.
Masturbation is more fun too since there is more skin to move around.
I am really enjoying the feeling. I think if I was consistent I would be fully restored in about two years from now, but I am not so I am giving myself five to be done fully.
I started this process when I was in my early 20s and would be done by now if I had just stuck with it.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Shouldn’t be removed in the first place, outside of medically necessary procedures.
Mac@mander.xyz 1 month ago
termaxima@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Of all the organs I cannot fathom why this is the one we decided we should remove bits of. Imagine if we had instead made a ritual of removing earlobes, no one would give a fuck.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It desensitises the dick. Same reason for FGM. Beyond all of this, it is just a marker for tribal in-groups, a method of trust for converts into the religion, and a method of control.
SW42@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thanks, i got used to Not having One since having surgery for phimosis when I was little. Good to know there’s an option for people who want to have it restored. Options are always good:)
0ops@piefed.zip 1 month ago
What’s with the downvotes on the post and through the comments? Is lemmy more prudey than I thought or am I missing something here?
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean, it’s not really an accurate title. What was cut off can’t be restored. Sure, you can stretch the skin to be something like a foreskin, but it doesn’t have the nerve endings that were removed.
0ops@piefed.zip 1 month ago
It’s the commonly used term, op didn’t make it up for this post, that’s just what people call it. The wikipedia article he linked uses the term in the title. I personally learned about this at r/foreskinrestoration. Besides, who’s gonna downvote over semantics? My bet is still on prudes.
juliebean@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
i know this is a thing, but i really don’t understand the why. like, is it an aesthetics thing? is it something done as a sort quiet protest against the practice of circumcision as a whole? something else?
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Circumcision is abuse. Only rarely is it a medically sane practice. The glans basically becomes calloused, why would anyone want that?
Foreskin restoration is a way to return to a more normal state, with a softer and more sensitive glans. That is the reason people want to restore.
0ops@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Jacking off without needing lube
Rolder@reddthat.com 1 month ago
I don’t know about other people but I go dry 99% of the time and it’s fine.
Aganim@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is that really a thing? I’ve been circumcised when I was young because of medical reasons, I’ve never needed lube for a wank.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m circumcised and I’ve never needs lube to wank. circumcision is bad regardless, but I’m not sure that lubless wanking is a problem.
noxypaws@pawb.social 1 month ago
I’m circumcised and I don’t understand why I would ever need lube to jack off. Where did you get that idea?
Seleni@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Circumcision removes a lot of the sensitive tissue, making it harder for a man to climax, especially while masturbating. It’s done primarily by religious loons to ‘keep men from committing sin’, since they believe the only way a man should ever climax is during penetrative sex with a woman.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 month ago
Healing trauma?
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
TIL, thanks
Goretantath@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do you still get the extra nerve endings that the original provided?
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
No, but you do regain a lot of sensitivity and your glans becomes less calloused.
According to the Reddit threads at least. I still have the foreskin I was born with.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nerves don’t grow back, but the glans becomes more sensitive as the calloused skin heals.
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Those penises look funny in their various apparatuses.
grandcthulhu@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Husband restored his over the course of a year. Can confirm, it does work… to an extent. One caveat is that he has to wear a retainer day and night, as the stretched skin doesn’t cover the head unless pulled into place with the retainer.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It will take a few more years but he will get there. Tell him I salute him for his perseverance!
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The RNG gods have shown me a sign:
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 month ago
And the thousands of nerve endings that provide a better experience, do they magically grow back as well or it just stretched skin?
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nerves don’t grow back, but the glans becomes more sensitive as the calloused skin heals.
Rolder@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Shit I already enjoy mine and you’re saying it could have been better?
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 month ago
It’d be more fun to restore someone else’s foreskin, magically.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Personality I would rather have the opposite (bottom surgery) :3
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No thanks, still looks disgusting.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 month ago
So it’s not your cup of tea, doesn’t mean you have to get judgemental over it.
The cruel part is that the people that are circumcised don’t get to choose for themselves.
JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 1 month ago
okay, you’re free to circumsize yourself
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Just don’t mutilate your kids cause you think it looks gross
genau@europe.pub 1 month ago
I can’t believe circumcision is still practiced in some parts of the world.
NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
And it’s been the default here in the US, historically and culturally (for puritanical reasons originally, and now because it’s “the norm”). Absolutely barbaric practice. “Yes, please mutilate my newborn baby because *checks notes* having a foreskin is dirty.”
Aeri@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Something I consider extremely upsetting is the fact that just nobody gives a single solitary fuck in america? Like it’s literally genital mutilation on a baby? But people will basically just brush you off if you try to bring up how fucked it is?
Glytch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“My parents mutilated me so I’ll do the same to my newborn child because tradition”
victorz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s brutal. I’m very lucky I wasn’t. Both my younger half brothers are.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My BIL had his son circumcized. When I asked him why (he’s not at all religious) he couldn’t come up with a reason.