Growing up in a non-religious family, I am one of the 60% of males who are circumcised. I just saw the episode of Bullshit! on circumcision, and apparently you can stretch the skin around the cut off portion, so that it regrows itself. I imagine the same theory applies to stretch marks and crash dieters having loose skin.
Now, I’m aware the process will take a few years, but what type of system do I need to implement that will regrow my lost manpart?
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And you might want to have a drink, alcoholic that is, in hand when you do so.
I’ve heard this discussed by Dr. Dean Edell on his radio show. Apparently there are devices that attach weights to the skin on the penis and stretch it to form a new foreskin. Fortunately I was never circumcised, so I don’t have to contemplate the procedure.
There are many, many different methods. Some involve expensive and complicated stretching apparatus, others just some surgical tape and a lot of patience.
The easiest, cheapest way is also the least effective and could take many years even if you do it 24 hours a day every day. It’s called cross-taping and works like this: Roll your remaining foreskin up as far as it can go and tape it in place with two strips of surgical tape (or band-aids, but those are much more expensive than buying just the tape), one strip across the other, over your glans. Put a small piece sticky-side out in the middle so the tape doesn’t stick to your glans and will be easy to remove. You’ll have to at least partially remove it every time you pee.
The idea is to apply constant gentle tension on the foreskin, stretching it and encouraging it to grow to compensate. Cross-taping, while it does apply some tension, doesn’t do a very good job of it. Thus, it will take a very, very long time if it’s the only method you use. It’s also hard to apply equal pressure to the inner and outer foreskin when cross-taping. You want both sides to grow at the same rate and cross-taping applies almost all of its force to just the outer, where it’s stuck.
The most popular and also the most effective taping method is called T-taping. It will still take years, but much less than cross-taping. It first involves a bit of setup: get an elastic band, the kind used in clothing like underwear. The wider the strip, the more comfortable it will be to wear. To one end, either tie a loop of fabric big enough to fit around one of your legs, or an alligator clip to fasten it to your pants.
Now, take two strips of surgical tape long enough to wrap around your penis, but not quite the whole way–you have to leave room for your frenulum*. Fold them in the middle and tape the two pieces together, forming a T-shaped strip with the sticky side on the top of the T.
Once you’ve got your T-strips and your elastic, get an erection and wrap the T-strip around your penis, with the vertical part of the T over your scar line. Wait for the erection to subside, then grab the flange that’s created and pull it up as far as it can go. Stretch the elastic strap and tie or clip it to the flange. It should be tight, but not so tight as to be painful.
T-strips apply great tension and, after a couple days, you get used to the strap and forget you’re even wearing it. This method does have its draw-backs: it takes longer to apply and greatly inhibits movement. If all you do is walk, climb stairs, or sit at desks, you’re fine, but anything requiring more leg flexibility than that is right-out.
Once you’ve grown out your foreskin enough that it can stretch completely over your glans, you can ring-tape. This is about as effective as cross-taping, but is by far the quickest and least cumbersome taping method: roll your foreskin up and tape around the top in a circle with a small strip of tape.
I’ve been doing a combination of T- and cross-taping** for the last five months, three weeks, and five days. My foreskin is greatly stretched, but there’s only been around 4mm of new growth. I figure it will take between two and three years over all. I try to do it at least 23 hours a day with no more than one day a month off. It doesn’t take much incentive not to cheat, though. After a month or so of your glans being covered, the skin thins and nerve endings move nearer to the surface. It’s most uncomfortable having it rub unprotected against fabric.
I’m assuming you’re through puberty. I’m not exactly sure why, but everything I’ve ever read about foreskin restoration stresses not to start until you’re completely through puberty, which is why I waited until I was 22 and figured I was good and done. You’ll need dedication and have to truly want it. It’s going to be many years of non-stop work.
*If your frenulum is intact, your golden. If it’s been severed, there is no non-surgical way to restore it. I have mine, but I know others have restored their foreskins through taping then afterward had a new frenulum surgically created.
**My way of cross-taping is different from the standard method. Instead of two strips of tape, I start with six strips and two small pieces. Fold four half-way over on themselves and make tiny Ts. Stretch your penis out or get an erection, whichever is easier at the time, and stick the four Ts on at the scar line, just like in T-taping. Put a small piece of tape on the top of two of the flanges with half sticking off, the sticky facing towards your body. Pull up the flanges and stick the flange on the opposite site to the other half of the tiny piece, then tape across the top. Do the same for the other pair of flanges. This corrects for the unevenness of cross-taping by applying tension to both sides at once.
Not to make light of your question, but why would you want to?
It’s greatly troublesome to know a part of you is missing, that it was taken without cause and against your will. Mostly, your body image doesn’t match your body. That’s my main cause, the dysmorphic aspect. Apparently, it isn’t for some people. For those it does affect, however, asking “why” is ludicrous question.
There’s also the theory that circumcision diminishes sensitivity, which, given my experience, I tend to believe, though there’s disagreement as to the degree of difference or even if there is one. An exposed glans toughens and gets thicker, not to mention a great amount of very sensitive skin is completely severed. Personally, though, I don’t care about that. It could be dead to the touch, but I need it intact.
That’s about all I can say. If the “why” isn’t self-evident, then it’s simply not for you and explanation probably wouldn’t be any more enlightening than just saying “because”.
There’s someone missing from this discussion.
My question was actually directed to the OP and is entirely sincere. Sorry if you find it ludicrous, or if I’ve touched a nerve (pun intended). Self evidence in any issue pretty much negates the “why” , so I’ll disregard the dimissive tone in your last sentence. Truly, Dusty, I’m not mocking anyone, just trying to fight my own ignorance, as it were.
You seem to be reading more into my reply than I said.
I don’t doubt your question was sincere. My reply was as well. If you choose to read it as “dismissive”, okay, but I fail to see that. The last line is really the best possible way to phrase my answer to your question: without already knowing, it’s not a very easy thing to express, and whatever the explanation given, it probably won’t make a great deal of sense. I’m not being hostile here.
And yes, I’m aware you were asking the OP, but I can answer for myself as well.
I doubt this is anything to feel left out about. At least, mine doesn’t seem to (directly) do anything for me. I do believe the “decreased sensitivity” talk, however.
This is what I perceive as dismissive. It would seem you have something to say on this matter, and I am interested in hearing it. To be told “if you have to ask, you can’t afford it” is kind of insulting.
No, the "why " is most definitely *not * self-evident. If you feel you don’t have the words to explain your feelings, all well and good. Don’t assume, however ,that there is some deficiency on my part that renders me incapable of comprehending. “Because” is what you say to children and drunks when you can’t be bothered.
Okay, you seem rather pre-disposed to being offended, so I’m probably a fool even trying to continue this discussion, but anyway:
That’s a different line than you said was dismissive before, but if you read the bits both before and after it, you’d see my "something to say"s. If those were unsatisfying, then we’re back to the ‘if you have to ask, you’ll never know’ and the root of your objection.
Of course it isn’t, not to you, but then I never said it was. What I said was that for someone who has a reason, “why” can’t really be answered in any straight-forward way because it isn’t a question at all to them. Why is self-evident. This does little to answer those for whom it isn’t already apparent, and I said as much.
This is very hard to argue since it’s almost a non sequitur. All I can say is that you seem to have singled out one word and completely ignored the rest of the paragraph. “Because”, placed back into context, is used as an equivalence here–i.e., any explanation given will be unsatisfactory in the same way that simply saying “because” is unsatisfactory. You seemed to have understood my use of the word perfectly, but not how the word was placed in the sentence.
I preemptively apologize if you find any offense in this post. Reading over it, I surely would–it sounds horribly patronizing–but I don’t want to risk introducing any further misunderstanding. If it comes across that way, I hope you’ll see I’m just trying to be absolutely clear.
The “why” driving some responses centers on the proposition that the absence of a penis foreskin shouldn’t cause a man to obsess over his body image and that body dysmorphia is a psychopathology without surgical remediation.
Best wishes to the OP.
That would be the “TMI” tag.
Understood; thanks.
Mine does. Makes masturbation a whole lot easier. Other than that, probably a wash.
Nope, it’d be the SDMB’s greatest wackjob of all time, Jack Dean Tyler. He was a legend . . . he had, um, very interesting ideas about sex. Like, for instance, women can’t truly be pleased by a guy with no foreskin. Because the proper way to please a woman is to rest your foreskin on her clitoris - they don’t actually like sexual intercourse. You can tell it pleases them because they lie perfectly still, don’t make any noise, and don’t brag to their friends about your performance.
I’m seriously not exaggerating.
Whaaa…huh…? How long ago was that?I was in lurkyland for years before I joined, and I sure as heck would remember that. Link, por favor 
Don’t forget to power-suck their nipples!