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My personal belief is that a frenulum can't be reconstructed.

I agree. The procedure that some get is done on the top, not below where the frenulum is (nobody wants to sever nerves and such down there).

A non-amputating procedure called a transverse dorsal slit with proximal closure can create a tight skin tube tip so the skin will stay over the glans. It doesn't function like a frenulum to draw the skin (hands free) over the glans after erection, but once placed over the glans it does stay, assuming one has grown enough slack skin.
 

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This speaker believes that the business is making money by selling a solution to a problem that it created (or that it intentionally allows to continue to exist). Because to me it sounds like another business that markets itself based on men's insecurities about the appearance of their penises. Another example of this type of business would be the "penis enlargement" racket. What you do is you feed on insecurities men have about their penises and you come up with a product that reinforces the insecurities.

This particular racket encourages users of their products to "stick with it" for years on end in hopes of creating a foreskin. Once a foreskin is removed, you cannot replace it. You can stretch skin on the shaft of the penis to cover the glans and graft skin to the shaft of the penis to cover the glans, but you cannot create a foreskin. Providing hope that a guy can majically "create" a foreskin is false advertising. It is also reinforcing the mistaken belief that something is wrong with your penis as it is.

All penises circumcised and uncircumcised are beautiful. They deserve to be worshiped equally. Of course, you aren't making any money if you are helping guys to accept their circumcised penises as beautiful. And of course you can't keep a certain political movement going in this country if you aren't making men who are circumcised feel bad about the way their penises look.

The racket is the act of circumcision. It was started in the US to reduce masturbation, amongst other ludicrous claims. Medical literature is filled with specious claims of circ's supposed benefits.

The circ racket pulls in about $200,000,000 a year in the US, some of it funded by taxpayer dollars. Many of those foreskins go into the manufacture of cosmetics.

Cut American men are learning that the loss of their foreskin means they've lost a good deal of their sensitivity. Unfortunately, the circ racket continues to come up with spurious non-scientific studies to bolster their own bank accounts.

Give it another ten or twenty years and RIC will be banned in the US. It's just too bad that millions of baby boys will be mutilitated in the mean time.

I'm sure there will be lots of lawsuits in the coming years, depriving the fetishists of their extremely lucrative racket.
 

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I've been with intact guys who have less of a frenulum than I do, and mine is all gone!

Just as there are all kinds of foreskins, so are there all kinds of frenulums.

I've read of urologists who are sensitive to the issue of foreskin restoration and who could probably do the procedure or recommend someone who could. Personally, after having spent so much time restoring, the last thing I want is to have a scalpel near my dick.

Have you started restoring yet or is this issue holding you back?

I hope not, it takes a fair bit of time to restore so it might be a year or two or even three before you'll be in need of the procedure. You'd do well to start restoring. You'll have plenty of time to look later.

Hi Chico,

Thanks very much for the response. You've convinced me to get on with the restoration process and forget about undergoing the knife in an attempt to re-create a frenulum. I'm thinking about buying the DTR device (foreskin restore) and combine use of the DTR with daily and gentle manual tugging.

I tried the TLC tugger, but don't like the concept and annoying sensation of having a device attached to my leg for the better part of the day.

Again, thanks for your advice Chico.
 

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Hi Chico,

Thanks very much for the response. You've convinced me to get on with the restoration process and forget about undergoing the knife in an attempt to re-create a frenulum. I'm thinking about buying the DTR device (foreskin restore) and combine use of the DTR with daily and gentle manual tugging.

I tried the TLC tugger, but don't like the concept and annoying sensation of having a device attached to my leg for the better part of the day.

Again, thanks for your advice Chico.

Finding the right method is an art. Some guys swear by o rings but I can't stand them. It's like a slow strangulation of my new skin.

I wish the tlc had a smaller profile. It's impossible to hide. At 8", I'm not huge but when stretched, it's too long to tug upwards and downwards it makes a huge bulge mid thigh.

It's really hot where I live in the summer and tape just slowly sweats away so the tlc is the only tapeless device that I've found to work for me. T taping is the best solution in the winter time and I like the smaller bulge that it creates.

The TLC works great at home and I'm using it now. For me, varying the times and methods seems to work well and definitely fits best into my lifestyle.

I'm glad you're giving it a try. Keep us all posted!
 

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business is making money by selling a solution to a problem that it created

I don't think this is in any way relevant to circumcision or foreskin restoration. Virtually no doctors who circumcise infants come back later to surgically reconstruct foreskin facimilies. There is just a handful of people in the world with significant experience in prepuce reconstruction.

Nobody offering non-surgical restoration help offers or even condones circumcision.

I think a better analogy is to the dental profession. Dentists don't create tooth decay, but they are there to help you do something about it. The fact that Proctor & Gamble are assholes who try to sell mouthwash by convincing everyone that there's something wrong with a normal mouth doesn't make a dentist part of a "racket."

Do you call your own dentist a racketeer or do you just thank him/her and pay the bill?

-Ron
 

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I didn't mean that at all and I'm unsure if you purposely misunderstood it, the poster is saying that the business created this problem, I am saying that the medical profession promulgates a need to circumcise.
 

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I restored a number of years ago using the t-tape and elastic method. I can say that I love having foreskin. My head is much softer and more sensitive and I don't need lube to JO. FR works, but you have to be patient and stick with it.
 
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If this hasn't already been said, you should all try T-Tape. It's the fastest and newest method. I've only been T-Taping for a week and am already noticing a difference. With some healthier, younger guys, it can take as little as 6 months to fully restore. But on average, 1 to 2 years.
 

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Reality check: minimum: 2 years, average: 4 years ... assuming a typical "hospital" cut.

T-tape is one of the oldest rather than newest methods. There are on-going debates on the F/R forums about which is fastest. The matter is unresolved at this time.:smile: