As a kid, my glands were always covered. I grew up near the ocean and also had a pool; most of my friends had pools too. If I had to change into my swimsuit around my friends I would roll my skin back so I’d look like the other boys.
I assumed that the tip of glans was generally exposed? or truly fully covered ?
Did your foreskin often retract in underwear as a kid? How long would it stay uncovered for?
I assume erections caused foreskin to fully expose head?
And in pool scene, was it easy to have it stay retracted as you undressed/changed, or were ou affraid others would spot your foreksin going back over glans as you bend down to bring bathing suit up?
Were you comfortable with glans exposed in your underwear? Did you retract it at every opportunity such as when pissing and placing it back retracted in underwear? Or only at times when you undressed un front of others?
> I do remember having to go to the doctor for an infection as a result of not washing my penis properly.
Was your dad cut at birth? If so, he would no clue on care of a foreksin; And if they had you circumcised at birth, they would likely be told not to worry and that you would grow out of the skin, which would expain your parents not teaching you how to care for foreskin.
But surprised you would have had an infection. If foreskin is short enough to self retract during erections, your glans would spend enough time exposed during noctunal erections to shed all the smegma/dead skin cells. At least that was my experience as adult. Since boys produce more of the stuff, perhaps that wasn't enough.
When you got the infection, did the doctor bring up circumcision?
My dad was uncut, I was very uncut with long foreskin, and pediatrician recommended circumcision, but dad being opposed to it, made sure i washed and retracted every day. Although retractable when soft with some tightness as a kid it became fully retracted when erect at age 10. But remained long during puberty.
>Children should be left intact, given a bar of soap and taught to wash their entire body including their penis.
Actually for true uncut boys, you are better off just rinsing glans and inner foreskin because soap residue can cause irritation.
>was big before but it continued to grow. My foreskin started to stay back and I could only roll it forward when flaccid.
During/after puberty, does that mean that when masturbating, the skin stopped going past the rim on upstroke? or did you mean that it would go back as soon as you released it?
When you started to j/o, did you move skon up down such that pn upstroke it went over glans like you uncle had showed, or did you do it as cut friends told you with skin stopping at rim on upstroke?
When you masturbate now, how far up does your skin still move? stop at rim on upstroke or still cover part of head?
During puberty, as you started to grow, did you end up with bare glans in underwear more of the time? did that solve the problem of undressing in front of others?
> what it’s meant to do. Today, I don’t know what my foreskin is doing. Sometimes I’ll notice it retracted and other
>times it’s not; I’m totally unaware of it and don’t pay too much attention to what’s going on in my pants.
From 18 to 43 I was semi cut and was quite aware of state of my foreskin. What changed is that after about 10 years, I stopped getting boners whenever my foreskin started to retract. I've now been fully cut for 14 years and depending on underwewar type I wear, I am still quite aware of having bare glans.
So when I became semi-cut, I initially saw it as just getting shorter foreskin without bcoming "circumcised". I continued to j/o the same way, except I had to pull the skin up on upstroke and was able to tun it down tight on downstrioke. The skin reached about half to sometimes 2//3 coverage on upstroke and loosened over the years so 15 years later got it shortened a bit.
Unlike you, because I didn't want to be "circumcised", I worked to prevent my sekin from retracting in underwear so was very aware when it happened.