The only time I use lube is when I use a toy that requires it, e.g., fleshlight. I have enough precum to keep the front and back fairly well lubed.
I use different techniques. Sometimes I pull the skin up over the corona (it does not go over the full head unless I am flaccid). Sometimes I give it the death grip.
Almost always I let it slap against my abs and I will also slap it in the palm of my hand. I do this a lot! I will pull it to the right and jack and pull it to the left and jack. I will push it as forward as possible and jack.
Sometimes I concentrate on making the head as huge as possible by continually re-positioning my hand as close to the base as possilbe keeping as much blood pumped up in there as I can, kinda like a cock ring but with my hand.
I will concentrate on the frenulum with my precum or surround my corona with it. I get a lot of pleasure from mining for more precum and using a lot of PC muscle contractions that make my cock contract. I will do that almost continously because it keeps the precum flowing real good. I also use the precum to stimulate my nips and I pinch them. I also bring the precum to my mouth and lick it.
Sometimes if I am using an anal toy or fingering my ass I will just let my cock pulsate as a reaction to my hole opening and closing and as the cum builds up from rubbing my prostate.
As my sexual tension gets higher and higher and I am dripping a steady stream of precum, it pretty much can cover my whole cock and my balls before it starts to dry and I get another stream of it. By then I am so worked up that I start to get mini contractions and I decide if I want to stay in the zone or jack it off. If I stay in the zone I allow the contractions to get stronger and stronger and with each series of contractions take my hands off my cock and let it contract several times on its own and it eases off and I start all over. Usually, I can only do this about 3 or 4 times and I have to get that cum out of there.
I can do one of several things at that point. I can tease out just a few more contractions up far enough so that it seems to start shooting on its own. I can concentrate on the frenulum with a kind of reverse, under-handed thumb grip until I start shooting. I can grab it with a two-handed grip, a real tight one at the base so my cock is not against my abs guaranteeing at least a couple of facial shots. I can also do just a standard quick jacking routine.
Seldom, if ever, have I rubbed myself raw. I think I might have done so when I was a kid and would jack off, it seemed, continually and I never took my time and let the precum flow first.
I hope that gives you a good idea of how a circ'd dude does it.
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