if a guy still had all his inner foreskin and stretched it back, roughly how far on the shaft would it go?
I don't know of any figures on that particular question, C, and if there were any, they'd most likely vary all over the scale, just as penises themselves do. I'll crawl out on a limb, however, and offer my personal speculations. Logically it must depend on the individual lengths of both penis and foreskin. To be more specific, the inner skin is anchored at the sulcus; from that point inner and outer layers are of equal lengths (though the inner is doubled) toward the tip, covering the glans and including any overhang. Therefore, short penis & long foreskin = high retraction, long penis & short foreskin = low retraction, and so on. This should hold reliably true for men whose frenulums and/or foreskin openings allow for full retraction, but for others for whom one or both do not,* there doubtless would be no predictability whatsoever. My best guess, judging only by photographs/films and my own experience in this country and noncircumcising Europe, is that there may be more men who do not retract fully (i.e., all the way back and flat along the shaft) than those who do.
*As an aside, one of the most frequent assurances that I give, as an Intactivist, is this: There's nothing magic about retracting to the balls and nothing tragic about not retracting at all [i.e., no farther than just behind the glans].
For a little more on low circumcision, scan
circlist.de: see especially the LH (dark brick-red) menu column, bottom heading ("Bildergalerie"), sub-entry "Low Circumcision." (Despite the English term, this site is in German; I'll translate passages of text {within reason!} for anyone who might request it.) I have no idea what percentage of the very few circumcised Europeans are low cut, but I have the distinct impression that it is the most popular style (traditionally, at least) in Germany and France...and in French Canada, whose surgeons, I've readd, are generally trained in that usual French style. To view a low-cut operation, see
circumstitions.com, the first example under "Videos" (no title, but in a green box). A low circumcision obviously requires tugging out and removing virtually all of the inner foreskin: that procedure is exactly what you'll see in graphic detail, from beginning to end. ...And you'll hear the operator fatuously asking the mother if
she is doing all right...! Sheesh!!!
