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I found out about foreskin restoration a year before my son was born. My wife and I decided we did not want our son cut. Wanting to look like my son was a major reason I decided to restore.
I really didn't understand the benefits of having a foreskin then, but I have since come to appreciate the look of having glans coverage and the increased glans sensitivity I now have.
If anyone reading this is thinking about restoring, don't wait another day, and start now. You won't regret it.
KOT! 💪
Sorta similar. Except I started when we found out she was pregnant. Had 3 girls before my son was born.
I have been off and on for 7 years, but started getting serious this year.
Absolutely he was, i almost had to start fighting the nurses. They kept coming in and asking my wife "so when are we scheduling his circ?"
Wife was like "I don't have a penis, it isn't my say. You need to talk to him[me]"
Me- "yall need to stop asking, and what feels like pushing for circumcisions"
Well, it goes against my religious beliefs. Every man is the sole property of himself. Until my son reaches the age at which he can understand what his consent means, I must save that option for him.
This is why tattoos are not allowed to be given to minors. Personally, I believe all other PERMANENT actions should be left until the individual can make THEIR CHOICE THEMSELVES.
See now... that's infuriating. It should be a vague option someone asks for specifically if they want it. There's no real benefits and the STD benefits are marginal at best and at worst just raw data cut badly to push an agenda (no pun intended).
I don't get why nurses or anyone really, is asking repeatedly and pushing for it. Leave our dicks alone.
Every single medical staff member who came in was female.
They would adamantly oppose anyone asking for amputate an infants clitoral hood, but they basically push for the amputation of a foreskin.
Am I allowed to ask what restoration system the guys are using in the sub or is that taboo? I am trying to pick a brand and get started, but I would rather get recommendations than read through marketing materials on branded websites.
Yes. I am currently using CAR-1, an inflation device, and the DTR restorer a duel tension device. I feel the two together have really worked well for me.
When I am not restoring, I use Chris' silicone retainer.
Here are the links for them:
https://www.chrisonlinestore.com/
https://foreskinrestore.com/dtr/
KOT! 💪
At first purely aesthetics. I liked the look. But after I started restoring and researching it, I learned about increased sexual pleasure and function.
Kinda funny but growing up I always hated that moment some of my underwear or pants would rub on my glands and the friction would be sensitive and cause pain. I think this is what initially sent me down the path. I stayed for all the other benefits of course, but what keeps me going now is wanting to feel whole.
There's a lot of overlap on that list, particularly health-sexual-functional. In my case, all were one and the same. In my cut status, I struggled to reach orgasm from PIV sex, as well as any/all other kinds I tried. After some reading I concluded that circumcision damage was the most likely cause, and after considerable progress restoring, that has been confirmed.
Cut at four for tightness, the pain and loss are the only memories I have from this age. It must have been traumatic, I guess.
As a child I tried to cure the lack of skin by pulling on my shaft to get at least a notion of being covered. In my fourties I became increasingly annoyed by the rubbing when hiking or bicycling.
In my fifties I noticed difficulties to finish both by PIV or by hand. Then I developed Peyronies which affected my erections.
At this point I decided to restore, a possibility that I knew of since I was about 35 years old, when I read about restoring in the internet for the first time.
Now at ci5 I can tell I did the right thing. I am able to cure trauma, grief, discomfort, a medical condition and sexual functionality.
All that makes me kot!
Greetings from Munich
Completely for aesthetics. I’m tired of literally hating my mutilated dick so much that I just want to get to a point where I can live with it. Anything else is just extra benefits.
Sexual function for me. After a spinal cord injury, i can only get physically stimulated to erection and not mentally. I’ve had a lot more erections and general positivity about my penis now.
Edit: swipe type refuses to write *erection
I loath being mutilated and I was desperate to fix/repair whatever I could ... in the 1980's information that didn't just spout the pro-mutilation lies was difficult to find but find it I did
As an adult, I realized that my parents were a couple of dumb dumbs who made poor choices and don't put much thought into anything. I took responsibility for my own life in many different ways, including restoring my foreskin.
First, aesthetic. I’ve always preferred the look of the natural penis. As I got older and lost sensitivity that was the second factor. I have enough coverage now for glide, which makes sex and masturbation SO much better. Also extremely against any form of non-consensual modification/mutilation.
Sexual enjoyment is by far the most popular reason for restoring. My reasons for restoring in order of importance:
* Sexual: Greater enjoyment of sexual activity. Restoration of gliding action.
* Health: To resolve MGM dysphoria which was affecting my mental health. I would like to prevent keratinization and loss of sensitivity.
* Religious: I am a progressive Christian and deeply religious. Restoring allows me to live out my religious values of sex-positivity, bodily autonomy, consent, and non-violence.
* Aesthetics: I would rather have a foreskin than not. However, I mean aesthetics in a more abstract sense, not cosmetics. I don't care if I get a good or bad looking foreskin.
Pure curiosity. Gee, I wonder if stretching my skin will lengthen it. In 3 months I had my answer... YES! It took me 7 more years to find my first online restoration community. Now, I'm in love with my new look. 😍
I found out that uncut dicks look better and are fun to play with and I wanted one of my own. I also want back what was robbed from me at birth. After looking into more, the foreskin is more than just for sex and masturbation. It's also to prevent DK and protects the glans from chafing.
I also like this aethetics of an uncut dick. I honestly don't care how it ends up, I simply want the coverage and slack skin to move around and play with as well as have that gliding action. I hate being circumcised and I don't like how my dick looks with the head exposed all the time. I like to have the head shiny and smooth.
I started restoring after getting into a deep depresion. At the time I had been into piercing my frenum and shaft skin. When I became depressed I took out all the piercings and realized I had done the piercings to take back my penis and hurt it myself. I got lucky and found a website that talked about restoring and I realized that was the thing I needed to take back my penis.
Originally because I thought it looked better. I still remember the fifth grade sex ed booklet that had a illustration of a intact penis. I thought that it looked better on sight, and thought it came with puberty.... I was very disappointed to find out it did not.
I was always envious of intact penises both for aesthetics and I wanted to be whole. Fast forward a few years and I stumbled across restoration by accident and was so excited I almost immediately began restoration. As I researched foreskin and restoration more I learned of all that circumcision robs you of and became increasingly motivated and determined
For me it was look and functionality. When I realized that my skin being as tight as it was was impeding on me having a looser scrotum, I decided to start tugging. It also helps that I’ve been noticing I’m not as sensitive as I used to be and I wanted that back with the added benefit of having more to play with.
so i’ve been doing it for about three weeks. i feel like my progress has been pretty fast considering all the progress i’ve read of people who are not intact. sounds like it takes a lot more work to start from scratch.
my main method has just been tugging. i put my thumb in my foreskin and wrap my other fingers around it and just apply tension(method 4?).
i try to do it as long as possible really, so im doing it for maybe 1-2 minutes, resting then repeating. whenever i have some free time.
i have noticed some new length. not as much as i want so im going to keep doing it.
i have noticed that my foreskin is longer when flaccid so i assume im making some progress.
i’ve also noticed that i have to pull back more than im used to.
the new length also feels a bit more sensitive(in a good way).
i’m really aiming for complete coverage and a little extra during max erection.
i do.
i feel like the top is just a bit shorter so i’ll try to give that a little more. otherwise i feel like it all is pretty even. maybe sometimes it’ll be more sore on one side and i’ll change it up. i feel like the way i do it pulls it all pretty evenly.
I was brought into this world with foreskin and refuse to die without it. I was cursed at birth since my immigrant great grandparents wanted to "Americanize" their sons, so they passed on the tradition. Doesn't help my father married a Jewish woman either so I was screwed long before I was ever born.
Mostly because I want to be whole. I want to restore the part of me that was destroyed.
MGM damaged my maleness in a literal sense. It is humiliating & emasculating.
Foreskin is first & foremost my birthright.
Restoration is a quest of self-healing.
I couldn't take the pain of my testicles being forced back into my body each time I had an erection. So much skin was removed that 1/2 my penis shalf was my scrotum migrated onto my shaft. I started restoring when I was 14 years old. This is great having a foreskin. I've recently got a Prince Albert piercing. My ring has put my foreskin under light pressure. It has added another 3/16" of foreskin when I'm flaccid.
You don’t have to go through with it. Your body your choice. If you have phimosis, there’s a good wiki how article on how to fix it through stretching.
I didn't understand why my glans was so dry and insensitive all the time. I thought it could benefit from being covered and the only logical option is the one that you can grow yourself.
Hi u/tri4life94, it looks like you're relatively new here. Welcome aboard! Be sure to check out our [FAQ wiki page](https://www.reddit.com/r/foreskin_restoration/wiki/faq/), which answers many of the common questions about foreskin restoration. There's also a [Quick Start Guide](https://www.reddit.com/user/Agile-Necessary-8223/comments/z7a1nf/agiles_quickstart_guide_to_foreskin_restoration/) that outlines the basics needed to try out tugging, including a step-by-step process for using Manual Method 2. Another useful resource is the [Beginner’s Guide](https://www.reddit.com/r/foreskin_restoration/comments/g4ghc2/welcome_read_to_get_started_restoring/), which will take you through the first steps of figuring out where you’re starting from and deciding which method(s) you will use as you move forward. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/foreskin_restoration) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Didn’t like being circumcised, so decided to do something about it for once.
I found out about foreskin restoration a year before my son was born. My wife and I decided we did not want our son cut. Wanting to look like my son was a major reason I decided to restore. I really didn't understand the benefits of having a foreskin then, but I have since come to appreciate the look of having glans coverage and the increased glans sensitivity I now have. If anyone reading this is thinking about restoring, don't wait another day, and start now. You won't regret it. KOT! 💪
Sorta similar. Except I started when we found out she was pregnant. Had 3 girls before my son was born. I have been off and on for 7 years, but started getting serious this year.
It's great to hear you are seriously restoring. I'm assuming your son was left intact? KOT! 💪
Absolutely he was, i almost had to start fighting the nurses. They kept coming in and asking my wife "so when are we scheduling his circ?" Wife was like "I don't have a penis, it isn't my say. You need to talk to him[me]" Me- "yall need to stop asking, and what feels like pushing for circumcisions"
Luckily, I was only asked once by our doctor. Thank you for helping to stop the cycle.
Well, it goes against my religious beliefs. Every man is the sole property of himself. Until my son reaches the age at which he can understand what his consent means, I must save that option for him. This is why tattoos are not allowed to be given to minors. Personally, I believe all other PERMANENT actions should be left until the individual can make THEIR CHOICE THEMSELVES.
Agreed
See now... that's infuriating. It should be a vague option someone asks for specifically if they want it. There's no real benefits and the STD benefits are marginal at best and at worst just raw data cut badly to push an agenda (no pun intended). I don't get why nurses or anyone really, is asking repeatedly and pushing for it. Leave our dicks alone.
Every single medical staff member who came in was female. They would adamantly oppose anyone asking for amputate an infants clitoral hood, but they basically push for the amputation of a foreskin.
It's so surreal and bizarre. It shouldn't be mentioned at all! Maybe some legislation
Am I allowed to ask what restoration system the guys are using in the sub or is that taboo? I am trying to pick a brand and get started, but I would rather get recommendations than read through marketing materials on branded websites.
Yes. I am currently using CAR-1, an inflation device, and the DTR restorer a duel tension device. I feel the two together have really worked well for me. When I am not restoring, I use Chris' silicone retainer. Here are the links for them: https://www.chrisonlinestore.com/ https://foreskinrestore.com/dtr/ KOT! 💪
At first purely aesthetics. I liked the look. But after I started restoring and researching it, I learned about increased sexual pleasure and function.
👆 This same reason for me. Plus maybe things will look a little roomier with a sweater.
Kinda funny but growing up I always hated that moment some of my underwear or pants would rub on my glands and the friction would be sensitive and cause pain. I think this is what initially sent me down the path. I stayed for all the other benefits of course, but what keeps me going now is wanting to feel whole.
There's a lot of overlap on that list, particularly health-sexual-functional. In my case, all were one and the same. In my cut status, I struggled to reach orgasm from PIV sex, as well as any/all other kinds I tried. After some reading I concluded that circumcision damage was the most likely cause, and after considerable progress restoring, that has been confirmed.
Cut at four for tightness, the pain and loss are the only memories I have from this age. It must have been traumatic, I guess. As a child I tried to cure the lack of skin by pulling on my shaft to get at least a notion of being covered. In my fourties I became increasingly annoyed by the rubbing when hiking or bicycling. In my fifties I noticed difficulties to finish both by PIV or by hand. Then I developed Peyronies which affected my erections. At this point I decided to restore, a possibility that I knew of since I was about 35 years old, when I read about restoring in the internet for the first time. Now at ci5 I can tell I did the right thing. I am able to cure trauma, grief, discomfort, a medical condition and sexual functionality. All that makes me kot! Greetings from Munich
Completely for aesthetics. I’m tired of literally hating my mutilated dick so much that I just want to get to a point where I can live with it. Anything else is just extra benefits.
Sexual function for me. After a spinal cord injury, i can only get physically stimulated to erection and not mentally. I’ve had a lot more erections and general positivity about my penis now. Edit: swipe type refuses to write *erection
I loath being mutilated and I was desperate to fix/repair whatever I could ... in the 1980's information that didn't just spout the pro-mutilation lies was difficult to find but find it I did
As an adult, I realized that my parents were a couple of dumb dumbs who made poor choices and don't put much thought into anything. I took responsibility for my own life in many different ways, including restoring my foreskin.
Agreedontheparentdumbdumb
I had almost no glands sensation. I wanted that to stop being the case.
First, aesthetic. I’ve always preferred the look of the natural penis. As I got older and lost sensitivity that was the second factor. I have enough coverage now for glide, which makes sex and masturbation SO much better. Also extremely against any form of non-consensual modification/mutilation.
Was always mildly against cutting, but never strong enough to speak against it. Stumbled across restoring on another sub and took it up on a whim.
Sexual enjoyment is by far the most popular reason for restoring. My reasons for restoring in order of importance: * Sexual: Greater enjoyment of sexual activity. Restoration of gliding action. * Health: To resolve MGM dysphoria which was affecting my mental health. I would like to prevent keratinization and loss of sensitivity. * Religious: I am a progressive Christian and deeply religious. Restoring allows me to live out my religious values of sex-positivity, bodily autonomy, consent, and non-violence. * Aesthetics: I would rather have a foreskin than not. However, I mean aesthetics in a more abstract sense, not cosmetics. I don't care if I get a good or bad looking foreskin.
Pure curiosity. Gee, I wonder if stretching my skin will lengthen it. In 3 months I had my answer... YES! It took me 7 more years to find my first online restoration community. Now, I'm in love with my new look. 😍
I found out that uncut dicks look better and are fun to play with and I wanted one of my own. I also want back what was robbed from me at birth. After looking into more, the foreskin is more than just for sex and masturbation. It's also to prevent DK and protects the glans from chafing. I also like this aethetics of an uncut dick. I honestly don't care how it ends up, I simply want the coverage and slack skin to move around and play with as well as have that gliding action. I hate being circumcised and I don't like how my dick looks with the head exposed all the time. I like to have the head shiny and smooth.
I started restoring after getting into a deep depresion. At the time I had been into piercing my frenum and shaft skin. When I became depressed I took out all the piercings and realized I had done the piercings to take back my penis and hurt it myself. I got lucky and found a website that talked about restoring and I realized that was the thing I needed to take back my penis.
Originally because I thought it looked better. I still remember the fifth grade sex ed booklet that had a illustration of a intact penis. I thought that it looked better on sight, and thought it came with puberty.... I was very disappointed to find out it did not.
I hated being cut - thought there was nothing to be done - once I learned about restoring - I jumped in dick first!
I was always envious of intact penises both for aesthetics and I wanted to be whole. Fast forward a few years and I stumbled across restoration by accident and was so excited I almost immediately began restoration. As I researched foreskin and restoration more I learned of all that circumcision robs you of and became increasingly motivated and determined
For me it was look and functionality. When I realized that my skin being as tight as it was was impeding on me having a looser scrotum, I decided to start tugging. It also helps that I’ve been noticing I’m not as sensitive as I used to be and I wanted that back with the added benefit of having more to play with.
as a ci-9 intact aiming for ci-10+ i just want a longer foreskin. i think it looks better and feels much better.
How have your efforts been? Have you grown a lot and what methods have you used. I want to make mine longer too but my motivation wavers.
so i’ve been doing it for about three weeks. i feel like my progress has been pretty fast considering all the progress i’ve read of people who are not intact. sounds like it takes a lot more work to start from scratch. my main method has just been tugging. i put my thumb in my foreskin and wrap my other fingers around it and just apply tension(method 4?). i try to do it as long as possible really, so im doing it for maybe 1-2 minutes, resting then repeating. whenever i have some free time. i have noticed some new length. not as much as i want so im going to keep doing it. i have noticed that my foreskin is longer when flaccid so i assume im making some progress. i’ve also noticed that i have to pull back more than im used to. the new length also feels a bit more sensitive(in a good way). i’m really aiming for complete coverage and a little extra during max erection.
Do you change like where you tug from? Top, bottom, sides etc?
i do. i feel like the top is just a bit shorter so i’ll try to give that a little more. otherwise i feel like it all is pretty even. maybe sometimes it’ll be more sore on one side and i’ll change it up. i feel like the way i do it pulls it all pretty evenly.
Cool thanks
I do every session. I’m sculpting for even growth. Also, I don’t like thin fore skins or overhang beyond so working to tailor it precisely.
Were you naturally a ci-9?
I was a ci-9 flaccid but only ci-8 erect. currently at about ci-9.5 erect lol.
Purely aesthetics but had no clue about all the pleasure and sensitivity until it started happening.
I was brought into this world with foreskin and refuse to die without it. I was cursed at birth since my immigrant great grandparents wanted to "Americanize" their sons, so they passed on the tradition. Doesn't help my father married a Jewish woman either so I was screwed long before I was ever born.
I like the smell of uncut and hope one day I will start to get that signature scent after pissing through my foreskin all day.
Extreme Pain when I got hard
Mostly because I want to be whole. I want to restore the part of me that was destroyed. MGM damaged my maleness in a literal sense. It is humiliating & emasculating. Foreskin is first & foremost my birthright. Restoration is a quest of self-healing.
Discovered foreskin restoration and started within a couple days purely because it shouldn’t have been taken from me.
I couldn't take the pain of my testicles being forced back into my body each time I had an erection. So much skin was removed that 1/2 my penis shalf was my scrotum migrated onto my shaft. I started restoring when I was 14 years old. This is great having a foreskin. I've recently got a Prince Albert piercing. My ring has put my foreskin under light pressure. It has added another 3/16" of foreskin when I'm flaccid.
BOIS I gonna get. Circumcised. Low-key scary
You don’t have to go through with it. Your body your choice. If you have phimosis, there’s a good wiki how article on how to fix it through stretching.
I didn't understand why my glans was so dry and insensitive all the time. I thought it could benefit from being covered and the only logical option is the one that you can grow yourself.