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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Grab the one of the middle knuckles of one of your fingers firmly with your other hand. Now slide the skin to your fingertip, then down to the base knuckle.

What's that? You can't do that, because the skin is fixed in place? Well, imagine my surprise when I learned penises aren't supposed to be like that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I still aim to have mine returned, if it's the last thing I do. Really makes you wonder who's profiting off all those ill-gotten foreskins.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If we're lucky they were used to harvest stem cells, I guess (though now we can turn skin cells into stem cells IIRC)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd still like it back, please.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

iirc there's a little rubber thing that tugs on the foreskin and actually grows it back. That was an interesting reddit sub to find at 3am.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Been doing this for 2 years now with a device. Took me a decade to get enough to wear it, but it’s a great process and it’s real:

Obviously NSFW:

https://bsky.app/profile/bearcubass.bsky.social

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

wow did not know this was a possibility https://www.wikihow.com/Regrow-Foreskin

If it's on wikihow i'll believe it's real

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

If it's on wikihow i'll believe it's real

put that on a T-shirt lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I guess the doctors get paid

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I was not sure if I was cut or not for a long time. They left me enough skin that it still slides like you describe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

its called phismosis, i believe. it can constrict your penis to the point to "strangle it" an untreated one can accumulated "smegma" and it theorized it poses a higher risk of penile malignancy, which is rare. theres a similar called paraphismosis, which can caused by inflammation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'm aware of the condition. It's the primary adults get circumcised.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's a whole range of procedures that fall under the umbrella term of circumcision, depending on how much they cut off. It goes from snipping off a little ring at the tip (the traditional bris), to outright removal of the entire mobile skin system. I figure I've lost at least 15 square inches (an index card size) of adult tissue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Damn I'm sorry.