Aneirin
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Joined: 3/18/2006 From: Tamaris Status: offline
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During the first years of a boys life (no, not till puberty), the foreskin is not supposed to be pulled back. It even adheres to the glans and trying to pull it back during this time hurts and causes damage. It might be that we mean different things - maybe you do not mean that it should not be pulled back at all. But it MUST be pulled back, for a few moments, on a regular basis, from birth. The foreskin should be pulled back to clean under it during washing. All 3 of my sons are uncircumsized, because i just do not believe in doing nonreversable surgery to someone who absolutely has no way to consent, not to mention it must (or at that time, anyway) be done without anasthesia, the doctors telling you, don't worry, they don't feel pain yet (WTF) As soon as the boys are old enough to brush their own teeth and are then taught to clean under their own foreskin and given the responsiblity themselves - well, being children, and being boys, they will not always bother, and every now and then you get to go to the doc to have him handle a nasty little infection under there, and the doc lectures them on this happened cause you don't clean under your foreskin right, and Mom and Dad lecture them the same thing, and, pretty soon, they do it right cause the damn infections are painful. If the foreskin is never pulled back it will fuse to the penis head, which is very painful and requires a minor, in office surgery to correct. My second husband had a fused forskin, and it rendered him impotent. From Wikipedia (yes, I know. But it was the first english source that I could find): Eight weeks after fertilization, the foreskin begins to grow over the head of the penis, covering it completely by 16 weeks. At this stage the foreskin and glans share an epithilium (mucous layer) that fuses the two together. It remains this way until the foreskin separates from the glans. At birth, the foreskin is usually still fused with the glans. As childhood progresses the foreskin and the glans gradually separate, a process that may not be complete until the age of 17. Thorvaldsen and Meyhoff reported that average age of first foreskin retraction in Denmark is 10.4 years. Wright argues that forcible retraction of the foreskin should be avoided and that the child himself should be the first one to retract his own foreskin.Premature retraction may be painful, and may result in infection. Never, ever try to pull back the foreskin of small boys! It might well be that this was what caused them infection. I would be inclined to agree, also the fluid that is secreted , the stuff that can smell yukky is there for protection as well as lubrication. Also whith intercourse, the fluid protects the glans against fluids in the vagina therefore minimising infections. Think wet thing, unlikely to absorb and a dry thing going into a wet enviroment. The aftermath of intercourse always leaves me stinging.(yes, unprotected sex, with life partner, I am sterile, so was she, and I had no reason to distrust her)
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