How to find out if I have Phimosis?

You have some good and bad answers. I am sitting in the camp with EW and Onlooker. True clinical phimosis is when the foreskin will not retract enough to even see the urethral opening. It can be treated without the destructiveness of circumcision using medical and non medical methods.

You do not have phimosis. What you have is a naturally tight foreskin,....just like every other intact (not circumcised) man on the planet had at your age. Over 85% of the males on earth are intact so you are on the winning side,......lets keep you there.

Follow the information in the links below and work the stretches into the daily shower routine. Let the warm water loosen and relax the skin before stretching. Stretches are to be firm, but gentle, with no pain. Pain is a damage indicator. Over stretching until it hurts can create micro tears in the skin opeing that will heal over with non elastic scar tissue, making retraction more difficult. No pain,...ever!

What should happen is the Frenar Band (google it) of muscle that closes down the skin opening will relax and expand enough to allow the foreskin to glide effortlessly back and forth over the coronal ridge. With the results you have posted so far, you are well on your way. You should see some good results in two weeks, with full and painless retraction n 1-2 months. If it takes longer, it does,....just keep on stretching.

Alternatively, you can ask your doctor for steroid cream made to loosen a tight foreskin. You will have to do the stretches in conjunction with the cream use, so why not just try the stretches first.

Do not let the doctor even breathe the word: circumcision. Be very firm and tell them it is not an option. Do not let them talk you into it.

Go to: www.norm.org and read about the reason and function of the foreskin. You will see how very fortunate you are to still have yours, and how misguided are those who promote circumcision for any reason.

Good luck with this.

Mithras

Circumcision is NEVER necessary or desirable. Phimosis has other treatments than the radical mutilation of circumcision. It would be sort of like amputating a finger because of a hangnail. Stretching can frequently widen the foreskin opening to facilitate normal retraction and mobility of the foreskin. Done gently, over a few months, the stretching can alleviate this, and most men can do this themselves, without a doctor. Should this prove ineffective, there's also a small operation, called a preputioplasty or dorsal slit, which cuts a small incision in the foreskin opening. This operation is less mutilating than circumcision, and leaves the foreskin intact, with its thousands of nerve endings for the maximum sexual sensitivity and enjoyment of sex. It also has much less healing time, and less adverse effects and complications than circumcision. Circumcision is the worst hoax ever perpetrated on the male sex. A foreskin is not a birth defect; it is a birthright. ERIC

No, you do not have phimosis.

Phimosis, by definition, is a condition where the foreskin cannot be retracted when flaccid or erect.

If it can be retracted at all, it is not phimosis, but just a tight foreskin.

This can be easily resolved by gentle and gradual stretching, not to the point of pain, but only to the point of mild discomfort.

Do not pay attention to those who suggest circumcision. Circumcision is male genital mutilation, and always damages a male's sexual sensitivity, function and ability. Damaging a penis damages a male's sexuality. Circumcision for a condition such as you describe is like amputating a finger to cure a hangnail.

Incidentally, a tight foreskin or phimosis is frequently caused by individuals prematurely and forcibly retracting the foreskin of an infant or toddler, which shouldn't be retracted until the individual is about 10 years of age.

Circumcision is a fraud and a hoax.

A foreskin is not a birth defect; it is a birthright.

ERIC

If you can pull the foreskin back at all, even though with difficulty, you do NOT have phimosis.

Just keep at it in order to stretch it and thus keep it clean.

Don’t go for circumcision.

You don’t cut off your toes to avoid smelly feet, you wash them. Same with a penis.

If the operation goes wrong, which it does sometimes, they cut everything off and turn the victim into a transsexual “woman”, as has happened in several cases, most famously with David Reimer.

Circumcision will make the penis extra sensitive for a few months because the glans is exposed. But afterwards the feeling in the penis is greatly reduced: some two-thirds of the nerve-endings in the penis are removed in the operation.

Then scar tissue forms, making the penis less sensitive. The penis rubs against your leg and pants, so loses even more sensitivity. Callussing ensues.

At a later stage keratinization takes place and it becomes very difficult to reach orgasm or even keep an erection without medication.

There is no truth in the hygiene argument. The foreskin protects the male from infections. That’s what it's there for.

Circumcision does do some good, though, namely for the surgeon; it helps him finance the next instalment on his sports car; and it helps raise the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. It also helps circumcized men feel their poor mutilated c0cks are fine.

Look up David Reimer under Wikipedia, also circumcision scar.

Also look up http://www.noharmm.org/IDcirc.htm

Yes, it sounds like you have phimosis. You can go to the doctor and have it looked at and you can be medically diagnosed. If it's somewhat mild, you can do stretching exercises. If it's severe, circumcision is an option. There are also some topical medications they use.

Go to the doctor and don't be embarrassed because it is a quite common condition