This is a post about dick. Are you ready?

It will soon be one year since I embarked on the journey of restoring my foreskin. I wrote about it a few times when I first started, but there was a long period of laziness on my behalf, so I can’t really say I’ve been consistent. The good thing is that you can do it at your own pace.

I’ll tell you this, though. I know this for certain… I have more skin than I had last year. Considerably more. I have more sensitivity where I didn’t before, and I find sexual activities to be more pleasurable. That was my goal when I started this, so that mission is definitely accomplished.

How it’s measured

A lot of men refer to this Real Coverage Index. It’s a 10 point scale, with RCI-0 being very tightly cut and RCI-9 having so much skin that it hangs over, even when erect.

My best estimate would be that I was a RCI-2 when I started. There was some loose skin that wrinkled when I was soft and not really much when I was hard.

Right now, I’m a RCI-4, which is said to be the most frustrating stage. There is enough skin to cover the head when it’s soft and enough skin to work with when I’m hard, but not enough skin for it to stay covered on its own. Very frustrating indeed!

With all that being said, I have no intention of ever being an RCI-9. I know I want to make it to RCI-5, where it stays covered on its own. Probably RCI-6. We’ll see.

By the way, this system of measurement can be a little controversial. There are different variations of it online and some people prefer others. It’s not an exact science, but instead, just a general guide to determine where you are in the restoration process.

How I did it

We can never truly restore our foreskin and that’s the sad part. But new skin cells can be produced and that creates new skin growth. Thanks to gravity, the skin puts extra weight on the penis until you have so much skin that it hangs over the head.

When we talk about foreskin restoration, what we’re really doing is creating new skin growth on the penis until it looks and acts like an actual foreskin. The name of the game is just getting that new skin cell production.

I started by taking some loose skin on each side of my penis and pulling it forward as far as I comfortably could. You should never, ever feel pain! I can’t stress that enough.

NOTE: This is not me:

I did this for just a few minutes a day and actually had very fast progress at first. You may notice it too. It’s a lot of fun seeing your penis evolve and learning new techniques. You’ll find yourself experiencing pleasure in new ways and the progress is very rewarding.

How I knew it was worth it

I reached the RCI-4 level in 6 months using only the technique illustrated above. Sometimes I would do it for 30 minutes, like when I was watching a TV show. But then I got very lazy for a very long time and did nothing for many months.

That changed one night when someone gave me the most mind blowing orgasm using my foreskin. I have a rule to never discuss my sex life on here, so I won’t say which partner it was and I’ll try to be anonymous about this.

But basically he took the skin and pulled it over the head. Then he stuck his tongue under the skin and started licking the underside my dick. I was paralyzed by pleasure. I couldn’t even stand up afterwards and I felt euphoric. It was wildly intense!

At that point, I knew this foreskin restoration was completely worth it! Needless to say, this is my favorite sexual activity now.

The next step

Once I’d experienced how truly great a foreskin can be, I wanted to continue my restoration process. I’ve made the joke to friends that I want so much foreskin, you’ll be able to fit a village of people in it! :)

Being at the RCI-4 level, I felt I’d outgrown the old technique. I bought a TLC Tugger to help move things along.

Wow, wow, wow! I cannot say enough good things about this device. It has two functions:

1) You can use two pieces and connect them to a strap, which pulls the skin forward. This generates the new skin cell production, thus creating the new skin. You can wear it under your clothes at work and nobody can even tell. Since the feeling can get intense, you should start off very slowly. I started out at 30 minutes per day and now I can handle about 2-4 hours per day. This is commonly referred to as “tugging,” by the way.

2) When you’re not tugging, you can use the cone piece and it keeps the skin pulled over the head of your penis. I love this, it’s amazing! It isn’t sticky or painful, yet it keeps the skin pulled over. This is very important because you want your head covered. The dry, dead skin cells will flake off and the glans will become smooth, shiny, and more sensitive. It’s wonderful for sex.

The price of the TLC Tugger is $53, shipping included, and I highly recommend it. Yes, I know, we’re all on a budget. I know you’ll find plenty of homemade alternatives and ideas on the web. But when you see what it does, the price is a bargain.

Every circumcised man should do this!

The reason I did this was for better sex. I’ve always had problems as a result of my circumcision. Lack of feeling has been the biggest concern and it was getting worse with age.

When the head of your penis is covered by skin, it’s dramatically more sensitive and sexual activity is just better in general. It feels good to have skin moving up and down. Hey, it can’t be a mistake that every male is born with a foreskin! It’s there for a reason.

As far as myths… I was very skeptical because of urban legends. Will my penis stink? Will it be more difficult to keep clean? HONESTLY… NO! I’ve never had any problems at all. I just keep my dick clean, like any man should.

The quality of my sex life has improved 200%. You could not pay me to go back to being circumcised! That’s my story of foreskin restoration. I’ll post again when I’ve reached my goal.

Tug on, guys.

Oh, my…

As many of you know, I’m in the process of foreskin restoration. The method I use is commonly referred to as “tugging,” pulling the skin of my penis forward to stimulate the production of new skin cells, which creates a sort of faux foreskin. It’s not a real foreskin, it’s just extra skin that will eventually roll over my penis.

With this process, there is always the warning to be very gentle. I say it all the time. Do it slowly, stop if there is any pain.

Well I made a mistake last night. I must have pulled too hard when I was tugging. I was stunned with a sharp pain, then I looked down and noticed I had burst a blood vessel. A purple spot formed underneath the skin.

There wasn’t any ongoing pain, and it hasn’t bruised or gotten worse. Apparently burst vessels are fairly common since everything is so delicate down there. There isn’t much a doctor can do unless it gets infected, which I don’t think it will. But I’m just so mad at myself for making the mistake in the first place.

Many of you have expressed an interest in restoring your foreskin, so please take this warning seriously. Be very, very careful! I was lucky that this was just a very mild injury.

I just seem to have that effect on the men.

A friend e-mailed me yesterday to tell me that he’d walked in to find his husband in the tub, pulling on the skin of his dick. His husband explained, “Just like Nathan told me to.”

Yes, it’s true. I’ve started a new trend.

What he was doing was working on restoring his foreskin. I’d instructed him that just pulling the skin forward as far as it will go on a daily basis will help encourage new skin cells to multiply. This process helps create a faux foreskin for men who have been circumcised.

I started doing it last fall, and so far I have about 60% coverage on my penis. If I wanted to cheat, I could say I now have 100% coverage. I can pull the skin completely forward and cover my entire penis head. So for what it’s worth, I now experience the feeling of having a foreskin.

However, I don’t consider it 100% since I have to pull to achieve that effect. If I just let the skin hang naturally, it is 60%, covering more than half the head.

If you’d like to try it yourself, this is a photo to demonstrate what I’m doing…

NOTE: This is not me:

Be gentle when you do it, and listen to your body. If you feel pain, stop. Be sure to not damage any nerves or burst any veins. Slow and steady has given me great results.

It’s been a little over 2 months since I started restoring my foreskin, and the journey has turned out to be surprisingly intense both emotionally and physically.

When I first started the process, I didn’t know what to expect. I’d been thinking about restoring my foreskin since 2000. I don’t know what was stopping me, other than fear of the unknown. What if I didn’t like it? What if it was unhygienic? There were many questions I had.

I finally decided to start the process at the end of September. I started a very simple daily routine of pulling the loose skin of my penis outward as far as it would go over the head. Within just a few weeks, I noticed the skin seemed to be a bit longer. It was working, and I was pretty happy about it!

Physical Results

By the end of October, I began to really notice a difference in the skin. I could feel it moving up and down during sexual activity, and the feeling was quite nice. Let’s be honest here — sexual pleasure was my only motivation for doing this. Uncircumcised penises have much more intense sensations during sex.

As November progressed, I had enough skin to completely cover the head by pulling it forward. Since my frenulum had been snipped when I was circumcised, there was nothing to hold it up, so it rolled back down after I let go. When I had an erection, I couldn’t completely cover the head, but I could pull it up far enough to cover most of it. That is a very exciting feeling.

The day before Thanksgiving, I had another happy surprise. I felt something odd in my pants, and thought my underwear had bunched up. But when I looked down, I realized that for the first time, the skin had rolled up over most of my penis on its own. It felt so comfortable, being protected by my own skin. That was a good day.

Emotional Results

I didn’t expect to have any emotional changes during this, but I have. Some psychologists believe that the act of circumcising a baby traumatizes him for life. Just think about it… as a newborn baby, one of our first experiences in this world is being held down on a table, fully awake and aware, and having the skin of our penis mutilated. What world do we live in that this kind of action is acceptable?

Restoring my foreskin has somehow made me feel complete in a way I didn’t even know was missing. I know women would probably roll their eyes at this, as they already think we men are obsessed with our penis. There’s probably some truth to that too, but the penis really is the symbol of a man’s sexual identity. When it has been cut up the way foreskins are, how could we not feel like lesser men?

I feel like I’m the way I was meant to be… the way I was born. It’s even made me feel confident in other aspects of my life, although I can’t explain why. Nobody sees my penis except for Rodney, and occasionally one of our cats sees it when they sneak a peek at me in the shower. But really, my penis is for my eyes only. Yet just knowing that it’s being restored makes me feel better.

The Future

I still have a journey ahead of me, as it will be awhile before I finally have enough skin to actually cover the head all the time. Without a frenulum, you have to grow enough skin for it to roll over the head on its own. The weight and length of the extra skin keeps it covered. But I’ve made great process in a short period of time and I am happy to keep going forward.

I’ve also bought a product that helps protect your penis in the way a real foreskin does. Since it doesn’t stay covered all the time on its own, this product simulates what a foreskin would do by keeping it covered and protecting it from friction. I’ve only been using it a few days, so I’m not ready to provide a review yet. But if I like it, I will tell more about it.

Closing

I never knew I’d have a sort of sexual re-awakening as an adult. This process has been as unique as the one we have as young boys when we first start puberty and realize the pleasures our penis can bring. Now as an adult, I’m able to feel the things the penis was meant to feel. Throughout this process, some of you have spoken up and said you were curious to try this for yourself. The best advice I can give is DO IT! You just have no idea what was taken away from you when that doctor mutilated you. Thankfully you can get some of it back.

Here’s a video I found on XTube of a man playing with his foreskin and I think it’s the hottest masturbation video I’ve ever seen. Wait until you see what he does at about 90 seconds into it.

I am on a journey of regrowth.

As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m in the process of restoring my foreskin. I started about 6 weeks ago and have made great process with very little effort each day.

Some of you have asked exactly how this works, and I’ll do my best to explain. I’m basically taking the excess skin I have on my penis and pulling it forward (comfortably and without pain). I do it a few times each day. This expands the tissue. When you stretch out the tissue on the penis, it stimulates mitosis, which is the splitting of cells. When the cells split, you generate more cells. Over time, this means you’ll have more skin, until finally you have enough to cover the head of your penis.

It’s going to be awhile before my foreskin is fully restored. But I already have enough skin to pull it up over the head of my penis. I can’t tell you how excited I was the first day I realized I could do this! Once you experience the feeling, you will never be able to understand why anyone would want to be cut.

Some of you have commented and said you have thought about restoring your foreskin, but were afraid you didn’t have the patience.

Here’s my take on that - you’re going to be around every day, regardless. You might as well take a few minutes a few times per day and work on pulling the tissue forward. If it works, you’ll have a great new foreskin to enjoy. And if it doesn’t work… well… any activity with your penis is time well spent.

I found a photo on Google to demonstrate what I’m doing each day to build up the skin. NOTE: This is not me:

This is part two of my discussion on foreskin. You can read the first post here, which covers the topic of restoring the foreskin.

I’ve found over the years that foreskin can be a controversial topic no matter who you ask - men, women, gay, straight. I do find that gay men in general are more accepting of it, perhaps because foreskin is considered a fetish in our community. Even with that being said, I’ve come across many gay men who won’t go anywhere near a foreskin.

I was surprised to find that it’s a topic almost as sensitive as religion or politics. When you find someone who dislikes foreskins, he or she will go off on a very passionate speech about how disgusting foreskins are and how they should be cut right off as soon as a baby boy enters the world. I even remember an episode of Sex and the City where a man with a foreskin was part of the storyline. The women responded with offense, wanting nothing to do with the situation.

I could say a lot about how all the myths of foreskins are untrue. I could go into great detail about how foreskins allow men to experience more pleasure, more sensitivity, and overall more satisfaction with their penis and their sex life. I could even point out the numerous statistics of men whose penises have been permanently damaged by having their foreskins cut off. Ugly scarring, dried up skin on the head of the penis, decreased sensitivity and problems achieving orgasm because of lost sensation. Need I even mention the men who had too much skin cut off, and erections are painful as a result?

Regardless of whether or not you like foreskins, there is one thing I hope all people can agree on— every man deserves to make a decision about his foreskin when he is an adult. Our current practice of lopping off the body part of a newborn child is insane. I think the person who is going to be attached to the penis for the rest of his life should be the one to make that choice. If he decides he’d like to be circumcised, I think that’s just fine. That’s his choice to make.

I have a lot to say about this topic and this is just the beginning.

When I was born, my parents had me circumcised, and I resent their decision. It’s my body, and I should have been given the choice myself.

In 2000, I first heard about the concept of foreskin restoration. There are dozens of ways to accomplish it, but the end result is the same — you can regrow your own foreskin without surgery.

The penis has extra loose skin on it. This allows it to stretch and expand when you have erections. This extra loose skin can be pulled forward easily and without pain. I think of it as a stretching exercise.

When you stretch the skin out, you expand the skin cells. New cells have to recoup and fill up the stretched space. By doing this continuously over time, more skin is grown until you finally have enough to cover your penis. (I hope I explained that correctly. This is my understanding of it anyway.)

I have considered restoring my foreskin many times over the past 8 years. The main reason I wimped out was because I was afraid of all the myths I’d heard, like that foreskin is smelly and hard to keep clean. The logical part of me knows that’s not true. If you don’t clean your armpits, they stink. If you don’t clean your foreskin, it stinks too. But you wouldn’t cut out your armpits just because you had to keep them clean, now would you?

I finally decided to get serious about this process at the beginning of October. I started gently pulling the skin outward as far as I could without hurting myself. I did it a few times a day. 2 weeks later (last Friday) was the first time I really started noticing results because there was extra skin on my penis. It wasn’t anything dramatic, but I know my penis pretty well. There was definitely more skin and the outer layer was stretchier.

People say that the stretching method (often referred to as “tugging”) can take years. But that’s okay, I’m still going to be around, so I might as well grow a foreskin while I’m at it.

I must admit the results are very exciting! I noticed today that the skin is even more stretchy, and I can pull it out further without any pain. The proof is real, I’m growing a foreskin!

There are also products you can buy that apply continuous weight on the skin throughout the day. All of them work, and most of them have forums filled with success stories and photos of satisfied customers.

When I have enough skin, I may consider buying one of them to help me along. Right now, I actually really enjoy stretching the skin myself. It’s clearly working since I have noticed results in just a few weeks.

I will continue to report my progress on this. I realize photos of the progress would be helpful, but I don’t feel comfortable posting nude pics. Here is a photo I found that demonstrates my routine:

NOTE: This is not me:

If you’re interesting in restoring your foreskin too, I recommend doing your research first. It’s important to do the process correctly and be gentle about it. If you pull too hard, you can damage the nerves.

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- Foreskin 2.0
- Penis Envy

This article really got me fired up… and not in a good way.

A new study claims that circumcision possibly reduces the risk of HIV for heterosexual men, but not homosexual men. I’ve been hearing different variations of this claim for years… they all have the same point - getting your foreskin cut off gives you a “get out of jail free” card. Some of the studies focus on men in general, others try to limit it to just gay men.

While I do think it’s beneficial to research all realms of HIV prevention, I feel as though these articles give a very false sense of security to heterosexual men. Some people are just that gullible. If they are circumcised, they think they can go stick their dick in any woman they want without consequence.

It just doesn’t work that way. We should not be using foreskins (or lack thereof) as a substitute for safe sex. It’s careless and risky, and you’re really gambling with your life and your partner’s life when you do that.

There are plenty of men, gay, straight or other, who are circumcised and still contracted HIV through unprotected intercourse. Instead of worrying what the odds are, why not just slip a condom on and at least show an effort, hmmm?