1w ago

What were you surprised to learn wasn't actually normal?

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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.
- 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.
  
  If we're lucky they were used to harvest stem cells, I guess (though now we can turn skin cells into stem cells IIRC)
  
  I'd still like it back, please.
  
  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.
  
  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
  
  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
  
  If it's on wikihow i'll believe it's real
  put that on a T-shirt lol
  
  I guess the doctors get paid
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  I'm aware of the condition. It's the primary adults get circumcised.
  
  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.
  
  Damn I'm sorry.

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