Uncircumcised guys tell us if your doctor retracts the foreskin

There's actually an important medical reason for the doctor to retract your foreskin.

Retracting the foreskin is important so the doctor can evaluate the otherwise hidden glans and corona. The doctor doing the retraction allows the doctor to evaluate the retractablity of the foreskin and see if there are issues such as phimoses present. If you have a foreskin, don't let the doctor skimp on your exam. You wouldn't be happy if (s)he only listened to one lung, would you?

There's actually an important medical reason for the doctor to retract your foreskin.

Retracting the foreskin is important so the doctor can evaluate the otherwise hidden glans and corona. The doctor doing the retraction allows the doctor to evaluate the retractablity of the foreskin and see if there are issues such as phimoses present.

Reading this post is making me so hot! I would love to see a doctor retracting a foreskin. I have rarely handled uncircumcised penises and usually they were already erect, so I have never seen a flaccid penis have its foreskin pulled back to expose the glans. I can understand the point that the doctor can tell by doing the retraction himself more about the tightness of the foreskin. I would love to be able to retract some foreskins to get a sense of the different degrees of tightness that one might find. I would also like to know what doctors' routines are for examining the penis with the skin retracted. Maybe we need a new topic for that.

My physician does retract my foreskin during examination .

My foreskin opening is too small to allow it to retract. Hygiene is not an issue because I just rinse it out in the shower. But my glans is still incredibly sensitive. I actually feel pretty lucky.

Zipster sounds like you need to see a doctor for a thorough genital exam ASAP 😉

My foreskin opening is too small to allow it to retract. Hygiene is not an issue because I just rinse it out in the shower. But my glans is still incredibly sensitive. I actually feel pretty lucky.

If this is an issue of concern for you, you can always try a series of stretching exercises on your own. There is nothing difficult about it, you pull back on the foreskin until you cannot abide the sensation, see if you can wait just a bit longer, and do it over and over and over again over a period of time. It may take some months but it leaves you intact and moreover, as self therapies go, it can be quite pleasurable after a few initial tries ...

And if you're happy with how things are now - and it sounds like you are - then just keep on as you are.

In school, the nurse or doctor always retracted my foreskin. After school, it has been about 50-50, with either the examiner doing it or asking me to do it. I find foreskin retraction almost as embarrassing as undressing....it is another exposure! At medical exams, i am embarrassed being nude and being uncircumcised. Then add to that the retraction. Lots of humiliation, especially if the doctor makes a big deal about being uncircumcised or mentions it to someone else in the room.

In school, the nurse or doctor always retracted my foreskin. After school, it has been about 50-50, with either the examiner doing it or asking me to do it. I find foreskin retraction almost as embarrassing as undressing....it is another exposure! At medical exams, i am embarrassed being nude and being uncircumcised. Then add to that the retraction. Lots of humiliation, especially if the doctor makes a big deal about being uncircumcised or mentions it to someone else in the room.

Great post! Karma for you. Is there any difference in the degree of embarrassment when the examiner retracts your foreskin compared to having you do it? I wish you would give us more detail about how "the doctor makes a big deal about being uncircumcised." Also, who else has been in the room to whom the doctor has mentioned the fact that your penis is uncircumcised?

Lots of humiliation, especially if the doctor makes a big deal about being uncircumcised or mentions it to someone else in the room.

Yes, I'd like to hear more about this too, if you could give any more details. I'd guess that some docs wouldn't be able to hide their displeasure in their facial expressions or clucking disapprovingly or stuff like that. But talking about it to someone else adds an extra dimension ...

My doctor always retracts my prepuce. I have mild phimosis, and when erect cannot get past the corona. So retraction is something she is always concerned about.

No.

I have only needed two penis exams in my life. The first was with a male doctor who asked me to retract my own foreskin. Quick examination, no problems. Not too much embarrassment. That was maybe 10 years ago.

The second exam was just last week. I had (what I suspected) was balanitis and phimosis (complications from uncontrolled diabetes) and made the first available appointment with a GP at my local clinic. It was with an older female doctor (perhaps in her late 50's) that I had not met before. She had me take down my jeans and lay on the examination table. The doctor then retracted my foreskin without much warning, began rubbing the tightness of the affected foreskin and then proceeded to take a few swabs from the tip of my glans, foreskin and urethra.

Much to my surprise, she mentioned that there appeared to be some "blue fluff" in my urethra (from my blue boxer shorts) and said she would try & remove it - using a swab. She was swabbing my urethra for about 30 seconds and then commented that it was probably not the best instrument to do it - and apologized. A few moments later, she asked if I was OK, then she kept repeating "oh... I'm sorry... oh... I'm sorry". I raised my head from the examination table and looked down at my penis. I was semi erect and fluid was flooding out and dripping everywhere. I am guessing the doctor returned the foreskin to its covered position however it is possible it retracted on its own.

She left me to get dressed. With fluid still leaking heavily, it was dripping into my boxers and down my leg when I got dressed. Exposing my purple glans, complete with red tip, swollen/tight foreskin and then getting an erection - I don't think I am ever going to get over the humiliation and embarrassment.

One doctor once suggested adult circumcision to me for medical reasons. I told him he could forget about that. I like my hoodie. Besides as a teen I had a friend undergo that procedure and I wouldn't wish that ordeal on anyone.

I'm circumcised so it's a moot point for me. As a physician I only retract the foreskin of male infants to make sure there is no phimosis or to show the parents how to remove smegma. I assume that adults know how to clean themselves. If I were to examine the glans I would ask the patient to retract it himself.

The only time I remember a doctor that looked at my private parts is when I joined the Navy, for a hernia and looked at my butt.

Just one girlfriend once checked my penis for any unusual sores or bumps. She didn't find any and we had a good time.

I'm circumcised so it's a moot point for me. As a physician I only retract the foreskin of male infants to make sure there is no phimosis or to show the parents how to remove smegma. I assume that adults know how to clean themselves. If I were to examine the glans I would ask the patient to retract it himself.

Danger Will Robinson! The infant's foreskin is attached to the glans. Retraction of the foreskin should wait until it happens naturally, usually as the boy begins to masturbate as a toddler. This is an example of what happens when circumcision becomes a norm - physicians aren't taught proper care for the minority.

Actually Jds you are correct. The foreskin should not be retracted but not because it's attached to the glans but because it can produce a paraphimosis. Adhesions must be released though. I do show parents how to clean under the foreskin by slipping a lubricated cotton tip applicator and twirling it between the glans and foreskin. This usually releases huge amounts of smegma and also makes the infant cry bloody murder. Parents need to clean this very frequently. This is one of the reasons I believe in circumcision but let's not even go there.

Natural adhesion will usually release naturally. Paraphimosis can occur because the natural adhesion is torn prematurely. Semantics, I know.

Sorry Jds but I was taught this by a pediatric urologist. I have no reason to doubt him.

Http://www.kidshealth.org.nz/foreskin-care

http://www.babycentre.co.uk/a115/caring-for-your-babys-genitals

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/infant-and-toddler-health/expert-answers/uncircumcised-penis/faq-20058327

I left out the obvious anti circumcision sites.

Oh Jds you're so smart. I just can't argue with the Mayo clinic can I? The foreskin is attached at the frenulum so I always point this out and avoid sweeping the swab around that point. However, reducing a paraphimosis is absolutely no fun for the child , the parents or me. I always make the parents leave. To reduce one requires compressing the glans until all the edema is gone and then stuffing the glans back inside. I have not had to do a dorsal slit. Afterwards I always recommend circumcision. It would have been so easy to prevent the problem in the first place. But we've been there haven't we?

I believe that the disconnect are physicians that learned their art in an environment where circumcision is prevalent. The other two sources were New Zealand and the UK, both places where routine circumcision is largely a religious thing.

I don't recall a doc ever retracting mine. Not saying it never happened. But if it did, it didn't register with me as something worthy of remembering.

To be fair, I think I did get my foreskin examined by a doctor (but only during childhood and it certainly did not become routine). Here's how and why.

My cousin had to be circumcised due to phimosis. When she heard that, my mother, who had never paid attention to that part of my anatomy, freaked out and retracted my foreskin in front of her sister (my cousin's mother) so that she could tell her if it was as bad with me as with my cousin. I did suffer from some slight phimosis indeed and retraction was difficult. I think she took me to our doctor to get examined. I certainly did fear getting cut as my cousin! She seemed to appreciate the "clean" look of the circumcised penis.. but would not submit me to surgery unless there was definite medical indication, which was not the case.

No foreskin here...but, when I went with my so to a physical, the doc pulled his back. I didn't have a very clear view but I was sure to ask him after we were out of there and in the privacy of the car 😉

I had both. One time doc did on his own and I also had the Situation to do it on my own. In any case, it is emberassing.

I had it done when I was very young by the local GP. Always asked to retract it during a play examination and yes it is embarrassing.

I was born in England so I have a foreskin, when I had my immigration exam the doctor examined my body after I removed my underwear he saw my foreskin and and pulled the skin back himself

I was born in England so I have a foreskin, when I had my immigration exam the doctor examined my body after I removed my underwear he saw my foreskin and and pulled the skin back himself

Immigration exam? First time i hear about this. I know they were given at points of entry in places like Ellis Island many many decades ago, but I have no idea how thorough they were. If they were as depicted in movies, then not all that thorough and time consuming ... but then I don't think the scenes in such movies (Godfather II) were that accurate either ...

We have an Emigration Museum where I live - the point of departure for the Red Star Line ships going to the US from Belgium. And part of the departure procedure was to undergo a physical exam, since any passengers rejected at point of entry in the US had to be transported back on company expense. Anyway, the museum features an emigration experience sort of thing, you can follow in the footsteps of someone leaving for the US which would then I suppose include a medical exam.. But I have yet to visit it. Now I have a good reason.

Anyway, was this long ago or fairly recently? Done once in the US or possibly prior to departure in order to rule out candidates?

My question exactly. I understood that the exam only consisted of a chest X-ray it you had a positive TBC test. If you're twenty now it couldn't have been very long ago.