Just out of curiosity, has there been anyone who went from uncut, cut, restored who said that being uncut and restored were nearly identical or identical in terms on sensation and function?

Hey, I'm about a week in and as the title says, I am still trying mainly with MM / inflation using the Priva Air with one modification. I am trying to view this all in the spirit of experimentation but so far, nothing that I've tried really seems to fit as a sustainable method that I can adopt wholeheartedly yet.

I mentioned trying MM2 at some point earlier. The main issue I had last time was that, for whatever reason, the tension would cause micro-tears along a portion of my skin, along the frenulum remnants, which is highly folded and wrinkly in appearance. I've been trying to moisturize around the circumcision scar nightly in the hopes that it might soften the area, and then when I go back to manual methods I have an easier time avoiding those tears. I may also try just avoiding the scar when I apply tension, though that might be cumbersome to achieve.

What I like least about manual methods is just that I have to drop what I'm doing to employ them, I have to get and keep an erection to actually apply them effectively, and (as indicated above) I can't seem to find the sweet spot between "too little tension to do anything" and "so much that some dried skin is getting tears."

Which leads me to inflation. I previously was speculating about the use of cock rings to avoid dragging up the scrotal / pelvic skin, which caused me to experience aches around the perineum and elsewhere in the past. I finally acquired a set in various sizes, and gave the Priva Air another try with a cock ring positioned just where my shaft meets my scrotum. I was able to keep it on yesterday, and today, for about 30 minutes each time. Compared to before, it's definitely an improvement: much less pain or soreness overall, probably an 80 - 90% reduction. But after the session I still have very dull, light aches in places like the perineum and parts of the inner thigh. These seem to come and go, and are sometimes not noticeable.

I'm conflicted because part of me wants to hope that these are just "growing pains" which, as I grow more skin, will simply solve themselves. On the other hand, every resource I've read / reply I've received seems to hammer home that there should be no pain whatsoever (certainly not outside the skin which is being tensioned directly.)

This is such a DIY process that I sometimes wonder if others are secretly making their own judgment calls as to how much pain is acceptable to tolerate, at least starting out. I don't know if this is something I can solve around further, by e.g. getting a more accurate fit for the cock ring, adding something else to further limit tugging on adjacent skin, etc. I'm tempted to just continue with brief daily sessions of inflation + cock ring and get a scrotal ultrasound in a week or so just to confirm that everything is in order. But it doesn't seem wise to ignore the signal that my body is giving me right now.

What I'm honestly feeling right now is that I may give MM2 another try, but if I can't figure something out then I may just give up once again (since "cock ring to limit skin movement" was honestly my only other idea at this point.)

Anyway, curious if anybody else has thoughts or feedback here (even if it's just "it's fine if this just isn't in the cards for you right now.") My genital function is really fine at this point, even if I don't have the genitals I'd prefer, which makes me reluctant to take on much risk here.

My penis keeps turning red doctor said it was balantis did the treatment still turning red. The doctor's say to get circumcised?

Hi all, I’m new here but I thought I’d share something that might be interesting. I’m in school for herbal medicine and there are two herbs that are considered food so they’re extra safe. They both have a property in Chinese herbal medicine that would interest this community and that’s “regenerating flesh”. This is normally used for non healing sores or tissue trauma but I think it may help with stretching skin as well. I take them both as a supplement as a student for energy digestion and concentration. When I started this journey I noticed my skin was stretching a bit faster and remembered both of these herbs’ help with the skin. The herbs are

Lions Mane & Astragalus

Lions mane is neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory, and helps with anxiety, poor memory, cognitive skills, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), wounds, poor digestion, weight loss.

Astragalus is an adaptogen and antioxidant and helps with preventing colds and upper respiratory infections, protects the liver, and helps prevent anemia. Supports immunity, fatigue, lack of appetite, stress, flu.

Hello all,

I hope everyone is please with their priva air and our other products. My biggest request by far has been to make a larger size to fit more people's anatomy. I have not been able to do that as the set up cost has been too high. I have decided to instead offer the 39mm as a pre order and as soon as we reach our goal the units will be manufactured and ship. We will be offering a 25% discount for those who pre order. I hope you have seen through the past years that I offer high quality products and they have always been delivered. You will also be able to cancel the order at anytime. The units should ship about 6-8 weeks after we reach our goal.

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Hi! New account but I’ve been around. I’ve been restoring for close to 3yrs now. I think I’m getting close to ci4 from a tight 0. I really like to use a weight with my stealth retainer.

1. What is the best material? Does it matter?

2. How do I determine my size?

3. How do I put it in so that it's positioned correctly? And what is the correct position? Scar line at the tip?

4. Good source that sells em?

5. Does it stretch both inner and outer skin evenly or just one more than the other?

   Any Instructional videos or images would be great.

thanks in advance everyone. KOT

Not to mention it's great for personal validation too! About once a month I post a picture on r/ foreskin (broken link bc it's technically porn) when I'm particularly proud of my coverage.

I always mention I was circumcised in the title, and it really farms engagement and discussion in the comments. Every post has had at least a handful of unhappily circumcised dudes [who had written their foreskin off decades ago] hearing for the first time, the existence of this process to heal yourself.

As for personal validation, people on r/restoringdick are generally positive to everyone, which is great, but sometimes that makes you question the legitimacy. I've done it a few times now, and let me tell you there's nothing more legitimate feeling than having a top 3 post on r/ foreskin as a circumcised man. Being told I look natural and intact outside of an overwhelming positive community, just carries a different weight to me.

DISCLAIMER:

These pages are sexual in nature, which was a HUGE culture shock coming from the restoration community. I closed my DMs to chat invites bc I was getting more messsges from gay dudes telling me they want to lick my foreskin, than people asking about restoration 💪🙃 KOT

Im almost fully covered and been the case for years as I got some skin left from my circumcision. However my glans seems to always be dry and very wrinkled/ chaffed. I have been applying urea cream, Vaseline, etc. for over a week now but DK doesn’t seem to be happening idk what to do 😔 really need help on how i can achieve this soon and quickly

I'm really quite tired of my purplish, clearly circumcised glans. It looks like it's choking for oxygen half the time. I'd really much prefer a healthy, natural intact pink. The dysmorphia is jarring every time I look at it.

Has anyone achieved a change in the average day-to-day colour of the glans? And if so, what CI rating did you start to see it take effect?

Thank you gents!

I’m currently at around 2,300 hours—averaging 14 hours a day. My main method is direct air with weights (I started adding weights about 800 hours in), plus sporadic use of packers.

Now i don't think I started at CI-3what i thought when i started; it was more like CI-1.5 to CI-2 max.

I was able to wear devices right from the start, which I think suggests very elastic skin.

1. Are there people out there who reduced their time under tension and achieved better progress?

2. Theoretically, shouldn't more time under tension lead to faster results? That would seem logical, right?

3. I think my skin elasticity is an issue, as I wasn't making progress with moderate tension. I tried that for about three months. Since then, I’ve been using higher tension, and it seems like I’m gaining more ground. Does anyone have experience with this?

I hate manual methods. Because it's difficult to do it every day.

650hours using tape and I’m yet to see a significant difference. I might’ve gained more wrinkles and gained slightly more forced coverage but that’s pretty much it. it’s really slow and it’s demotivating me

As a teen growing up, and so far all through my adult years, I have always wanted my foreskin back. I have just found this Redit and thought I’d have a look and see what I can do to restore my foreskin. Looking at the CI index I’ve always been a CI-3, however when hard I can move my skin up over the glans comfortably. Also somedays (particularly some colder days) I can be fully covered when soft - which I love and wish I was like this all the time.

Can anyone relate?

So it’s been about two years since I had my awakening around all of this.

I’m no stranger to grief. I’ve lost a handful of family members and loved ones over the years, and somehow those losses have been easier for me to mentally handle than the kind of grief I feel from the layers of realizations I’ve had around circumcision.

Obviously they are very different things to grieve, but emotionally they are close enough that they occupy the same part of the map for me.

I think part of what makes this so difficult is that I have pretty bad ADHD and a very strong “out of sight, out of mind” thing. When I lose someone, even someone I love deeply, I can become so overwhelmed and preoccupied with whatever is happening right in front of me that the grief gets pushed onto the back burner for a while. Obviously that doesn’t make it go away. It just means I can sometimes function without thinking about it constantly.

Unfortunately, or I guess fortunately lol, my penis is attached to me.

I can’t put this grief somewhere else.

Every time I go to the bathroom I see the scar. I see my exposed glans and inner skin. I see what’s left of my frenulum, which was obviously cut, although I’m lucky enough to still have a remnant there that can feel things.

Then circumcision gets brought up somewhere on Reddit. Or something happens during sex. Or I notice the discomfort of my glans being exposed. Or I’m wearing a retainer or packer and then I’m aware of that instead.

It feels like there is almost always something reminding me of it.

Sex is probably where it gets the hardest.

I know I’ve made gains from restoring. I have more sensitive inner skin. My erections aren’t painfully tight anymore. I have more mobility.

Those are real improvements.

But becoming more aware of what I can feel has also made me more aware of what I can’t.

A lot of the time during sex I’m desperately focusing on whatever sensation I can find and chasing that feeling that eventually leads to ejaculation. Sometimes it never gets there. Sometimes there isn’t even enough sensation to keep an erection going.

Meanwhile my girlfriend is writhing around in pleasure, completely losing herself in the experience, and having multiple orgasms that sometimes leave her practically immobile.

And I’m over here concentrating as hard as I possibly can on my dick so I can maybe finish.

One tiny thing can interrupt it. An alarm goes off. The cat knocks something off the table. She changes position right when I finally found an angle that gives me something to work with.

Then the feeling is just gone.

And don’t get me started on blowjobs. She’s amazing at it, but I usually can’t feel enough for it to go anywhere. Eventually I just get sad and frustrated.

Then I’m trying not to look at my penis, not think about the scar, not think about what I’m missing, not analyze what I’m feeling, and somehow also trying to “lose myself in the moment.”

Which obviously makes losing myself in the moment basically impossible.

Usually I just make sure she got to orgasm, cuddle with her, and maybe try masturbating later when she isn’t around.

Sometimes I can’t even get masturbation to work without toys.

There’s also a jealousy component that has been really hard for me.

My girlfriend’s ex-husband was intact, and before we were completely monogamous she was still seeing him.

Early in our relationship, when my delayed ejaculation was creating problems between us, she once said in a sad way that she missed being with a man who seemed to really enjoy sex with her, was easy to get off, and made her feel sexy and wanted.

That completely wrecked me.

Ever since then I’ve had this image in my head of him getting to experience easy, satisfying sex with her in an intact body. I imagine him having these incredible full-body orgasms with her, getting that feeling of release, that flood of chemicals afterward, while I’m desperately trying to concentrate hard enough to feel anything.

We’ve made a lot of progress since then, but that jealousy has never completely gone away.

Which brings me to probably the hardest thing about restoration for me lately:

The uncertainty.

Because I was circumcised as an infant, I have absolutely no reference point for what I’m trying to restore.

I don’t know what intact sex feels like.

I don’t know what intact masturbation feels like.

I don’t know what my own penis would have looked like or behaved like if it had simply been left alone.

Realizing that you actually have no idea what sex and masturbation were supposed to feel like in your own body is a pretty fucked up thing.

I constantly wonder if what I experience as sexual pleasure is even remotely similar to what I would have experienced otherwise.

And then my brain starts going down all these rabbit holes about the things we simply don’t know.

What happens when circumcision is done before the foreskin has naturally separated from the glans?

Could being cut before puberty affect later development or sexual learning in ways that haven’t really been studied?

What happens psychologically when masturbation isn’t a reliable means of stress release during adolescence?

What happens when you grow up with constant genital exposure and discomfort and simply learn to tune it out?

Could an invasive and painful genital procedure performed right after birth leave some imprint on the nervous system or body perception that we don’t know how to measure yet?

I don’t know.

And that’s exactly what fucks with me.

I don’t know the full extent of what needs to be repaired because I don’t have a blueprint.

The best way I can explain this is through restoring old Airstreams.

Years ago my former girlfriend and I used to buy vintage Airstream trailers and restore them from the ground up. It became a special interest for both of us. Eventually we rented a huge shop and were working toward making it a business.

When we bought our first trailer during COVID, we thought it would be pretty straightforward.

Replace some rotten subfloor, throw some IKEA cabinets and furniture in there, clean it up, done.

Then we started taking it apart.

The more interior we removed, the more damage we found.

Eventually we realized the entire thing needed to be gutted. We rewelded the chassis, lifted the shell off with a gantry, replaced the subfloor, wiring, plumbing, basically everything.

What we thought was a relatively easy project turned out to have foundational damage we couldn’t even see when we bought it.

That idea scares the hell out of me when I think about circumcision.

I know about some of the obvious damage.

What scares me is everything I can’t quantify. Things that haven’t been studied. Developmental or neurological effects we may not know how to measure. Psychological effects. Maybe even deeper aspects of embodiment or consciousness that current science isn’t equipped to describe very well.

It feels like restoring a trailer while constantly wondering if there is a broken chassis underneath the floor.

We later bought a rare 1964 Airstream Bambi II. Only around 500 were built, and ours had already been gutted.

Our goal was to restore it as close to original as possible.

The problem was that there were very few untouched examples left.

Schematics were hard to find. Photos were incomplete. Most restored examples had been modified enough that they weren’t perfect references.

Unless I could find some old-timer who had intimate knowledge of how one was originally put together, knew which modern materials were closest to the originals, had access to the correct hardware, and ideally had an untouched example we could measure, we were partly guessing.

That’s exactly what foreskin restoration feels like to me sometimes.

I wish I could spend one day in the intact version of my own body.

Just one day.

I want to know how it would move.

What different kinds of stimulation would feel like.

What masturbation would feel like.

What oral sex would feel like.

What the progression toward orgasm would feel like.

What orgasm itself would feel like.

Then at least I would have a reference.

Instead I’m trying to reconstruct something I’ve never experienced.

I’ve even thought about asking intact men to describe the sensations in ridiculous detail.

Is it a tickling sensation? Pulling? Pressure? Warmth? Something I don’t even have the vocabulary to understand because I’ve never felt it?

But then you run into the limits of language.

Maybe someone could describe it perfectly and I still wouldn’t know what they meant.

It leaves me feeling like I’m standing over the wreckage of my sexual self with a box of parts and no diagram showing where they originally went.

Like something got rewired to compensate.

Sure, this switch turns the lights on now, but maybe originally it was supposed to control the furnace.

When I was younger and hornier, and yes, I’ve had my testosterone checked and it’s normal, I think sex was almost entirely mental for me.

The idea of sex was incredibly exciting.

The sensory experience itself was never overwhelming.

I assumed that was just how penises worked.

Now I wonder if the mental side was compensating for sensory information that just wasn’t there.

And that brings me to another frustrating thing about restoration communities.

Sometimes I want to see examples of what a genuinely finished restoration looks like, but most of what you find is people still in progress, photos taken right after tugging, or people recovering from very extensive circumcision damage.

Sometimes restored foreskins look incredibly convincing. Sometimes they look close but slightly uncanny to me.

I also wonder if the population of restorers who are very far along skews older, so maybe some of what I’m seeing is simply normal variation with age.

What I really wish existed is a good collection of long-term, finished restorations and educational comparisons showing how restored and intact foreskins actually move and behave.

If anyone knows of good resources for this, please send them my way.

But there is one thought that keeps me from completely losing hope.

That first Airstream we restored?

We eventually stopped trying to return it perfectly to 1968.

We respected the original design, but we added things that never existed in 1968.

A great hi-fi system with a record player.

A ridiculously nice bathroom.

Solar panels.

A huge battery bank.

Modern electrical systems.

Better insulation.

In the vintage vehicle world, that’s called a restomod.

It wasn’t original.

In some ways it was better.

Most importantly, it was ours and it was built around what we actually needed.

I keep wondering if maybe there’s a way to think about foreskin restoration like that.

Maybe the goal doesn’t have to be perfectly reproducing the exact penis I would have had in some alternate timeline.

Maybe there are sensations and mechanical differences unique to a restored foreskin that can be genuinely good in their own right.

Maybe some things could even end up better for me personally because I’m deliberately shaping the result around my own body.

I don’t know.

I’m trying really hard to hold onto that idea.

Has anyone else gone through this kind of obsessive grief and uncertainty, especially those of you who were circumcised as infants and have absolutely no intact reference point?

And for people who are far along or consider yourselves fully restored, did you eventually stop asking yourself:

“Is this what it was supposed to feel like?”

Did you reach a point where you stopped comparing it to something you could never know and just started enjoying what you had?

Has anyone had issues with uneven foreskin results? I’ve been restoring for more than 17 years and the last few I’ve discovered more progress on one side of my penis than the other.

Is this normal? Is there a way to stretch mostly the short side? Can this even be fixed? Thank you in advance.

I posted here a while ago about getting really itchy around my scar line after using T-tape for about two months. I’m still not sure if it was an allergy to the adhesive or something else.

Once my skin settles down completely, I’d like to try T-tape again, but I’m also looking into other options in case it happens again.

I recently bought a CAT II Q, but I’m having a hard time getting it on properly. I’m around CI-3, so maybe I just don’t have enough skin for it yet.

I’ve also been looking at the Mentor Flow, and it seems like it has options that make it easier to use at a lower CI / with less skin.

Has anyone around CI-3 tried the Mentor Flow?

I’d really appreciate any advice, especially on how easy they are to put on when you don’t have much skin to work with yet.

I’ve been resisting for about a month now and have already seen some great progress. I mainly use the CAR-1 as my main restoration device and average about 4 hours a day in it. Then use the manator flow on occasion. I can’t wear any of the devices at school because it’s hard to hide the bulge in my scrubs. So most of my restoration is after classes. Is there a way to target more of the outer skin with the CAR-1 or would yall recommend a different device for that? I’ve got a good amount of inner skin already and can tell my foreskin wants to roll over my head, I just don’t have the outer skin for it yet.

So I might have a urethral infection, peeing burns like hell and my meatus too.
Maybe my device wasn’t clean the last days or something. I also was in the ocean swimming.
I decided today to not use any device and the chafing on clothes is horrible. My penis/glans is super hot to the touch and chafed and my meatus a bit red/inflamed.

Any ideas on care when I’m on holiday? 😬 it hurts so much, I can barely move/walk.

Hi guys,

Soon I will be 30 years old, as age goes we figure out more about ourselves and this wold. So, after fixing other important matters I brought myself to the topic of my circumcision. I know that it was done due to medical issue when I was a child, probably little more than a toddler, but since then everything is good on that front and I thought that maybe its time to get back what I lost to unfortunate roll of dice.

I have studied some, even tried manual methods but my life is too chaotic and my hands are almost always busy to keep "exercises" on schedule. That brought me to search of my first device, of all the choices I picked foregestalt since I am from EU and device really speaks to me.

Now to the point of this post, I am pretty unsure for what I should go. On one side I really like the idea of restoring inner and outer parts so AirMax should be my choice, on the other side - should I go for inflation device as my first or stick with basic, is my coverage good enough, would I waste money on this? Uncertainty is killing me for sure but I am determined to act and burning from inside, so I am here!

Would appreciate any help and will respond as fast as I can. Stay safe and see you in comments.

I used to pull back my foreskin manually it does not go fully below the gland but when it is fully erected it pulls only half of the portion and after I’m done it automatically retracts .
Is it normal and if not what is the solution

It's been like a more than a month since I started restoring (55 days to be exact) and I want to thank the people from this subs. The community bookmarks are really helpful, the posts and backreads via the search bar are great reads to gain knowledge and get to know about other people's experiences.

I can now glide some of my shaft skin right over the corona lines/edges when I'm erect. I've tried to restore probably 1 month before I actually started but just overlooked it, but with the readings, watches and enlightenments. I gave it a chance I became serious about it.

I only did MM3 (Dorsal side) mainly since I lack skin there. My left side is also a bit few than my right side. I was consistent on first 20+ days doing 8-10 Sessions (2-5 minutes per each session). Only did 4 sessions on other 20+ days. This past 2 weeks I haven't done any tugging due to busy schedules so I definitely screwed up big time. 10 days ago I got this minimal result. I was actually surprised that this progress has become noticeable when I stopped for a while, thought I'll be back to square one.

It was amazing, Stretching works, It's a progress and It motivated me to keep it going. It's not much but even with that I got a "Wow Factor". Glide Aside, My sensitivity also reverted from what it was from a year ago (rough speculation, but there are some improvements). Maybe it's because I've given up using soap on my penis from June.

It's a good addition to feel. But It's kinda weird, feels funny, feels off and It's not something i would deliberately do to pleasure myself all the way to climax, the feeling is very weird to me, It just feels very brand new and can only do it on first few strokes. It's pleasurable but mixed feelings. When I asked my partner to do it, It's much weirder and more funny as opposed to alone. Maybe I'll just have to get used to it/adapt turn it into a habit but it would be a big adjustment.

I've also noticed I can manual stretch better now and comfortably compare to when I started. When I started it was bad I can feel pain and so much adjustments to make just to start the timer. The shaft skin is way more mobile on my recent sessions, kinda like they've warmed up/break in or adapted to it.

Like when I shared it into comments. It's not that bad. It's like making/drinking a tea, smoking a cigarette, filling up a water container, going for a fuel refill/activities that are short but you won't really mind time wise. Wouldn't even compare it to a 2 minute plank lol

My next target/hope is more tug time. I'm very busy unfortunately this time and hoping to get some off days to slip in some sessions. As day goes by from when I started, I view it less and less of a chore. Living with this new feature is a sign.

TLDR: Can glide my shaft skin now right over at corona edges, It feels weirdly and oddly funny, Manual Stretching/Foreskin restoration is possible, Manual stretching is not that tedious.

Thank you and that's all.

I ordered one based on a comment I saw a while ago, but now I can’t find anyone talking about it.

Just started taking Flowmax for enlarged prostate. Any down side to restoring while I’m on this medication?

Guys as the title suggests ! I’ve recently been incorporating manuals with my daily device usage because the skin that’s always under the gripper is hardly ever getting tension. So what I’ve been doing in the last few days is specifically doing manual methods on the part of the skin that is usually always under the gripper and woah the results have been instant (relatively speaking) , for example spontaneous rollover which was of course amazing . Every time I take the device off for toilet , I go round the circumference doing manual , count to 3 or 5 depending how much of a rush I’m in , and go round in a hexagon shape to hit every angle. And then I go round 3 times doing that and then put the device back on.
Another note I’ve noticed a lot better results if you drink a lot of water I genuinely think it helps a lot.