Dear all,
I need some help with frenulum stretching. Can anyone recommend me some exercises - have been doing it for a whie and although the phimosis I had is now gone - the frenulum is still a little short. A foreskin friendly doctor has said that some frenulums do not stretch like the rest of the foreskin and that I should consider a frenuloplasty. Any comments would be appreciated.

The first thing I'd do is to forget the doctor. What does the suggest the frenulum is composed of? Why wouldn't it expand?

Consider the profit factor here. The guy runs a business. Surgeries charge out a lot higher than simple office visits, don't you think?

The frenulum is a continuation of the part you have already stretched, so yes, the frenulum will stretch. The problem is getting a hold of the little rascal, and this is why some guys fail at it. You have to be smarter than it is. You must also put in the time necessary to get the job done.

One exercise we commonly suggest for starters looks like this:

He may be right - some frænula do not stretch like the rest of the foreskin, I am at pains to point this out in the answers I give here.

I do not however, see this as a reason not to stretch it - it will just take more time and more care. Is there a particular reason you are in a hurry?

I do realise that some of the anti-circumcision campaigners such as Dr Peter Ball of NORM UK, seem a little complacent and suggest that it does not matter if the frænulum is cut, and I do not think it such a disaster if you have it cut (or tear it in overly exuberant sexual activity), but my baseline position is that I do not feel it should need to be cut if you can stretch it otherwise.

Now if you are keen on quick results, I would suggest that you might adapt something from the "T-tape" approach used by those re-growing a foreskin substitute after circumcision, whereby you would simply use a piece of surgical tape folded back on itself for part of the distance from the fold, so that the two adhesive "tails" would be attached to the inside and outside of the foreskin, with the inside end just impinging on the frænulum.

You then arrange an elastic strap to pull on this with the other end being looped around your leg lower down - either above or below the knee - to apply a continuous tension throughout the day (and/ or night). Jim is in fact, the expert on this sort of thing.

As to whether doctors profit from such simple procedures, well I suppose they do in America but on an adult, it would be very inappropriate for this to require a hospital or even day centre visit and most certainly not a General Anaesthetic. The simplest approach of tying with a common suture, barely even justifies a local anaesthetic, and in Australia, the Medicare Benefits Schedule admits to no such procedure of any form as a "benefit", so it pays as a consultation only.

Thanks very much both of your for your careful comments.
Of course, I should have thought of the T-tape method - I used some when stretching my foreskin opening, which a few years ago was very tight indeed. I currently devising a routine of manual tugging and a tape method too. Getting at the frenulum is the issue -I'll keep you posted in a couple of weeks or so.
All the best and thank you very much.
Harry (in London).

Now you have me puzzled as to how you might have been taping to stretch your foreskin opening - the "T-tape" and such methods are generally used to lengthen the foreskin (including by fellows who are not circumcised, but it amuses them to have a longer foreskin, such as for guaranteed coverage when erect - as of course you would already have anyway if you have not been able to retract it ).

I don't think that you need to "get at" the frænulum so much, just to locate the point at which it "finishes" at the foreskin, and attach tape or otherwise pull at that point. Presumably as you try to retract your foreskin, that point appears in the process.

Hi there,
I used the T tape to keep a bottle cap/film reel case/random circular disc from popping out from the end of my foreskin. I could walk around the flat and keep a gentle and constant pressure up for a few hours at a time. The frenulum did not stretch during the process though.

Will keep you chaps posted as to the progress. I've come this far so am determined to keep going.

Harry