Hello,

I'm 23, some time ago I've realized that my frenulum is too short. Admittedly I can retract my foreskin with ease past my glans, but then problems appear...
I was going to tie my frenulum, but then I read your forum and changed my mind. Well, first of all - thanks!

I have a question concerning frenulum stretching [usuing technique showed here on photos], when I'm stretching frenulum should I pull the beginning of the frenulum [point 1] or the point just before it?[point 2] [I showed this points on your photo].

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I think that 15 min [3 x 15]a day is not enough for me, so I've made up something to apply constant pressure on frenulum [see photos]. What do you think about it?
I made it second time, it last for about 3-4 hours, then it snaps [I mean the plaster not the frenulum;)].

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Regards from Eastern Europe
Jaroslaw

I vote for the second method. I'm not sure how the first one is benefitting the frenulum. Do you feel a tugging sensation in the frenulum when you do it?

I've read some posts and you always recommend pulling foreskin,which I don't uderstand. Well, I'm just curious what is your point about it. I feel a tugging sensation when I'm using either of these methods. However it seems to me that when I pull "point 2" I'm stretching not the frenulum, but foreskin [it's my theoretical assumption so I can be wrong:)].

Regards

Since the frenulum is affixed to the shaft just under the meatus, that acts as an anchor for the frenlum. By pulling the end of the foreskin where the other end of the frenlum is attached to it, you are pulling the frenlum as well.

The point is - the frænulum is by definition, nothing more than part of the foreskin; there is nothing that distinguishes it from any other part (despite some claims made that it is "special" in terms of sensitivity). It is merely a part of the foreskin which happens to be folded in a certain way (due to the way in which the penis develops in the first few months of a pregnancy) so that its thinness is more evident and it bears an excess of the tension that may be applied to the foreskin.

You haven't actually described what your "problems" with the frænulum are, but I would presume you are experiencing some discomfort at this point when your foreskin is pulled back firmly. Now this begs the question - under what circumstances is your foreskin pulled back firmly, and are these circumstances a "normal" and necessary part of sexual activity? For example, it might be that the foreskin is forced back when you attempt to penetrate a young lady because she is not ready for that and has not produced enough vaginal lubrication to permit it. Not only would that be uncomfortable for you, but it would result in a less-than-perfect experience for her as well, and the "fix" is not to modify the frænulum, but to improve sexual "technique" (so that she is sufficiently "wet" for pleasurable penetration).

Or she might tend to pull the foreskin back too firmly during oral sex or a "hand job". This can be a consequence of prior familiarity with circumcised penes, or with pornography in which the actors are often circumcised and even if not, would appear to be quite habituated to actions whose vigour must necessarily be quite painful to "mere mortals". My point is that circumcision in the vast majority of cases disrupts the frænulum and the apparent smoothness of that area after circumcision is by no means representative of a normal, intact penis, so simple appearance is not a valid concern.

If you wish to relieve tension on the frænulum, then it matters little whether the frænulum itself or the adjacent foreskin (which pulls on it) is stretched. If the frænulum is stretched, it will be looser, if the foreskin adjacent is stretched, it will not pull so tightly; either way the problem is solved. Where you illustrate the attachment of the tape is perfectly appropriate; there will be tension on the frænulum but also some tension under the tape. You may find it helpful to de-grease the skin where you apply the tape with an alcohol swab (never soap) so that the tape adheres longer. The tape you illustrate is standard surgical tape manufactured for the purpose - I think you seem to have figured it out perfectly well.

It seems you have invented for yourself the "T-tape" method that is used in "foreskin restoration" (Google will reveal much on those subjects). This is something I have suggested in the past - your pictures (1 and 2 if they survive obscuration and censorship ) are an excellent illustration of it applied in this fashion.

In general, you wish to apply stretching to the whole of the frænulum, thus point 2 is the place to grip. If using tape however, it will not matter if the tape extends partway between points 1 and 2.

Thanks for comprehensive answers:) I have another question though. I've read many posts, and read about people who succeeded in stretching phimosis, but I didn't find any post about success in frenulum stretching - are there any? What results I can expect [I know that everybody is different etc, but what is statistical progress (per month,year etc)]. To be honest, I'm rather sceptical about stretching frenulum [most web pages advise against it].

Again thanks for replies.

Regards
Eastern Europe

If you do it faithfully, you'll get results. The problem with people on other web sites is that they don't try things. Often they are also populated with circumcision fanatics whose desire is to see you fall victim to the practice in order to make them feel better about their own losses/

Sorry, we don't have any statistics here. No clinical trials, no double-blind studies. We can't prove anything!

If you want to find success stories, you might have to read back further. I think there are a couple, but I can't recall and to be honest, I don't think it is my job to find them. I suspect that it takes longer and is more subject to the effect whereby when people do succeed, they have forgotten about this forum and just go on with their lives. With the taping method you have illustrated on the other hand, you might actually experience more rapid progress and be in a position to give us a success story.

Perfectly fine to be sceptical about stretching the frænulum but I wonder whether you have considered your observation that "most web pages advise against it" in detail? Why do you suppose that is? How do you think this might be connected with the general "slant" of a given website. Clearly a website whose purpose (whether subtly or overtly) is to entice you into surgery, is likely to claim that "stretching does not work", but for what motive do you suppose a site which is pro-intact might make a similar claim? Upon what evidence base do you suppose they are suggesting this?