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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message Icon:                                                                       Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by KittenGoddess: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Heather: [qb]Hopefully, when you were small and your parents did your diapering, they were pulling the foreskin back to clean it each time: that's how you do it. Same goes for yourself growing up through now when you bathe. If none of that ever happened, we kind of can't know if this has always been the case for you or not. If any of it did, we CAN know something has changed.[/qb][/QUOTE]The usual advice now is not to retract infants foreskins when washing or diapering unless they are already free-moving on their own. (This usually doesn't happen.) Retraction during normal cleaning doesn't usually start to happen until age 5 and may take until puberty to fully be mobile on its own (depending upon the individual). (Depending upon your age & the advice your parents were given, they may have been forcibly retracting you as an infant or youth.) ETA: To be clear, I fully support & agree that you need to talk with your doctor about what you are experiencing. Discomfort and difficulty with retraction need to be seen by a care provider. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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