Circumcision stunting penis growth???

[uncut_guy]

Originally Posted by serulin

I believe so (based on my own experience). My erection always feels restricted by my skin and all my skin from my scrotum hair is pulled up. I think my penis would be at the very least .5" longer if not for circumcision.

I think there is some truth to it my brother is not as big as me and he is circumcised.

Even though I never see it he wears basket ball shorts sometimes and they are quite reviling.

[antibunk]

Originally Posted by Science Monk

Some circ'd males end up with what is sometimes referred to in gay parlance as a "rosebud dick," that is, a short fat penis that pokes forward through a spray of pubic hair rather than hanging down.

Rosebud. So that is what Citizen Kane was talking about before he died.

Size is relevant. But function and health are the most important things. The gallery is interesting. A natural penis still looks good, IMHO, even when it is not that large. It still looks functional and healthy. I will refrain from commenting on the small, mutilated penises.
I can't help but wonder what my dick would look like intact...moist glans, movable skin, symmetry, hair where it belongs. I know it would be a beautiful thing. If only I had been born in Finland...

[soft-cover recovery agent]

I would have to say that circumcision does inhibit the full length of the penis from being seen, but perhaps not hindered in development.

I will relate an experience that I had with my own restoration that is pertinent to this question.

I had gotten to a ci4 when my ci4 suddenly returned to a ci3 after one evening. I had always felt like there was a mass of some sort in my lower abdomen where the prostate kind of is, and also like there was too much stuff down there like there was something extra, like the space where this was felt like the space was too full for the amount of stuff that should have been filling that space. It had felt like that since sometime in puberty. One night it felt like my penis literally pushed out into the skin of the penis. It felt slippery and internal kind of like a sausage when it is pushed into its tube in a meat packing plant. Then, it felt like the penis kind of bounced a little bit/ricocheted back, then front again and finally on this second pass, snugged in to place and did not move. Immediately the feeling of this mass was gone and feeling of the lower abdomen being too full, passed. The other thing that happened was I went back to being a ci3. It took me some time to regain the ci4. The thing that I concluded was that my penis was actually longer than what was appearing outside of the body cavity, prior to this event. The other thing is that was and still am very skinny.

So, in my case I would say that the circumcision hindered the proper development of the penis. I do not know whether the penis would have been longer yet if it had not had this impediment. After this the stubby look also seemed to have reduced and that previously the girth was really length that was in a constant state of compression. On a physiological level, this cannot have been healthy for that tissue development when I was a pubescent and I think one could say that the lengthening penis was hindered in its proper growth. So in answer to your question, I would say it is quite possible that circumcision hinders penile growth period.

[mandrill]

I agree. Circumcisions that aren't horribly botched shouldn't have an effect on the spongy tissue of the penis. Overly tight cuts can hold it back and inhibit length for sure as has already been proven.

[Cresaiyan]

Originally Posted by jmy12

Actually, I did read an article from a medical journal once that compared uncircumcised vs circumcised men. It appears that overall, that uncut penises are larger than cut penises. There probably is a detrimental effect of getting cut when it comes to size. It isn't a huge difference, but in this one study it was statistically significant.

Is this fixable? If not, that's really depressing. Even if I restore/eventually regenerate, there will still be stunted growth? I really hope that's not the case. Does this effect repair itself after restoring? Basically I want to know if this happens across the board for all victims of RIC...
If so, I hope it corrects with restoration...?

With me, I don't THINK it happened because I still have movement of a "skin tube," that was never supposed to be used. I can easily pull the skin all the way up over the glans when erect, but it pulls pubic skin half way up the shaft. But RIC actually STUNTING natural growth??.PLEASE PLEASE tell me restoration corrects this??

[djdude223]

It has concerned me that my aggressive circumcision at 12 years of age, which is just before start of puberty, did have a negative effect on my penis growth. Of course it wasn't until I educated myself on foreskin restoration and learned what is lost and what is damaged during circumcision, that this idea came to me. It explains so much of the physical pain that I went through all those years. Painful, bleeding erections, skin tags and bridges, scarring. I have gained some erect length with restoring, but what effect any stunting did during my growth phase in puberty, I can never really know or measure.

[Cresaiyan]

If its ok, (I know this discussion has about run its course, but the prospect of damage more permanent than regeneration can heal honestly scares me), I'd like to share some more thoughts on a theory I have regarding this growth stunting thing. Criticize and modify at will, but I would like feedback please.. I've been putting together a thought process.

1. This penile "growth stunt" does not happen to everyone.
(2 types of it, first one being developmental hindrance, second one being the repairable-with-restoration lengthening skin tube hindrance)

2. Most circumcised men do not have movement of the skin tube, some do. The ones who do, have a hindrance, yet a blessing in an odd wau,themselves, because of scrotal tissue being capable of advancing up the penile shaft at will. (For example, I have NO erect coverage, or flaccid, unless I sit down for long periods of time, then the skin covers about 1/3 of the head. When erect, I have never needed lube to masturbate, so much so that when I first heard of lube, I was COMPLETELY confused at why someone would use it. My scrotal/pubic skin at the base of my penis is so disconnected with the surrounding area that I can stretch it easily and at will.)

3. During puberty, the scrotal skin disconnects to facilitate penile lengthening more so in some people than in others. Looser skin means no developmental damage. (Yet still there is probable REPAIRABLE reduction, from the penis not being able to extend out as far as possible before foreskin restoration.) Id also like to note that I believe the body is adaptive enough to completely compensate for the missing length after restoring/regenerating. The only part that was actually taken in a non-botched circumcision (they ALL suck) is the foreskin... Had anyone compared the length of the restored penis to how it was before restoring? I'll bet the length is up. That's why I doubt that the sheer development of it is harmed.... It very well may be hidden, but I think that's repairable with restoration. I'm with Spoofy on this.

[Science Monk]

Originally Posted by uncut_guy

I think there is some truth to it my brother is not as big as me and he is circumcised.

Even though I never see it he wears basket ball shorts sometimes and they are quite reviling.

Years ago, we had a Canadian Professor on the old restore-list emailing list.
He observed that: (1) he became better hung through restoration, and (2) his intact sons were all better hung than their Dad.

The better hung sons, of course, could have been due solely to the reshuffling of the genetic deck, but the Professor felt that their intactness definitely had something to do with it.

David
World As Monkey Island

[Cresaiyan]

Originally Posted by Science Monk

Years ago, we had a Canadian Professor on the old restore-list emailing list.
He observed that: (1) he became better hung through restoration, and (2) his intact sons were all better hung than he.

Better hung even AFTER his newly achieved results from restoration? Or just from his previous size?

[No144456]

I have a slightly above average (size average is stupid) however I was loosely cut so it might not have affected me, my penis is bigger then my husband's (who is uncut) it's probably stunting only if tightly cut