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Foreskin Restoration

What is Foreskin Restoration?

Foreskin restoration is the process of restoring, via surgical or other methods, the foreskin (prepuce), usually in a circumcised male. Foreskin restoration techniques may also be used by men who have sustained an injury to the foreskin, or who have a naturally short foreskin (see foreskin stretching).

Men attempt foreskin restoration for many reasons. Some attempts to restore the foreskin, usually through tissue expansion techniques, are predicated by the expectation of greater sexual sensitivity. Other men have cited a desire to appear "natural," to regain a sense of control over their own bodies, or because of their personal views against circumcision.

Foreskin restoration is attempted mostly by circumcised adult men, sometimes with the assistance of support groups who share information and ideas. Many believe foreskin restoration should be delayed until sexual development is completed at around 18 years of age.

Surgical or Non-Surgical Foreskin Restoration

Non-surgical foreskin restoration is the re-covering of the glans penis by tissue expansion. Tape and weights, elastic straps, a traction device, or even manual stretching can be used to exert a gentle outward tension on the shaft of the penis to induce the skin to grow, to make the most of what was left after the circumcision. Surgical restoration (or reconstruction) is the grafting of skin onto the penis, either from the penis itself or from elsewhere on the body, to reconstruct something that looks and functions like a foreskin. The grafted skin may be of dissimilar texture to the original.