Foreskin length and degree of coverage of the glans

Your foreskin (in relation to the degree of coverage of the glans) is more similar to the type...

  • A

    Votes: 25 5.2%
  • B

    Votes: 77 16.0%
  • C

    Votes: 71 14.8%
  • D

    Votes: 149 31.0%
  • E

    Votes: 158 32.9%

  • Total voters
    480
The age at which you retract your skin seems to determine how much you have as an adult, to a large degree. If a 5 year old boy (for whatever reason) takes it into his head that he wants to pull his foreskin back and keep it there then by the time he reaches adulthood he will end up with a very short foreskin which probably can't ever cover the glans. If a guy never tries to retract his foreskin before the age of say 18 then he will probably be totally covered all the time and may even develop a bad case of phimosis.

Shaft skin seems to grow in response to pressure. As a man's penis grows, if his foreskin is permanently retracted, the penis will outgrow the skin and you will effectively have an adult penis with an infant foreskin. If it is tightly anchored to the tip of his penis with a short frenulum and maybe even phimosis then the skin will grow significantly in order to cover the larger area.

I used to regret not retracting my foreskin at a young age. I felt I would have effectively had a circumcised penis but without ever needing surgery and stitches and scarring. In hindsight though I realise that a "natural circumcision" like this would probably always be kinda loose. For a genuinely tight result you would probably still need surgical intervention. The frenulum would probably need to get snipped eventually too, to stop the skin bunching up.
I think your theory may be a little true,
It does make sense , and personally would fit with what I did and have
 
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Mine is type A. Pulling forward I can cover some of my head (see second pic), but typically it will not stay there.
 

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I like that. As uncircumcised penises go, I really like the appearance of this guy’s cock. I like that part of the head is visible while his penis remains intact/uncircumcised. Thanks for posting it.
Quite a few of us Chinese and other Asian guys have penises that look like that! Though my moist pink/purple head is fully hidden under my meaty brown sheath (which has some overhang, hehe)
 
Norwegian guy here.
I definitely have an E type of penis. I have an extra long foreskin overhang.
Overhang even when hard unless I retract.

I did not start to retract my long foreskin until late in my puberty.
I got to keep the same type of snouty anteater cock I had as a boy even as a grownup man just bigger of course.
 
I am type B. The interesting thing is, I am completely circumcised, and not only that, it was a super tight circumcision. When I hit puberty, the skin stretched so tightly over my grown shaft that the scar actually bled when I got fully hard. (I've never met anyone who had this experience. But after a few months this healed and didn't return.)
Anyway, through the years, with continued use, my shaft skin stretched, so that now when I'm fully soft, I consistently have an overhang and there is plenty of loose skin when i'm hard. 20230601_103802.jpg
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Unfortunately, I am circumcised and have no way to verify what my skin might look like if I were uncut. But it's something I've always been curious about, participate the length and tightness of the foreskin. No way to know for sure, but it's fun to read everyone else's contributions!
 
I agree that culture is a factor. The Greeks prized a long foreskin. Many images on vases show men with an overhang even when erect. They had a name for the overhang, akroposthion. They had a word for "not enough foreskin" lipodermos. So I'm guessing they encouraged boys and young men to keep theirs pulled forward to encourage this desirable effect. I once met a man (Dutch, I think) on a nude beach who seemed to be cut, but he told me his mother had warned him if he didn't keep it pulled back it would be cut off, so it stayed that way.
 
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Interesting Topic -
I’m actually circumcised. Because of my long shaft length, the skin growth has stretched to a point where it covers the head of my dick. Many members here think I’m uncut…

Here’s some examples of him.
I often wonder if other men are like me? - Circumcised, yet appears to be uncut?
 

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The age at which you retract your skin seems to determine how much you have as an adult, to a large degree. If a 5 year old boy (for whatever reason) takes it into his head that he wants to pull his foreskin back and keep it there then by the time he reaches adulthood he will end up with a very short foreskin which probably can't ever cover the glans. If a guy never tries to retract his foreskin before the age of say 18 then he will probably be totally covered all the time and may even develop a bad case of phimosis.

Shaft skin seems to grow in response to pressure. As a man's penis grows, if his foreskin is permanently retracted, the penis will outgrow the skin and you will effectively have an adult penis with an infant foreskin. If it is tightly anchored to the tip of his penis with a short frenulum and maybe even phimosis then the skin will grow significantly in order to cover the larger area.

I used to regret not retracting my foreskin at a young age. I felt I would have effectively had a circumcised penis but without ever needing surgery and stitches and scarring. In hindsight though I realise that a "natural circumcision" like this would probably always be kinda loose. For a genuinely tight result you would probably still need surgical intervention. The frenulum would probably need to get snipped eventually too, to stop the skin bunching up.
D, definitly.
I agree with this theory. Personally, I didn't start to pull back until I was 15. I was very tight with overhang foreskin (I didn't mention it for fear of circumcision). By stretching today I completely retrat even when erect, even if I kept a long foreskin.
 
It's an interesting topic. I can be B, but usually it's A. I only started paying attention to dicks when I discovered this forum recently. I've never paid attention to foreskin issues before.
Someone mentioned something about the foreskin culture in China. Although I am also Chinese, it feels strange to me. Maybe it is because I was raised by a single mother and she has never discussed this issue with me.
In our cultural context, penises are usually called according to whether they can expose the glans after erection. Those who can fully expose the glans are collectively called "dicks", and those who cannot fully expose the glans are called "foreskin dicks."
We do not use the terms cut or uncut to refer to people differently depending on whether they are circumcised or not.
When we were students, we usually had to take part in the student physical examination organized by the school every year. One of the items would check the penis. If the foreskin is too long or the phimosis or the phimosis is too tight, the doctor will recommend circumcision. If the doctor does not give any advice, it will basically be done. Go about your life as usual and don't care about dick anymore.
Just a personal observation, I feel that we don't care too much about whether others have been circumcised or not. But because the foreskin is too long, it will be considered a problem during the physical examination. So I feel that our culture prefers dicks that can expose the glans naturally, and people who have this type of dick are proud of it. People with "foreskin dicks" and those who have been circumcised may be more shy about bringing up the topic of dicks.
Sometimes I see in forums that people from other countries argue about circumcision, and even look down on non-circumcised people because they have a sense of superiority after circumcision surgery. I am confused by this.
My English is not very good, so there may be some ambiguities in my words.
If other Chinese people have different opinions on what I said, they are welcome to discuss it together. I am also quite curious about other people's opinions.
 
Caucasian born in the US (Northeast), 100% Southern Italian genealogy (parents born in the US, all four grandparents emigrated from Italy).

I'm an uncircumcised B, bordering on C when at the most shrunken.
 
Prior to getting cut in my late teens, I was a 'D'. I was able to fully retract at 10 or 11 . I unsuccessfully tried to keep it retracted since I was very self conscious growing up in the US at the time. My foreskin could retract all the way naturally at half hard. I hated when I went soft and my foreskin snagged a pubic hair which would end up stuck to my glans; not appealing to partners I had sex with.

Sure wish I had some pictures from back then. Had a forum like this been around back then and knowing I had something in common with other guys, I probably wouldn't have gotten cut. But, done is done and I'm happy that the choice was miine to make.
 
It is known that the prepuce, like any other part of the body, can have shape and a different length from man to man. In the case of uncircumcised boys, therefore, the type of prepuce possessed determines, together with other characteristics, the aesthetic aspect that the penis has as a whole. Based on readings, discussions, research, photos, etc. it is possible to identify five possibilities regarding the "semblance" that a foreskin (in relation obviously to the degree of coverage of the glans when the penis is flaccid) may have:

A) Foreskin remains retracted and leaves the entire glans always exposed
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B) Foreskin is averagely short and leaves the glans always partially uncovered
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C) Foreskin covers the entire glans leaving visible only a small part (often near the urinary meatus)
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D) Foreskin is long enough to keep the whole glans always covered (without going further)
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E) Foreskin is so long as to keep the glans continually covered and the excess of skin causes an "overhang"
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Most likely, it can be said that the diffusion of each of these options is varied and difficult to estimate. In any case, giving a try, we could say the following:

A) Quite rare option (5%)---B) Infrequent option or not very widespread (15%)---C) Option quite common (25%)---D) Most widespread option (30%)---E) Option quite common (25%)

What do you think ? Do you agree ? Leave a comment and take part in the poll...
I am like either B or C