I was feeling somewhat inspired today, so I decided to write up a petition on WhiteHouse.gov to restrict circumcision in the U.S. to medical emergencies, and for all other cases to use conservative treatment except when requested by consenting adults. I’m hoping that with the new presidency in place this might carry more weight than it has before.
The link to the petition is here. Please consider reading and sharing this.
I think I’ve figured out how this blogging thing works. Some people get a topic of discussion into their heads and it intensifies until they have to dump it somewhere. For my part I was considering putting an opinion piece here but I didn’t think it would be entirely appropriate given the nature of this blog, so I decided to do a progress update instead. Funny how that is.
On that subject, people still subscribe occasionally despite endless delays. I know because I still get e-mail updates. I can’t even begin to describe how much your conti ued support inspires me. It’s a comfort that’s difficult to put into words. I guess I can simply say that those of you who leave me messages of support give me renewed faith in humanity.
I’ll leave it there. Expect more in the future.
Yup, we’re back. Shortly after I took these photos I went to a website maintained by Doctors Opposing Circumcision who advised that tugging should never hurt. I’m going to see if I can follow this advice but I’m a little perturbed by it because it doesn’t feel like the skin is stretching unless there’s a little bit of pain. I’ll have to investigate further for clarification.
Hopefully we’ll be able to follow a more consistent schedule. After the crappy year that 2016 turned out to be I made a resolution to make the most of 2017, and this restoration is part of that.
Aight, this one’s going to be brief because I didn’t get any sleep last night and I’m just dying to go to bed. I took these update photos at about noon-ish and it’s 1:26 in the morning where I am now.
Decided to try something new today and stretch while erect. I had the opportunity, so why not? I have to say I’m rather pleased with the results, but I think on the balance I kind of prefer stretching while flaccid because the skin is looser to begin with. I’m told that this is a more popular solution, but this isn’t an exact science. Someone should really get around to doing a study on the most effective stretching techniques. There might already be one, but I’m too tired to Google it now.
These update photos are going to be a little more explicit than usual, since I wanted to get some snapshots of how I was stretching it and that meant taking some photos while erect. Naturally I’d be using the opposite hand to grip the skin further down the shaft and pull down if I wasn’t using it to hold the phone while I took these.
More stretches today. Tried a new approach today: Rather than trying to think of something to do while stretching, I decided to do stretching while I was doing something else. This is based on a piece of advice a dentist gave me quite a while ago: To floss while watching a movie so you don’t feel like you’re sitting around doing nothing. So, while watching a movie with nothing else to do, I did my stretches.
Today’s movie is Air Crash Investigations, a British television program about air crash investigations and how airplanes are improved over time. It’s a good show. Continue reading
It occurred to me why people have trouble staying motivated. It’s because they put pressure on themselves. I’m guilty of this a lot myself. For instance, I have a link to this blog permanently on a toolbar on my web browser, and as a result I’m constantly reminded that it exists. So when I don’t update it, it makes me feel bad. It occurred to me today that this is a symptomatic problem with not being able to simply take things in stride, and remember that setbacks are only setbacks and can be recovered from. If I’m going to restore, it’s important that I don’t forget that.
I’m not really doing stretching exercises when I’m not updating the blog. For some reason it’s become a correlation in my head that when I stretch I update. I suppose it’s a bi-product of the way I’m using the blog to motivate myself.
Today while I was stretching rather than watching a film I watched the Honey Badgers review a film. I forget the name of it, but if you don’t know who the Honey Badger Brigade are you might find their content interesting. They’re a Mens’ Rights advocacy group who deal with issues like circumcision and other mens’ health and wellness issues through the lens of human rights advocacy. You can find their website here and their YouTube channel here.
NSFW progress pic below. Not very exciting this time around, but progress is being made.
I haven’t done my foreskin restoration stretches today because I was mostly busy relaxing and trying to get Daggerfall to work right on my computer. It might still happen, but I thought I should share with you a quick shot I took today.
I was just lounging and I noticed that the skin was pushing forward and bunching against my glans without me having to pull on it. It normally only does that when I’ve been stretching and I’ve never seen it do that without encouragement before. I took the photo as quick as I could before it went away, and hopefully it comes out.
Warning: This blog post contains images that are not safe for work.
Did some stretching for about an hour while watching Ashens and the Quest for the Game Child. Pretty good movie if you like that kind of thing. I give it a 6 out of 10.
Because of the hot weather, it’s doing that thing again where it clings to the glans. I taped it up after doing my exercises which will hopefully hold the foreskin in place and encourage the glans to moisten and shrink to allow more coverage.
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. Like I said in my previous post, work has been hectic. Life started getting in the way and I let apathy basically take over. For a while I wasn’t sure whether or not I wanted to go through with my restoration plan. However, over the course of the past few months, this blog has been resurfacing in my mind over and over again, and I’ve decided to start it back up again, because I still believe in the original intent. If I’m not restoring for my own sake, I’m restoring for motivation’s sake.
It’s amazing how much more motivated I was during the run of this blog. I was exercising more, my stretching routine was consistent, and my life was more on-track. Things started to fall apart when I let my work schedule get in the way.
I could blame it on the fact that my landlady shut off my WiFi and I wasn’t comfortable updating this on public WiFi in a library, but at the end of the day I still feel like it’s in my best interests to keep this blog running. And who knows, maybe when I make some progress the original plan will hold true and someone will come across this and see what can happen with patience.
Here’s a picture of my dick. You can tell not much has happened, but I feel like this is a good place to set a new starting point. Sorry about the crappy lighting.
My work schedule’s getting more and more hectic as managers keep dropping out and new trainees keep coming in. I’m working well over 40 hours a week, so things are a little intense out here. Obviously that’s no excuse to stop doing my exercises, but I wanted you guys to know where I’m coming from when I say that the blog and everything else wasn’t quite at the forefront of my mind.
But I did get an e-mail from someone who was genuinely interested in how things were going, so I’m going to keep updating where I can, just probably not promising the daily schedule I’d originally intended. I also can’t really leave this blog aside entirely purely on the moral basis that the entire point was to show people (including me) what they can do with patience and a little effort.
Anyway, at the advice of my significant other I’ve had my loose skin pulled up over my glans and taped down with athletic tape (not masking tape or god forbid duct tape because I don’t want to injure myself) in an effort to get the glans accustomed with being covered and reduce the flare so it will be easier to get the loose skin where it needs to go. In the long-term this might also perform the same function as a foreskin retainer, a step in the restoration progress I only recently became aware of. Also apparently some men, if they have enough skin, opt to simply hold that in place rather than restoring completely, and since I already had pretty loose skin to begin with I may have that option.
Tape applied in a haphazard way, and then “after” results (after a period of stretching)
You can see the change in coverage isn’t amazing, but the glans is obviously made moister and more sensitive by coverage, which implies that something’s happening down there. I’ll have to keep experimenting and updating.
Comfortable In My New Skin 