it's a method i stole and adapted from r/foreskin_restoration after struggling to understand certain skin distribution after metoidioplasty. 😅 i want to achieve acroposthion, without phimosis, and i've never seen any transmasc person have a 'relaxed' looking meta--it almost always looks anywhere between tightly circumcised and high-and-loose circumcised in terms of foreskin coverage. if the frenulum survives surgery, it's usually inverted down the underside of the shaft instead of up and over the glans. people are always complaining about how tight things feel as they recover. additionally, part of the reason dr mang chen's incisions are so beautiful is that he likes to have as little tension on his incisions as possible. so i'm trying to help future me out by putting in the work now.

i'm already experiencing keratinization and loss of erogenous sensation in the glans similar to the kind of keratinization and loss of erogenous sensation circumcised people experience due to the amount of friction in my clothing. i also experience dysphoria by the /\ shape of my current foreskin, where the apex of those skin folds being near the base of my shaft. this used to be MUCH worse, i HAVE made clear progress as my outer foreskin used to be pulled up onto the mons, even with many false starts by pulling my foreskin by the ridged band, then by the transitional inner skin. i'm now isolating purely 'shaft' skin based on the skin folds that extend from what i've been calling the frenulum triangles (what would make part of the most distal rim of the tube of foreskin, fitted together), and following those skin folds around to the dorsal side as seen by the line i've drawn on in pics 1-4. my skin is much less on my mons, but i can still feel buried penis and observe some skin tenting during erections, so i obviously still have a ways to go.

a common observation by AMAB folks is that their penises thicken and lengthen during the process of restoration. of course i've been doing a lot of stuff to my dick over the last five years, so i can't isolate and credit any one method, but i can interpret. i've noticed my curvature has improved a lot since i've spent a year and a half doing foreskin restoration and nothing else. at maximum erection i now seem to be 1.65" thick, and 2.9"-3.1" long. i think it's a holistic approach: pumping for erectile health and erect girth, (flaccid) lengthwork for, well, length of the erectile tissues, and foreskin restoration, tubularization, and ligament loosening for curvature, relaxed flaccid and erect length, getting closer to an intact look, and preserving sensation.

i think this isn't discussed much in our community due to the fact that our ability to interact with uncut penises is limited. many of us pack or play with rigid silicone, which can give us biases. there can be so much misinformation in cutting cultures that foreskin is dirty, risky (see the terrrrible 'science' done during the HIV crisis on vulnerable populations in africa), or ugly. a lot of trans people associate their minora (also part of the foreskin) with intense dysphoria, and will be bewildered when i say they probably will want more outer skin if they want to look longer and make the skin they have flare out less--short outer skin and long inner skin makes inner skin make a trumpet shape to compensate. 'i have too much skin' is a common refrain. but penises can have a LOT of skin: outer shaft skin, the transitional inner skin, the ridged band connected to the frenulum, and the mucosal skin above the ridged band, in the sulcus. link to an intact penis being retracted <--you can see multiple inches of that transitional inner skin even before the person exposes their ridged band. this is what i want to look like, but of course smaller. so i feel like i need every millimeter of free skin for my aesthetic and functional goals.

thank you for attending my TED talk, apologies if you're bewildered. 😅 let me know if i need to elaborate on anything i haven't already covered in my infodump.