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When I was 11, at the start of the summer holiday my father asked me to show him my penis, and asked if the foreskin would pull back. As we had been taught to do this in the bath to wash, it did. He told me that now I had to leave it pulled back all the while, as this was the family tradition. He said it was cleaner and more hygenic. His father had taught him to do it, and his father before him. I had occasionally seen his penis in changing rooms and so on, and knew it had a rounded end, and not a flap of skin like mine, but did not really know why. So as it was quite hot, I hung around the house naked for a couple of weeks with my foreskin pulled back. Whenever it slipped forward, I pulled it back again. By then it had started to desensitize a good deal, and I was bale to wear clothes without it being uncomfortable. By the time I went to senior school at the end of the holidays, it was as if it had always been like that.
After a couple of years, I hit puberty, and of course started growing "down there". This was why retraction had started when it did. As my foreskin was used to staying back at all times, my glans was able to expand without restriction (even more so as of course I had the usual teenage problem with hard-ons!), and eventually it ended up looking like my father's, with a large pink helmet. By the time I was 16, there was no way the skin would come forward at all. Most people now assume I am circumcised, and I have to explain I am not! Around this time, my younger brother was made to start.
I am now 46, so have had a bare glans for some 35 years. My own sons, now 17, 19, and 22, also have retracted foreskins.