Pulled back — living with a bare head

Hi everyone.

I want to get a feel for when we all realized that we preferred a bare glans and started to retract. I started at 13, but I'm curious to see when and how everyone got started. Make sure to vote in this poll and the others! I'm having a great time looking at the other polls and reading the posts.

If you have any interesting stories about your first times, then please add them here.

To start us off, here is a little more detail about my retracting experiences:

At the age of 3 or 4, my doctor separated my foreskin from my glans by forcing it back a few times. I remember lying naked face up while the doc worked over me. I remember the event being painful but I don't remember the pain itself. Just the embarrassment. After that, all my doctor visits ended up with the foreskin being pulled back to examine the glans. A sensation that to this day I enjoy.

I was, since then, aware that my foreskin could retract, but due to the extreme sensitivity, I actually preferred it covered. Years later in high school, I felt left out as all the other kids would strip carefree and show off their pink and flesh colored glans. At least to me, it felt like they were showing off. I had the double dilemma of being uncircumcised and having a purple, shiny head. Tired of hiding in the stalls to change, and wanting to walk around like the others, I decided to try pulling my skin back. I tried it at home and I loved the new look it gave my hairless, pre-pubescent body, not to mention the open air sensation!. Problem was that it would sorta stay, but if I walked or even moved, it would roll back over instantly. At night, I would try to keep it retracted, but the sensation of the bare head always gave me a hard on. I learned to sleep laying down to hold the skin in place, but the mornings always found the glans covered up again. I tried scotch tape, then band aids,and even my sister's hair ties. During the day, I would pull it back when I could and just sorta ride out the sensation until the skin rolled back again. Eventually, I got it to the point where I would get to school, go in the bathroom when I could, pull it back, and try to keep it retracted all day or as often as I dared. Soon after, my glans completely separated from the membrane, and it took on its mushroom shape. This helped me a lot because the new ridge that formed was great at retaining the foreskin for longer periods of time. By the end of my freshman year, I would only need to retract it about 3 times a day.

By age 15 or 16, pubes had finally grown in and I could permanently retract it 24-7. The skin on my glans changed from purple to pinkish, and from 16 up until my 20s, I kept it pulled back all the time. Staying retracted was more of a natural state at this point. I would only fold the skin back over to see my doctors. I just loved the sensation of them exposing my glans and taking a peek. I went so long with the skin pulled back that it no longer rolls completely over the glans. Also, an erection tightens the skin, not allowing me to pull any back over the glans. I was masturbating like a cut guy anyway, so I didn't mind. Now, I keep it retracted about 70% of the time.

I started when I was 14 round 5-6 months ago. It was one of the first days of high school when all of the class had to get changed for swimming. Before when I had gotten changed infromnt of my friends evryone was more secretive using towls to cover themselves but now they aren't afraid  to let anyone see anything. I guess they were just excited by high school. Most of the kids I saw around 90% were cut. This one one the first time I saw a cut cock of someone my age in person. Of course I had see adult citcumsised penisis in porn but not ones of people my age. Like me most of the boys are African American and about 17 in all. I really loved the look of the cut dick and wanted to replicate it. From there I started pulling back and have been pulling back ever since.  :)

I've always been able to retract very easily as far as I can remember. My first conscious efforts though were around when I was 11 or 12. I was spending a lot of time with two of my cousins during the summer, one the same age as me and one a year older. For some reason, the older one was circumcised and the younger one wasn't, despite being brothers.

Being that age we would often compare penises. My older cousin's was VERY tightly circumcised and the one the same age as me had a really short foreskin (maybe why his wasn't cut), so they were both pretty different from mine with my fairly long foreskin. Being uncut though we both admired my older cousin's distinctly shaped penis with its obvious head and tried to imitate it with ours.

I was always envious of my cousin's much shorter foreskin, because it would only cover about half the head when he was soft and basically disappeared when he was hard (mine has a bit of overhang). However, my circumcised cousin showed me how to keep retracting and make mine look like his, assuming I held the skin back as tight as I could. Since then I would switch back and forth a lot for jerking depending on my mood.

retracted said: "I was masturbating like a cut guy anyway"
Any other guys on here masturbate like cut guys ... I used my skin for quick cum as a teenager but now since keeping my skin back all this time, I wrap finger and thumb round where head joins shaft and gentle tugs gets me so hard, takes longer to cum but far more intense orgasm.  When head is really hard, I can use lube and slide my whole hand up and down my penis and the skin stays back ... sometimes use both hands, one after the other continuous pulling down.
Like to know some of your experiences with this

I made small attempts as young boy and made more efforts at the age of 9 and above. I achieved some success but not 100% permanent retraction.
There is something I've always found attractive about having a penis with a foreskin retracted. Despite that interest I'm not sexually interested in men.

I started in my early 20's.  I joined a gym that had public changing areas and everyone had an exposed glans.  I started part time and Bly doing it at the gym.  After a while I realized that not only did it look better, it was much more comfortable.

Started trying to pull foreskin back and masturbate around 14-15, occasionally retracting for long periods of time around 20-21. Have yet to go for more than a day for an actual permanent retraction though.

well to start with, I was not able to pull my foreskin back to expose the glans when I was small kid, May be 4-5-6 years old and the doc. Said I have to get cut or it will cause problems...so stupid.. Then Ive spoked with my parents and visited another doc. Who just pulled it back hard and my head came out full of some white stuff, my mom said, and I screamed out of pain.. I honestly do not remember that. But then I remember my self trying to expose the head.. At first just the tip was comming out thru very very tight opening in my foreskin and was hurting.. For about two weeks I was able to fully expose my glans. About may be 9 years old I started to masturbate by exposing and covering my glans. When I reached 19 as much as I remember Ive got interested about pulling and keeping the foreskin back for longer periods.. But it was really impossible because my glans was stickng to anything it touched..my belly, my underwear..my balls and it was so uncomfortible so I gave up trying... About 22 years old I started again to try, determinded and was keeping it exposed by simply pulling the skin back and leaving it my pants..super hard instant erections occured every time I tried.. I lasted for about 15 mins and go for a jerk because I could not stand the feeling..little by little from time to time I was doing it, not regular but when I wanted..since last year when I was 26 and really wanted to feel what is like to be cut. Spent days or researching in network about methods and stuff..still having erections every time I tried..then my frenulum tore itself couple times during sex so I kept it covered until it healed everytime. And thennnn I have found this forum I got so excided and decided to do it.. First i was lasting for hours the went for a full day...a week... two..and I gave up again bacause I started to feel bad due to uncomfort and I was thinking its wrong because I kinda stay against the nature.. But then I reached one full month of retraction, now achieved my second one and let me tell you.. Jerking and sex feels better this way and the orgasms are crazy.. I can jerk off tottaly dry and feels like something that always wanted to do. It is amazing!! Now the bare head does not give me any discomfort anytime of the day I just feel it sometimes when I move but it feels great.. I only wish I have started a bit earlier and have a pictures before and after but I am still very happy now and do not think I will start to keepnit covered permanently, even tho I cover it half of the nights..just to get the feeling of my wet glans rubbing in my pants once I retract it at the morning..haha :)
Waaay tooo much talking.. :)

Hey, talking is good ;D Glad to hear it helped you overcome your phimosis and over-sensitivity!

I started retracting and masturbating at the age of 13 to 14 but practice of masturbating with bare head i started around 16 years age. I started practice of keeping my glans uncovered around age of 28 when i used to masturbate by keeping the foreskin fully stretched back with one hand and rubbing the bare glans by another hand gently using my pre cum.

I don't remember exactly, but it had to be sometime around 6 or 7.  A male friend of mine at the time and I compared members and his was cut.  I vaguely remember him
saying he had had foreskin coverage, but had to have it cut because the foreskin was to tight to retract.  Not sure why that event is so memorable. Lot of things have changed
since those days, mid 1940s.

I started young, then on and off for years

Quote from: thesevenpointfive on 2016-07-28 09:30:30
I started young, then on and off for years

Same here

I think I started when I was 6 or 7. At first it would stay back pretty well on its own. After a while, the rigid band stretched out, and it would lock in behind the glans anymore. I tried various improvised devices to help it stay retracted. But after a while I just got tired of trying, and lost interest. Over the years I have gone through phases of intense interest during which I may stay retracted for several months. But at some point I always tend to lose interest and stop, until the next phase kicks in.  :)

Quote from: jdm on 2016-08-06 05:24:53
I think I started when I was 6 or 7. At first it would stay back pretty well on its own. After a while, the rigid band stretched out, and it would lock in behind the glans anymore. I tried various improvised devices to help it stay retracted. But after a while I just got tired of trying, and lost interest. Over the years I have gone through phases of intense interest during which I may stay retracted for several months. But at some point I always tend to lose interest and stop, until the next phase kicks in.  :)

Interesting that you began that early. What prompted your attempt? I began foreskin retraction at an early age probably closer to 5. I recall my foreskin being loose and easy to retract and expose the glans. Unlike some men's foreskin, the opening or frenar band was not tight at all as some experience so there was no stretched out experience for me. The foreskin could be pulled back only up to where the sulcus of the glans would be. My foreskin was still attached there with adhesions. I didn't know about the adhesions then so I assumed that I was seeing my entire glans. The foreskin would stay retracted if I was erect but in a flaccid state would slow roll down to cover the glans.  Curious but does a tighter frenar band along with a glans with a prominent sulcus help ensure long-term retraction?

Through the years, like yourself I went through phases. I knew of no one else attempting this which became a secret proclivity. When my glans adhesions broke the foreskin would stay retracted more easily even flaccid so I could go and take showers after PE and the foreskin would stay retracted. The only circumstances where it would not, was if I was very physically active, bending over to pick up something or when I sat down and my penis would shrink a lot.  In time, I could achieve retraction about 80-90% of the time but that was still not to my liking. 

Quote from: lvprcm25 on 2016-08-06 12:29:29
Interesting that you began that early. What prompted your attempt? I began foreskin retraction at an early age probably closer to 5. I recall my foreskin being loose and easy to retract and expose the glans. Unlike some men's foreskin, the opening or frenar band was not tight at all as some experience so there was no stretched out experience for me. The foreskin could be pulled back only up to where the sulcus of the glans would be. My foreskin was still attached there with adhesions. I didn't know about the adhesions then so I assumed that I was seeing my entire glans. The foreskin would stay retracted if I was erect but in a flaccid state would slow roll down to cover the glans.  Curious but does a tighter frenar band along with a glans with a prominent sulcus help ensure long-term retraction?

Through the years, like yourself I went through phases. I knew of no one else attempting this which became a secret proclivity. When my glans adhesions broke the foreskin would stay retracted more easily even flaccid so I could go and take showers after PE and the foreskin would stay retracted. The only circumstances where it would not, was if I was very physically active, bending over to pick up something or when I sat down and my penis would shrink a lot.  In time, I could achieve retraction about 80-90% of the time but that was still not to my liking.

In my case I did not attempt to keep the foreskin retracted for any length of time until after my adhesions had separated. It really wouldn't stay at that time. Once it separated, the tight rigid band would lock into the sulcus and stay that way, unless dislodged by certain activities, much as you described. I became interested in retraction as a way to experience how my friends' penises must feel, because they were all circumcised. The contrast at the time was quite striking, and the sensation of the glans drying out was fascinating. But like I said, the rigid band stretched out, and wouldn't stay without help. And I didn't come up with any really good retraction devices until later in life, so I gave up on it for a long time. Sometimes I wonder how it might be different today it I had kept at it from such an early age, as I've read stories of guys who have done that, and their foreskin wound up very short as a result.

I also remember that I started masturbating using a vibrator.  Must have been around 10 or 11.  First several orgasms were totally dry, with gradual increase in cum after several dry ones.  One day I realized that i could simulate f**king by sliding my hand up and down, using my foreskin and spit.  That was the beginning of a lifetime of jerking.  And I was no longer dependent on the vibrator, cut the cord, so to speak. 

Around age 10 or so a neighborhood friend who was a few years younger, began comparing cocks.  We would try days of me being retracted to look like him and days trying our best to pull his foreskin over the head to stay like mine.    This was my first real experience seeing a bare headed cock and I liked the look, so I began keeping mine pulled back as much as possible in hopes that it would some day stay back permanently like my friend.     As I got older and started seeing other guys in the gym showers at school, I wanted that much more to look like most everyone else.   

One of my earliest memories is when I was about 3 or 4 years old, fully retracting my foreskin and drying off my glans.

Throughout most of my childhood, I didn't know about circumcision.  I could see that all the other boy's penises were different than mine, and I assumed that they just knew how to neatly roll up their foreskins instead of merely sliding it back as I did, since I could see the tidy little bundle of skin bunched up behind their glans.  I tried unsuccessfully throughout my childhood to roll up my foreskin  (like a condom) to keep my glans exposed. Even after I learned about circumcision, I still really liked the look of a bare glans and tried to figure out how to keep mine permanetly retracted.

Eventually in my adulthood, I stumbled across the circumsexual and skinned back communities on the Internet amd learned several methods of successfully keeping my glans permanetly exposed, and I settled on the tape method (Instant Circumcision Experience) and a variation of the spoon method as the best for me.  Now I have been retracting so long, my skin will often stay retracted on its own.

I was around 14 when I would periodically pull my skin back and see how long it would take to roll back over. The head wasn't as sensitive, so I could touch it without being in pain. Times I would pull it back and try to hurry up and get my underwear up before there was a full erection. I liked the feel of of the sensitive glans rubbing on the front of my underwear. The skin would only stay back until the erection subsided, roll back over and take hair with it. I played a lot with my foreskin, especially watching that dark purple head start to emerge. Also no matter what, if it was flaccid and as I started to pull it back, I got an erection every time as if it knew it was playtime.
I never really experimented with ways of trying to keep it back though until around 5 years ago. I had a close cousin when I was a lot younger,  which I would try to look at his dick when we peed together. I was always jealous that his foreskin would stay back by itself when he wasn't hard. Didn't know anything about circumcision back then. He told me his never had the skin over his head and that it always stayed that way.. I liked how his head was always exposed. He let me try and pull the skin over the glans a couple of times, but the head would always pop right back out when I let go of it. Also I would compare the differences, his glans were light red, mine was dark purple. I could touch the head of his were it hurt to lightly touch mine. And his skin was tightly pulled back when hard, mine had about a half an inch overhang and the skin was stuck to the very bottom of my glans.

For me it would be about 18 and getting ready for sex, that is why i did it.

The first time I ever tried it I must have been about 15. I'd always been really curious about circumcised guys, and I wanted to experience what it would be like to have no skin covering the head of my dick, so I decided to pull it back in my underwear and leave it that way for a week. At first it was incredibly uncomfortable, but by the end of the week it was tolerable, but still I was happy to stop. Sometime after I decided to try it again, but this time go for two weeks. It started off feeling tolerable yet still strange, and by the end of the two weeks I was completely free from feeling any chafing discomfort from my underwear, but I saw no reason to continue and stopped again.

A little while later I was on a family holiday in Southern Europe, and the weather was so hot that I decided to sleep naked one night, and the idea suddenly struck me that I should try sleeping naked with my foreskin pulled back - something which I'd never tried during my previous times retracting. I pulled it back, got into bed, and immediately got an erection, leaving the thin sheet draped over the bare head of my cock. It was a fascinating sensation, but it only made matters worse, and for hours I lay there unable to sleep with a throbbing teenage erection which wouldn't subside. The next morning I awoke with the skin still pulled back, but it was all pink, puffy, and horribly swollen, which rather alarmed me, and had me worried for the rest of the day.

After that I didn't do much retracting again until my 20s, when I started experimenting with doing it fairly regularly, for months at a time.

I can remember being able to retract at around the age of 7 or 8. I was 1st introduced to the concept of wearing my foreskin permantly retratced by a nudist friend and his family at 12. The reasoning was that I would be "fully nude" and the hygiene  I just wore it pulled back behind my glans with no device. By the age of 14 it could stay behind my glans on its own. Since then I have been an intermittent retractor, but am succeeding in my current goal of permanent retraction.