Going through some old copies of HIM magazine, I found a letter about 'keeping it back' which I had marked in no 62 (August 1992). The writer says that when he was working in West Africa, he found keeping his foreskin back was helpful in avoiding sweatiness and soreness - along with shaving his pubes.
His method was as follows:
In the evening have a wank 'in the normal manner, keeping your foreskin pulled back behind the glans'.
Then have a shower and dry carefully.
Bunch up the loose skin behind the glans ridge.
Using 1/2" or 3/4" zinc oxide plaster, stick one strip 'under the skin at the back of the glans and laterally along the top of your cock for about 1.5" to help prevent the skin from sliding forward. Use another strip of plaster circumferentially to keep the skin bunched up. This should go only about three-quarters of the way round or it may restrict circulation.'
Leave the plasters on for two or three days and avoid 'unnecessary sexual stimulation' (!). Then soak them off, relax for a couple of hours with skin still back, and repeat the treatment.
The writer said that two or three weeks of this was probably enough to make the foreskin stay back permanently. He said he had done it 20 years before, and 'it now takes quite a lot of force to get my skin to come forward over my glans, and it retracts again naturally quite quickly even when I am flaccid'.
I remember trying it, and working out you more or less have the plaster strips in a T-shape, but I was never clear whether the first one (he means longditudinally, I think) goes on top of the penis or underneath it. I tried both, but found it was all to fiddly!
Has anyone tried this method?