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.