This is my permanent retraction. I have always been an easy retractor, even though my foreskin used to exceed the glans. It isn't that it has shrunk, i wouldn't say it like that. But, I finally tried to cover the glans after months of complete, permanent retraction, and it did... for only a few seconds. My foreskin went pulled back again as if in a rush. My guess is, elasticity is reduced and now my foreskin wants to keep pulled all the way back forever.
I like to dry the inner foreskin, and the glans (specially when I started pulling back, -I was fiftheen-) by masturbating with a dry hand, and rubbing my cock all the way from head to base while I keep the skin thightened with my other hand firmly grabbing the skin of my ballsack. (Did I explain myself correctly?) I also like to stretch my frenulum a little bit at a time. Now its not that necessary, since it will stretch as far as to make me look like cut, but I've been entertaining the idea in my head, that one day I get a frenuloplasty. Also, I have pearly papules, which now are not so noticeable, thanks to permanent retraction, but still, would love to get rid of them. My 9 years messing around with retraction have paralleled the 9 years I've been in the same relationship so I have just one opinion besides mine: she likes the looks of "retracted" or else, cut. As a matter of fact, I've been with my girlfriend for 9 years, and she's only ocassionaly seen me covered. Its a sight that she's not used to. I've been serious in total permanent retraction for only a couple years but I've always kept it retracted if I knew I would be getting laid, or a blowjob or something. There were few ocations when she would take it out and it would be covered, but even then, she would pull it back instantly. As of her knowledge, it was pulled back, the natural state of penis (I am her only partner in her whole life, same as she's to me)
The only times I've found it kinda difficult to keep pulled back is right during/seconds after orgasm, but using vaseline solves the issue. I've theorized the cause: tiny dripplets of cum stay stuck in the urethra and while being covered you can massage the head in such a fashion that helps this drops go out, but not so easy going pulled back and not touching the head directly.