Pulled back — living with a bare head

Hi folks, long time listener but first time caller!

So I'm male, in my 40ies, and, as you tend to put it, pulling back.  Here's the story:

about ten years ago my frenum got a hole from appropriate usage. My doc told me it's alright, it happens, don't put overpriced jewellery there since it'll probably snap eventually.  I wore a tiny ring in the frenum for fun, but everything was so flimsy already that I never wore it during sex.
The doc was right: The rupture peeled off the glans quite well, the FS could roll down neatly instead of diagonally, but the remaining ridge has kind of a skin fin about 1" down when fully erected and retracted, highlighting where the sensitive area had moved now.
All this didn't affect how I actually wore my FS (covered, I'm in continental central Europe) nor the sex.

A few years ago I got myself a PA, which I still like very much.
For the thin wires, the FS wrapped and folded around the wire (ouch), but when arranged neatly, it fit well over the ring and left only a bit of the closure ball visible. This was actually comfy, since it pushed the thin ring into a position where the strain on the entry was reduced. (There is the dreaded egg slicer effect, when gravity, FS, or other mechanical stress make the ring wander towards the tip and thinning the bridge, with an eventual snap and a 2cm hole in your dick.) The FS did stretch a little, and grew with its duties. The residual frenum ridge, not so much - it looks a bit messy, since the piercing started pushing it aside, but hey: it's mine, and therefore it's glorious!

From a certain combination of wire strength and outer diameter on (you increase the wire diameter whenever the hole is worn out enough, until the process stops: thicker ga distributes the load better), the FS would rather stay behind the ring. In this position it still covered half of the glans most of the time. I noticed a discoloration of the outer tip, and didn't like the different colors across the helmet. You guys here confirmed that the shift in color stems from the exposure, so I started pulling back consequently a couple of days ago.

Pulling back is just that - no tools. Due to a bulging vein there is a tendency to create these "deep wrinkles" just by itself. My hat tip to all the men here who endure quite some procedures for quite some time to get similar results.

I am through the first 100hrs (the chafing phase), and enjoy a certain numbness of the upper half already. The color mismatch started to fade a little bit already, I'd like to say. I also guess that these rules of thumb for how long the processes take don't quite apply, since I've jumped the gun somewhat with my anamnesis - the tip will be different from the lower rim for quite some time.

Update
I am able to live with a bare head since the last post. My foreskin stays back24/7 even during sex. Before this I wasn't able to keep my skin back during intercourse, with or without a condom it went forward after a couple of moves. But now, I can enjoy the event with all bare head.
I am pumped because how awesome feeling is this.

So to give you something, I've put together a list of todos what definitely played a major role to achieve this. I am thinking about it a lot lately, to be able to figure out what is the recepie.

1) One time I started to pull back and never let it forward. During the day or after sex, I did not let my skin go forward more than a couple of minutes.

2) stretch your frenulum. For the above I have used rubber hairgum rings to keeo my skin. I've put on 3 or 4 to really stretch the frenulum and train the skin to stay.

3) Really dry your inner skin. It was the most important. Even today if i let my head and inner skin to be wet, jucy or anything, it slips forward easily.
It is important that even after sex rub it dry with a towel and apply some alcohol based liquid to keep it clean and dry.
I have used some alcohol based anti-bacterial liquid.

4) Dont let it be wet again. After some point the skin will start to produce less skin oil on those areas. My head and inner skin now almost always dry. My inner skin has started to pick up a darker skin tone.

I hope it will help to those who struggle with this.
Just dont give up guys! Worth it!

If you have questions, go ahead or pm me.

Zipties are WAY too risky bro. Do yourself a favor and stick with tape.

Should I write more?

Please do!

Since I have become a permanent retractor, I almost always masturbate without using my foreskin.  I prefer to start by taping back my foreskin.  Then I use a variety of techniques.  Sometimes I’ll stroke lightly without lube.  Sometimes I’ll grip tightly just behind the glans and jerk the shaft skin, but it’s tight enough that it doesn’t even reach the corona, and the extra tightness on the backstroke feels amazing.  And sometimes I’ll lube up and stroke the whole shaft and head.

If I don’t tape up, I’ll usually just grip my forefinger and thumb just behind my glans and stroke firm short strokes, which stimulates my corona, frenulum, and inner foreskin.

Rarely, I’ll just use my foreskin like a masturbation sleeve, but it’s pretty short so it only covers a small part of the back of my glans when I do this.