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Scent of an uncircumcised penis [Reader Responses]
Originally Published: November 22, 2002
 
Dear Alice,

Re: SCENT OF AN UNCIRCUMCISED PENIS

The last part of your advice was: If the foreskin cannot be pulled back, see a health care provider or urologist.

It might not be necessary to see a health care provider about this. When foreskin hygiene and infection risks were explained to me (I was about 12), I found that mine was rather tight and could not be pulled back. From then on, every time I took a bath or shower, or visited the toilet, I pulled my foreskin back as far as I could without causing real pain. Before too long ? I don't remember if it was a couple of weeks or a couple of months ? I could pull it all the way back. If that method doesn't work, then yes, go and see a health care provider or urologist.

Dick

 

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