'I had no idea that this was something I could fix. That’s when I started my restoration journey.'
Illustration: Eugenia Loli Atypical is a series about the people who live on the margins of experience. Here, a 59-year-old man tells Alexa Tsoulis-Reay about his years-long quest to restore his foreskin to correct the damage he believes was caused when he was circumcised as a baby.When I was born I had to stay in the hospital because I was underweight. One day, the doctor met my parents in the hallway and said, “Your son is ready to go home, oh and by the way, and we just circumcised him.
I was cut real tight, when I got erect my skin broke open and bled. As the years wore on it dried out completely. I explain it like this: Stick your tongue out of your mouth for five minutes and then put it back and see how calloused and dried out it feels. That’s how my penis was. I went online and read about how to gain enough skin to accommodate a professional tugging device, which would give you results like that guy I saw on TV. I learned that you could put a spark-plug socket on the head and pull skin over it to start skin growth. I didn’t tell my wife right away — I wanted her to take the process seriously so I didn’t want to get her fully involved until I proved that it could work.
Then I ordered myself a DTR device. I’d read about it online so I knew that it was designed by a man who had fully restored his foreskin. You have to have grown some skin back to even be able to use it, because it has to have something to grip onto. That’s when I came out to my wife as a restoring man. She was very supportive; she understood that my penis had been a problem for both of us.Restoring is a very slow turtle race. You go months without seeing any progress.
I will never grow back the nerve endings lost during circumcision but I did get back some sensitivity. After a while my calloused skin peeled off just like a sunburn and I saw fresh newborn baby skin with pure sensitivity. The amount of skin from the time you are circumcised to when you are restored is an index card. I have almost grown back that index card.
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