How long should a boy's foreskin be?
Answer:
That does sound long.
My son although not circumcised either has the opposite issue. His looks to be to tight and to small for his "gland"
I did take him to the paediatrician but they just said it'd grow.
My four year oldie's is about 1 inch off his.
I guess all boys are different and he'll probably just grow into it.
Your son is lucky, he has "growing room". He will not suffer painful erections like many circumcised boys do when they are teens, I know because I was one.
Here is a study that shows that men contimplating circumcision should be warned of possible loss of sensitivity before they can give informed consent for surgery.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query...
Exerpts from the report:
Masood S, Patel HR, Himpson RC, Palmer JH, Mufti GR, Sheriff MK.
OBJECTIVES: Currently no consensus exists about the role of the foreskin or the effect circumcision has on penile sensitivity and overall sexual satisfaction. Our study assesses the effect of circumcision on sexually active men and the relative impact this may have on informed consent prior to surgery.
Penile sensation improved after circumcision in 38% (p = 0.01) but got worse in 18%, with the remainder having no change. Overall satisfaction was 61%.
CONCLUSIONS: Penile sensitivity had variable outcomes after circumcision. The poor outcome of circumcision considered by overall satisfaction rates suggests that when we circumcise men, these outcome data should be discussed during the informed consent process. 2005 S. Karger AG, Basel
One out of five men circumcised suffers loss of sensitivity and one out of three is not satisfied with the results, these are not very good odds. This damage is also likely when babies are circumcised but the problems will not be apparent for many years.
I would point out that while this study shows that adult men should be warned of the possibility of sensitivity loss before they can give "informed consent" to circumcision, there is no way that a newborn boy can give his informed consent to an elective procedure that has a greater than 1 in 5 chance of leaving him with an impaired sex-life.
His body. His choice.
They're all different.
And your son's foreskin will overhang by much less when he has an erection and the penis gets hard.
Indeed, if you gently pull back on the skin of his penis, holding it near the outer end and pull back until there's gentle resistance as the skin comes part way back along the glans, you'll probably find that his penis gets considerably larger with the stimulation.
I take it that you are teaching him to open and clean it every day, but remember that the skin won't peel right back off his glans until he's about 13..
Congratulations on having an intact son.
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