Skin on an Erect Penis

Do other "older" men (I'm almost 70 years old) find the skin on their erect penis near the penis head to be more fragile & prone to rubbing raw when masturbating?

Talk to your doc. Some meds can make the skin more sensitive or efface, especially steroids. Hope you can resolve this. Not an age problem for me.

No, never had that problem. I’m tightly circumcised and skin can barely reach crown of penis. I don't normally use any lube as i enjoy the friction produced without lube.

You don’t mention whether you use lube, as touched upon by @codjer , and also your Circumcision status. Each to their own, but I haven’t masturbated without lube since puberty and could not imagine the frictional pain of not using any, unless doing so via a foreskin as a shield, if you have one.

I once watched a fly-on-wall documentary following a STD clinic. There, a young man with blistering on his glans was eventually told it was just a frictional sore and that he should use more lube.

A vagina would not normally be dry at penetration, after all. Neither would any foreskin be unretracted.

Skin does deteriorate with age, so it's possible that a way of masturbating you've long enjoyed is now too much.

BulgeInPants --- I generally do not use lube when masturbating, and I am circumsized. Maybe I should start using a bit of lube!

THANKS all for your responses, much appreciated!

That’s one concern I haven’t had here at 76. I almost always masturbate dry anymore, a change from my younger days when I would go through tubes of KY like crazy. Of course, a good portion of that lube made its way down and back to my bottom! I would suggest a little Albolene might help that. Also, DAR, if a source of saliva is nearby, that could definitely solve the problem. I have had some experience in the past.

@dar1359 This seems a not uncommon issue with circumcised males, regardless of age, depending on how tight/loose and high/low they were circumcised.

I'm 73 ... And that at anyone 70+ still can masturbates enough to be a problem is amazing to me. If ... When ... I can get up ... I want to throw a party, show it off, release balloons, Yell out "Hey look at what I got".

Do other "older" men (I'm almost 70 years old) find the skin on their erect penis near the penis head to be more fragile & prone to rubbing raw when masturbating?

I think you should tell your doctor about that. I'm over 80 and mine is less fragile if anything. I can't get much of anything you could call an erection and I have to rub the glans pretty hard to get it off. I have been dry rubbing it since I was in the mid 20s and have never used any lube. Having a foreskin to roll over it made lube unnecessary but I got tired of it being so sensitive to the touch. I noted that my friends who were circumcised were not sensitive at all when we had our teen aged circle jerks. They always wanted me to apply more pressure when rubbing their always bare glans. So I forced mine to endure that by holding the foreskin back all the way then cleaning the whole thing with rubbing alcohol, drying it and rubbing the dry glans. Eventually I was able to dry rub it to orgasm gradually increasing the pressure. That felt so good I have never rolled the foreskin or used lube since. It just felt wonderful rubbing the bare, dry glans and holding the foreskin back tightly to rub the shaft too. Over the years it got LESS sensitive and required MORE pressure.

At first it was possible to rub up a friction burn but that went away with time and rubbing making dry rubbing the bare shaft and glans more pleasurable. Applying more pressure on the glans has been better.

Although I am cut, I am not cut tightly and can still pull my foreskin up over my cockhead when I masturbate. Therefore, I have rarely used any kind of lubricant when I masturbate - - and I have not experienced any indication that my foreskin is any less fragile.

I'm 64 and never had any problems with that. As a young guy I had a fissure in my foreskin, and after healing I pulled my foreskin permanentely back, so it looks now like circumsized. For that I had never problems with fissures again.

I often thougt about circumsizing, but never realized that.