Foreskin sewn back?

I've known a couple of guys when younger who said they weren't circumcised, but have had their foreskin sewn back.

Is that common?

I saw one of the penises and indeed it did have a lot of skin bunched up behind the head. This was in the UK.

You mean leaving the glans permanently exposed?

Is this related to the "prince Albert" piercing?

Weird. I wonder if they were not fully understanding their circumcisions and it was just a loose cut.

If it was retracted and then sewn back into the shaft skin, it would create an in accessible pocket that would collect moisture and germs/ dirt. Seems like it would be impact genital health and hygiene worse than natural mobile foreskin.

Would be interested in seeing it though...

I would have thought it would be just something that parents might say, when he is going to be circumcised, so as not to alarm a boy too much, "sewn back" rather than "removed"

No physician would do that. It would create a blind pocket underneath the foreskin.

Hi, My mother explained circumcision to me when I was 12. She commented that the doctor needed to "snip the tip" of my foreskin. I took offence to a doctor cutting on my penis with a pair of scissors. I was familiar with pain as I suffered many cuts and bruises as a child. I was rather apprehensive about going to the doctor to have another cut on my body - particularly my penis and foreskin. If my mother would have instead commented "your foreskin needs to be sewn back so as to expose the "head" (her reference to my glans) "of your penis", I probably would have been more receptive to going to the doctor. When the boy sees the stitches in his penis he would conclude that his foreskin was "sewn back" with no thought that his foreskin had been removed.

The method of "tuli" used in the phillipines doesn't seem to remove any foreskin, just cut a dorsal slit, and then stitch it on the opposite axis - it would kinda be like what you're talking about I think?

When I first saw your user name I saw Claire's Nips. Now I see Claire Snips. 😎

The traditional Tuli is performed by tightly stretching the foreskin on a wooden peg and making a longitudinal cut with a knife. There is no numbing! The cut ends are left to heal and tend to shrink down around the frenulum. In modern times there are annual "Tuli Drives" that offer local anesthesia and sterile equipment. The forceps guided method is most often used, removing the entire foreskin. I have seen several open-air "Tuli Drives"; the parents often attend to support their son.

By contrast, a Kenyan traditional circumcision is a transverse dorsal cut made at the sulcus. The glans is pulled through the slit and the foreskin hangs below.

The method of "tuli" used in the phillipines doesn't seem to remove any foreskin, just cut a dorsal slit, and then stitch it on the opposite axis - it would kinda be like what you're talking about I think?

The traditional Tuli is performed by tightly stretching the foreskin on a wooden peg and making a longitudinal cut with a knife. There is no numbing! The cut ends are left to heal and tend to shrink down around the frenulum.

By contrast, a Kenyan traditional circumcision is a transverse dorsal cut made at the sulcus. The glans is pulled through the slit and the foreskin hangs below.

The things parents are willing to have done to a boy's penis are unfathomable. I suppose once it's been done to the father as a young boy, he'll want (unconsciously) to get even and inflict it on the next generation.

And the mothers? Maybe a way to get back at the (father's) penis that penetrated and impregnated them? A bit of revenge?

All very off-putting, even if these customs were supposed, at some time in the past, to have made some sort of convoluted social sense ...