Partial circumcisions?

Has anyone seen a boy or man who has most of his foreskin but about half of his glans is showing?

I remember when I was 7, I had a peeing party with three friends seeing if we could fill up a small bucket with all of our pee. One of the boy and his younger brother who peed with us were fully circumcised, and the other friend looked like he had either a very short foreskin, or part of his foreskin had stretched or grown back. I wanted to ask him about it, but I had met him not too long before then and we didn’t live in the neighborhood long enough for me to feel comfortable asking him.

Can people get partial circumcisions as an option?

I know sometimes young boys need them done for reasons beyond control, but I’m wondering if I had a son who needed it, if they can cut the smallest amount off the tip making the hole just big enough for them to pee easily and pull the remaining foreskin all the way back. I want all of my boys to be fully intact and long like their dad, but you never know.

I can recall being at the local swimming hole (gravel pit) when the neighbor boy exclaimed "Look what they did to my boy!" My neighbor was very upset and proceeded to display his penis for me to see what had been done. I was 15 y/o, he was 12 y/o. The glans of his penis was partially(?) exposed. I could see where his foreskin had been cut to expose the coronal sulcus of his penis but yet he had flaps of loose foreskin. I wanted to ask him more about when and how he was circumcised but his older brother (age 13) was there and soon came over and told him to put his penis back in his pants. Years later I learned of a procedure whereby several longitudinal cuts could be made in the foreskin to relieve phimosis, but no skin was actually cut off. I had thought that he was circumcised with "pinking scissors" but was reluctant to comment as he was very upset with his parents(?) and/or doctor(?).

I thought that would be the definition of a "Fancy Dan", a guy who was circ'd with pinking shears.

When I was in HS I was friends with a guy in the photo club. The developing lab was an excellent place to play with each other's penis. You turn on the light outside the door to indicate you were developing film and no one would bother you. His foreskin was shorter than mine so about half of his glans was always exposed. He said they had cut a bit of it off when he was younger because the tip was too tight. He said he was going to get the rest of it removed because he didn't like the tip of his glans being exposed all the time while the upper part stayed damp and just as sensitive as mine. Didn't make much sense to me because he liked to play with my foreskin and pull it all the way in both directions when he was masturbating me. Playing with his was fun for me because I could seriously concentrate on his non sensitive tip then when he was close to cumming I'd quickly pull it all the way back to rub the more sensitive part to give him a thrill.

It was also fun playing with his tip as it was no more sensitive than the cut guys I knew but I'm not sure I'd like having mine like that either. I think I'd rather work on stretching it to cover the whole glans. Years later now that I know how to dry mine off so I can rub the whole bare thing then put it back in it's case for next time that keeps it just right with the proper sensitivity for fun without it being too sensitive to touch or too little for the best fun like a circ'd one.

I think they do that in cases described by doctors as, "Redundant Prepuce."

Sounds like you guys are describing dorsal slits.

In any case, no, I don't know anybody partially cut.

Sounds like you guys are describing dorsal slits.

In any case, no, I don't know anybody partially cut.

Nope, it didn't look like a slit. It looked like they just cut off the tip, sort of like a regular circ but they didn't go up very far so he ended up with a slightly shortened foreskin.

In nudist magazines (Eastern Europe, 2nd half of 20th century) you will often see boys with a partial cut.

In my area I saw some boys with a "semi cut" in the 70ties too. As in other countries phimosis was over diagnosed, but often parents insisted in a partial cut. But it depends on clinic and doc, so I got in 1962 with 7 years a very complete cut without my parents being asked before.

At school, in the early 1970s, three or four students in my class were circumcised. I was the only one to have had a total circumcision, the others still had a small part of the foreskin.

I got in 1962 with 7 years a very complete cut without my parents being asked before.

You was circumcised at age 7? Without your parents consent?

It is an interesting "style". I think I saw an older gentleman sporting it once on the beach. Only 1/5 of his glans covered and he was somewhat semi-hard. I didn't stare too much, but as long as I could see, it never covered much more than the corona of his glans. Might have been also a (very) loose circumcision. It definitely would still need to be slightly pulled back for proper cleaning.

Otherwise a schoolmate of mine claimed to have had received a partial snip earlier in life "to prevent phimosis", but when I saw him naked, he still had ample foreskin overhang once semi-hard.

I've always been very aware of who is circumcised in locker rooms around me. Being circumcised myself, I was brought up in UK boys schools where I was the only one without the cover of a foreskin. However, I've never heard of a part circumcision.

Since leaving the UK to grow up in Australia I've now become comfortable with group nudity but I always find myself looking at others in changing rooms in relation to their foreskin status. Australia seems to have about 20% circumcised for middle aged men.

Never having had a foreskin myself, it's been fascinating to me to see the variety in the length of foreskins relative to their penis lengths, with some skins extending well past the end of their cocks, yet others seeming to only be anywhere from barely covering the rim of their cockhead to covering almost all of the head (with just the tip peeping out).

Perhaps I've been seeing partial circumcisions for some of these instances? I have often noticed how my own friends would vary quite a lot in terms of the level of retraction of their skins, which I'd thought was down to how warm they felt (as we all know penis size responds to temperature).

Given that I've felt so unusual in my UK past (as the only person in any group to be circumcised), it interests me if there are many partial circumcisions out there that I've previously considered to be just natural variations in foreskin length and/or penis temperature!

How common are partial circumcisions? Do any of you have one yourself? When I was in the UK, they claimed the UK to have a roughly 5% circumcision rate but for all the 100s of cocks I'd seen there, I don't recall seeing more than a couple of circumcised ones, so perhaps the 5% includes the partial circumcisions that I hadn't recognised?

It is an interesting "style".................Otherwise a schoolmate of mine claimed to have had received a partial snip earlier in life "to prevent phimosis", but when I saw him naked, he still had ample foreskin overhang once semi-hard.

I think my mother had wanted me to have a "partial circumcision". At age 12 my mother seen me peeing in the yard. I had a rather lengthy and somewhat tight foreskin. Did I have phimosis? It resembled a "rose bud" at the tip. She approached me and commented that the doctor needs to "snip the tip" of my foreskin. I reacted to her comment that it would be painful. She continued that the doctor will cut off only the wrinkly puce color folds on the very tip. "Then your foreskin should easily retract". "It needs to be done". I was reluctant but finally agreed. She made an appointment with the doctor.

@uncutforeskin

She continued that the doctor will cut off only the wrinkly puce color folds on the very tip.

I would be afraid it wouldn't end with "just the tip". I can see how it would seem like a good idea, but I am afraid that the scar would tighten and cause even more trouble. Might be prelude to a more complete foreskin "treatment".

@uncutforeskin I would be afraid it wouldn't end with "just the tip".

Thank you Longskin for your comment. At that time, age 12, I was convinced that it would be just the tip that would get snipped. That why I agreed to having my foreskin circumcised. Years later I learned that circumcision involved the removal of ALL the foreskin covering the glans. Fortunately, my doctor chose to do a dilation procedure upon my foreskin to aid in the retraction. Still very painful but at least I saved my foreskin.

Longskinner: I think that when my aunt had her son circumcised (for phimosis) she had been told something like "less is removed than for religious circumcision" and in reality it's the same. I suspect some physicians distort reality to try to make surgery more palatable to parents.

I suspect some physicians distort reality to try to make surgery more palatable to parents.

For profit. Shameless. Medical malpractice.

@Pecan_nutjob

I can totally see it. Also I would assume not every parent or patient would be ready to discuss the embarrassing details.

Before I saw pictures of circumcised penises in the internet it wouldn't cross my mind that the glans would be so exposed after the "phimosis operation".

In fact I saw two accounts of parents being surprised that "phimosis operation" left their son with more or less exposed glans. One was a lawsuit where the defence claimed that in the absence of specific instruction in the consent form it is up to the doctor to determine the outcome as he assesses the conditions during the surgery. Fair enough I guess.

I do think this is foremost dependent on the skills and experience of the doctor. Which is a bit scary.

I think that when my aunt had her son circumcised (for phimosis)

My aunt had my cousin circumcised. Don't know for what reason. It scared me.

Longskinner: This way way before homes had Internet access. Neither my mother nor my aunt, I suspect, had ever seen a circumcised penis. Besides, my aunt's physician misleadingly claimed it was not "true circumcision" because it was not religious, that less skin was removed than for religious ones.

Pecan nutjob, I remember you described this story somewhere in more detail. So:

Do you recall if your aunt or mother ever expressed any surprise with the severity of your cousins circumcision after they saw the result?

It is amazing how different the texture of the glans feels with a partial cut. The covered portion is smooth, the uncovered end is very rough. A true difference, and perhaps an endorsement of leaving the foreskin in place over the entire penile head.

@Trueman

Are you yourself a recipient of such a partial circumcision?

Can those of you with more anatomical knowledge than me explain for me what the mechanics are that separate a 'partial' circumcision from a high loose circ?

As many of you know, I had a zipper accident that necessitated my circumcision. The end result was that I had what seemed like a fair amount of loose skin left over. I could pull it forward to cover my glans with no problem and in that state looked pretty much like it had before. However, by itself, it rolled back to sit in folds behind my corona. If I pulled the skin forward, it looked like only the tip had been removed (although fully retracted the scar was some way back down the shaft).

It was an emergency surgery so the end result was that I was freed from the zipper but not with a lot of aesthetic consideration given to the final result. When I went to look for a revision, one urologist remarked that they had obviously only taken what had needed to be taken. I wondered then if I'd received a partial circumcision but as I said, when retracted, the scar was some way toward the base of my penis. I'm still not sure about this.

@snoman

I am sorry to hear about your zipper accident.

I guess a circumcision can be either considered partial in regard to the intention of the surgeon or as the actual result of the operation (glans partially covered when soft). It is interesting to read your observations regarding your own penis, as I was always wondering whether a shorter foreskin would simply roll back on its own.

Sounds like your circumcision is partial in regard to the amount of skin removed, but giving nonetheless a fully naked look. Might still be more similar in sensations and character to a simply permanently retracted foreskin.

Thanks Longskinner

It was awhile ago now and I had a revision some 8 or 9 years after that initial circ. Honestly, I prefer life now to how it was before, when I had my foreskin.

The mechanics of circumcision still somehow seem to befuddle me!

We are I guess all familiar with high/low/loose/tight descriptors. The high and low concept I understand. The loose and tight remains something of a mystery to me. I've read tightness depends on 'how much' skin is removed. But to my mind - you're either removing skin or you're not. It just happens from a certain location on the penis and that varies depending on operator or technique - but the idea that somehow 'less skin' results in a loose result is something I have trouble wrapping my head around.

Yes - in my case, I was initially left with a high result. It was loose, I suppose, because I'm more a grower and not so much a 'shower'. If I had a penis that stays relatively the same size as it is when erect and only gets harder, I think I would have still been able to get some glans coverage but not completely. But yes, the skin was very moveable.

After my revision (which has given me a 'low' result`) I still have moveable skin. I still don't know if this loose/tight dichotomy isn't some function of flaccid size.

And I still don't know if my initial circ was 'partial' or not!

During my early teens my jackoff buddy was partially circumcised and after he came while I was jacking him off his dick would be very sensitive and he wouldn’t want any extra strokes.

At school most boys either fully circumcised or not but one of my mates had a half and half. When we were older and I saw him it had fully pulled back past the glans. Or maybe he just wore it that way.