At what age did you learn to retract the foreskin?

In these days that I have been browsing and participating here I have asked myself this question for those who were not circumcised at birth.

At what age did they learn to retract the foreskin? Were you taught or did you discover it on your own?

In my case, I was circumcised at 6 1/2 years old, and from the age of 5 to 6, my father began teaching us, all about the topic.

And I try to teach my children the same way.

As far as I know, my foreskin was quite tight on my glans, and could hardly be retracted. I don't think much action was taken until I was 6, when the doctor asked my mother to try to pull it back at bath time. Note that it was my mother who did it, and that no special cream was used. I was told it had been really painful; yet I don't recall any of it.

(Because this did not work, my foreskin was then removed.)

Can't remember how old I was, but would have been about 5. I'm sure I've read that generally until the age of about 5 the foreskin is still adhered to the glans and shouldn't be forced back as it can tear and cause scarring, resulting in more issues later on.

@MCurious It's quite possible that, in my case, the matter would have eased on its own, but that forcing it back without any steroids (as it's done today) resulted in scarring and in making the matter irreversible.

Sometime before age 7 when my parents moved us to a new house where I largely was raised. I recall after 7 starting to measure my erections, which included moving my foreskin, which never gave me any trouble in either direction. Now at age 72 it’s still working perfectly. Oddly enough, I had several congenital facial and ophthalmic birth defects requiring many rounds of corrective plastic and eye surgery, but my foreskin and other genital structures were always just fine. Thanks, Dad. 👍🏻❤️❗️

Eric

Mine was mostly retractable from the first time I had any memories of it. My mother (stay at home mom in those years) made sure to teach me to pull back and clean underneath every time I showered.

For me it was when i was around 7 following a school medical.

It was during this medical that it was made aware that my foreskin should pull right back and at that point i was diagnosed with severe phimosis as i could not expose any of my glans.

At the time , i didn't fully understand what was going on except that i was probably going to have to go to hospital. I then went to the family doctor and luckily avoided an immediate circumcision. From that point on i started daily stretching with cream and i think it took several years before i could fully retract.

I was pretty young, around 6 or 7. I saw circumcised boys in school and I wondered if my penis looked like theirs underneath the skin so I tried rolling it back and had very little resistance doing it.

I was around 6 or 7 when I was able to retract. There were still some adhesions which disappeared when I was around 9

I would have been about 5 or 6. My mam showed me how to do it in the bath to make sure I was able to clean inside. In turn I then became curious as to how it retracted, and when I played doctor and my female cousin wanted to look at my "boy parts" I would take my briefs off and unroll my foreskin for her to see me fully exposed.