Penis Smelling

Here's an embarrassing one. I like to pull back the foreskin, rum my thumb in the slight dampness underneath and then LOVE to smell my thumb. It just is a most wonderful scent to me. It's particularly good maybe an hour after I've had some pre-cum.

Does anyone else do this or like smelling their own penis?

Or do you find it as strange and gross as I think I do (but I can't help it anyway)?

Strange and gross? No. Attractive? No. Do I wish I had a foreskin so I could try it? Yes.

From a woman's point of view - yuk - couldn't imagine being with a chap that did that sort of thing. Limitations lol

I'm with you, Elizabeth.

I'm not at all interested in smelling a penis. Smelly is dirty. I want it clean when it goes into any part of me.

Yes I think we women have some morals (somewhere lol) in certain areas. Clean, I want the scrubbing brush round it before it goes anywhere, trust me. Mind you the scrubbing brush is great for foreplay !!

I'm with Elizabeth and Susie on this one........I think this is gross

I used to go to elementary school with a boy that was always digging in his pants and under his arms and sniffing his fingers, he scared away all the girls

I believe that dampness your talking about has a name... "smegma" (google it, dude) and I am going to have to go with............ wait for it.... GROSS. (Sorry).

While smegma is a natural part of being an intact male, keeping clean is high on my attractiveness meter. That doesn't mean you have to shower every hour. If you enjoy your natural smells, fine, just be clean before you share body parts with others.

Ladies, washing before sex is clean. You KNOW that you have natural odor too. It gets stronger at the end of the between shower periods. Washing before sex is just polite for everyone.

I don't have fore skin, I am glad I do not, and yes I think that is gross, but to each his own. You asked.

Let's talk reality. Who doesn't smell their own farts? Ear wax? Check your own bad breath? Other body odors?

It's natural and you probably don't share these things with others (except maybe farts).

Well all you guys talk bad about this.. Nothing wrong with him doing that.. I do the same .. I love the smell. The bad thing about it is I can not keep the smell to last.. I have to keep putting my thumb down under my skin and get a new good smell.. it do not last long.. Well I know you guys did this before. when you guys was young learning about yourself. You do not have to be dirty to have a smell there.. In a day it there.. All I want to say do not feel bad about this.. I know there is a lot of guys doing this..

^^^^ Well, you can keep doing that and enjoying your stink.

I doubt there are women here who will appreciate your smelly dick.

^^^^ Well, you can keep doing that and enjoying your stink.

I doubt there are women here who will appreciate your smelly dick.

If you read what the OP said, he wasn't talking about sharing with others, it's his fetish. I get that. He's not talking about being unhygienic, just natural. He never talked about not washing before sex. I give him the benefit of the doubt.

I was responding to the post preceding mine, not the OP in my last post. We women are on the same page with this.

Thank you everyone for your responses! Really helpful to get some perspective. You even answered some question I didn't ask 😉

How is it any different than the guys that like the smell of a woman's panties r men's used jockstrap etc? Not one here that enjoys scents but there are guys I know who like those toes and feet to lick or the crotch smell of a man

Smeghead as they say in Red Dwarf? Yikes I'm totally grossed out! That's why I believe in circumcision. Oh no I'm in trouble again now.

By now everyone probably knows my position on circumcision both professionally and personally. I do have to say that I totally agree with the women who have posted before me on this. You know I am a big believer in live and let live and if you are not hurting anyone and you are not hurting yourself and you are enjoying yourself then by all means don't let anyone on here stop your or discourage you from having your pleasure.

We ALL have smelled our fingers at some point or another in our lives after we have rubbed them on our bodies. Someone mentioned in a post above that people smell their own farts and what not. Well who hasn't stuck their finger in their belly button and smelled it. Or something I do a lot probably because I have thick curly hair is I run my finger up the back of my ear and smell it, but usually only when I am with Doc. While I am a very clean person and shower and wash my hair everyday and sometimes more, for some reason once in a while behind my ears will have a slight odor. I am guessing it's from sweat or something. It doesn't smell bad, and you can't smell it standing by me, it's nothing like that or that strong. I just know that when Doc and I are getting busy he has his nose everywhere, and I do mean everywhere. I don't want behind my ears to offend him. Sounds crazy and weird, but it's true. I think there might be a gland there or something. Maybe it's from my hair being tucked behind my ears a lot. Who knows. But, (and here it goes, the statement that's going to get me in trouble), I will NOT suck an uncut penis ever again for the simple reason of that smell from skin on skin contact. A few really bad experiences with that same smell in a medical setting that comes back instantly in an intimate setting kills it for me. Yes I know there is a difference between the settings, but aside from one being stronger than the other, it's still basically the same smell. So I pass on that. I tell Doc all the time that I am so glad he is cut because, and I hate to say it but I am not sure we would have lasted almost 8 years now or even at all if he wasn't cut. Again this is just my personal preference. I mean absolutely no offense.

Mashie

I repeat. Smegma? Yuck!! Circumcise it. At birth. I know, I know. Starting that up again. More fool me.

To each their own, indeed, but definitely not a cock I would suck on nor have inside me, CLEAN it before share it.

I think if I had foreskin, I would probably touch the head and smell my fingers to check for cleanliness. After all, I would rather find out for myself that I had an odor instead of having someone else tell me.

(Longish - see TLDR as needed.)

I'm 63 and uncut and very, very clean. I don't think my folks (mom RN) believed in circ's anyway, but I was apparently not only premature but very, very sick after birth with some degree of hydrocephalus to the point my mom was praying for me to live. And this was 1952 in a very foreign country - thank heaven for US Army docs. In any event, I suspect that OP's interesting habit and its attractiveness or not is really, at least to some significant extent, a matter of degree, technique and timing. I've always been meticulous about washing every nook and cranny of my penis and especially foreskin (FS) and associated skin folds even when I was a teenager, and still do. I've also always done it with mild bath soap and water, though I recently learned on another forum (Reddit) that there's a vocal group of men who feel strongly that soap shouldn't be used because it dries out their penile/foreskin tissues too much and becomes irritating. I've no idea of the proportions of the groups, but those of us using soap seem equally dedicated to our method, mostly because we think it cleans better and is not irritating at all. But either way, especially with a FS, you have to (as in MUST) a) wash frequently enough, and b) wash very effectively and not just spray some water at your equipment and think it's clean. My only experience is with a FS, but there are an awful lot of folds, nooks, crannies and hiding places under and around mine, so it's not too hard to miss spots if you don't really try to be thorough. I've never had a single complaint from any ex-wife or GF about odor or putting it in her mouth, and I'm the sort who likes to talk about sex in great detail with partners, so I should have heard about it if it was a problem. There are also other possible difficulties with thoroughness. My particular equipment is very flexible and easily and painlessly moves all the way from more than covering the glans to full retraction in complete comfort. Other guys may have much different experiences anywhere from frank phimosis to a tight circ that allows relatively limited movement to simply being bored or even embarrassed to handle themselves properly for cleaning.

I don't make a habit of feeling and smelling my penile/FS tissues like the OP, but after I'm washed and dried out, I'll usually do it once just before dressing to be sure I'm as clean and aroma-free as I think I am. As I said, I use soap and water, most recently Safeguard, so I usually have a faint soap smell there, but otherwise nothing noxious. Now I can't speak for any of the women here, all having expressed valid opinions, but if my exes had decided on some frisky time just after I'm post-shower as described, they obviously felt that I was clean and odor-free enough to make their experience enjoyable. However, for me or any other man having been very clean post-wash, even with no pre-come to deal with, we're going to gradually develop an aroma or odor the longer you wait afterward, simply from bacteria plus natural skin secretions producing unpleasant compounds. That could be 30 minutes or a day or more depending on multiple factors including the guy's skin environment and activity level mixed with the woman's olfactory skills and prior experience. Mashie's experience with unpleasant medical smells has killed it for her intimately, which makes unfortunate but reasonable sense. Your mileage may vary.

TL😁R: What all of this is attempting to say is just that while OP's habit may strike some as an individual kink he frequently enjoys but which sounds unpleasant for them, it's not so unreasonable, depending on when he does it and the last time and thoroughness with which he washed. I do think his comment about "aroma" an hour after pre-come may be the straw that broke the camel's back for many. The impact on his partner(s) or on someone answering this question depend on so many different factors that I just find it hard to flatly call it gross or disgusting. With or without enjoyment of his habit, he and his partner(s) need to come to an agreement on an acceptable hygiene practice.

Thank you Eric for your fantastic post. I thought it was very informative, honest, and personal, all of which I greatly appreciate. Also I appreciate your little blip about me and that you could see and understand where I was coming from there. And, that I'm really not a bitch, well sometimes, but I wasn't trying to be in my previous post. You Rock!

Mashie

Ericmacson: Males who object to soap perhaps should use the kind of intimate cleansing lotions that women use, which are designed to be far less irritating.

Hi, Pecan, I think that's probably a good workable idea, but in all the posts I've seen on this other Reddit forum called r/sex, none of the water-only men or even the soap guys like me have ever mentioned it. I wrote quite a few posts answering both guys' and gals' questions about foreskin cleaning and maintenance since I have a lot of experience with it and being a doc added a bit of credibility. But that forum is where I suddenly learned about the very vocal water-only guys, which I really didn't know about until then. The water guys feel that they get clean enough with just water, which might be right, but I suppose you'd have to query their partners to find out if it really works well. My guess is that different men not only have different neurological sensitivities in their genitals, and different ways of feeling about it, but also that there's probably a genetic difference in the amount and type of natural oils and secretions put out by the water or soap users. As a result, some guys really do get penile irritation with soap to the point they can't use it and resorted to water only. I'm 63, have used various soap like Ivory, Dial (grew up on it, mom RN), Irish Spring, Zest, others and now Safeguard, all of which work well without irritating me a bit. And I smell better down there also! Just lucky, I guess. If I go back to writing on r/sex or other subreddits, I should mention your idea and see if it flies. Thanks.

BTW, I've been wondering, are you really a big pecan eater? I really like them in pie or muffins and the occasional nut bowl, but don't seek them out otherwise.

Thank you Eric for your fantastic post. I thought it was very informative, honest, and personal, all of which I greatly appreciate. Also I appreciate your little blip about me and that you could see and understand where I was coming from there. And, that I'm really not a bitch, well sometimes, but I wasn't trying to be in my previous post. You Rock!

Mashie

Hi, Mashie,

Thanks for the kind words. I've always enjoyed your posts and take on things, mostly on the Enema forums, but these others as well. And I never thought you were a bitch! I wrote quite a few posts on a Reddit forum/subreddit called r/sex about penis and foreskin cleaning since I have both and a lot of experience after 60+ years, so this thread on penis smelling was interesting to read. I think everybody including me wants a clean partner, as in fresh out of washing or close to it, but after the washing is over and time starts ticking, all bets are off as far as when any given person becomes unpleasant to be with to any other given partner. That's pretty much what my long post said. I tend to write about things I know a good deal about, like foreskin maintenance and prostate massage and medication-induced ED (which I have) and some of my kinks like enemas unless I'm just offering an opinion on an interesting question. And boy, have I learned a lot about erotic enemas on that forum here! Much fun.

As far as your comments on penis smelling, I'm sad that you had the unpleasant experience(s) with really bad odors from uncut guys medically, though in my own clinical experience, it certainly happens and can be REALLY (I'd italicize instead of caps if I could) bad from almost any body part. And the point about it just being an objectionably strong version of the normal skin/skin odor putting you off makes sense. Smells, like other sensations like sounds, flavors, images and music can be extremely strong neural triggers of either lovely or awful memories, sometimes without us knowing exactly why. In your case you know what uncut penis makes you recall. That's part of what spurred me to write my post, along with some of the other women's comments here. I won't go into it here, but I actually have a similar smell-related problem with an unrelated inanimate article of clothing that people wear which can become malodorous, so I avoid it. I'm just glad you have a great longterm circumcised partner to enjoy so your recollection isn't a problem for you. (Trigger warning? next) If you should ever want or need to deal with an uncut guy again romantically, I would hope you might be able to discover that really thorough cleaning, maybe including a fragrance, might make it possible to allow your romantic intention to take off. However, if not, I understand, and sometimes, that's just life. Nice hearing from you.

Eric, you are such a good boy, sweet, kind, and understanding to boot.

You couldn't be more right about our senses and how much and in what ways they can effect us or influence us. Just like Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H, I smell everything, and I do mean everything. I have a very sensitive nose, but with that being said most smells don't bother me. I can or could when I was younger play in pig barns and cattle barns all day long and not be bothered by the smell. The smell of moth balls brings back memories of my grandma's house and those fond memories. The smell of newsprint for example brings back memories of the Weekly Reader Magazines we used to get in elementary school when I was a kid. I loved getting those. I hate the smell of fresh cut flowers when there are multiple kinds in an arrangement. I sort of like them if say there are all roses, or all lilacs but mixed no. Between 8th grade and the time I graduated from high school 13 family members of mine died including my 23 year old brother, and not including 2 good friends. So mixed cut flowers just remind me of death. My 12 other family member that passed away was expected, it was their time you know? But my brother and 2 of my friends was very sad and unexpected naturally. So you can see with all the mixed cut flowers at a funeral and having been exposed to so much in such a small amount of time, it's no wonder I am adverse to that smell.

So smell for me is absolutely the most memory triggering sense I have, for me anyway. My aversion to an uncut penis isn't all just because of the smell they usually produce but other things as well. Was a compilation of a few things. These patients I was talking about not only were very smelly but they had medical issues with their penis'. , To smell that smell, and to see their penis' in that condition, and then hearing them moan, scream in pain or beg you to either cut it off or just kill them because it hurts so bad. I'm a nurse you know. My job is to take care of you, heal you, fix you. I can't fix that and I can't stop their pain in the moment. I'm completely helpless, which is probably what it is that really bothers me, and I probably just associate the penis issues with the fact that I am helpless to fix it.

So that is all of why I just can't stand uncut penis. It's just a combination of things. None of them good.

Mashie

On a somewhat related note, I'm pretty smell-conscious as well, but probably not to your level. I still love the aroma of natural wood and graphite pencils - it just takes me back to elementary school. And I really didn't remember that fact about Hawkeye that he had such a sensitive nose! Interesting. Your clinical unpleasant penis smell experience was even worse than I envisioned - Wow. Sorry to hear it. And I wouldn't have been so lucky with the large animal barns - I do a lot of cat box cleaning, and my cats can really generate an odor! Kudos to your olfactory tolerance.

But somewhat similarly to you, here's an example of an unpleasant experience ruining not a smell, but in this case a certain word for me. As a medical intern one day in the ER, I ran into this elderly lady, 60-70's who was in for abdominal pain which was unsurprising as she'd had a long history of abdominal surgery, hernias, repairs, reconstructions, etc. I don't recall what she was ultimately diagnosed with that time and I have no doubt she was in pain and great concern about yet another ER visit, but what I do remember is that she was about the most needy, complaining, unsatisfiable person I'd ever met, maybe to this day. Now we treated her well, did appropriate tests, and comforted and informed her as best we could, as always. But in the process, she was frequently mentioning and lamenting that the ER visit was keeping her from seeing her new granddaughter who she appropriately referred to as her grandbaby. I honestly felt badly for her, but as a result, to this day I cannot stand the use of the word grandbaby, from that one event in 1989.

The other smell aversion experience that I mentioned does actually concern a particular kink of mine that I've mentioned here before, but even in this crowd, it feels a little embarrassing. (And I regularly tell my kids they can't embarrass me with a sex or dating question!) if you really want to hear it, I'll send it to you in a Personal Message - you might be able to convince me to share it in a post later!

Oh, and thanks for keeping me much younger than reality. I don't remember the last time I was called a good boy, at the tender age of 63! (Although, during my being submissive in bed to my partner, "good boy" went a long way!) I wish my male equipment worked like I was still that young! ?

Yes, I had forgotten about the smell of lead pencils. That also brings back memories of elementary school. Also the smell of crayons.

On the Hawkeye front, there was an episode where Hawkeye and BJ got into an argument because he smelled everything and that drove BJ nuts, lol.

I can understand the grandbaby thing too. Odd I never thought about a word bothering me like grandbaby does for you but I actually have a word like that as well.

I worked in a vent/trach unit for 3 years right out of nursing school and our DON at the time always used to say, "he/she is in the deathing process." And I hear that once in a while out of medical professionals but when I do I just cringe like I am hearing nails on a chalkboard. Oy Vey I was running a code about 3 times a week there so I heard it a lot. Grrrr. She also used to swat her papers that she was carrying around on my tushy when she would walk by. I don't think she did that to anyone else, at least not that I ever saw. She was about 65 and had been married for a long time so it's not like she was hitting on me for some reason. She used to call me her "golden child". That was a real high compliment. But a few years later the company was bought out and the top paid nurses were fired. That was hands down the hardest job I have ever had as far as nursing goes. I was tired when I got fired and was ready to move on.

Mashie

I want my husband to have a washed penis for our fun. Otherwise it would turn me off.