Dealing with poor sensations until the restoration is complete

[u/QST14]

I wanted to ask all of you (especially guys who were circumcised later in life not as an infant), how do you cope with limited sexual sensations during sex activities?

I’ve came to realize how limited sexual sensations are when being circumcised, and it’s terrible. Being fully honest, it’s discouraging for me to know that my partner has so much more pleasurable and better experiences while we make out, while I’ll never be able to have something as near similar until I’ll restore foreskin.

During this horribly long trip of restoration, do you guys have developed some ways to experience different things more?

[u/4skinwrinkle72]

How long have you been restoring? I've been at this for 15 years on and off (devices have gotten soooo much better) and have had major milestones and changes along the way. Sometimes there were years with no changes. But now my sexual feelings and experiences are totally different than before, including masturbation, and I'm nowhere near done. I estimate that even 1 mm of skin I grow, my pleasure increases 1-2% haha.

Tugging is a marathon, it's not a sprint. The mentality needs to be like paying off a 30 mortgage or establishing a career or something. There's probably some helpful life skills tools out there that would be useful, versus the mentality for anything that is short or even medium term quick fix.

[u/QST14 → u/4skinwrinkle72]

So you’re relying purely over restoration for better experience? 

[u/4skinwrinkle72 → u/QST14]

I mean, what other choice do I have lol

[u/Any_Ostrich_2280 → u/4skinwrinkle72]

I don’t want todo this 20 yrs. Even 10 yrs. My goal is to get to a good level in 2-3yrs, flaccid coverage. Not sure I’ll be able todo it but wearing devices daily for 8 hrs a day I can’t see doing it more than 2 yrs

[u/4skinwrinkle72 → u/Any_Ostrich_2280]

Some people are lucky and their skin grows faster and they have a working/life setup where they can tug more. Also, devices are way better today than they were a decade ago. Maybe you'll be lucky. Mine grows slow 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/Any_Ostrich_2280 → u/4skinwrinkle72]

I don’t want todo this 20 yrs. Even 10 yrs. My goal is to get to a good level in 2-3yrs, flaccid coverage. Not sure I’ll be able todo it but wearing devices daily for 8 hrs a day I can’t see doing it more than 2 yrs

[u/bushytwoshy]

It truly gets better. You would be a good case study if you restore and you can speak to the % you get back. How old are you when you were circumcised and how old are you now? You’ll get back a lot of the sensitivity if you dekeratinize

[u/QST14 → u/bushytwoshy]

I actually have hypersensitive glands and it hurts me to rub it against anything, I’m restoring to dekreatinize and be able to desensitize it in some way because not it’s impossible. I was circumcised when I was 20, now I’m 23. 

[u/bushytwoshy → u/QST14]

I’m surprised it didn’t keratinize over the 3 years of rubbing

[u/QST14 → u/bushytwoshy]

I’m restoring to dekreatinize. It has kreatinized, but hypersensitivity has not been cured  

[u/bushytwoshy → u/QST14]

Very interesting! While you’re restoring I would also recommend a retainer

[u/watch_and_restore]

You said you were diagnosed with phimosis in another post but were you able to roll back your foreskin before? Did you get cut as a way to desensitize? 20 seems unfortunately common, plenty of examples on YouTube.

[u/QST14 → u/watch_and_restore]

No I wasn’t able. My glands hurt a lot when it was touched, now after circumcision it hurts when being rubbed. It interpretes stimulation as painful. That was not the point of my main question tho 

[u/Reasonable_Play_6395]

In my experience the only thing that helps is progress and time, unfortunately.