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For any who do not know, it's often an option when getting a circumcision whether to have the frenulum (the thin band of tissue that connects the proximal/ventral portion of the penis glans with the inner foreskin) removed.

My own frenulum did not cause any functional issues, but I was not fond of its aesthetic appearance. More bothersome, when I had my apadravya piercing, the PA portion was done on one side of the frenulum (rather than through its center). This made it so the jewelry going trough seemed a bit asymmetrical, and the frenulum tended to push the jewelry in one direction.

In the first photo, you can see the ventral portion of my glans along with the distal portion of my penile shaft -- prior to the circumcision and frenulectomy procedure. The shot is without jewelry, but you can see that the piercing fistula is indeed on one side of the frenulum.

In the second photo, you can see essentially the same, but after my circumcision and frenulectomy. To me, it looks much better and more clean.

In the third photo, you can see essentially the same but with jewelry in place. Specifically, I am wearing a circular barbell in the PA portion of my apadravya, and a separate circular barbell in the APA portion (that one is pushed sideways by the stainless steel surface that my glans is resting against).

At 70 years old, I had no relevant medical issues, but I was tired of excess skin.

The first two pics show my situation before the circumcision, first with the skin pulled over my glans and then with it pulled back. We removes all of the inner foreskin, basically the the entire area that's shown (stretched and pulled back) in the second photo.

As you can see, I had less surplus skin than most uncircumcised men. The distal end of the foreskin often rested naturally (when my penis was flaccid) just behind the coronal edge of my glans, but otherwise sometimes rested in a position somewhat covering the proximal portion of the glans.

The third file is a video where I show movement of the uncircumcised foreskin. Again, we removed pretty much the entire inner foreskin, as exposed when in the video I pulled my foreskin all the way back.

The fourth image shows during the procedure. The surgeon had completed both the proximal and distal cuts all the way around, and was working to remove the flap of inner foreskin that was slated for removal. Such skin does not simply pull away from the flesh underneath. There is much connecting fiber that has to be severed between the skin and tissue underneath.

The fifth image shows my penis with the unwanted foreskin fully removed, while the surgeon stretches my penis to show the now uncovered shaft. He'll soon be stitching the remaining distal end of outer foreskin to the remaining shelf of inner foreskin that's just proximal of the glans corona.

The sixth image shows the skin that was removed. I asked the surgeon to to let me keep it, and he consented. I then tanned it (like any animal skin), so now I have a nice piece of very thin leather that is my former inner penile foreskin.

The seventh image is of my healed penis, sans extra skin. I like it much, much better.

The eighth image is another shot of my healed penis, now in the erect state. As you can see, we left just enough skin to manage the erect state without the remaining skin being pulled excessively tight.

Images nine and ten are side-by-side, before-and-after comparisons.

At 70 years old, I had no relevant medical issues, but I was tired of excess skin.

The first two pics show my situation before the circumcision, first with the skin pulled over my glans and then with it pulled back. We removes all of the inner foreskin, basically the the entire area that's shown (stretched and pulled back) in the second photo.

As you can see, I had less surplus skin than most uncircumcised men. The distal end of the foreskin often rested naturally (when my penis was flaccid) just behind the coronal edge of my glans, but otherwise sometimes rested in a position somewhat covering the proximal portion of the glans.

The third file is a video where I show movement of the uncircumcised foreskin. Again, we removed pretty much the entire inner foreskin, as exposed when in the video I pulled my foreskin all the way back.

The fourth image shows during the procedure. The surgeon had completed both the proximal and distal cuts all the way around, and was working to remove the flap of inner foreskin that was slated for removal. Such skin does not simply pull away from the flesh underneath. There is much connecting fiber that has to be severed between the skin and tissue underneath.

The fifth image shows my penis with the unwanted foreskin fully removed, while the surgeon stretches my penis to show the now uncovered shaft. He'll soon be stitching the remaining distal end of outer foreskin to the remaining shelf of inner foreskin that's just proximal of the glans corona.

The sixth image shows the skin that was removed. I asked the surgeon to to let me keep it, and he consented. I then tanned it (like any animal skin), so now I have a nice piece of very thin leather that is my former inner penile foreskin.

The seventh image is of my healed penis, sans extra skin. I like it much, much better.

The eighth image is another shot of my healed penis, now in the erect state. As you can see, we left just enough skin to manage the erect state without the remaining skin being pulled excessively tight.

Images nine and ten are side-by-side, before-and-after comparisons.