u/MatrixxirtamNFTs

Hello! I’ve been lurking for a couple of weeks, fascinated by this subreddit — partly out of my own curiosity, but the main impetus was trying to help my wife with her extreme difficulty reaching orgasm, which typically makes clitoral stimulation painful and overly intense.

Reading through the anecdotes here, it struck me that the overwhelmingly positive outcomes people experience from clitoral growth probably aren’t just about increased arousal, blood flow, and the obvious fun of having more to work with. I think there’s a significant mechanism that isn’t getting nearly enough credit: adhesion resolution.

Clitoral adhesions — where the clitoral hood becomes stuck to the glans — are far more common than most people realize. A peer-reviewed study found that 23% of women at a sexual medicine practice had clitoral adhesions, ranging from mild to severe.  That’s nearly one in four women. Most healthcare providers don’t discuss clitoral adhesions, so most women aren’t even aware they exist. Notably, that study was co-authored by Dr. Rachel Rubin — who comes up again later in this post.

The symptoms map almost perfectly onto what many people here describe before starting their journey. Symptoms of clitoral adhesions include clitoral pain, discomfort, hypersensitivity, hyposensitivity, difficulty with arousal, and muted or absent orgasm.  That last one — hypersensitivity making touch painful and overwhelming — is exactly what my wife experiences. Researchers have noted that clitoral pain is greatly underdiagnosed and undertreated, with many patients simply accepting their symptoms as normal. When adhesions are treated medically through a lysis procedure, the results are striking: a large majority of patients reported improvement in pain (76%), sexual arousal (63%), and ability to achieve orgasm (64%), with no participants reporting worsening of any symptoms. 

And here’s something I’ve noticed that I don’t think has been said explicitly in this sub: you essentially never see a large clit with adhesions. I’ve looked through countless photos members have shared here, and it holds up consistently — growth and adhesions appear to be mutually exclusive. This makes complete sense given the mechanism: the engorgement, increased blood flow, tissue expansion, and sebaceous secretions that come with clitoral growth are recreating the exact conditions that naturally resolve adhesions in pubescent boys. The clit is literally stretching itself free as it enlarges.

This might be one of the most underappreciated benefits of this whole process — people come here for growth and sensation, and they’re quietly resolving a condition that affects roughly 1 in 4 women and that most healthcare providers never even think to examine for.

I first came to the conclusion from the anecdotes here that growing the clit helps increase ease of orgasm by increasing erectile tissue, potentially creating more surface area so the nerves are less compacted into a tiny area. I also read some interesting research that suggests:

“Women with anorgasmia possessed a smaller clitoral glans and clitoral components farther from the vaginal lumen than women with normal orgasmic function.” In layman’s terms: a larger clitoris is associated with easier orgasm. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24521081/

According to Dr. Rachel Rubin, what helps uncircumcised boys with phimosis (adhesion of the foreskin to the penis) is a surge in testosterone that promotes oily skin and helps loosen and separate the adhesions, along with active erections that stretch the tissue. This is supported by research: a study on age-specific foreskin development found that increased frequency and duration of erections during adolescence facilitates preputial separation, and that in animal models the process is androgen-dependent and timed to puberty (https://www.currentpediatrics.com/articles/agespecific-foreskin-development-before-adolescence-in-boys.html).

Additionally, a review of phimosis treatment research notes there is evidence that testosterone specifically promotes foreskin mobility, suggesting low testosterone may be connected to the phimotic condition in the first place (https://www.darboninstitute.org/phimosis_treatment). - This makes me assume it’s likely to be a contributing factor for women who have low levels of testosterone with adhesions.

In short, my hypothesis is that growing the clit with testosterone creates similar conditions — promoting oily skin plus increased erectile tissue that can fill with more blood, stretching the tissue and breaking down adhesions. This is likely also why pumping along side testosterone is effective. Tissue stretches from within and without.