Frenuloplasty vs circumcision

Hi. I’m a young adult and I’ve decided to have one of these procedures. I did some research, but was wondering if someone could give me their opinion based on experience?

I rarely have problems in masturbation due to my somewhat short frenulum, but it has happened before, and I am convinced it will be a problem during sex, as the foreskin can mostly retract to the base of the glans when I am fully erect. Moreover, at that point the glans kinda tilts because the frenulum is slightly asymmetric.

My main issue now is PE. From experience, being uncut with a short frenulum makes it extremely difficult to extend/hang. The vacuum method seems to be the best, but it is almost impossible to get a tight fit and for long periods because the frenulum is in the way (creating an air cavity), not to say the excess skin around it is very bothersome and usually gets pinched. I sometimes also do pumping and this area together with the skin around the glans tend to get a bit swollen.

These are the main reasons I am thinking of jumping straight to circumcision. Lesser reasons would be the fact that my foreskin is a bit sensitive (especially near the frenulum), having a tendency to get irritated (my skin is prone to dermatitis), and the small chance frenuloplasty can create some tension due to the formation of a short scar tissue.

On the other hand, frenuloplasty is half the price and seems to be half the pain of circumcision (the price being more of an issue) without the potential loss of sensitivity.

Any suggestions?

I had a short frenulum and many years ago I made a thread about getting “frenulum tying” instead of frenuloplasty.

You can look for it to read in detail.

Basically, after 15 or so years, I don’t regret getting my frenulum cut, the freedom of your foreskin being able to retract all the way back is amazing, but I do miss the sensitivity of my frenulum. Since I just had the urologist essentially sever it by tying a stitch around my frenulum to cut off circulation, my actual frenulum (the sensitive part) moved to the tip of my foreskin so that when it’s retracted all the way, it’s about an inch lower on the shaft than the glans where it used to be.
This made the underside of my glans where the frenulum was a lot less sensitive, which can be a good or a bad thing. It can help you last longer, but you miss out on the sensation of someone licking your frenulum when they lick the underside of the glans… I kinda wish I had that…

I personally would not consider a circumcision unless there was a very very valid medical reason. I love my foreskin and the sensations it brings. One of the best feelings ever is pulling my foreskin back and clearing the coronal ridge. I would really miss that. But that’s just me.

If I was doing it over again, I’d seriously consider the frenuloplasty, and discuss the difference of sensation before and after with the surgeon.

Having said all that, I love aesthetic result of the frenulum tying. There is zero scar on my glans where the frenulum was, and there is just a tiny little flap of skin on my foreskin after the frenulum kinda shrank and atrophied over about a year after I severed it.
Nobody has ever noticed it unless I point it out.

It was also super simple and easy, both the process as well as the recovery. Incredibly tiny wounds that closed up within a few days and totally healed up after a couple of weeks.

I did have to take about 9 months off of PE. Long after the visible wounds healed, I would get very bad bruising at the wound sites whenever I tried stretching or pumping or other PE exercises. Like purple splotches. All those tiny blood vessels that were severed take a while to fully recover.

Thank you for your input!
I had actually looked into that before after following a DIY method to remove pearly penile papules, but the idea of piercing the skin near the frenulum and then tie the latter gradually creating fissures in the skin seems like a longer, potentially more troublesome and painful process. It’s also way cheaper, but I think I’d rather not risk it in this case.

However, this makes me reconsider frenuloplasty.
Can you tell me about hanging/extending before and after? One of my issues with it (besides the frenulum) is the excess foreskin being a hindrance, making it difficult to apply the silicone parts or making devices slide off (even if well-tightened).

Unfortunately I can’t speak about hanging or extending since I’ve never done either, but there are plenty of other PE techniques that provide results, so I’d personally rather retain full functionality of my penis as well as all of my erogenous tissue and do stuff like stretching, jelqing, pumping, clamping, etc.

For me, the short frenulum would cause my foreskin to get bunched up and folded on itself in an uncomfortable way when I would wear a condom. That’s why I had it released. Not for PE.

I had a urologist perform it and I had to have 2 “tyings”. I hesitated the first time and had him not tie off too much, and after it healed, I thought it was still a little too tight for my liking, so I went in for a second one, which was totally sufficient.

I do think you should discuss both options with the urologist and the pros and cons of each.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m still super glad I had it released, but hindsight being 20/20, I think I might have tried harder to stretch it out first… heck, maybe even get a piercing there. (If you stretch it out to a large enough gauge, you could even use it as an attachment point for hanging hahahaha ;) )
That’s the only genital piercing I’d ever consider and it’s not an option any longer :/

Thanks, I will discuss it.
How long did your process take?

In the end, I think my main concern in all of this is potentially having PTSD because of seeing a guy touch my junk potentially before a woman does.

If you need to lenghten frenulus, you must try stretching it further. The stretching has to be just like when you’re stretching your muscles while prepairing to enter the field to play. Several repetitions not short, not long, not too forced but you must feel a lil burning in the skin, a good stretch not really painful but quite borderline. Then repeat every day. It should take you just a few weeks to elongate the frenulum just enough. Make sure the stretches are not violent, apply the strength gradually and vice versa.

Thank you, but I honestly don’t see this happening, and if it does, it will take a long time where I may end up creating fissures and adding scar tissue. I want to be able to fully retract the foreskin when erect, especially around the frenulum, and it’s nowhere near that, so I’d probably much rather go ahead with the knot method.

In any case, now I am leaning heavily towards frenuloplasty.

I tried stretching my frenulum for over a year. Every day, multiple times a day. It worked…a little, but I had such a long way to go I just got it taken care of.

To answer the question in your previous post:

It took 3-4 days from the tying until the skin self-separated each time.
After each separation, it took about 2 weeks for the wound to heal until there was a layer of skin over and they weren’t SUUUUPER sensitive.

My frenulum kept tearing with PE, finally stayed split, and then faded away. You can barely tell I ever had one.

Repeated frenulum tears cause scar tissue to form, which is less stretchy and flexible than normal frenulum tissue, so it makes subsequent tears even easier.
When this starts to happen, urologist end up recommending either frenuloplasty or circumcision.

Thank you all for sharing your experience.

After all that has been said and after reading more about this, I am pretty much convinced to go with the frenuloplasty.

When I wrap, I pull my foreskin back as far as I can then I apply the wrap. So far my use of wrap has been less around 9 months, and my frenulum is like 1cm or more longer. I do hanging so that might have helped stresssing the skin, but it is what it is. A much longer frenulum now. To be fair, I don’t know if it is longer or more elastic. But my foreskin is going way further backwards when I pull it.