Stupid question likely, but how do I clean when my member is so small?

[hanss]

Doing foreskin stretching due to phimosis, but I caught myself thinking... how will this even work even if I get the opening big?

I haven't really measured it, but when it's hard, it's 10+ cm. When it's soft, it's maybe... 1 -2 cm...?

It sits in that huge wrinkly skin and I can't just.. get it up, like... what even is going on in there...

Even if it's removed, like... that is a lot of skin. You can't just remove so much because then what is left when it's hard...? Should I just stretch and then try to get it hard to wash...?

[Norwich1 Moderator]

have you consulted a doctor to discuss all the options open to you?

[jaglad]

Mild soap and water in bath or shower, just pull the skin tight to gently stretch and give the area a good clean. You should not need to be hard to clean properly.

[sinombre]

You might not need cleaning or much cleaning, I never knew I had phimosis until a couple years back, and I never was able to retract away the skin to clean the head.

My urologist cleaned it for me with sanitary/antiseptic wipe when he did inspection (I ended up getting circumcision some time after the checkups as stretching was too much effort and would take too long to be good while I am in relationship). During the cleaning as far as I can tell, my member for what was covered up by the foreskin was not horribly dirty, just some dirt/smegma that is unavoidable.

So I think our bodies manage/clean itself to some extent. When I had phimosis most of my life, I just rinsed the expose hole of the foreskin for however much I was able to retract, and that seemed to be good enough. I never had any irritations or infections.