NORM - Phoenix provides an illustrated guide to t-taping. T-tape is a method of restoring a foreskin that is widely used. Medical tape is applied to the shaft skin of the penis and an elastic strap is used to pull the t-tape and tension the skin. The guide shows how to make the elastic straps, make the t-tape backing strips, make the t-tapes, install the t-tape, strapping up after t-taping, and tips.

NORM - Phoenix provides an illustrated, step by step guide to cross-taping. Cross-taping is a convenient method for those who are just starting to restore their foreskin. Two strips of tape are used to pull the penile shaft skin forward and hold it over the glans. This page complements Gary's cross-taping page.

Article published in Archive of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Jan. 2010; Vol. 164, No.

Study published in American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 136, No. 7: 895-907 (1992). The authors found that "a history of excision and BCG vaccinations decreased the risk of HIV-2 infection." That is, women who had undergone female genital cutting had reduced risk of HIV infection.

Nathan Exposed is a blog by a young gay man. He writes on various topics, including foreskin restoration. The link above is the category listing for this foreskin related posts.

A particularly good post is The Dick Post. Nathan describes his one-year progress from foreskin restoration. He has more skin than he had when he started and he is much more sensitive than before. He is very happy with how much new skin he has grown. He says, "The quality of my sex life has improved 200%. You could not pay me to go back to being circumcised!"

Study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Volume 278 No. 24, pages 2157-2162, December 24/31, 1997. The study was a randomized controlled trial to compare various anesthesia methods for infant circumicison. Enrollment in the study was stopped after it was determined that the control group (babies not receiving any anesthesia) were in great distress from their circumcision.  "The results of this study suggest that an anesthetic should be administered to newborns prior to undergoing circumcision.

Study published in MJA, Vol. 178, 155-58, February 2003. The study was to investigate the incidence rate of circumcision for phimosis and other medically indicated reasons in Western Australian boys. The authors found that as the national rate of routine circumcision decreased, the rate of medically indicated circumcisions increased for boys aged less than 15 years. More than half of the boys circumcised for phimosis were under the age of 5. Pathological phimosis is rare in that age group. The authors attributed the high rate of circumcision to physicians mistaking normal penile development for pathological phimosis.

CATIE-News: Bite-sized HIV/AIDS news bulletins published by Canadian AIDS Treatement Information Exchange. The page addresses many of the current studies and meta-analysis for HIV and the gay man. The results of the various studies and meta-analysis are consistent and show that there is little to no benefit in circumcising gay men to reduce HIV.

Researchers studying the increase and spread of HIV have concluded in several studies that increases in high-risk sex have overwhelmed any decrease in infectivity due to HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy). This does not mean that current HIV prevention efforts have failedwithout these efforts, rates of new cases of HIV and STIs might be much higher. This environment of high-risk sex and STIs must be taken into account when considering the potential impact and rollout of new prevention interventions--such as male circumcision, microbicides or pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)--in gay and bisexual men in high-income countries.