the third sex

A member of the main site emailed me a few days ago, saying that a large number of models I photograph have foreskins that have not retracted even though they have an erection. Did I find, he asked, that in general the Thai penis has a tight foreskin?

It was a good question, and I know there are a lot of people out there who find this subject fascinating.

When I’m taking photographs and the model’s pants come down for the first time, a substantial number of them immediately have an erection. It’s an automatic response when exposing your cock for sexual action. More often than not, I find the foreskin does not roll back on its own. Sometimes the model will do it herself, but very often I take hold of her cock and see if I can ease it back myself.

I do this very, very gently. The last thing I want to do is to hurt anybody. And it does seem to me that, in general, the Thai cock does have a tight foreskin. Maybe it’s not too tight: just tight enough to prevent automatic retraction. Often however the skin simply cannot retract, and the glans peeps out with varying degrees of prominence.

Experts in this field aver that in general East Asian penises have tight foreskins, a condition known as phimosis, where the foreskin opening is too narrow to retract when erect. Any expertise I can claim to have on penises is related to the Thai version, and all I can say, having seen well over 1,000 ladyboy cocks up close and intimate, observing them in all their natural states from flaccid to erect to ejaculating to subsiding, is that probably there is no thing as an “average” Thai penis.


I would say that most of those I see have a small to medium-size glans and a fairly tight foreskin. There are more fully retractable foreskins than non-retractable, but the number of non-retractables is substantial.
I have seen a few cases where the condition is so pronounced that the glans is entirely non-visible, the foreskin forming a bobble even when the cock is fully erect, with the glans a visible bulge beneath the skin. In some instances the opening is angled away from the line of the penis by 45 degrees, giving an odd periscope effect. Interesting though this is, it is not to my mind attractive. If I owned one of those myself, I would certainly have opted for a snip.

Circumcision is almost never practiced in Thailand, except amongst the Moslem community, which forms about three or four percent of the total population. When I see a circumcised cock, it is enough of a rarity to make me pause for a close look, to see how expertly the job was done and to admire the novelty. So for those who have a degree of phimosis, it does not appear to be an issue.

I do not see cocks that appear to be suffering any hardship from having a non-retractable foreskin. No signs of puffiness or redness, no signs of discomfort or pain when the model is masturbating. No difficulty in reaching an orgasm, if one discounts the effect of hormones. Very few problems in the hygiene field, too. If someone does have difficulty (or can’t be bothered) in keeping clean, this becomes very apparent during the course of wanking, as little particles of smegma will get squeezed up from under the foreskin. But this very seldom happens.

So I can only assume that foreskin tightness is simply an accepted fact. Presumably Thai parents are the same as any other parents in watching out for the health of their offspring, and that a decision to circumcise would be taken by them during the childhood or adolescent stage, when a tight foreskin becomes apparent, rather than by the owner of the penis during early adulthood.

In ending, I would like to point out that when we say “Thai”, we are in fact talking about more than 30 different ethnic groupings. The largest are the Tai, usually regarded as the true Siamese and who originated from the southern Chinese region, the ethnic Chinese, and the Lao. There is also a large assimilation of Mon, Shan and Khmer, and there is the cocktail of influences from the South including Malay, Indian and Burmese. This has ensured a wide variety of cock shapes, sizes and colours, which helps to make this subject a fascinating one.