Lothar_The_Elder said:
True. I've been amazed by the number of people I've met didn't know foreskins retract.
Yeah I was surprised initially as well, but given porn depictions and the push for circumcision in America , it's not like I don't understand.
I even had a pretty bad case of phimosis for much of my youth, no averse effects for having it for so long. They don't really understand that stuff like infections don't occur by uncleanliness.
Often times it is due to small tearing, slight burns (from pee) and similar external factors. Even then, the infections of often due to things like high sugar content in your pee and it really doesn't have much to do with smegma, given that it's predominantly just dead skin cells, sweat, etc...