Is the "donut" damaging?

Hey guys, so after I do girth work I get the common donut affect not badly but it’s there, furthermore I try to hold the girth for a few hours after with a cock ring but doing so prolongs how long the donut remains, will the donut ever start to become permanent? I want a larger penis not thick unsightly skin, I am planning on getting a circumcision some time this year also so don’t want skin thickening that may affect that also, thanks.

The doughnut is primarily engorgement of the foreskin, though it also covers an engorged shaft and glans. The doughnut if not taken to an extreme will not become perminant. However, it is possible that it could thicken the foreskin to some extent.

Aussigymguy,

I agree with Dtwarren, but I wouldn’t recommend wearing a cock ring if you have a lot of skin swelling. It prevents the skin from getting back to normal quickly , when you have a doughnut effect in puts pressure against your expended penis and probably does the opposite effect than keeping it nice and thick for a longer period. But it’s just my theory, it might totally be wrong. All I know is that my main battle when PEing is to keep the doughnut effect at the lowest as possible, and I recommend it.
Getting a circumcised is going to get you of PE for a while, you probably have your own very good reasons and it’s everything but my business but because you mentioned it I can’t help asking, but why?

I just want to add that the quickest way to get rid of a donut is to get an erection. Ten minutes of edging, heck even just five minutes, will be enough to get rid of ninety percent of that fluid build up. I’ve had a few when pumping for too long, and getting an erection gets rid of the donut really quick.

The donut is just swelling from excess lymph fluid that your body will reabsorb and not leave any lasting effects. There is no worry of skin thickening.

I had a feeling someone would ask lol, long story short (kinda) firstly I think they just look better it’s been something I’ve felt self conscious about for as long as I can remember, if I was ever naked in front of a girl I’d always have my foreskin pulled back otherwise I thought it looked funny but the main reason is my wife changed her pill due to side effects of her current one so I had to use condoms for about a month to give the new pill enough time to take affect and I noticed she was making more noise when I wore one and when the month was up I noticed her noises reduced again so I asked what was going on and she said for some reason it feels alot better with the condom on so I tried having sex with her while holding my foreskin back and the louder noises returned, she said there’s more friction because my foreskin isn’t shifting backwards and forwards so after discussing it with her I asked if she’d like me to get a circumcision because I was getting sick of holding it back and at first she said nah you’re fine the way you are but after a bit of prodding she said yes she’d like me to get it done, I’m going for a high and tight cut as it keeps the nerves from my foreskin in tact, so that’s the reason in a nutshell.

So would you recommend I keep up with the cock ring post workout? On length days I wear a stretcher and on girth days I wear the cock ring based on some peoples opinions that healing in an extended or expanded state would produce better gains.

Interesting some are saying the donut is principally fluid build up in the foreskin. I am uncut and indeed get fluid build up in my foreskin but it dissipates over about 12 hours or less. With cut guys I thought the donut was fluid retention mainly just behind the glans which is under where the foreskin is in uncut guys. I find wearing silicone sleeves especially in this area during pumping greatly reduces donuts and fluid retention.generally. As I suffer from ED I normally wear a CR during sex for that extra hardness but am reluctant to wear it for long periods as I suspect it could reduce blood circulation and promote ED whereas I have found pumping enhances circulation and reduces ED.

When I do wear a CR I use a metal one which constricts while I am erect but does not impede blood flow when flaccid. Suspect weaqring an elastic CR (eg silicone) for longer periods would bwe riskier.

The silicone sleeve thing sounds like a good idea I might give that a go as long as it doesn’t impede expansion

I use a soft silicone sleeve and easily pack the cylinder. Currently I am using a sleeve wich covers about 2/3 rds of the shaft from behind the glans. The cylinder has a silicone sealing ring which covers most of the rest.

I gave the silicone sleeve thing a go it worked quite well got rid of probably 3/4 of the fluid buildup plus I could still feel the expansion just the same, I think it proves the theory wrong when people say pumping only targets the outter layer because if that were true I shouldn’t have felt much if anything but I did.

Silicone sleeves are amazing. Great for fluid reduction. But I find it more efficient to skip it in a shorter session and pump less hard to attract less of the edema. Sleeves are a great long session solution, though.

Where do you buy silicone skeeves?

And can you cover the glans and where a sleeve both when pumping?

ABsilicone sells a pumping sleeve. It takes a literal dogs age to get it from then though.

Autoextender sells highly similar sleeves for their Xsleeve system. I’d buy a medium hardness thin sleeve for this experiment.

You can cover the glans with a condom. This is an austfred technique to prevent glans blisters.