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Girls - would this put you off? Fordyce Spots on Penis

I'm not going post pictures because I think it'll be against the forum rules. If you don't know what they are, Google 'Fordyce Spots on Penis'.

I know some girls can get them around their vagina too, although it's more common for boys on the penile shaft.

If you were to have sex with a boy and saw that he had them, how would you react?

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Reply 1
No, I wouldn't care.

Scratch that, haven't cared. A couple of guys have had them. It's fine.
No, I think they're normal!
Reply 3
Original post by Jessticles
No, I wouldn't care.

Scratch that, haven't cared. A couple of guys have had them. It's fine.


Did you know what they were, or think that it was some kind of STD or just spots on their penis?
Reply 4
Original post by Anonymous
Did you know what they were, or think that it was some kind of STD or just spots on their penis?


I didn't know the name for them to be honest, I had to google the name when I clicked into the thread. But it just looks like a natural skin thing, to be honest. Not quite like spots, to be honest. Just a little raised bit of the skin.

It would definitely be different if they were bloody or cracked or looked raw or painful, but these just look... quite normal, to be honest. They even look kind of like goosebumps when you think about it, lol.
Reply 5
Original post by Jessticles
I didn't know the name for them to be honest, I had to google the name when I clicked into the thread. But it just looks like a natural skin thing, to be honest. Not quite like spots, to be honest. Just a little raised bit of the skin.

It would definitely be different if they were bloody or cracked or looked raw or painful, but these just look... quite normal, to be honest. They even look kind of like goosebumps when you think about it, lol.


wow that's quite surprising...

Any other girls' opinion?

Any other boys have them?
Reply 6
I'm not a girl but I like willies and it hasn't/wouldn't put me off :smile: haha. They're so common that they're just totally normal. And harmless.
If they're skin coloured, then I would see them as quite normal.

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I have them, and until googling after reading OP, thought they were normal. Why would you want rid of them though? Unless they're like 3+mm big and swell outwards, then they're just "bumps" right...? Which is like the "bumps" and ridges on "Her Pleasure" condoms? or on extra pleasure style dildos??? (just guessing, but the physics seems right :L)
So they would make sex better if anything...?
However, if they are cracked/bleeding, maybe they aren't what you thought...
Oh, wow, didn't know they had a name. No girl I've ever been with has mentioned them, they're barely visible.

Advertise yourself as 'ribbed'.
They dooo look like goosebumps! I think every guy might have them!
Reply 11
Original post by Anonymous
I have them, and until googling after reading OP, thought they were normal. Why would you want rid of them though? Unless they're like 3+mm big and swell outwards, then they're just "bumps" right...? Which is like the "bumps" and ridges on "Her Pleasure" condoms? or on extra pleasure style dildos??? (just guessing, but the physics seems right :L)
So they would make sex better if anything...?
However, if they are cracked/bleeding, maybe they aren't what you thought...

I just don't think they're very nice looking. If they could be got rid of easily I'd do it - but they can't. Have you not been a little bit concerned how they look?

Original post by VisualKiddy
Oh, wow, didn't know they had a name. No girl I've ever been with has mentioned them, they're barely visible.

Advertise yourself as 'ribbed'.

Maybe mine are more prominent than yours because to me they are quite visible. Although lol @ the ribbed comment :P

Original post by Anonymous
They dooo look like goosebumps! I think every guy might have them!

Apart from on me, I've never seen them before. Not saying I go around looking at guys cocks, well apart from at urinals, but then - who doesn't have a quick glimpse at the competition to see who's packin more heat!?

Being a teenage boy I obviously watch a fair bit of porn, and I've never, ever seen a guy with them.

I just thought girls wouldn't have seen them before and would be really freaked out? It's made me really uncomfortable during sex before and quite literally terrified at times.
Original post by Anonymous


Where abouts do yours begin? Mine only start appearing roughly halfway down the shaft, well away from the STD hotzone.

Seriously, there's absolutely no reason to worry whatsoever. Most girls wouldn't bat an eyelid.

Hell, if you're that worried about it, just pop the johnny on as quickly as you can.
Reply 13
Bump - other girls please comment :frown:
Nah, my boyfriend has them and they don't bother me. He did tell me they weren't STDs but I laughed because that thought hadn't even entered my mind.
They're not a bother at all, you can't even feel them during sex (with or without a condom)
I think they're common and doesn't bother me.
I have them and i am quite scared that girls will be freaked out, they are on the head of my penis, right next to my forskin. They arent that bad but are still visible, they also go down my shaft and my scrotum
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Reply 17
i noticed mine when i was 13 or 14 and it really put me off whipping it out infront of females. i went to the doc who confirmed what they wer and told me they wer harmless. im now in my 30's and they have never caused me any problems since my teenage years when i was embarresed about them, they are perfectly normal so dont let it ruin your sex life while your young, but none the less, just wear a condom anyway. better to be safe
Reply 18
I thought they were normal too. Wouldn't bother me at all.
My bf has them and although it adds a texture doing oral which puts me off, it doesn't affect sex and they don't put me off on the whole.

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