It's an incredibly normal part of growing up to explore your body and work out what you like and don't like.
Sometimes these discoveries come about by accident whereas other times you're trying really hard to see if something you read on the Internet applies to you. Whatever way it happens, you learn a little bit more about yourself every time.
But there's one experience that no man should have to go through because not only is it painful but it can be traumatic. That, my friends, is snapping or breaking your frenulum.
Also known as a 'banjo string', it's the little piece of elastic skin that connects your foreskin to your glans - aka your bellend. While it has a bit of give in it, it has a limit to how far you can stretch it and if you go past that point... well, then you can find yourself in a bit of trouble.
LADbible spoke to three people who broke theirs, wincing and shuffling uncomfortably in our seats all the while.
Tim: "It Was Like That Elevator Scene In The Shining"
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Tim, from Sydney, was around 11 or 12 years old when it happened to him and it occurred at a very tender stage of a boy's life. He tells LADbible: "I had started getting boners but had no clue what to do with them.
"I'd heard some things about [masturbation] at school from some kids and sex education, so the night before the family was meant to drive up to a friend's farm I thought I'd have a tug.
"I remember feeling something change, like a slip or movement of my foreskin but I kept wanking until my hand was covered in blood and the sheets and the floor because I'd been walking around my room trying to figure out how to jerk off correctly.
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"I ran into my parent's room screaming and told them that I knocked my dick on something like a door or bed post.
"I remember having to wear a women's sanitary pad down the front of my pants for the seven-hour drive to the farm.
"I think in my mind it was like the elevator scene in The Shining but in reality, I think it was probably a little palmful and some drops in the floor. I didn't rupture a vein thankfully."
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While he wasn't taken to hospital or seen by a doctor, Tim says he reckons that once it all healed it was probably good because it freed a bit of tension on his Johnson. The 25-year-old was just happy it didn't happen while he was sleeping with someone.
Marty: "I Saw All Of The Blood And Basically Went Into Shock"
Marty was 21 and was having sex with his future fiancée when he had the unfortunate experience of ripping his banjo string.
Speaking to LADbible, the Mancunian said: "The whole sorry incident stemmed from a momentary lapse in concentration when I altered the angle that I was working with. I realised something had gone very wrong when I felt the tear, which was pretty damn painful.
"I stopped what I was doing to check myself and was basically immediately covered in blood. It was pouring out everywhere, on the bed, on both of us and on the curtains.
"I remember very little about what happened afterwards because I'm really squeamish and nearly passed out. I saw all of the blood and basically went into shock.
"According to Lucy, I was cursing my luck, her, her entire family, and everything basically."
"It actually wasn't too bad cleaning it up. I just changed the bedding and put them in the wash with the curtains. I had to wipe quite a bit of blood off the walls too."
Marty says that his frenulum didn't fully rip, which is pretty lucky because it sounds like there was a lot of blood for a half-tear. He ran to get some tissues and kitchen roll to clean up his penis and says it took him a couple of months before he was able to have sex again.
Enzo: "I Released A Huge Build-Up Of Red Tinged Urine"
Enzo has probably the most peculiar scenario out of everyone and it all started when he was a kid in shower. As he was peeing he found that he could pinch his foreskin, making it 'blow up like a giant veiny balloon'.
He called this the 'Cheese Cleaner' because he thought that this would help clear smegma from his penis - which is kind of strange considering he could have just used the water from the shower.
Two years ago, the Californian remembered the good ol' technique before hopping in the shower.
He said: "So I guess I kind of thought 'why not?' and proceeded to go ahead and do it for a laugh.
"The issue was I had forgotten that I had a very full bladder that one particular morning and needed to piss badly so I went ahead and begun the 'Cheese Cleaning' process. It was only a matter of seconds until my foreskin looked like a swollen mass of veiny tissue but I had not yet finishing peeing.
"Like an idiot, I continued to trap it inside my foreskin until I began to feel very uncomfortable but I held it for as long as I could until I felt a very harsh burning and tingling feeling.
"As I released a huge build-up of red tinged urine, I stood there baffled for a few seconds as this was not how I remembered the great Cheese Cleaner to feel.
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"I looked down to see a trickle of blood hanging from the tip of my penis, so I rolled back the skin to see I had not only made my foreskin kind of loose like a wizard's sleeve but I had ruptured and torn my banjo.
"In horror I tried to wash away some of the blood but I was in so much pain from the sensation of the water hitting the open wound, I had to jump out of the shower and try to dress the wound which was still pissing blood at this point."
The then-17-year-old didn't go to hospital because he was too embarrassed to explain to a medical professional the ins and outs of the Cheese Cleaner - which is pretty understandable.
He told LADbible: "It was a moment of utter panic and confusion mixed in with the dread of having it circumcised at the ER. The feeling was the complete opposite of a high euphoria and every synapse in my brain was just screaming abuse at me for what I had done to myself."
If you've been struggling to get through every paragraph then rest assured there are no more awful stories to endure.
If this happens to you, NHS Choices says: "You should avoid sexual activity until the tear has healed. In most cases, the tear will get better without treatment. Once it has healed, you can try using a lubricant during sex to prevent the problem from happening again.
"If it doesn't heal, go to your GP or local sexual health clinic.
"If your penis keeps getting torn, you may need an operation called a frenuloplasty to lengthen the frenulum."
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