Hey as fav as i remember i've always have like lumps under my skin on my testicals and penis they seem to generate from my pee hole and work there way down when i try squeeze them white stuff comes out like a pimple but not as much, im to scared to do somthing about it does any one know what it is???
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Bumps-Help plz!
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They are just sebaceous glands. Look at the pictures in the thread "Male Anatomy" in the Male Genetalia Forum.
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WOW thank u , where can i find out more about this and how to get rid of them and is it considerd a std and is it contagious
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No, sebaceous glands aren't STDs or anything nasty. They are little glands that produce sebum, a white oily gunk that is the skin's natural moisturiser. Most of them are attached to hair follicles, but on the penis you can get them without hairs. Normally you can't see them, but the skin on the penis and testicles is thinner and you can see them as little bumps. If you squeeze them you may see the white sebum come out. They become more active at puberty.There is nothing wrong with having sebaceous glands - you want them, to keep your skin supple. They can sometimes become infected by bacteria: that's what zits are, infected sebaceous glands. They can occasionally get blocked, in which case they slowly swell and form a large pimple that goes away very slowly - that's called a sebaceous cyst. But you haven't got either of those, and you don't need to do anything.
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DO u have any explaination on why its so itchy then
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Have you started shaving there recently?
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Na ive only ever shaved once, its more my nuts that are itchy
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Sometimes they can be itchy without any evident reason; but it could also be a fungal infection ("jock itch"), a bacterial infection, or pubic lice ("crabs") or scabies. You treat them differently - the first needs a fungicide (anything for tinea will do), the second needs a topical antibiotic, and the third needs an insecticide.
If you happen to have any anti-dandruff shampoo containing zinc pyridinethione (= pyrithione zinc), you could try using that - it's not a bad general biocide.