Darkened peno-scrotal raphe line from birth

[alicel]

Hi everybody,

I read on wikipedia that HRT could darken the peno-scrotal raphe line.  Mine has always been nearly black ever since I could remember, and I first was aware of this when I was 10 or 11 years old. Does anybody how any more insight into its causes in males other than MTF HRT prescribed later in life?

" The line that runs down the underside of the penis and down the middle of the scrotum, the peno-scrotal raphe (where the urogenital folds fused early in the womb), will darken."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormone_replacement_therapy_%28male-to-female%29#Urogynecological_effects

Many thanks,
A

[sazzy]

Mine is not only extremely dark, but has a crease of fused skin, that evidently didn't fuse very well, almost looks like a small seam of skin. Think of labia minora fused and only being a millimeter, running the full length of the underside if my penis and under my scrotum. A sign of some sort of intersex condition, I'm not sure. I didn't know all penises were like mine until I read that page on Wikipedia last month lol.

[sazzy]

I should also add, I've never had any HRT yet, I was just born this way.

[pebbles]

Yes your right it is a sign of an intersex condition. Perhaps PAIS Although your better consulting a specialist do you know if you have any natural fertility?

[sazzy]

I have 3 children.. So unless we had a very horny milkman, I think I'm fertile lol.

[Shantel]

To my knowledge the line is common in every male born person and signifies the point where the scrotum would have been divided to form the labia had the child been born female. The differences in genitalia between natal males and females are not that complex as one would think.

[Heather]

To my knowledge the line is common in every male born person and signifies the point where the scrotum would have been divided to form the labia had the child been born female. The differences in genitalia between natal males and females are not that complex as one would think.

True it's only society that likes to believe that men and women are different species while ignoring all the evidence to the contrary. 

[JennyH]

I feel like mine has darkened and that its also got larger and more prominent.

[MadelineB]

I feel like mine has darkened and that its also got larger and more prominent.

Any birthmark or pigmented skin area will appear darker and more prominent if that area of skin becomes less stretched (for example, the dark line on a scrotum that has shrunk due to HRT, or an areola on a breast which has lost volume due to weight loss).

[Jennygirl]

I noticed this about a month ago and it scared me. I never used to have dark skin there, now it is extremely dark and prominent.

[Michelle G]

Interesting! This kind of explains a few things I've wondered about over time.