I am a 25 yr old male. I did a big pubic area shave 2 months ago, around the pubic area plus some hairs on the shaft itself. About 2-3 weeks after the first shave, I noticed 2 tiny bumps in the growing forest of the pubic hair. It was itchy, I scratched, and one bled. Didn’t think anything of it. About 3 weeks ago I shaved again, and as of a week ago, I inspected my groin to find many of these bumps which are either new or I hadn’t noticed before: http://s943.photobucket.com/albums/ad280/unness99/?action=view¤t=pic05.jpg
And on the shaft:
http://s943.photobucket.com/albums/ad280/unness99/?action=view¤t=pic06.jpg
bumps are only about 1 mm-photo is very closeup.)
I though molluscum - and I talked to my roommate about a potentially shared razor as the culprit. He told me he never shaves his pubic area so that was impossible. What’s strange is that by the time I made the very first shave, I was sexually monogamous with a girlfriend of a few years. (I don’t think she cheated, and I don’t think my roommate is lying but of course ANYTHING is possible)
All my life, I have had some skin abnormalities that are not sexually related (had them since childhood), so now I am starting to think maybe it’s not molluscum or HPV but instead some kind of interaction between my previous skin condition and the shaving.
The following three pictures are of skin conditions in the genital region which I have had long before becoming sexually active (I include them so as to compare with the skin growths in question)
Dots on my scrotum which I’ve had forever: http://s943.photobucket.com/albums/ad280/unness99/?action=view¤t=pic04.jpg
Extremely TINY (smaller than 1 mm) dots on my foreskin which I’ve had forever:
http://s943.photobucket.com/albums/ad280/unness99/?action=view¤t=pic02.jpg
What are the new things? What are the old things? How likely is this molluscum vs. hpv vs. folliculitis or fordyce aggravation caused by shaving?