Sunday, October 01, 2006

Love Your Penis

Every so often I receive interesting questions from my readers like “Does evidence exist of high rates of masturbation by males increasing penis size?”

Ah, if only it were true. You fellas would be running off to get your lotion and tissues right now ^_~ — but a lot of masturbation does not really increase penis size.

Although the penis has muscles, they don’t work in the same way as the muscles in, for example, your arm where exercise does increase the size of the muscle. The most important muscles in the penis are in two groups.

One group relaxes to let more blood into the erectile tissue. The corpus cavernosum and corpus spongiosum make up the three sections of spongy erectile tissue that run the length of the penis (corpus cavernosom is also found in the female clitoris).

The two corpus cavernosum sections extend from the pubic bone to the head of the penis and they hold about ninety per cent of the blood in your erection, increasing the length and girth of your penis. The corpus spongiosum surrounds the urethra, preventing it from being crushed during erection and forms the glans or head of the penis. The penis head stays more malleable during an erection because blood drains from the corpus spongiosum more easily than the tissue in the shaft.

The second of the two groups of muscles contract to help keep the blood inside the erectile tissue of the penis. One of them is the ischiocavernosus muscle. This muscle also helps flex your anus and stabilizes your erection — in women it tenses the vagina, this is part of what women are working when they do Kegel exercises.

There isn’t really anything in the penis that can be “exercised” to increase its size. Supposedly you can increase the size of your penis by using a penis pump to extend the spongy tissue inside, but there hasn’t been any hard evidence to back this claim up. Tugging on your penis or hanging weights from it to try to make it longer is much more likely to result in hurting yourself and permanently damaging the tissue. You only have one penis, so please take care of it!

A lot of men worry about their penis size. You know who rarely worries about penis size? Women. You know why? Because we know that even guys with smaller-than-average equipment can still rock our worlds if they know what they are doing.

People always talk about how the media makes women feel inadequate and damages our self-esteem. But men are often neglected in these discussions and they can be victims of media, too.

Porn and spam mail are two of the biggest culprits for lowering men’s self esteem. Sure, guys in porn often have ugly hair and sometimes have ugly bodies, but what do they usually have? They have a penis that is, or appears to be, larger than average. Not only do they seem well endowed, but their partners seem to enjoy it! And if that’s what it takes to satisfy a woman (or man, or both), how can any “average” fellow hope to measure up?

The guys with long shlongs who end up in the porn industry are there for a reason. This is the concept of “over-representation” at work — because you’ve seen so much porn with guys who have big penises, you imagine that everyone must have one, except you. But this isn’t true! It’s called average for a reason; if you really are of average penis size then most guys have penises around the same size as yours or smaller! You shouldn’t worry about those in the porn industry.

Unfortunately, to add to the worries you might have acquired after years of viewing porn, spam mailers seem to have picked up on how common it is for men to worry about their penis size.

It doesn’t matter how often you might complain about the “increase your penis size” and “big willy 4U” e-mails filling up your junk mail folder — some of these messages seep into your subconscious (or conscious) mind and feed your own willy worries.

As an interesting side note, although many people like to look at huge penises, not many women actually enjoy one inside of them — there’s only so much space inside the average vagina. The average vagina is built for the average penis.

I think it’s reprehensible that spam mailers feed on this weakness that men have and try to convince them to try whatever herbal supplement they are hawking. By the way, don’t bother with the “miracle products” you hear about in your spam — they don’t work. If herbal supplements did increase you penis size, it would be all over the news and we would all know about it.

Like I said above, you only have one penis so take care of it and don't worry about what other guys might be "packin".

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the good take on penis size. As a member of the “average penis size club” I can confirm that most women are happy with my size. I also wanted to mention that for the past year I have used a penis pump regularly and have noticed a slight change in my over length and girth. It may be interesting research to have a few of your regular members try the same penis pump and do some before and after pictures, etc. Thanks for another great post!

Anonymous said...

Shay thanks for your informative articles, I'm very impressed by the amount of research that goes into them, balanced with an entertaining writing style. Keep up the great work.