The other night my girlfriend and I were discussing the prostate (we had also been doing more than discussing the prostate earlier in the evening, but I digress). The question before the courst was: If the clitoris is analoguous to the glans penis as the center of the universe, why does the prostate gland also seem to be so rich in nerve endings?
In another thread, someone asked if we Doper men-folk had ever been “probed,” and those of us who have will tell you that when contact with the prostate is made - HELLO! What gives? Do other glands have such an incredible supply of nerve endings? If you could touch your pancreas would you have such an incredible orgasm that it killed you? How 'bout the other glands of the body (forgetting, for the moment, the testes - we all know what sort of reaction a soft touch to those will receive).
What, do you suppose, was the evolutionary cause for this little walnut-shaped gland becoming the “joy of man’s desiring” (to paraphrase Bach). I mean, it isn’t as if its easy to get to.
Just as the clitoris and penis have similar origins early in fetal life, the prostrate in men is composed of cells that would have become the uterus had they been female.
Just as all the number of nerve endings in a penis are likewise in a clit, but in a much smaller space - all the nerve endings that would go into a uterus are likewise in a prostrate, but in a much smaller space. This makes for an exquistitely sensitive but definitely internal organ. It likely has nothing to men being pleasured by their mates, just a consequence of how it’s assembled and because women require a certain number of nerves for their uterii.
Plenty of my organs got nerves, my eyeballs, hey even skin is an organ mine likes to be touched.
Notice that ball of flesh at the base of your thumb? Your prostate should feel like that (yes, you can check it yourself) if its okay, now tightten your hand into a fist & feel that solid ball of flesh near the base of your thumb. Thats basically how it should not feel.
At least when you’re getting probed you can ask her to check it out.
No. Most of your abdominal organs aren’t very sensitive to touch. If you ever felt anything from your pancreas it would be a poorly localized pain. (In other words, a tummy ache where you couldn’t quite tell where it was coming from.) People with pancreatic cancer often don’t feel a thing until it’s too advanced to stop.
As for the OP, I’m going to try to get you an authoritative answer from one of my ex-professors who’s an expert on such things. I think it’s a good question.