# Clenching during sex = RRRRIP?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 11, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872 "2012-07-11T06:02:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/21 "2012-07-12T03:41:33Z")
> [@bleibtreu](#):
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> Or, given the proximity both geographically and chronologically, both reports involved the same very unique woman.
There comes a time in some love affairs, Honey, when you really must learn to let it go.
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### Author:  [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2012, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/22 "2012-07-12T06:18:43Z")
To answer the question from another point of view:
The penis is pretty darn resistant to compression forces. There are cases of penises “snapping” due to some kind of sideways force, but none that I know of due to crushing/squeezing force. Even your hand is not strong enough to crush a penis, and I can’t imagine pelvic muscles are stronger than that.
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### Author:  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/23 "2012-07-12T13:01:11Z")
> [@dracoi](#):
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> penises “snapping”
Thanks for curing my potence problem.
“Penis Snappers” would make an excellent all-girl heavy metal band name.
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### Author:  [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/24 "2012-07-12T18:33:18Z")
> [@nofloyd](#):
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> Anecdote:
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> I broke a plastic speculum during a procedure with the force I bore down. My gyn had never seen the like. Had to switch to an old fashioned metal nightmare.
Does this lead to the explanation why there is no floyd ?
Sounds like a painful way for him to go. 😃
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### Author:  [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/25 "2012-07-13T04:06:31Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#):
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> Ah, [here’s the original submission.](http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=9131) Grandma wasn’t babysitting - the teen was visiting her grandparents.
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> Not exactly penis captivus, but a vagina definitely can capture things if they’re large enough and shaped correctly.
I don’t consider an anonymous and rather implausible sounding story submitted to a sex advice column to be proof that this can “definitely” happen.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/26 "2012-07-13T16:26:27Z")
I’ve heard of somone so uptight that if you stuck a piece of coal up his ass, you’d come out with a diamond.
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### Author:  [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/27 "2012-07-13T16:42:29Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> I’ve heard of somone so uptight that if you stuck a piece of coal up his ass, you’d come out with a diamond.
We’ve heard your theories before, Lex.
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### Author:  [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/28 "2012-07-13T16:58:04Z")
They say the sphincter is the second-strongest muscle in the body; and the jaw is the strongest. I guess some guys are just really into challenges, so to speak.
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/29 "2012-07-13T17:00:52Z")
> [@dracoi](#):
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> The penis is pretty darn resistant to compression forces. There are cases of penises “snapping” due to some kind of sideways force, but none that I know of due to crushing/squeezing force. Even your hand is not strong enough to crush a penis, and I can’t imagine pelvic muscles are stronger than that.
This. You can squeeze your cock as hard as you can 'til you turn blue, and it won’t hurt it.
So the answer to the OP’s question is a resounding NO.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/30 "2012-07-13T17:06:13Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#):
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> You can squeeze your cock as hard as you can 'til you turn blue, and it won’t hurt it.
You’re just trying to make me try it, and it ain’t gonna work, uh-uh.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/31 "2012-07-13T17:37:10Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#):
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> This. You can squeeze your cock as hard as you can 'til you turn blue
But if it turns blue, it will look like you got cold-cocked.
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### Author:  [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/32 "2012-07-13T18:00:59Z")
What about oral?
I’m sure penises are a little bit stronger than hot dogs or sausages. How easy or possible would it be to just bite it off? How big a difference would “erect versus flaccid” make?
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/33 "2012-07-13T19:15:26Z")
> [@DrCube](#):
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> What about oral?
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> I’m sure penises are a little bit stronger than hot dogs or sausages. How easy or possible would it be to just bite it off? How big a difference would “erect versus flaccid” make?
[QUOTE=Roberta]
I mean, I had mine removed surgically under general anesthesia. But to have it bitten off in a Buick…
[/QUOTE]
…
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/34 "2012-07-13T19:25:04Z")
> [@DrCube](#):
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> What about oral?
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> I’m sure penises are a little bit stronger than hot dogs or sausages. How easy or possible would it be to just bite it off? How big a difference would “erect versus flaccid” make?
The experiment [has been tested](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes):
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> As is known from a videotape the two made when they met on 9 March 2001 in Meiwes’s home in the small town of Rotenburg, Meiwes amputated Brandes’ penis and the two men attempted to eat the penis together before Brandes was killed. Brandes had insisted that Meiwes attempt to bite his penis off. This did not work and ultimately, Meiwes used a knife to remove Brandes’ penis. Brandes apparently tried to eat some of his own penis raw, but could not because it was too tough and, as he put it, “chewy”.
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### Author:  [@benbo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/benbo1)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2012, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/35 "2012-07-14T09:07:19Z")
hey would this account for the disproportionately high % of non-menstruating women bleeding after I’ve, uh, plumbed their depths? I ain’t particularly longer than average, but have been told a few times that I am thicker (wider? girthier?). “You’re a kielbasa when I’m used to hotdogs”, was 1 comment.
Seriously, a few have told me they were unusually sore, and to my shock (and somewhat disdain), I’ve pulled the drill out of the well to notice blood. I specifically avoid drilling when a woman is ‘paying the monthly bill’. So is the unusual high number of slightly bleeding vages due to their walls clenching?
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/36 "2012-07-14T14:56:29Z")
> [@Ludovic](#):
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> The experiment [has been tested](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes):
Man, that is some sick shit. ☹
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### Author:  [@duked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duked)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/37 "2013-07-02T00:52:40Z")
Strong vaginal muscles can compress (temporarily reduce diameter) an erect penis, and can make the penis ache/feel uncomfortable from the pressure/friction, but a vagina cannot crush a penis.
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### Author:  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/38 "2013-07-02T01:32:38Z")
Probably could a zombie.
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/39 "2013-07-02T01:50:23Z")
I will have occasion to cite profoundly on this question as soon as I resurrect my evolution of dick-inflation thread. The hydrostatics of a stiffy are pretty well defined.
Also, as mentioned in a similar case upthread, only once, due to some weird coincidence of thrusting, did I contact the lip of a woman’s cervix penicularly–if I were boasting I’d say it happened regularly–and it hurt her like hell.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clenching-during-sex-rrrrip/627872/40 "2013-07-03T02:20:54Z")
> [@duked](#):
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> Strong vaginal muscles can compress (temporarily reduce diameter) an erect penis, and can make the penis ache/feel uncomfortable from the pressure/friction, but a vagina cannot crush a penis.
Apparently someone has never met Bangkok Lily.
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