This question will probably seem absurd to some people, but bear with me:
At work today a friend of mine was talking about this documentary he saw a while ago about a man with a really small penis on Bravo or some channel like that. About the size of a pinky finger. Now, my friend went on to claim that he learned from said documentary that all men have up to “seven extra inches” inside their body and that doctors are able to “pull it out” and basically enlarge the penis. This sounds wildly incorrect to me, but is it? I thought the penis was just a muscle, how in the heck would they be able to “pull out” more of this muscle?
Sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me.
Well, I don’t know if it can be used for lengthening, but there is internal erectile tissue. Doesn’t anyone feel around?
I think there is a surgery that allows a guy to gain an extra inch or so; it involves snipping some connective tissue, I believe. But seven inches? No way.
I’m not so sure it’s muscle inside the penis either; I can’t find a clean enough website to link to, but it seems to contain a “spongy” tissue designed to engorge at the proper time.
First off the penis isn’s just a muscle. The penis contains a tiny amount of smooth miscle around the urethra and blood vessels and that’s it. Not the type of muscle you have any socnscious control over at all an dprobably less than 0.1% of the mass is muscle.
As for the idea of the extra 7 inches, it’s a misquote. The penis extends for quite a way inside the body below where the ‘normal’ penis joinms the general body. I doubt if it’s 7 inches but certainly it’s a few. Surgery can be used to make this ‘available’ by essentailly lowering the penis so it leaves the body closer to the arsehole.
My nephew (age 8) has such a small weiner that they’re going to do this surgery to give him a little extra. Wish the lad luck!
I’m no doctor, but wouldn’t it be logical to wait at least until puberty to see how things turn out?
You’d think so, but according to my brother the kid’s weenie is so small that he can barely pee without making a mess of himself.
I’ve got no dog in this fight, being female, but this seems horrible to me. Why not give him a complex right from age 8? I hope for the little boy’s sake this really is the best for him.
And thank you, for whoever said the penis was not a muscle. If it was a muscle, and you could build it up, then there’d be special penis weight-lifting machines and guys would be queing up to enlarge their penis as well as their abs, etc.
quietly hides his special penis weight-lifting machine
This sounds like a horrible, horrible idea. IANAD, but after reading so many instances of botched operations and hospital related fuck-ups in uro-genital surgery (particularly in children!), it seems that waiting would be a wise idea.
Woody Harrelson’s character on Will and Grace said he exercised his penis by lifting encyclopedias. And the women did vagina exercises. Yeah, what?! :dubious:
I don’t know. i’m guessing having the operation done before he becomes sexualized would probably be much better from a “getting a complex” perspective.
I know nothing about the procedure and couldn’t comment on the safety and/or prognosis, but I don’t think the argument for waiting until he’s older so he can cope makes much sense.
After the age of about 11 a guy’s entire life is wrapped up in his penis. I’m guessing getting it in order before then is best.
Even though studies show you-know-what doesn’t generally start until 13 in males; just thought I’d add that.
This sounds like something that’s medically necessary (or that would at least be really helpeful to the kid), not a cosmetic thing.
Yes definitely medically necessary, according to my brother. The poor kid has a hard time peeing, fer cripe’s sake.
And no, this DOESN’T run in the family :eek: , in case that’s what you’re thinking.
I saw this too; the gist of it seemed to be that there are ligaments attaching the penis/genitals to ??? and if they are cut it gives up to a few more inches. In his case, it doubled his penis length, which he said had been quite noticably shorter than average.
But don’t you need that ligament for something?
It’s true, they’re called Kegels.
As far as I’ve read, it makes the penis stand up when erect, and when cut, it gets hard, but doesn’t point up, but flops down. This could be completely not true, but I’m not searching for cites at work.