# How flexible is the penis? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 12, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-flexible-is-the-penis/391863 "2007-02-12T16:46:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-flexible-is-the-penis/391863/21 "2007-02-13T03:07:02Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] That is to say, the minimum inner radius of curvature is zero. [/QUOTE] I used to tell chicks that about mine too if they hinted they wanted a little more info before proceeding. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-flexible-is-the-penis/391863/22 "2007-02-13T08:20:54Z")
[QUOTE=KlondikeGeoff] Isn’t there a rap star named Flaccid Penis? If not, there should be. 😃 [/QUOTE] I think he changed it to **“The Artist Formerly Known as Flaccid Penis”**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-flexible-is-the-penis/391863/23 "2007-02-13T08:37:53Z")
I thought it worth mentioning that the human penis is more flexible than that of most other mammals, because many of them contain an actual bone (called the _baculum_). You’ll never see _Puppetry of the Walrus Penis_, for example. Unless, I suppose, it was a stick-puppet show. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-flexible-is-the-penis/391863/24 "2007-02-13T12:13:46Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] You’ll never see _Puppetry of the Walrus Penis_, for example. Unless, I suppose, it was a stick-puppet show. [/QUOTE] Indeed. The walrus baculum (also known as an _oosik_) [can be as long as 24 inches](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oosik). ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-flexible-is-the-penis/391863/25 "2007-02-13T12:42:12Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/UFfhxVmdXZ4/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/UFfhxVmdXZ4?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque [/QUOTE] So did anyone else watching this see _any_ evidence at all that the relevant guys’ penii were involved at all? Because I sure didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-flexible-is-the-penis/391863/26 "2007-02-13T12:55:13Z")
[QUOTE=Princhester] So did anyone else watching this see _any_ evidence at all that the relevant guys’ penii were involved at all? Because I sure didn’t. [/QUOTE] I’m guessing that it was editted for TV. According to [this here](http://www.knowledgedrivenrevolution.com/Features/Dumbass/Week_47_Garbage_Penis.htm), the British guy did actually get to see what you don’t want to see. ---
**Author:** ![Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnac_the_Magnificent)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-flexible-is-the-penis/391863/27 "2007-02-13T14:06:53Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] Oh quite flexible. Mine has been in all manner of orifices on all manner of individuals, (women, men, transgendered) as well as unspeakable countless other places. It has never complained. [/QUOTE] How is your presidential campaign going, by the way? ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-flexible-is-the-penis/391863/28 "2007-02-13T14:25:18Z")
[QUOTE=Carnac the Magnificent!] How is your presidential campaign going, by the way? [/QUOTE] His platform is “Help for the Homeless.” Sorry, **Rigamarole** , I couldn’t resist. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-flexible-is-the-penis/391863/29 "2007-02-13T14:32:22Z")
In terms of partners - extremely flexible, no real restrictions at all. So I hear. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-flexible-is-the-penis/391863/30 "2007-02-13T23:14:50Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] I’m guessing that it was editted for TV. According to [this here](http://www.knowledgedrivenrevolution.com/Features/Dumbass/Week_47_Garbage_Penis.htm), the British guy did actually get to see what you don’t want to see. [/QUOTE] I’m guessing this guy pulls a truck with his penis the same way Yellow Bamboo guys knock people over without touching them. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-flexible-is-the-penis/391863/31 "2007-02-13T23:32:21Z")
It only remains to say: In Soviet Russia, penis flexes _you_. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-flexible-is-the-penis/391863/32 "2007-02-13T23:38:15Z")
No reason to assume any trickery on the truck-pulling. If the truck’s bearings are good, it’s in neutral, and it’s on a smooth, level piece of pavement, it wouldn’t take much force at all to pull it (it approaches zero, as the truck’s bearings approach ideal). ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-flexible-is-the-penis/391863/33 "2007-02-14T00:20:46Z")
I’m adding this to my list of questions that I have no desire to ever find the answer to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-flexible-is-the-penis/391863.md?page=1)