Purely anecodotal and uncited, but I do recall hearing that some largely-endowed men have experienced headaches after prolonged arousal. Hardly scientific, but it’s probably the closest you’re gonna get.
So that explains my frequent headaches!
OK, alas, that can’t be it…
Am I the only one who was hoping for a Hebrew National thread?
(Man, compared to a good hot dog, a weiner is such a let-down…)
On average, large penises need more stimulation to achieve (or maintain) erections. But there are exceptions.
And the only way an erection can survive death would be to apply constriction.
Does Mary Roach know about this research?
(and were any shouts of Eureka! involved?)
I believe this was the guy who was the subject of a documentary I saw - BBC, I think - about what it’s like to have the world’s largest penis. Kind of a sad story, really. Anyway, he said that one reason he’s never done porn is because it’s nearly impossible for him to sustain a real erection. He can’t get much past the semi-hard state, or at least not easily, not very often, and not for very long.
I have no idea what causes it or whether it has a causation link with pitching a tent immediately pre-mortem, but post-mortem erections aren’t unheard of. They call it “angel lust”, and apparently it happens most often to people who died by hanging. In fact, according to Wikipedia, dead wood is an indicator of a swift, violent death.
Maybe if the lady’s really enthusiastic about it, then.
They’re also called res-erections.
…that God couldn’t lift it?
There was shrinkage!