# Penis Callous **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 24, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-callous/115765 "2002-06-24T20:13:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bare](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bare/32/471_2.png) [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-callous/115765/1 "2002-06-24T20:13:55Z")
Forgive me, it’s not like me to ask questions like this but inquiring minds want to know, ya know. I had hoped that someone more daring than myself had already asked this particular question. If they have, I am unable to find it. Not that I think mine gets overworked or anything but one would think that at some point in my life I would have developed something. Darn thing is still soft (in a manner of speaking). Seriously, is there something different about the skin that allows it to stay as soft as it does? ---
**Author:** ![Church\_Key\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Church\_Key\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Church_Key_Kid)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-callous/115765/2 "2002-06-25T01:27:04Z")
IANADoctor, but I think callouses are created when the skin is damaged, and then reheals with thicker layers. So, unless you are rubbing it raw, then you wouldn’t develop callouses. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-callous/115765/3 "2002-06-25T01:38:24Z")
Damn straight my penis is callous. It doesn’t give a damn for anything, not since that last baseball strike when it became clear the intregrity had gone out of the game and… Wait a sec, “callous” is an adjective. A “callus” is a section of hardened skin. I ain’t got any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-callous/115765/4 "2002-06-25T03:02:18Z")
There once was a man from Dallas Who had a Texas-sized phallus He couldn’t leave it alone Worked it clean to the bone And now sports a Texas-sized callus. Happy, currently callus-free on the phallus for 27 years ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-callous/115765/5 "2002-06-25T03:03:06Z")
The skin of the penis and the scrotum grows so dang fast and sloughes off at the same rate that there’s no time for a callus to develop. There’s a possible exception for the UL about the 13 year old boy who got into his dad’s Viagra and was hospitalized with 3rd degree burns on his right hand. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![emolson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5fc32e/32.png) [@emolson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emolson)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-callous/115765/6 "2002-06-25T04:12:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Happy Lendervedder \* > \*\*There once was a man from Dallas… > Happy, currently callus-free on the phallus for 27 years \*\* 😃 callus free for well-nigh… Never mind.