# Will gravity make my penis longer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 21, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-gravity-make-my-penis-longer/457215 "2008-07-21T02:22:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-gravity-make-my-penis-longer/457215/1 "2008-07-21T02:22:36Z")
Jowls droop, breasts sag, and a gut tends to stretch, so if I went without drawers, would the pull of the Earth make me John Holmes by the time I turned 60 or so? the head is heavier than the rest, so there should be some sort of stretching going on. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-gravity-make-my-penis-longer/457215/2 "2008-07-21T02:51:41Z")
The drooping of body parts as we age has to do with loss of muscle mass and tone, not gravity. So no such luck. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-gravity-make-my-penis-longer/457215/3 "2008-07-21T02:54:09Z")
Maybe on a planet of heavier gravity than Earth, but I doubt you’d notice an appreciable difference. Perhaps \*\*2.5 Inches \*\* can enlighten us. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-gravity-make-my-penis-longer/457215/4 "2008-07-21T03:20:40Z")
In memory of Jack Dean Tyler, I remind you of the Tug Ahoy. NSFW link broken: h ttp://www.tugahoy.com/ ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-gravity-make-my-penis-longer/457215/5 "2008-07-21T03:45:35Z")
Well I’ll be, isn’t science something. Would a rabbi need to be present at a reverse bris? ---
**Author:** ![Chotii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@Chotii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chotii)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-gravity-make-my-penis-longer/457215/6 "2008-07-31T00:37:11Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict] In memory of Jack Dean Tyler, I remind you of the Tug Ahoy. NSFW link broken: h ttp://www.tugahoy.com/ [/QUOTE] There is anecdotal support for this, and similar devices. A number of the men on the restoration list I’m on say that they gained length and girth both during the restoration process - a benefit they were not generally expecting or seeking. The concensus is that they have simply achieved the size they would normally have had - what they are genetically programmed to have - if they had not had skin removed from their genitals before the puberty growth spurt. In other words, it was the insufficient skin that was preventing them from reaching full size. Increase the skin, and expansion can occur to its normal limits. This is NOT the same thing as ‘jelqing’, which is intended to stretch internal structures rather than external tissue. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-gravity-make-my-penis-longer/457215/7 "2008-08-02T01:53:51Z")
FWIW I think your nuts are liklier to hang lower and lower, but not your “male specialness”, based on a modest range of happenstance observation and other evidence. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-gravity-make-my-penis-longer/457215/8 "2008-08-02T04:43:01Z")
I can’t believe I am responding to this. A little bit ago there were some Australian guys who put on a stage show where they did penis origami. They pulled and twisted themselves into interesting and apparently entertaining shapes. I heard them speaking on the radio and they were asked if all the pulling and twisting had made them larger. They stated that in fact it did make quite difference in their size when limp. However it did nothing for them when they were erect. I think the effect of gravity or anything else that would stretch it would be similar. ETA: I don’t think that gravity would have much effect at all. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-gravity-make-my-penis-longer/457215/9 "2008-08-02T06:24:49Z")
My only cite for this is that I read it somewhere at sometime, but I’m kinda almost pretty sure it was in something that mostly had generally reliable stuff in it. “As you age your ass falls and your penis shrinks.” Life’s a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-gravity-make-my-penis-longer/457215/10 "2008-08-02T06:50:15Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] I can’t believe I am responding to this. A little bit ago there were some Australian guys who put on a stage show where they did penis origami. They pulled and twisted themselves into interesting and apparently entertaining shapes. I heard them speaking on the radio and they were asked if all the pulling and twisting had made them larger. They stated that in fact it did make quite difference in their size when limp. However it did nothing for them when they were erect. [/QUOTE] [Puppetry of the Penis](http://www.puppetryofthepenis.com/)