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1st April 2005, 10:37 AM
I was looking into the methonds used, and much as I am undertaking the exercises and want to get it bigger, I found this article and was wondering what the experts here thought about it!
here goes....
Enough fact and figures, let's look at the products sold to make the penis bigger.
[list]Pills: It only takes a bit of reasoning to understand why these could not work. What kind of drug could enter the blood stream and affect only the two specialized tissues in the penis? This would be like creating a pill that made the nose bigger!
Creams: These seem a bit more reasonable, as they are targeted to the penis, but anything rubbed onto the penis is going to be carried away from the penis by the blood stream before it could get to the tunica albuginea or the spongy bodies. In fact, this has been a major hurtle for drug companies trying to find an impotence cure that can be rubbed on rather than injected. So far the best solution the drug companies have found is to insert the drug into the urethra (ouch).
Surgery: There are two techniques that doctors can perform that do actually add size, but both are full of risks. For more length a doctor can cut the ligaments that attach the penis to the pelvic bone, and then move the penis outward some. This gains a man only about an inch, risks infection, and can leave the penis less stable because it's no longer anchored. For more width, fat can be injected into the penis. Unfortunately the fat does not stay put, and it can become lumpy or gradually leave the penis.
Stretching exercises, weights, and stretching devices: Those promoting these technics offer a variety of explanations for how they work, but most of these explanations are contrary to the facts about how the penis is constructed. Some parts of the body can be enlarged by mechanical stretching, but this has never been shown to occur with the penis, and most experts doubt the tissue involved can be expanded in this way. Still, given the theoretical possibility, and the lack of independently verified studies of any of these techniques, there is no valid science to support saying these methods don't work. On the other hand, there is also no valid science to support saying the methods do work. What has also not been determined is if these methods can cause any permanent harm. Some urologist have voiced concerns about scaring, nerve damage, damage to the blood vessels, and Peyronie's disease (bent penis syndrome). While there are isolated claims of such damage, the evidence to date is far from conclusive. In time we will know if these methods are safe or harmful, but it will take two decades to conclusively prove safety, and if it's not safe what will those who went ahead and tried these methods do then?
Jelging: The Jelq is the most common method of penis enlargement being touted today. Basically jelqing consists of a "milking" motion down the penis that is supposed to gradually increase both length and circumference. A study of sites advocating this technique sends up several red flags.
The technique is said to be something used by men in the Middle East for centuries. But no one can back that claim up, and when WebMD.com researched jelqing (http://webmd.lycos.com/content/article/57/66024.htm?pagenumber=1) they reported that "Sex historian Vern Bullough says he has never heard of it, and queries to the Kinsey Institute and professors of Middle Eastern studies at several universities shed no more light on the matter."
Many sites suggest that enlargement is cause by breaking down and building up the tissues of the penis just like you exercise to make you biceps larger. But there are no tissues in the penis that respond this way.
The specifics of how to jelq vary widely from site to site. Some insist it won't work unless done with a full erection, while others warn that doing it with a full erection will cause damage.
here goes....
Enough fact and figures, let's look at the products sold to make the penis bigger.
[list]Pills: It only takes a bit of reasoning to understand why these could not work. What kind of drug could enter the blood stream and affect only the two specialized tissues in the penis? This would be like creating a pill that made the nose bigger!
Creams: These seem a bit more reasonable, as they are targeted to the penis, but anything rubbed onto the penis is going to be carried away from the penis by the blood stream before it could get to the tunica albuginea or the spongy bodies. In fact, this has been a major hurtle for drug companies trying to find an impotence cure that can be rubbed on rather than injected. So far the best solution the drug companies have found is to insert the drug into the urethra (ouch).
Surgery: There are two techniques that doctors can perform that do actually add size, but both are full of risks. For more length a doctor can cut the ligaments that attach the penis to the pelvic bone, and then move the penis outward some. This gains a man only about an inch, risks infection, and can leave the penis less stable because it's no longer anchored. For more width, fat can be injected into the penis. Unfortunately the fat does not stay put, and it can become lumpy or gradually leave the penis.
Stretching exercises, weights, and stretching devices: Those promoting these technics offer a variety of explanations for how they work, but most of these explanations are contrary to the facts about how the penis is constructed. Some parts of the body can be enlarged by mechanical stretching, but this has never been shown to occur with the penis, and most experts doubt the tissue involved can be expanded in this way. Still, given the theoretical possibility, and the lack of independently verified studies of any of these techniques, there is no valid science to support saying these methods don't work. On the other hand, there is also no valid science to support saying the methods do work. What has also not been determined is if these methods can cause any permanent harm. Some urologist have voiced concerns about scaring, nerve damage, damage to the blood vessels, and Peyronie's disease (bent penis syndrome). While there are isolated claims of such damage, the evidence to date is far from conclusive. In time we will know if these methods are safe or harmful, but it will take two decades to conclusively prove safety, and if it's not safe what will those who went ahead and tried these methods do then?
Jelging: The Jelq is the most common method of penis enlargement being touted today. Basically jelqing consists of a "milking" motion down the penis that is supposed to gradually increase both length and circumference. A study of sites advocating this technique sends up several red flags.
The technique is said to be something used by men in the Middle East for centuries. But no one can back that claim up, and when WebMD.com researched jelqing (http://webmd.lycos.com/content/article/57/66024.htm?pagenumber=1) they reported that "Sex historian Vern Bullough says he has never heard of it, and queries to the Kinsey Institute and professors of Middle Eastern studies at several universities shed no more light on the matter."
Many sites suggest that enlargement is cause by breaking down and building up the tissues of the penis just like you exercise to make you biceps larger. But there are no tissues in the penis that respond this way.
The specifics of how to jelq vary widely from site to site. Some insist it won't work unless done with a full erection, while others warn that doing it with a full erection will cause damage.