Penis Enlargement: How Much Is It Really?

Everyone knows that no pumps, pills or exercises will make the penis bigger, or will they do it anyway?

Do not deny that once you first saw advertising for penis enlargement on the last pages of the men's magazine many years ago, where a threatening device with a huge signature was shown: "Increase the penis by centimeters!", You always thought: "Do not you try and you?"

"I'm always asked this," says Michael, MD, a urologist at the Harvard Medical Institute and the Women's Clinic in Boston. "Men are ready to do anything to increase the penis." But is it real?

Not really. "It's total nonsense," O'Leary repeats wearily. In the end, if it was so simple, then for a long time each man would have a 30 centimeter member.

But common sense still does not stop everyone. Thanks to our constant desire for self-improvement, advertising of penis enlargement is on every corner. Illegally sold pills for penis enlargement are advertised on television. Without asking for your consent, you always receive such an advertisement on your e-mail. More than 10,000 men in the US, perhaps much more, have been subjected to more than a doubtful surgery to increase the penis.

But do not rush to get money and lower your trousers. We have considered all the fraudulent ways to increase the penis and are ready to share with you.

Can my penis become bigger?

First, even if you yourself are sure that you have a small penis, in fact it can be, oddly enough, a normal size. The average size of the erect penis is 10-15 centimeters. The length of the non-erect penis can vary. But this means that if in a locker room you notice a penis of impressive size, then it is unlikely that it will become much larger in the erect state, and vice versa, the penis that seems small can significantly increase.

Secondly, if you still continue to think that you have a small penis, even if the ruler says otherwise, you can diagnose yourself from the field of psychiatry: a dysmorphic disorder about your penis. This diagnosis is close to the distorted perception of his body to anorexia, when a person continues to consider himself fat, even when painfully thin. According to one study, most men undergoing a penile enlargement surgery experience such a disorder. They remain unhappy with their size and after the operation.

"Men with a normal penis size, but confident that he is small will help a psychiatrist rather than a surgeon," says Karen Elizabeth Boyle, MD, assistant professor of urology at the Johns Hopkins Reproductive Medicine and Surgery Clinic in Baltimore.

Pomps, tablets, tinctures of mountain goat and other nonsense to increase the penis

Well, yes enough intelligent advice of specialists. Here is a brief description of ways to increase the penis, if you have not already left this venture.

• Vacuum pump . This is a classic device in the genre of penis enlargement. Place the penis in the cylinder connected to the air pump. With the help of a vacuum, more blood enters the penis, thus erecting it and doing more. Then you pinch the penis with a ring, like a tourniquet, to prevent the outflow of blood.
  Such pumps are used in medicine to treat sexual dysfunction. But the effect of the enlarged penis quickly passes. Once you remove the ring, the penis will return to its normal size.
  Possible risks include temporary impotence, abscesses, bruises, damage to the blood vessels, the skin loses its natural color and becomes thinner. The ring is worn for a maximum of 20-30 minutes, after which tissue damage can begin.
• Exercises, weighting and other devices. First, remember: you can not overexert the penis with exercises like biceps. This is not a muscle. Nevertheless, some devices and types of stimulation supposedly stretch the skin and lengthen the penis itself.
  One of the known examples is "jelking" - a set of pulling "milking" exercises. Naturally, this method has an "ancient" (read "fake") story: the web site tells about ancient Arabian technology that was passed from father to son. Details promise to be disclosed after the transfer of money. But the exercises on the jelqing system require a lot of time, this is 30-60 minutes of daily active penile pulls. And the real difficulty is that these exercises need to be carried out on the non-erect penis. So, you will need self-discipline, a lot of free time and a door that closes to the castle.
  Another way to increase the penis is to wear a special device on the penis, which stretches it, sometimes this device should be worn for 8 hours a day, using weighting. "As they sent me such a thing," O'Leary shares, "she looked like a medieval torture device."
  Does one of these methods work? Boyle says no. O'Leary, very carefully, says that maybe with their help you can stretch the skin. But without any effect on the size of the penis. Also, these methods require inhuman diligence. Risks include tissue damage, rupture of blood vessels and other problems. O'Leary recently received a patient who wore large weighting on the erect penis and damaged it by ripping the tissue. As a result, unbearable pain and operation.
• Tablets , supplements and creams . Complete nonsense. With no exceptions. Most of them are made on the basis of yohimba ("herbal Viagra"), ginseng and, of course, the herb of the mountain goat. No cases of penis enlargement with their help have been recorded.

Penis enlargement surgically

Unlike most methods of penis enlargement, surgery can be effective. What even critics acknowledge. Of course, there are risks and the result may not be as impressive as you hope. In a 2006 study published in European Urology, the average length that could be added by surgery is less than 2.5 cm. Mark P. Solomon, MD, a plastic surgeon notes that the results are modest, but slightly better, Than before the operation.

There are two main types of operations to increase the penis.

• Elongation of the penis. The penis is attached to the pelvis with the help of strong cords, called supporting ligaments. They are connected with the penis and hide part of it inside the body. Surgical circumcision of these ligaments weakens tension and, theoretically, it becomes possible to see most of the penis. To prevent re-growth of ligaments, you may need to wear a weighting or pulling device every day for six months.
• Thickening of the penis. Initially, the procedure consisted in taking fatty tissue from another part of the body and adding it to the trunk of the penis, making it more massive. But it did not bring any positive results. The fat tissues were partially absorbed, and the penis looked tuberous. "Such penises looked like cobblestone pavement," says Solomon.
  A new variant of this technique implants an allograft, tissue transplanted from a genetically dissimilar organism, used in many types of reconstructive surgery. Surgeons who conduct such operations, Solomon and Brian J. Rosenthal, MD, urologist practicing in Beverly Hills, agree that the allograft gives a longer and better result. We do not know how donor tissue can behave after a transplant.

There are other types of surgery to increase the penis. Patients with excess weight of fatty tissue at the base of the penis are removed using liposuction. Some doctors do operations to simultaneously increase the length and thickness of the penis, while others do them in stages.

While Dr. Rosenthal predicts the same extensive use of penile enlargement surgery, like breast augmentation, Dr. Solomon does not agree with him. He believes that the main obstacle here is the cost of the operation. The operation to relieve the penis costs about 5-10 thousand dollars. While the operation for its thickening costs from 5 to 7 thousand only for the allograft, not counting the cost of the operation itself. Taking into account the work, the operation will cost you more than 20 thousand dollars.

Penis enlargement, risks and complications

Naturally, before you lie down on the operating table, it is important to think about possible risks. No solid medical organization recommends that such operations be performed for men with a normal penis. The American Association of Urology emphasizes that such operations are not recognized as safe or effective.

Several studies conducted in this area are also not encouraging. Thus, a study conducted by the European Association of Urology, studying 42 cases of penis enlargement by surgery, showed that only 35% of patients were satisfied, and 50% continued to search for further penile enlargement operations.

"I have to see real nightmares," says O'Leary, describing the cases when she had to correct the consequences of unsuccessful operations. Known complications include: scarring, infection, changing the normal angle of erection, reducing sensitivity and impotence. In some cases, due to the operation of lengthening the penis, it may become shorter, because the incised tissue will grow to the pelvic floor and most of the penis will be inside the body.

Surgeons conducting operations argue that in the main operations are successful, and cases of severe complications are rare. "I've done thousands of such operations," says Rosenthal. "We have advanced enough in improving the techniques of conducting operations and patients they help."

They were also fed up with the argument that the psychiatrist could help people who go to such operations. The operation allows a man to better perceive himself, he says. A woman who wants to enlarge her breasts is not called crazy? So what's the difference?

O'Leary insists that there is a difference. Unlike breast augmentation operations, no matter how we treat them, but which have become part of medical practice, operations to increase the penis are not such.

"If there was a legitimate procedure for carrying out such operations, then there would be no problems," O'Leary continues. "But such an approved procedure that would guarantee safety and effectiveness does not exist yet."

Doctor - prescribe an operation to increase the penis!

If you still hope to find a legal path, do not despair. There is one method of enlarging the penis, which all doctors recommend is weight loss. Yes, it does not sound serious, but it can help.

"Many of my patients complaining of a small penis were overweight," Boyle says. Penises of normal size look worse against the obese body, hiding in the fat folds. Therefore, losing weight visually makes the penis longer and larger.

Be circumspect. Most penis enlargement methods are a waste of money. Surgical operations are expensive, risky and not studied. With cancer, it makes sense to talk about experimental surgery, but this is not the case.

Look at it from this perspective: the penis is a very delicate and sensitive organ. And that makes it so extraordinary. It is worth thinking very carefully before daring to increase it. Is it worth the risk of turning the normal size of a penis that works well into a huge punk of porn movies, which, as a result, may stop working.