Is penis enlargement a myth or reality? If reality, what are the best
programs a person can choose to enlarge their penis permanently -
girth as well as length and how much can you reasonably expect to
gain?

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 27 May 2005 13:04 PDT

Are you willing to accept surgery as an option?

Good afternoon vanvliet-ga!  

In answer to your question about penis enlargement myth or fact, let
me plainly state that there is NO SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH SUPPORTING the
use of any nonsurgical method to enlarge the penis, and no reputable
medical society endorses penis-enlargement surgery performed for
purely cosmetic reasons.

Let me also clarify that even though MANY email scams out there claim
size DOES matter, most women (responding to magazine surveys) say they
don't care about size at all.  Take it from me, it doesn?t matter
*smile*

With that said, I would like to present you with some information on
non-surgical penis enlargement v. surgical penis enlargement:

NON-SURGICAL:  There are four basic types of non-surgical penis
enlargement.  These would include manual stretching or squeezing,
stretching with penile weights, vacuum pumps or pills & lotions.

Manual stretching or squeezing exercises are supposed to be performed
30 minutes a day for an indefinite period of time. Although they may
be safer than other methods, they can lead to scar formation, pain and
disfigurement.

Stretching with penile weights is very likely to cause permanent penile damage. 

Vacuum pumps draw blood into the penis and make it swell.  They are
useful in the treatment of impotence (erectile dysfunction). This
simply creates an illusion of a larger penis, but results are NOT
PERMANENT. Repeated use can damage elastic tissue in the penis,
leading to less-firm erections.

Pills and lotions usually contain vitamins, minerals, herbs or
hormones such as testosterone. There is NO EVIDENCE that it or any
other substance can increase penis size in adult men. In 2002,
authorities in the state of Arizona seized the assets of a penis-pill
company, in part because the owners fraudulently claimed their product
would deliver a permanent gain of 1 to 3 inches. The company owners
also refused to honor their money-back guarantee, committing yet
another fraud.

The following is an interesting website about a man who used a penis
extender for several weeks.  It is complete with his weekly diary and
graphs showing enlargement.  A penis extender is a traction based
enlargement system that is supposed to increase penis length and girth
IF WORN REGULARLY.

http://www.altpenis.com/penis_news/extender_diary.shtml

SURGICAL:  Cosmetic surgeons have developed several different
enlargement techniques, none of them endorsed by medical
organizations. The American Urological Association, the American
Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and have both issued policy
statements against cosmetic surgical procedures to enhance the penis.

To lengthen a penis, surgery typically involves snipping the
suspensory ligament that attaches the penis to the pubic bone and
moving skin from the abdomen to the penile shaft. The suspensory
ligament stabilizes and gives an upward tilt to an erect penis.  When
this ligament is cut, the penis may look longer because more of it
hangs outside the body. But cutting the suspensory ligament can cause
an erect penis to wobble and position itself at odd angles,
particularly when erect.

Surgery to make the penis thicker involves suctioning fat from a
fleshy part of the body and injecting the fat into the penis. Another
technique is simply to graft fat cut away from the buttocks or abdomen
onto the penile shaft. Some practitioners use tissue from cadavers.

The American Urological Association said ?The American Urological
Association, Inc. (AUA) considers injection of fat cells for
increasing penile girth (width) to be a procedure which has not been
shown to be safe or effective.  The AUA also considers the cutting of
the suspensory ligament of the penis for increasing penile length in
adults to be a procedure that has not been shown to be safe or
effective.?

Source:  Urology Health.org

(http://www.urologyhealth.org/search/index.cfm?topic=330&search=enlargement&searchtype=and
)

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery says, ?Enlargement
of the penis by fat injection is considered an experimental high-risk
procedure, and there is currently insufficient data to establish its
safety and effectiveness, according the American Society for Aesthetic
Plastic Surgery (ASAPS).?

Source:  American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery ? New Releases

(http://surgery.org/press/news-release.php?iid=19&section=news-ag ) 

NONE OF THESE TECHNIQUES HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE SAFE OR EFFECTIVE. 

Surgeons have developed another technique ? albugineal surgery with
bilateral saphenous grafts ? that involves grafting blood vessels from
elsewhere in the body to the penis in order to increase blood flow and
penis width during erection. An Italian study of 39 men who underwent
the surgery for cosmetic reasons found that it increased width by an
average of one-half inch without complications. These men may have
been lucky.  This study can be found at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=npg&cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12234509&dopt=Abstract

Following various types of cosmetic penile enhancement surgery, some
men have had to undergo additional operations to correct deformities
caused by the original procedure. The ill effects include scarring,
shorter penises, hair on the base of the penis, low-hanging penis,
loss of sensitivity, and bumps, lumps, and clumps of fat. Other
complaints include impotence, urinary incontinence and persistent
pain.

Then there's the cost: about $10,000 for a typical penis-enlargement
surgery that doesn't require additional corrective surgery. Because
cosmetic surgery is seldom covered by insurance, you'll likely have to
bear the entire expense.

Surgeons have devised reconstructive procedures for penises that have
been amputated or damaged by circumcisions, animal bites, motor
vehicle accidents and physical assaults, among other causes. A penis
can be constructed in sex-change operations and to correct birth
defects.

A tip to men who worry about size:  One place that size might count is
your abdomen ? not your penis. If your lower abdomen hangs over your
genitalia, you might look as if you have a shorter, smaller penis than
you actually do. Fat can obscure some or much of the upper part of the
penis. For this, the best treatment is to achieve a healthy weight.

The following is a link to an article about a man who had elective
penis enlargement surgery and his warning to other men:

http://www-cgi.cnn.com/US/9602/penis_problems/

I hope you found this information useful.  If anything needs
clarification, please let me know.

Nenna-GA
Google Search Terms:

://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=permanent+penis+enlargement+medical+research&spell=1

://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=penis+enlargment+facts

://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=italy+albugineal+surgery+with+bilateral+saphenous+grafts+

://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=American+Urological+Association+statement+penis+surgery

There are alot of tricks that will enlarge but it's not a permant
thing. Pills increase blood flow and it will stop working the second
you stop taking them. Amount of increase varies from person to person.
Pushing on the base of your penis will make it slightly bigger and
harder. I don't think anything is permanant except surgery.

Nenna,
To paraphrase Woody Allen:  All you wanted to know about penis
enlargement and never dared to ask!

And then,  vanvliet-ga , there is the typical problem for males, that
looking down at one's own is a misleading perspective.

Makes me glad i'm a female, Myoarin :)

You missed the ancient method of maintaining an erection as old as any
civilization. A penis ring or band which typically would slide onto
the penis while flacid and become taught when erected, trapping the
blood that causes the erection allowing the user to go on for hours. A
brisk business in newer versions is easy to find on line. What is not
so easy to find is the ancient wisdom that over use damages soft
tissue that creates a permanent condition the opposite of that sought
in the first place.

Yes ma'am, but as a couple of other questions have indicated, the
cosmetic surgeons seem to be keeping busy by dealing with females'
worries in other areas.
myoarin

Vanvliet,  and others who may be interested:

The Norwegian newspaper "Aftenposten" recently reported about a new
book that should dispell many people's ...,  expand many people's ... 
Hmmm?  Read more:

	
"Norwegian sexologists unveil "penis atlas"
Publishers Dinamo will make a first presentation of an unusual book
project, the Penis Atlas, on Thursday. The work of four sexologists a
photographer and a designer, the volume uses photographs of 100 men in
order to inform, demystify and correct many existing misunderstandings
about the male sex organ.

"Sexologists Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, Ragnhild Dahl Keller,
Geneviève Fonteneau Hardeberg and Einar Aakvåg identified a need to
educate and dispel prejudice about a common topic that remains
burdened by various inhibitions.

"The publishers said the authors try to give a complete and correct
presentation of the penis, in different ways and from differing
viewpoints.

"The book also includes a unique photo project, where 100 men are
photographed in relaxed and erect state, and data on the size,
variation according to weight and height, shape, color and more is
catalogued and discussed."

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article865900.ece

To clarify, I wasn't looking for this, but couldn't overlook it when
on the Aftenposten site for a story about a man who slipped into the
meatgrinder in a sausage factory.
myoarin