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Q: Looking for the truth about male enlargment pills ( Answered 4 out of 5 stars,   1 Comment )
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Subject: Looking for the truth about male enlargment pills
Category: Health > Men's Health
Asked by: flooded-ga
List Price: $2.50
Posted: 22 Oct 2003 06:35 PDT
Expires: 21 Nov 2003 05:35 PST
Question ID: 268553
Are there any university studies that scientifically refutes or the
claim of
"penis enlargment pills" vendors ? 

The reason I'm asking this is because I receive tons of e-mail SPAM
regarding this subject, and I wonder why people like me cannot
determine simply through a regular google search if there are any
scientific evidence about penis enlargment somewhere and once and for
all prove that this is a SCAM. I would really like to know if someone
actually ANALYZED the contents of those pills and see what's in them.

If you try to searche "penis+enlargement+pill+research" in google,
you'll find THOUSANDS of links all pointing to dummy vendor sites, but
never to real factual research !
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Subject: Re: Looking for the truth about male enlargment pills
Answered By: politicalguru-ga on 07 Nov 2003 06:47 PST
Rated:4 out of 5 stars
 
Dear Flooded, 

Except for the link provided in the comment, few doctors or nutrition
specialists refer to these additives. There are several possible ways
for that. From my experience, since clinical studies take a lot of
money and effort, no-one would conduct them on things that are
physically impossible, such as non-surgical penis enlargement.

However, I did find this report, conducted by Latreal Frazier, in
Vanderbilt University:
<http://healthpsych.psy.vanderbilt.edu/Penis_Enlargement.htm>.

Other Rebuttals
==============

Bigger is not always better, experts say /By Jeff Ventura
--------------------------------------------------------
""Pumps and pills don't work," said Dr. E. Douglas Whitehead, clinical
professor of urology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at
Yeshiva University in New York City. "And it's a real shame because
some of these patients who end up having penile enlargement surgery
have spent thousands of dollars on these products."
"The American Urological Association advises men to simply leave well
enough alone. The association issued a policy statement in 1994 -- and
reaffirms it annually -- denouncing penis-lengthening surgery and
another procedure in which fat is injected into the penis to increase
girth. A spokesman for the association, Dr. Martin Resnick, said that
when the procedures go badly, patients often suffer from painful
infections, scarring beneath the skin and deformed erections, and they
sometimes wind up with smaller penises."
<http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/cns/2002-04-30/535.asp> 

The lengths some men will go to / By Brad Holden
------------------------------------------------
"The pills contain nothing more than a concoction of herbs that may or
may not influence testosterone levels and increase libido"
http://umanitoba.fitdv.com/new/articles/article.html?artid=70 


Related
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Since spam is a crime, even if I knew for 100% that penis enlargement
pills work, and had a tinnie-winnie one, I would have never buy them
from a spammer. This will just encourage them. I wrote excessively in
Google Answers about spam and how it is difficult to handle it, as you
can search in the site. Clicking the links of the spammers, gives them
a reward they don't deserve.

Swollen Orders Show Spam's Allure  / By Brian McWilliams
--------------------------------------------------------
"A security flaw at a website operated by the purveyors of
penis-enlargement pills has provided the world with a depressing
answer to the question: Who in their right mind would buy something
from a spammer? "
Wired , <http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59907,00.html> 

E-Mail Hucksterism, Offensive but Effective
------------------------------------------
Many buy pills from spammers, wasting their good money online. 
New York Times, <http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/book/Cybercriminology/E-Mail%20Hucksterism,%20Offensive%20but%20Effective.htm>


How to search for stuff like that
=================================
In your question, you also mentioned that it is pretty difficult to
weed out all the trash online, and find something good. This is
unfortunately very true. I used two methods. The first is to search in
medical databases. You can find a list here:
Google Directory <http://directory.google.com/Top/Health/Medicine/Reference/Online_Databases/>

The other is to search, with a limitation of sites. You could search
only for sites ending with a specific ending, that is unique to
academic institutions in the US and Australia (unfortunately, this
excludes academic sources from other countries). In order to do that,
you add to your search terms the term "site:edu" (since all US
academic institutions end up with "edu", like in the case of
www.nyu.edu for New York University) and get only information on their
servers. That doesn't complete excludes garbage, but works out well.

I hope this answered your question. If you need any further
clarifications on this answer, please let me know. I'd be pleased to
clarify my answer before you rate/tip it.
flooded-ga rated this answer:4 out of 5 stars
Good answer. What I would have liked would be analysis of the actual
contents of the pills because I'm pretty sure they are simply made of
floor or other non-medicinal substances.  I taught all pills on the
market HAD to be analyzed and the contents had to be revealed to the
authorities before they are offered to people and I taught siome web
site somewhere would list the active ingredients of all "natural" or
other medecine.

The comment about how to weed out the answer was pretty good.

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Subject: Re: Looking for the truth about male enlargment pills
From: snsh-ga on 22 Oct 2003 11:50 PDT
 
Penile Enlargement: Fact or Phallacy?
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/41/1685_50002.html

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