Penis Enlargement - Fact or Fiction?

Well, if you look on the internet, you might imagine that enlarging your penis is the easiest thing in the world - loads of adverts for courses of enlargement exercises ("Guaranteed to work or your money back!"), emails by the score for penis enlargement pills ("Just $100 for a four week course -  gain 2 inches in a week!"), and gadgets that resemble horrors from the medieval torture chamber to hang on the end of your penis to stretch it to ever greater length (and presumably extend your confidence with it).  But what is the reality? Is it actually possible to improve on what nature gave you? Can you really extend your "old persuader"?

Ways you might try to get bigger!

First off, let's deal with the penis enlargement pills. The problem here is that it's always been easy to sell stuff where there's a strong demand for it, whether or not it actually works. From the days of the snake oil salesmen to the days of the Internet websites offering penis enlargement pills, not much has changed: find a willing audience who want to believe that anything is possible, and you'll sell your product. And we live in a world where the quick fix is the attractive option: just imagine - taking a pill to enlarge your penis! Wow! No wonder they sell. Sadly, however, they don't work....but you probably knew that anyway. 

Dr David Ralph, a consultant urologist at the Lister Hospital, London, said in a review of penis enlargement techniques featured in Men's Health magazine, "If there really was a pill that could enlarge your penis, don't you think one of the major manufactures would be selling it?" Some herbal ingredients, like yohimbe, may help you stay firmer longer, but there is no way a course of pills will make your willy bigger." Even if they claim to increase blood flow to the penis, this will not in itself result in an increase in size - you would need to have the tissues expand for the penis to get bigger, and the pills do not make this happen. OK, guys, if you try the pills, you try them at your own risk! 

Now, why would anyone want to lock  their most valuable asset in a metal cage, and then hang weights from the end of it? Or put it in a metal frame and then expand the side pieces with an irresistible metal screw device that stretches the length of your cock whether it wants to stretch or not? In the name of a bigger penis? This is serious stuff. Be careful! The fact that it appears here is not a recommendation or an endorsement. I can't take any responsibility for permanent penis damage!

Perhaps the most well known of these mechanical devices is the "Jes-Extender". Here's what their website has to say about the product:

If you go to their website, you'll find loads of blurb about the machine. Though it's billed  primarily as a masturbation machine, it's an extremely effective and safe enlargement pump too. It's a bit pricey, but then you get what you pay for. Quality costs money....here's the link to the maker's web page. When you get there, click on the VENUS 2000 LINK.

The Venus 2000 masturbation machine AND PENIS PUMP.

CLICK HERE

What about the surgeon's scalpel? Surely that offers a means to enlarge the penis? Well, penis enlargement surgery has a somewhat dubious history, having been marked out by some unhappy incidents with incompetent surgeons in its early days. But does it work now? The traditional method of gaining length is to cut the ligament that attaches the penis to the body, an operation that allows the penis to drop forward and down. This increases the flaccid length somewhat, but it does not actually increase the erect length very much. Sexologist Randy Klein conducted a very detailed study of penis enlargement surgery in which he compared the expectations of men who had this operation with the actual results achieved, and he discovered that they were almost all disappointed with what had been achieved - they expected a post-op erect penis length of between seven and nine inches - but the average was in fact under six inches (most of them started off with erect penises of about five inches in length). What's more, to prevent shrinkage as the tissues heal, it's essential to use a stretching device which preserves the increase in length by stretching the ligament and preventing the tissues healing shorter than they were before the operation.

To increase girth, the traditional technique was to take fatty tissue from the patient's own body, and insert it into his penis. This could be done with either fat cells or a graft made up of fatty tissue and skin from the buttock crease - in either case, the results tended to reduce over time as the fatty tissue was reabsorbed by the patient's own body.

Does this all mean that penis enlargement surgery is useless? Well.....that is a hard question to answer. There are some specialists on the internet who claim high success rates. Dr Douglas Whitehead, for example, does not use either of the two methods mentioned above to increase girth. Instead, he employs a newer technique using grafts of specially treated tissue, and surgically placed around the patient's penis to increase length and girth. This is called the allograft dermal matrix technique. He also cuts the penile ligaments in a way that leaves much less scarring, though he still advises the use of a stretching device to maintain the gains in penis length after the operation. But the $64,000 question is: What is the average increase in length and girth? 

To quote from his website: 

"Average expected length gain in the flaccid state is 1 inch. Well motivated patients may gain up to 2 inches. After allograft dermal matrix graft widening, the penis does not shrink to its original small flaccid length, but stays slightly longer. Usually there is a slightly smaller penile length gain in the erect state than in the flaccid state." 

He goes on to say: 

"We have noticed a permanent increase in penile girth (circumference) in the flaccid state with our...allograft dermal matrix graft technique. While a 40 to 50% gain in girth (flaccid state) may be achieved, most men get an increase of about 30%. An approximate 10 to 15% gain in girth is obtained in the erect state."

Now, the only way a man can assess whether the risks are right for him is to weigh up the evidence and make a decision. But with some of the newer surgical penis enlargement techniques these risks have not yet been defined, as Dr Whitehead admits on his website. 

Another problem is that if you look at websites by penis enlargement surgeons, you may find contradictory or conflicting information - and it's all presented with great authority, which makes it well-night impossible for the layman to find out what the facts really are. Dr Stephen Giunta, another American surgeon, uses one of the two traditional methods of increasing girth mentioned above, which were, as you might recall, free fat injection or dermal grafts of fat and skin, in both cases taken from the patient's own body. Dr Giunta's method of choice is the free fat injection technique, of which he says: 

"Despite what you may have heard or read about Free Fat Transfer (FFT) - it doesn't work, it disappears, it leaves cysts or nodules, or 'lumpy-looking,' distorted penises - this simply isn't true anymore if FFT is done correctly." 

Dr Giunta uses free fat transfer rather than dermal fat grafts for reasons he sets out in some detail as follows: 

"Let me share a few words about Dermal Fat Grafts (DFG) and AlloDerm. I have seen and repaired many cases where the DFG have twisted, shortened, become infected and have ultimately caused permanent loss in penile length. Unsightly large painful donor site scars have also occurred. Many times it is very difficult to control the size of the thickening with these DFG and, as a rule, you only get one chance at a good result. AlloDerm, recently used by a few surgeons, is a thin sheet of cadaver (a dead person's) preserved and treated skin. The skin is rolled in several layers around the penile shaft for thickening. This procedure has only been used for a couple of years and, to me, seems very cumbersome and expensive. While I have seen a few complications thus far, the final word in AlloDerm is still quite a distance away." 

By contrast, Dr Gary Rheinschild uses the dermal fat graft technique. He claims that the special skills he uses in shaping and placing these strips, as well as unique post-op care, result in much greater patient satisfaction:

"The patient can expect an increase in girth of up to 2 inches. By performing a dermal graft as a second procedure, Dr. Rheinschild has found that there is only a minimal loss in girth [post operatively]. Patients who have their enhancement surgery performed in this manner sustain an aesthetic appearing penis without any significant scarring. This procedure has proven to be far superior to using fat injections, in which the majority of the fat is often reabsorbed and results in distorted and uneven areas with nodules scattered throughout the penis."

And the last word must go to Dr Gary Alter:

"Dermal-fat graft augmentation has complications of penis shortening, penile curvature, and asymmetry if segments of the graft do not completely survive. Other complications common to all operations can occur such as infection, bleeding, and wound problems. However, deforming complications are uncommon if surgery is performed by a skilled, experienced surgeon.

So - who do you believe? Well, that, unfortunately, is a decision that only the prospective patient can make for himself. All of these websites are listed below in the references. All I can say is that I would never let anyone near my penis with a scalpel for the purposes of increasing its size: I'd rather learn to be happy with what I've got.

Sex positions guide online sexy, exciting guide to over 100 sexual positions and techniques. For the best value membership fee on the web, you get hundreds of pictures and live video clips, which show you all the sex positions you could ever use in a lifetime of love.