RBSS said:
Has there been any comparison as to who gains better: circ or non-circ? I have been wondering if gains are limited due to being circumcised. If the skin is tight vice loose, then it seems length gains would be slower. Thoughts?
In medical school, I did a clinical clerkship with a Urologist who remarked that he has noticed a distinct pattern over the years: as a group, uncircumcised adult males have larger penises than those who were circumcised before puberty. What accounts for this? Most likely, residual scar tissue retards the normal rate of growth during puberty. Conceivably, disruption of the native vasculature, and the all-important blood supply, might also play a role in this.
This doesn't address the specific question that you posed, but it is closely related. The scar tissue doesn't just go away, for example, nor will the native vasculature ever be quite the same. Recently, I raised two blisters on the glans during a pumping session. I laid off from pumping for a week or two, at which point one blister had healed completely, whereas evidence of the other, larger blister remained. When I resumed pumping, after about 40 minutes into the first session I raised a blister again in the same spot that was still slowly healing. It's been three or four weeks since that recurrence, yet a discolored patch of skin still betrays the injury. What is the single most important factor that affects wound healing? As any surgeon would tell you in an instant, the answer is blood supply. If you keep up with current headlines, you'll already be well aware that blood supply is paramount for tissue growth in general. Witness the recently announced research in which obese mice were reduced to normal weight by giving an experimental drug that targets the blood vessels that supply adipose (fat) tissue.
This should be food for thought, and cause for action. It was for me. We all know that the penis is highly vascular (duh), but on the basis of tissue mass, how much of the cardiac output is ordinarily aportioned to the penis? A miniscule fraction. Organs with high metabolic demands (brain, liver, and kidneys, for example) get the lion's share. Taking this cue, I recent changed my hanging routine. Every morning after I shower, I stand in the tub and soak my penis in hot water for 5 to 10 minutes (I use a large plastic tumbler for this). I follow this immediately with 5 minutes of manual stretching, then hang weights. I repeat this routine in the evening, and on weekends I include one or more additional sessions between dawn and dusk.
My next project will be to get some battery powered heated socks, (or the materials that are used to fabricate such devices) and modify these as necessary to make a cock warmer to wear while I sleep. I've tried various methods for stretching at night (e.g., the
Jes-Extender, or weights hanging from a pulley), but invariable I wake up after a few hours needing to remove the device, and then feel notably deprived of sleep the next day. I gave it up, but no great loss, I think. I believe that the duration of time spent stretching or hanging has been overemphasized at the expense of the important issue if tissue healing. Once you've achieved a good stretch, the most valuable thing you can do is promote tissue repair and healing. Intuitively, after a relatively short session of "deep" stretching, it makes good sense to maintain a light stretch for a longer period: you would like tissue repair to occur while your penis remains extended to something approaching its maximal length. This is fine as long as promoting the increased blood supply that will hasten healing is not neglected. Of course, this must be part of the reason why jelquing is so valuable.
So, why not coddle your cock in cozy heated comforter at night, and get the most out of your hard fought Penis Enlargement regimen? I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has already experimented with this, or from anyone with suggestions on how fabricate a cock warmer from readily available materials.
Cheers,
Smiley