A Few Less Known Facts About Penis

Immortalized on numerous monuments, statues and graffiti on walls around the world, the penis is probably the best known and most researched body part on the planet. Despite that, many people don’t know some basic facts about the penis. These less known facts will help you understand your penis or the penis of your partner and improve your sex life.

Penis average size

According to a study conducted two years ago which involved more than 1500 men, the average length of an erect penis is 14 cm. The range of all participants in this study published in reputable scientific magazines is between 4 and 26 cm. It is good to point out that not all of the erections lead to identical results. Those whose penises were measured after oral sex had larger penises compared to those who relied on the fantasy and masturbation.

Does size matter?

When it comes to penis size, size matters, but only for a certain number of women. According to a survey from 2012, women that experience vaginal orgasms more frequently say that it is much easier for them to achieve orgasm with men who have longer penis. Although it is not entirely clear why, longer penis may be more suitable to stimulate the vagina and cervix. Another study showed that women determine the ideal size of the penis in relation to the height of men which means that bigger penises were more suitable for taller men. Some women would think that stronger and harder erection is more important during intercourse.

Odd anomalies

In very rare cases, men can be born with two penises which is a condition that affects one in 6 million men. This condition is known as difalus. Unfortunately, this situation does not bring double fun because in extremely rare cases both organs are fully functional and this condition is often associated with other anomalies in the genital area requiring surgical corrections.

Men who suffer from another disorder related to the penis – priapism – have a constant erection which sometimes lasts longer than four hours. In most cases the main cause can be found in the inability of the blood in the penis to get back into the rest of the body. This situation usually requires emergency medical treatment that involves injection of pseudoepinephrine in order to activate the smooth muscles found in the penis.

The history of penis

The history of penis is actually a little bit scarier than the human past defined by evolution. At one stage of evolution, the male penis had spikes, but these structures have disappeared before the appearance of the Neanderthals while the penis as we know it today formed about 700.000 years ago.

Scientists today are not entirely sure what was the role of the aforementioned spikes and some of them believe that they were responsible for accelerating of the occurrence of erection and that they were more common in promiscuous species like cats. Another relic of the past is the bone in the penis. Although most of the monkeys have a bone that supports the erections, people at some point lost this bone and the erection relies solely on blood pressure. In other animals, the bone in the penis is inside the body and is expelled out for immediate and reliable erections. It is still unknown why men lost this feature.