the penis: things you didn't know

THE PENIS: DIDN'T KNOW THINGS YOU 1. IT HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN 2. FLEXIBILITY C'MON... ALMOST HEY! THERE! DOWN WHATEVS! HERE! Sexual arousal usually isn't voluntary. The conscious mind is com- plicit in it, but a lot of sexual arousal goes on in the sympathetic nervous system. In addition, impulses from the brain during the REM phase of sleep cause erections, whether you're dreaming about sex or Only one out of every 400 men is flexible enough to give themselves a blow job. not. 3. GROWER OR SHOWER 4. THE GIFT OF FORESKIN I'M A GROWER. I SWEAR! WHATEVS! Modern scientific advances have allowed the once discarded fore- skin of young males to help grow skin tissue for burn victims. One infant's discarded foreskin can be grown into new skin for a burn victim, measuring 250,000-square feet. Alfred Kinsey's data suggest that most penises aren't extreme show-ers or growers. About 12% of penises gained one-third or less of their total length with an erection, and about 7% doubled in length when erect. Though this is the case, an international Men's Health survey reports that 79% of men have growers, 21% have sho-wers. 5. BROKE AIN'T NO JOKE 6. THE REAL DEAL There is no "penis bone," but you can still break your penis. It's called a penile fracture. When a penile fracture occurs, there's an audible pop or snap. The penis then begins to turn black and blue and it becomes very painful. Penile fracture is rare, and it typically happens to younger men because their erections tend to be more rigid. Statistically, only 15 % of men are over 7 inches, and only 3 % are over 8 inches. Interesting enough, researchers found that the average gay man's penis is a third of an inch bigger than that of a hetrosexual male. 7. G'DAY MATE 8. SMOKING THE SIZE AWAY The penis is shaped like a boomer- ang. Just like an iceburg, there's more beneath the surface. The same rule applys for the penis. All penis' are tucked up inside the pelvis and attached to the pubic bone. In an MRI, the penis looks very boomerang-like. This was first reported by a French researcher who studied people having sex inside an MRI scanner, Smoking can shorten your penis by as much as a centimeter. Erec- tions are all about good bloodflow, and smoking calcifies blood vessels, stifling erectile circulation. 9. HATS ON OR OFF? 10. SIX SECONDS TO PARADISE A report by the W.H.O. estimates that worldwide only 30 % of males aged 15 and up are circumcised. The U. S. has the highest proportion of males circumcised for non-religious reasons. A whopping 75 % of non-Jewish, non-Muslim American men are circumcised. Compare that to Canada, where only 30% are. In the U.K. it's 20 %; in Australia it's merely 6 percent. The average male orgasm only lasts six seconds, which is three to four times shorter than the avergar female orgasm. The average female orgasm lasts 23 seconds long. SOURCE: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/19/health/webmd/main3949777.shtml http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/penis_facts/index.php