YouTubers Alex and his alter ego Xander want to know why feeling good often means being “bad.” So they’re using science, sketch comedy and a little skin to uncover the naked truth about taboo topics and pleasures. Here’s the second edition of the new Queerty column, The Science of Sin.
Earlier this month a study confirmed reality: the average erect penis is just over five inches long. This confounds the members of various hookup sites, where the average penis is purported to be approximately 7.5 inches or above. (Reminding us of our favorite profile name spotted recently on a sex app, “7minus2.”)
These and other penis-related findings seemed to shock and awe various stereotypes (or just wishful thinking), so we thought we’d go over some other common misconceptions about your member.
1. The penis is not made of muscle.
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It’s made of a spongy tissue that lengthens and stiffens when blood fills it during an erection.
2. The key to maintaining an erection is to relax.
When aroused, blood vessels in the penis relax, allowing more blood to rush in. If you tense up, the blood vessels close and blood can’t get into your penis. So the best way to maintain your erection is a bit counter-intuitive: stop worrying about maintaining your erection. And for God’s sake don’t pressure your partner to maintain his. It will have the opposite effect.
3. Morning wood might protect against bedwetting.
Men average around three to five erections while they sleep at night. We’re still not sure why, but since it’s harder to urinate when erect, scientists hypothesize late night erections protect your sheets from a full bladder.
4. Researchers aren’t sure if circumcision affects sexual pleasure.
Studies are inconclusive when it comes to if circumcision changes sexual pleasure. Some men are convinced it decreases sexual pleasure, some men says it increases it, and some men say there’s no change.
Many men (ourselves included) fret about how others perceive their penises. But just remember, it seems the more you worry about your penis, the more likely it won’t work.
So treat it kindly, it’s the only one you’ve got!
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Clark35
#4 on the list is not correct circumcision or genital mutilation does effect sexual pleasure both for the man, and his male and female sexual partners and studies have proven this.
TampaBayTed
@Clark35: Citations please of scientific medical research, not apocryphal stories. FEMALE genital mutilation is an entirely different procedure and its sole purpose is to deprive the female of pleasure.
Jackieno
@TampaBayTed: Males and females are of course different, but Male and female genital cutting are pushed for the same reasons — lower sexual pleasure, primitive ideas about hygiene, religion, looks and claims about disease avoidance. The most common FGM clitoral hood cutting is less sexually damaging than penis parts cutting (MGM).
Clark35
@TampaBayTed: Here ya go. What do you think the point of male circumcision is? It’s to control male sexuality. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23374102 MGM is just as bad as FGM is and they’re done for the same reasons as Jackieno posted.
tyguy25
@myself . . . *you are . . .
polarisfashion
Routine male circumcision needs to stop. We are born with a foreskin for a reason. Cutting it off doesn’t make sense to me if there is nothing wrong with it. Let’s start pulling teeth to prevent tooth decay. The more I think about it, the less sense it makes.
Blackceo
I agree that it is not medically necessary to circumcise a baby, but I’m glad my father won out over my mother and had me circumcised.
jwtraveler
@Blackceo: Why?
jwtraveler
@Clark35: He says there’s no consensus. I’ve read comments on Queerty by men who say sexual pleasure increased after adult circumcision. I’ve also heard the opposite. There is disagreement on the question, so he’s correct: There’s no consensus on the issue.
CoachS
I’m mad at my mom for a whole bunch of different reasons. I can’t blame her for the circumcision. The doc did a great job, my sexual pleasure is just fine and my partner never complains. I’m just happy to know that I’m above average… despite what all my porn viewing and the twink app profiles tell me. Almost 6! Yay me!
Jackieno
I don’t know why my post was refused. I was just pointing out that natural men have sensory input from the inner foreskin that is real and that obviously goes away when the parts are cut off. The loss of sexual pleasure and function has been known for centuries and is really obvious if you understand the special nerves involved and the nature of the only mobile erogenous tissue that men have.
Paco
It takes just one up close encounter with a cheesy d!ck to turn you off to uncircumcised d!cks. The smell lingers in the memory for a very long time.
There certainly are benefits to male circumcision and I have never heard a guy whine about his in real life. The men I have known that had it done as adults, we’re happy they had it done. I also have to agree that there is no consensus about how it affects sexual pleasure.
Clark35
@Paco: LMAO OK now we all know you’re just a troll and probably wrote the silly “article” here on queerty that was about how adult men who have foreskins are choosing to get cut which is BS. It’s far easier to clean your foreskin and penis than it is to brush your teeth but nobody is advocating that people get all their teeth pulled instead of brushing and flossing. A man’s penis is meant to be intact and not cut or mutilated, and yes guys who have foreskin do get more sexual pleasure that guys who are cut simply don’t have since they do not have a foreskin.
Paco
@Clark35: But adult men are choosing to get circumcised, whether it be due to problems with their foreskin, disease prevention, or just simply a matter of easier hygiene. I’ve met some in the flesh and read about others so I know they exist.
What planet are you living on that adult men aren’t choosing to get circumcised?
Avery Alvarez
Likewise, it can take just one bad experience with a hideous scar and discoloration to turn you off of circumcised d!cks.
Hugh
@Paco: In most of the developed world, very few men ever need or choose to get (the best) part of ther dick cut off.
Hugh
How much research has ever been done on whether having lips contributes to the pleasures of kissing? Maybe because nobody’s so silly as to routinely cut the lips off babies at birth. Maybe if they did, we’d be having this discussion about what research has or has not shown about the pleasures of having lips.
Paco
@Hugh: Never made the claim that it was many men that do. As far as the cheese maker being the “best part”…
That claim would be a subjective one.
TemptyK
I’ll never understand why Mother Nature created foreskin. It stinks, fucking hideous and a total boner killer. The mere sight of one makes me gag, and I have ended a two-month old relationship with a dude upon finding out he’s oh-so “natural” when we decided to take it to the next level, and I’d do it again! Chop off foreskin is what I’ll live by. I don’t eat cheese. I even remove it from my burgers and I won’t start eating it now.
georgemed222
Size matters but so does health of the equipment. Using a top notch penis health crème (health professionals recommend Man1 Man Oil) addresses issues like organ odor, dry/flaky skin, loss of sensation, member blood flow, etc.
dinard38
Well, I allowed my doctor to convince me to get a circumcision as an adult because the foreskin became tight. Worse mistake I made. I wish I could reverse that decision. The sensation decreased tremendously. The head feels like it’s been shot up with novocain. And now that the head is exposed, I’m uncomfortable in underwear because the head is always rubbing against the fabric, and it hurts. 🙁
To the dummies that talk about dick cheese and odor with uncircumcised men, that’s just a person that doesn’t have good hygiene. It’s very easy to clean under your foreskin. Heck, it’s a lot easier than cleaning out the ass. :-p