THE PENIS: 20 Facts every man should know about it

Think you know what’s below his belt? Truth is he may not even know the finer details of his penis. 

Here’s the knowledge you need to keep yours healthy, strong, and ready for action for life.

Fact 1: Smoking can shorten your penis by as much as a centimeter. Erections are all about good blood flow, and lighting up calcifies blood vessels, stifling erectile circulation. So even if you don’t care all that much about your lungs or dying young, spare the little guy.

Fact 2: Doctors can now grow skin for burn victims using the foreskins of circumcised infants. One foreskin can produce 23,000 square meters, which would be enough to tarp every Major League infield with human flesh.

Fact 3: An enlarged prostate gland can cause both erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation. If you have an unexplained case of either, your doctor’s looking forward to checking your prostate. Even if you’re not.

Fact 4: The average male orgasm lasts 6 seconds. Women get 23 seconds. Which means if women were really interested in equality, they’d make sure men have four orgasms for every one of theirs?

Fact 5: Circumcised foreskin can be reconstructed. Movable skin on the shaft of the penis is pulled toward the tip and set in place with tape. Later, doctors apply plastic rings, caps, and weights. Years can pass until complete coverage is attained.

Fact 6: Only one man in 400 is flexible enough to give himself oral pleasure. It’s estimated, however, that all 400 have given it their best shot at some point.

Fact 7: There are two types of penises. One kind expands and lengthens when becoming erect (a grower). The other appears big most of the time, but doesn’t get much bigger after achieving erection (a shower).

Fact 8: German researchers say the average intercourse lasts 2 minutes, 50 seconds, yet women perceive it as lasting 5 minutes, 30 seconds.

Fact 9: Turns out size does matter: The longer your penis, the better “semen displacement” you’ll achieve when having sex with a woman flush with competing sperm. That’s according to researchers at the State University of New York, who used artificial phalluses (ahem) to test the “scooping” mechanism of the penis’s coronal ridge.

Fact 10: The penis that’s been enjoyed by the most women could be that of King Fatefehi of Tonga, who supposedly deflowered 37,800 women between the years 1770 and 1784—that’s about seven virgins a day.

Fact 11: Better-looking men may have stronger sperm. 

Fact 12: No brain is necessary for ejaculation. That order comes from the spinal cord. Finding a living vessel for said ejaculation, however, takes hours of careful thought and, often, considerable amounts of alcohol.

Fact 13: The most common cause of penile rupture: vigorous masturbation. Some risks are just not worth taking.

Fact 14: Only about 6 percent of men need an extra-large condom. Condoms do come in a variety of sizes, small through extra-large. Getting the right size is important to preventing accidental pregnancies.

Fact 15: Half of the penis is inside the body. The root is attached to the pelvic bone. An erect penis is shaped like a boomerang.

Fact 16: It takes 130 ml of blood to make a stiff dick. The blood circulates at 2 ml per second and the small penile arteries will double in size to push the blood around.

Fact 17: The average man has 11 erections daily and 9 erections during the night.

Fact 18: There’s a significant difference in size between soft and hard. The average size of a soft penis is 3.5 inches. The average size of a hard penis is 5 to 6 inches.

Fact 19: Human penises are big. They are larger than those of any other primate, both in actual terms and in terms of proportionally to the size of the body.

Fact 20: Average penis size varies by country. Penises in the Republic of Congo are the biggest with an average length of 7.1 inches and penises in North and South Korea are the smallest with an average length of 3.8 inches.

American penises come in 18^th at 5.1 inches on average. The world’s largest penis is 13.5 inches and this belongs to a New Yorker.

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