Pecker Fact Checker

By Heather Lacey on February 5th, 2010

The male sex organ is a subject of focus and interest for men and women around the globe. If you have a member (or even if you don’t), check out this true-or-false quiz to test your penis knowledge. Good luck!

1. The human male has the largest penis of all primates.

(True. Close ancestors, including chimpanzees and apes, have very little to compare to modern man. In fact, human males are the only primates to get an erection due to blood flow; monkeys have a bone in their penis.)

2. Fetal erections can occur in the womb.

(Creepy, but true. The male fetus is capable of sustaining an erection during the third trimester of pregnancy.)

3. An ejaculate stream travels at a rate of 32 mph.

( False. Nearly the human land speed record, the initial squirt of ejaculate travels at 28 mph.)

4. Smoking can shorten the erect penis by as much as a centimeter.

(True. Smoking affects blood circulation, which is a main factor in erection size.)

5. There is a correlation between flaccid penis size and erection size.

(False. Smaller flaccid penises may grow to a larger size when erect, while their larger counterparts don’t appear to grow as much when aroused. The two types are known as grow-er and show-er.)

6. The average man will ejaculate 7,200 times in his lifetime.

(True. At two tablespoons a pop, that equates to about 14 gallons of ejaculate fluid.)

7. Ithyphallophobia is the fear of losing an erection.

(False. It’s actually the fear of seeing an erect penis. Medomalacuphobia is the fear of losing an erection.)

8. A brain is not necessary for ejaculation.

(Sad but true. The spinal cord controls ejaculatory function.)

9. Most penises in the world are circumcised.

(False. Around the world, only 30% of males over age 15 have circumcised penises.)

10. The longest penis recorded in medical history was 14 inches long.

(False. It was only 13.5 inches. For comparison, the average penis is between five and six inches long.)

Penis Pumps: What They Are and How They Work

By Heather Lacey on January 29th, 2010

Erectile dysfunction is a growing problem, especially in older men and those recovering from prostate surgery. Many treatment methods exist on today’s market, including oral medications (like Viagra, Cialis or Levitra), medications administered into the urethra, medications injected directly into the penis and penile implants. A penis pump is another option. Penis pumps are an effective means of treating erectile dysfunction without prescription medication or invasive surgery.

Since its market debut in the 1970’s, the penis pump has become a popular solution for erectile difficulties, and even for improvement of penis size and performance. Though they are sometimes the subject of mockery and spoof in film, the cold hard truth about penis pumps can not be denied: They work. They are a well-known and trusted means of erectile enhancement.

Penis pumps have a very low risk of complications or side effects, and unlike pills or injections, a penis pump is a one-time expense. This makes it the most cost effective erection enhancement method. Penis pumps can also be used in combination with other treatments, like herbal supplements and creams. Pumps can be also used following prostate surgery to regain sexual function.

The operation principle of most penis pumps centers simply on creating a vacuum around the penis. This lack of air pressure creates suction, which draws excess blood from the circulatory system into the corpus cavernosa. When the penis is filled with this extra blood, an improved erection occurs.

A penis pump is relatively simple to use. First, the tube is placed over the penis. Then, either a hand pump or electric pump is used to create a vacuum. Depending on the severity of erectile dysfunction, you may also want to place a ring at the base of the penis to help contain the blood and maintain the erection. It generally takes two to three minutes to achieve an erection once you’re comfortable with using the device. The erection will last long enough to enjoy sex.

Although penis pumps do not cure erectile dysfunction, they can create an erection firm enough for sexual intercourse. Many men experience positive results when using a combination of medication and a penis pump. Before considering using a penis pump, consult your doctor. Erectile dysfunction often has an underlying cause that can be treated and corrected.

Avoiding Penile Injury

By Heather Lacey on January 28th, 2010

Safe sex is not only limited to the use of condoms to avoid disease, but safety in using the penis to avoid painful fractures.

Even though the penis has no bones, an erection can still be bent or broken. During arousal, spongy tubes in the shaft fill with blood and swell against a stretchy surrounding layer, the tunica albuginea. As the penis becomes erect, the elastic tunica albuginea expands and becomes thinner. If the tunica albuginea stretches too far, the layers can tear, resulting in injury.

Doctors refer to this injury as a penile fracture. When the injury occurs, it is generally accompanied by a popping sound, followed by swelling and bruising of the penis. In most cases, the erection fades away, and some men may also have difficulty urinating.

Penile injuries are treated with surgery to repair the torn lining of the tunica albuginea. When treated immediately following injury, the penis will heal without any irregularities or dysfunction.

Younger men are at a higher risk level for penile fractures because of the stiffness of erections and athletic sexual activity. The woman-on-top position is potentially dangerous if the woman bends too far forward or backward. Rear-entry, or doggy-style, intercourse can also be hazardous because the base of the penis could bend too far. According to the British Journal of Urology, rear-entry vaginal intercourse accounted for 50% of penile fractures treated by New York’s Brookdale University Hospital between 2003 and 2007.

Occasionally, male enhancement drugs are associated with penile injury. Sometimes Viagra and other erectile dysfunction medications can protect from injury, while they can cause injury in other men. With men who experience softer erections, these medications can increase penis hardness and reduce risks of bending or twisting. Most cases of penile fractures related to enhancement drugs happen in men who are using the drug for recreational purposes coupled with curious and prolonged sexual activity.

Penile fractures can also occur from careless entry, when an erect penis is jammed against a partner’s pubic bone. Stranger causes of the injury do exist, like folding an erect penis into tight pants or rolling onto one’s stomach with a nocturnal erection. Other documented cases have found animal bites and other senseless activity to be responsible for injury.

Proven Ancient Techniques for Male Enhancement

By Heather Lacey on January 24th, 2010

The importance of penis size has been prevalent throughout world history. Ancient Egyptian drawings show the creation god, Geb, pointing his massive member towards the sky. The lusty Romans also idolized a large penis through artistic renderings of Priapus’ nearly endless erection. Early African civilizations portrayed Senegal’s King Dihythia naked and surrounded by dozens of women hoping to be blessed by their presence to his huge penis.

These ancient beliefs resulted in men taking extreme measures to increase their penis length and sexual endurance. Just like today, some of these methods proved dangerous and others resulted in desired results. Modern men in search of a natural method of penis enlargement often turn to herbal supplements, but there are other safe and natural means of male enhancement that have been used for centuries.

Exercises to strengthen and expand penile muscles have been used for thousands of years. Recent medical trials have even proved that these methods do work.

• Jelquing – This earliest variety of penile exercise is believed to have originated in the Middle East hundreds of years ago. The technique may be familiar to most men, as it involves a massaging motion comparable to “milking” the penis. When practiced regularly, the penis becomes able to fill with a greater amount of blood during an erection – permanently increasing penis length and girth.

• Kegel Exercises – These exercises strengthen the pubococcygeus muscle. Although this won’t increase size, it will increase stamina. The muscle can be pinpointed by stopping a flow of urine. Regular repetitions including flexing the muscle and holding for seconds will eventually result in prolonged erections. Women can also use Kegel exercises to strengthen vaginal muscles and increase orgasm intensity.

Penis Extricated from Steel Pipe

By Heather Lacey on January 20th, 2010

Everyone has a most embarrassing moment. Occasionally, men may experience an erection at an inappropriate time. Fortunately, the vast majority of those incidents are not broadcast on worldwide news.

Last week, a British man managed to get his penis stuck inside of a steel pipe. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Unfortunately, the blood flow restrictions inside the pipe managed to result in an erection that could not be removed from the steel pipe without emergency medical assistance.

The medical staff at Southampton General Hospital was unable to free the man’s engorged penis from the pipe, and firefighters were summoned to cut the metal pipe away from the penis. You’d think that would have softened him up?

A four-and-a-half inch grinding tool was used to cut the pipe. A major concern was increasing heat levels created by friction between the grinder and the pipe, but the actual procedure was not nearly as sexy as that sounds. The tax-payer funded procedure lasted for 30 minutes, while the man was under anesthesia.

The 40-year-old man (whose name was not disclosed) suffered no injury to his penis; injury to his ego is likely. The man did not disclose to emergency response personnel just how exactly his penis ended up lodged in the pipe, but I think we can figure it out.

Don’t believe me? Read the story here.

Tissue Growth Research for Male Enhancement

By Heather Lacey on January 17th, 2010

New tissue engineering research has proved successful in functional regrowth of the penis, which could prove beneficial for millions of men suffering from sexual performance challenges.

Just months ago, researchers at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina were able to create a fully-functional rabbit penis. The lab-engineered penis was difficult to create, as the solid muscle structure makes it such a unique organ.

This research has been the most successful attempt at replacement of erectile tissue. Although the research is in its infancy, the promising results with rabbits are pointing in the direction of successful regrowth in human men suffering from erectile dysfunction. In fact, the rabbits with bioengineered penises began to mate with female rabbits within one minute of the procedure. Another control group of rabbits with penile implants or no erectile tissue were unable and unwilling to mate.

Medical science advances like these are an exciting step towards treating penile birth defects and injuries, as well as erectile dysfunction.

Read the full story here.

Vimax Pills for Permanent Male Enhancement

By Heather Lacey on January 13th, 2010

Many male enhancement products in today’s marketplace promise immediate, long-lasting results, but fall short of your large expectations. Vimax pills are proven to work and come with a money back guarantee. It is easy to see why Vimax is the number-one rated penis enlargement pill.

Other products, like penis pumps and creams, can take months to realize the slightest results. Male enhancement pills, like Vimax, offer results in as little as four weeks.

The professional team of doctors who created Vimax recently introduced a more potent formula, intended to provide faster and greater results. This new super-concentrated pill only needs to be used once daily, as opposed to popping two or three competitor’s pills. And, unlike other pills, Vimax pills are 100% natural and safe.

Vimax pills contain a combination of herbal supplements to increase blood flow to the penis. Ingredients, like ginseng and horny goat weed, will not only work to increase penis length and width, but they will do wonders for your libido and energy levels. Vimax pills also increase sexual endurance and can reduce symptoms of premature ejaculation.

While so many products give short-lived results, the beauty of Vimax pills is the permanent increase in length and girth. When you reach your desired penis size, stop using the product. This gives you the flexibility to decide to increase your length slightly or keep going until you add several inches of length. Studies have shown Vimax pills to result in increases in length of up to four inches and 25% increases in girth. The average erect penis size ranges from 5.7” to 6”. Vimax pills can help you to surpass the average and be remembered. Keep in mind that the average woman can only comfortably accommodate nine inches.

Size does matter. Deeper penetration allows you to make contact with a woman’s sensitive nerve endings, and increased width adds friction and pressure all around. Women always prefer a penis with the length and girth to satisfy time and again.

The permanent results of Vimax pills will increase your self esteem and ability to please your partner. The self confidence of a well-endowed man is an ultimate aphrodisiac.

Male Meat Massage

By Heather Lacey on January 8th, 2010

Earlier today, a South Carolina man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for massaging his meat. Actually, it wasn’t even his meat – and that’s the main reason why he’s headed to the pokey.

Fifty-one year old Mark Zachary has a case of sticky fingers. A high-dollar steak stolen in August from Reid’s Grocery in his hometown of Orangeburg, S.C. was his ninth shoplifting offense. Guess the ninth time is not the charm.

As if his luck couldn’t get any worse, when a grocery manager saw him leaving the store with a bulging mass under his shirt, Zachary bolted… and ran smack into an off-duty police officer.

Zachary testified in court that he did not steal the meat, but was “massaging” the $80 New York strip. This man must have an excellent sense of humor (not to mention some brass balls) to testify under oath that he was massaging the meat. But why did he run from the store? To take it out to dinner and a show first?

Before asking those vital questions, Assistant Solicitor Glenn Justis performed a little improv bit of his own when he asked, “Where’s the beef?” in his opening remarks to the jury. Nothing’s quite as clever as a South Carolina lawyer quoting a Wendy’s hamburger ad from the early 1980s. Poetic Justis must have been waiting years to use that line. No report on the rolling eyes and groans from the jury following his remark.

Based on his series of offenses, Zachary received the maximum sentence allowed for shoplifting. It seems a tad excessive for just trying to show a piece of meat a good time. But all’s well that ends well, odds are there will be plenty of meat massaging going on where he’s headed for the next decade.

Check it out here.

If I Only Had A Brain

By Heather Lacey on January 6th, 2010

The passing of a loved one is a difficult time for family and friends as they struggle to cope with the loss.  Closure will usually begin after the body is six feet under, and the only thing left to do is go through the deceased’s personal belongings and either donate items to charity or fight with siblings over who gets the good stuff.  
 
Sometimes you learn more about a person after their death.  Before my grandmother passed, I never knew one woman could own so many muumuus.  In some cases, the deceased’s secret letters and belongings may hint to a more sordid lifestyle than their family could ever fathom.  Almost makes one want to toss out the penis pumps and anal beads in preparation for an unexpected accident… 

Whether it’s kinky or normal, personal property can surely give the living a window into the mind of the deceased.  You know, to really get in their head and better understand their thoughts. That was exactly the case for a New Mexico family, who – while sorting through their grandmother’s personal belongings – found not only photos and clothes, but her brain. 

Yes, her brain.  All that, when most of us only find a few pairs of orthopedic shoes and a handful of licorice-flavored hard candy.

The woman died in a September car accident in Utah and was cremated by DeVargas Funeral Home and Crematory of Espanola Valley, New Mexico.  As is standard procedure, the woman’s belongings were returned to the family following cremation.  The family began to think something was odd when they noticed a “foul odor” emanating from one of the bags of personal effects. 

The funeral home, which is now being sued by family members, either got the garbage and personal effects bins mixed up or must have thought it was a smart idea to include Grandma’s intellectual property with the rest of her belongings. 

As the investigation continues, the world will learn more about who was at fault or if this is an isolated incident.  Until then, there’s really only one question: Where was the funeral director’s brain when he decided to pull such a stunt? 

Read about it here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34729944/ns/us_news-weird_news/

Homeless man bites penis of sex accused

By Deana Williams on October 20th, 2009

A Taiwan man had to seek medical treatment after his genitals were bitten while forcing a homeless man to perform oral sex, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

The incident occurred about 3 am Monday in Daya Park in Taichung County, central Taiwan, the Apple Daily said.

Hou Chung-hsin, 31, who is homeless, was drunk and loitering in Taya Park when he saw a 60-year-old homeless man, identified only as Kuo, sleeping under a pavilion.

Hou woke up Kuo and asked for money. When Kuo refused to give him money, Hou knocked Kuo to the ground.

Kuo pulled himself up and walked into a toilet to urinate. Hou followed him into the toilet, grabbed Kuo’s head and forced Kuo to perform oral sex on him, the paper said.

source: www.iol.co.za