Why are girth gains...

…so hard to get? It seems everyone on here has gone at least 12 months before seeing any gains, sorry if this is a repost I’m very curious tho

It’s basically due to the anatomy. The tunica albugina (look it up) is made of fibers that stretch easier along the length of the penis than they do around the circumference.

I’m not disagreeing with you, but if that’s the case then clamping should also, and perhaps make the dick grow more in length ???

I would really like to hear how you drew that conclusion from what westla said?

-UYN-

It does for about 15% of people. What prevents a larger increase in length is the glans, which acts like a “stopper” lengthwise, IMO.

This sound interesting, but I do not understand exactly how that would work. Would you please explain? :) I just read that you said approximately 65% report gains after clamping. I thought that clamping was a “sure” girth gaining exercise?

-UYN-

Err, no, there isn’t any “sure” gaining technique in PE, as far as I know.

How it works? I’ll try to explain how it works IMHO. The glans is extremely strong and elastic - that’s why it is so hard to enlarge it. If you apply a clamp to your penis, the internal pressure will raise, exerting force both lengthwise and girthwise. But the glans is limiting the force that is enlarging the penis lengthwise, so the force is acting more proficiently girthwise (you don’t have a glans at the sides of your penis, right?).

To make things a bit clearer, imagine grabbing your glans while clamping: more blood will force the circumferencial expansion, so you should have even more girth gains (but don’t try this really, it can be dangerous - it is just a ‘thought experiment’).

Another thing to take into the account is the different strength of the girth-oriented tunica layer and the lenght -oriented tunica layer - the weaker of the two, all other things being equal, should be easier enlarged using a given tension.

Uhmmm…looks very confused to me, I hope you can get a vague sense from it. :)

If I understand everything correctly, then a double clamp(at the base and right under the glans) would do the same thing as you are describing with the “glans grab”. Though many people exercise with double clamping, so I think that I am way off now?

-UYN-

Could you elaborate on this? I don’t see how the glans can limit the expansion lengthwise, only if one presses his glans against the wall. Otherwise, if the glans is free to move together with the tunica, how is it limiting the internal pressure and expansion?

If you don’t see, how worthy would be elaborating? (:

Somewhat similar, but in this case part of the pressure will anyway be absorbed by the glans. Double clamping, generally speaking, doesn’t give better gains than using one clamp. The reasin, I guess, is again in how the glans works.

Give it a try! Don’t let me in the darkness - I count on you, marinera! :)

Try this: have an erection and put on a cock-ring. You’ll see your shaft becoming fatter. Then, right after, use a clamp, tightening progressively: you’ll see that, at first, shaft will be enlarged noticeably, but after a given point, the shaft will enlarge little or nothing, while the glans will. This is also the point where tension is reaching dangerous levels.

If I get it right, you are saying the glans acts as a pressure buffer. But that is not directional, only for length…

Right, that’s what the glans is for. What makes things hard to understand, is that the glans is both very strong and very elastic, so it works kinda in a paradoxical way: at lower pressures, it will just put blood back towards the shaft, so the pressure below it will augment - that’s why it is strong; at higher pressures, it starts enlarging, so the pressure in the shaft is reduced - that’s the elastic behaviour, to avoid tunica ruptures.

The same you can say for intercourses: many say “Hey what happened, PE made my glans softer” - truth is, most of them are just noticing a thing that was that way before strating PE: the glans is softer because it absorbs too abrupts variations in pressure while having sex, variation that could lead to tunica ruptures.

Hope this makes any sense.