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Originally Posted by Dicko

Thanks. OK, I just read it but I noticed you didn't seem to touch the subject of the connective tissues (tunica).

Yea, the tunica already has enough glory in the PE community. My goal was to shine light on the lesser-discussed smooth muscle, which I think anatomically justifies PE more than anything else.

Originally Posted by Dicko

So basically what your saying is that smooth muscle is required for a healthy penis and when we gain penis size the smooth muscle must also increase because otherwise we would have weaker erections (like ED patient having less % of smooth muscle), which we know is not happening.

That's the theory. Of course, I could be way off... but it's likely that the smooth muscle plays some role in PE. The amount it plays has yet to be determined. My guess is that it's the most important aspect, anatomically speaking, in PE (more so than the tunica and the ligaments).

Originally Posted by Dicko

Do you think the smooth muscle is what "stretches out" the tunica and not the other way around? So, we enlarge the smooth muscle with exercises. The smooth muscle grows and in turn puts pressure on the tunica and stretches it out, which then translates to a gain?

Good question. I've thought about this quite a bit, and have debated myself on which grows first--the smooth muscle or the tunica. With my current knowledge, I've come to the conclusion that it's the smooth muscle that grows, and thus pushes the tunica out further.

Originally Posted by Dicko

Do you think stretching/hanging exercises the smooth muscle to grow?

Yes, I do. When we exercise our skeletal muscles (e.g. biceps), we're essentially just stretching them with different amounts of pressure. This stretching pressure is what makes the muscles grow. I presume that a similar process happens when we stretch our penises.

A justification for this theory, is that stretching and hanging makes the penis not only bigger but also harder... So the smooth muscle has to be affected in one way or the other.

Originally Posted by Dicko

What are your thought about megalophallus caused by priapism?

The last I checked (a few months ago), they didn't have a definite cause for it. They theorized that the megalophallus was due to the tunica being stretched to the max. I'm not sure if this is the case . . . It might be, but I believe the smooth muscle played a HUGE role in the process.

Think about it: The smooth muscle in the penis is "exercised" every time you get an erection. A priapism is a long-lasting, uncontrollable erection. A normal erection might not "exercise" the penis that much, but a 4 hour erection will... So much, in fact, that it "overworks" the penis. Sometimes this causes it to grow, other times it causes long-term ED. And both have happened as a result of a priapism.