Penis enlargement
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Penis enlargement procedures (sometimes euphemistically referred to as "male enhancement procedures" in spam email and television advertisements) are techniques alleged to make the human penis larger. These procedures range from manual exercises to devices and medical interventions, with reports of successes and failures around the world, but while some are known to be hoaxes, there is no popularly known scientific proof about their effectiveness in general.
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Self-applied methods
Cosmetic
Rather than attempt to change the actual size of the penis, one may make it appear bigger, by trimming the pubic hair or by losing weight.
Pills and supplements
"Penis enlargement pills", "penis patches" ointments are commonly offered over the Internet. This is one of the most common topics for e-mail spam messages. "Penis enlargement pills" contain natural ingredients, which, it is claimed, expand the capacity of the Corpus cavernosum penis, the two cylindrical tissues inside the penis that fill with blood during arousal, creating the hardness of the erection.
Penis pump
A penis pump is a cylinder that is fitted over the penis, with a manual or motorized pump to create suction. As the apparatus creates a partial vacuum around the penis, blood is drawn into the penis, helping it to become engorged. As vacuum increases, the difference between the inner blood pressure and the pump pressure increases as well; excessive pressure causes vascular damage rather than a harder penis.
The effectiveness of penis pumps for permanent penis enlargement was examined by Kazem, Hosseini and Alizadeh. They studied 37 men with penis length less than 10 cm and found no significant change in penile length after using pumps for six months, although the follow-up have found 30% satisfaction with the method. The conclusion of the paper stated that vacuum treatment of the penis is not an effective method for penile elongation, but provides psychological satisfaction for some men.
A 31-patient study conducted by the Department of Urology at St Peter's Hospitals and the Institute of Urology in London investigating the usefulness of pumps to correct the penile curvature associated with Peyronie's disease found that "There was a clinically and statistically significant improvement in penile length, angle of curvature and pain after 12 weeks of using the vacuum pump". In this study, subjects with Peyronie's undertook two ten-minute pumping sessions per day for twelve weeks. The additional penis length of 0.5 cm average was an unexpected side effect found in approximately one third of the subjects and not an intended aim of the study. In the US, Penis pumps may be funded by Medicare, where a patient's erectile dysfunction is deemed to necessitate this.
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