In a new study, presented at the annual congress of the European Association of Urology (EAU), which was recently held in Milan (Italy), researchers have highlighted two main types of penis depending on how they behave erect.
Penis grower or shower?
We might thus distinguish:
- the penises grower “, rather “small” at rest, but that grow a lot in erection ;
- penises” shower already relatively fat at restand which would not increase that much during an erection.
We can then, rightly, wonder what this changes in the end, and if it is so important to know if his penis is of the “grower” or “shower” type. Dr. Manuel Alonso-Isa, urologist at HM Puerta del Sur University Hospital in Madrid, and co-author of the study, explains: “It is important to be able to predict whether a patient is a grower or a shower type, because when we see his penis, he is usually in a flaccid state. If it grows a lot when the man has an erection, it might mean that he has need a different surgical approach compared to someone whose penis does not grow much when erect. »
Thanks to the data they have collected, the scientists have thus qualified as “grower” penises whose size increases by more than 56% in erection, and “showers” those whose size increases by a maximum of 31% in erection. note that most men (51%) who participated in the study are actually fell into a “grey zone” between these two categories. Only 24% of men were truly “growers”, while 25% were “showers”.
Helping men accept their gender as it is
The study also indicates that men with “shower” penises tended to have a longer sex at rest, with 11.3 cm on average, once morest 8.8 cm at rest for “growler” type penises. In “grower” penises, the tunic albuginea, fibrous tissue surrounding the corpora cavernosa (the very ones that fill with blood during an erection) was thinner during an erection than at rest.
“It makes sense because the fabric is stretched more,” said Dr Alonso-Isa, in a press release (source 1). “ It might therefore be that this tissue has more elastic fibers in ‘grower’ men than in ‘shower’ men. But we need to do more research to prove this hypothesis he concluded, adding that these characteristics have not probably no purely medical impactbut can help men better understand and accept their sex as it is.
