Would you like an even bigger penis? In a single massive survey just a few years in the past, about 45% of males mentioned they did. And you should buy loads of over-the-counter and even medical remedies that promise a bigger penis. However do any of them actually work?

Among the issues males use to attempt to improve penis measurement embody:

• Vacuum penis pumps
• Penis weights
• Penis stretching workouts, referred to as jelqing
• Dietary supplements
• Lotions
• Surgical procedure

The reality is that these remedies are likely to have modest, if any, outcomes, specialists say. And most do not do something in any respect to extend penis measurement.

However some strategies, together with weight reduction, could enhance your penis’s look or your confidence in mattress, says Petar Bajic, MD, a urologist and head of the Males’s Well being Heart within the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute on the Cleveland Clinic.

How can you determine what would possibly assist and what’s a sham? Speak to your physician earlier than you attempt any penis enlargement machine or remedy.

Folks typically consider myths concerning the “common” or “regular” size of a penis.

“Many males don’t have a practical concept of what a traditional measurement penis is, and we stay in a society the place pornography is pervasive. Some individuals consider that it’s regular to have a 12-inch penis,” says O’Leary. “The common erect penis is between 5 and 6 inches lengthy, and flaccid (not erect), between 4 and 5 inches lengthy.”

Some males might imagine they want a bigger penis to fulfill their companions, however that is seemingly not the case. About 85% of girls in an web survey of 52,000 heterosexual individuals mentioned they had been happy by the dimensions of their associate’s penis.

When males see Bajic to debate penis enlargement choices, he begins the dialogue by making clear what “regular” means.

“Societal perceptions of what’s a smaller-than-normal penis aren’t true,” he says. “There are all kinds of things that will drive some males to really feel that their genitalia simply doesn’t look because it ought to, together with what they see in in style tradition.”

Bajic notes that satisfying hetero intercourse, for most girls, “doesn’t start with male penetration and finish with male orgasm. Typically, by speaking it out, many males that I deal with understand that they produce other physique picture points and that their expectations about penis measurement are out of line,” he says.

Just a few males do have medical circumstances that lead to a smaller-than-average penis:

Some surgical strategies change the looks of your penis. That features a process, lately authorised by the FDA, referred to as the pre-formed penile silicone block (Himplant, previously referred to as Penuma).

It’s not out there in all places but, says O’Leary, who has accomplished the surgical procedure and says he is been proud of the outcomes. It’s a beauty process, so it isn’t coated by medical insurance coverage, he says.

“It’s a silicone implant, a silicone sleeve about two-thirds the size of the penis, which is implanted beneath the pores and skin to make the penis thicker,” he says. However research present there’s not as a lot impression on penis size.

You get this operation beneath normal anesthesia in a hospital.

“This surgical procedure should be fastidiously managed and will solely be accomplished by a urologist who has familiarity with the penile anatomy and the surgical procedure itself, and who has the background and expertise essential to carry out it,” O’Leary says.

In a single research of 400 males who had this surgical procedure, penis width improved by as a lot as 56%. Males reported that they had been largely happy with the outcomes, together with higher confidence and extra vanity.

Attainable issues embody an infection and scarring after surgical procedure, O’Leary says. The implant may also transfer misplaced in a while, he says.

Bajic says some males are “growers, not showers,” which implies their penises could seem small to them once they’re not erect. In the event that they get the silicone sleeve surgical procedure, “the implant all the time holds the penis on the identical size.” So it could not look smaller when it isn’t erect.

One other kind of surgical procedure is suspensory ligament launch. Docs do that operation on males whose penises level straight down once they have an erection. The surgeon makes a lower within the ligament on the high of your scrotum to assist your erection look regular. But it surely doesn’t improve your penis’s size or measurement when it is erect, says Bajic.

Not eager to have penis surgical procedure? Some easy nonmedical remedies, together with grooming, or “manscaping,” could enhance your genitals’ look, says O’Leary.

“Some males attempt shaving or waxing their pubic hair, and that will make your penis simply stand out extra,” he says.

Weight reduction is one other method that improves your pubic presentation. When males placed on lots of weight as they age, they have a tendency to achieve fats within the space in entrance of their genitals. This could conceal a part of your penis and make it look smaller, he says. Dropping pounds might help your penis look bigger by comparability.

You might even see these remedies pitched on TV, on-line, or in males’s magazines as methods to elongate your penis:

Vacuum erection machine. Vacuum pumps are used to deal with males with erectile dysfunction (ED), a standard situation by which you’ve got bother getting or holding an erection. The machine matches over your penis, and air is pumped out to create a vacuum.

“You should use a penis ring with this machine. It attracts extra blood to the penis to assist it keep erect, however that gained’t make your penis bigger,” says O’Leary. Utilizing a vacuum machine too typically can harm the tissue of your penis and make your erections weaker.

Traction weights. You’ll be able to tie a weight or traction machine, typically referred to as a penile extender, to your non-erect penis to attempt to stretch it. Traction remedy can enhance non-erect penis size in some males by as much as 2 centimeters (a bit greater than ¾ of an inch). But it surely’s solely authorised for males with the early levels of Peyronie’s illness. These weights may additionally harm your penis.

Jelqing. That is an train the place you place your thumb and index finger over your non-erect penis and pull on it repeatedly to extend the dimensions. There’s no proof that jelqing works.

Capsules, dietary supplements, lotions, and lotions. Over-the-counter lotions, in addition to dietary supplements, nutritional vitamins, or mineral drugs that declare to extend penis measurement, merely don’t work. In addition they may include contaminants like pesticides.

See your physician before you purchase any over-the-counter remedy for penis enlargement, says O’Leary. “The entire adverts on TV that promise any remedy will add inches to your penis? None of them work. They’re a complete sham,” he says.

Should you’re sad along with your penis measurement, contemplate intercourse remedy earlier than you search surgical procedure or another remedy, each urologists advise.

W. Myles Hassler, an authorized intercourse therapist in Atlanta, treats heterosexual and LGBTQ males who fear that their penises aren’t massive sufficient.

“Some males have been socialized to consider that their penis is just too small due to tales they heard in highschool from their buddies speaking about their penis measurement, or they could see different guys who’re bigger,” he says.

Hassler first critiques their sexual historical past to search out out if unhealthy experiences from their previous, or criticism from a present intercourse associate, has triggered disgrace or guilt about their our bodies.

“I work with them to assist them understand that it’s not about how huge your penis is, however your sexual perform and high quality of intimacy,” he says.