I have always been curious how the penis works – and if I could enlarge it. Along time ago I was rather upset when I was informed that penis enlargement is impossible. I remember reading an article by a famous internet doctor. The doctor claimed that the penis in no way resembles a muscle, and therefore, penis enlargement has to be impossible. Like so many men before me, I took the doctor's opinion and accepted it as fact.

Overtime I learned the truth – penis enlargement is very real. It works, yet, no one seems to know exactly how. This article has been created to hopefully shed some light on the entire process.

Science is mysterious itself. Even scientific facts aren't always fact. But like many scienticsts, I follow the evidence, at least to the best of my abilities, to wherever it takes me.

I was rather dumbfounded when I learned that the penis truly is a muscle – not completely muscle, and not a normal muscle – but approximatelly 50 percent smooth muscle. In February in 2004, the Journal of Urology reported the amount of Smooth Muscle in the penis, in a scientific article titled Sildenafil preserves intracorporeal smooth muscle after radical retropubic prostatectomy (now known as Article 1). Here is a segment of the authors' findings:

The important role of corpora cavernosal smooth muscle in potency has been known since Goldstein et al reported the first examination of erectile tissue. Normal smooth muscle content and function are necessary for the initiation and maintenance of erection. Published reports suggest that the average intracorporeal smooth muscle percent is between 40% and 50%. Our unpublished data confirm this rate with the finding of an incidence of smooth muscle of about 49% in normal potent males in the general population. In contrast, patients with veno-occlusive dysfunction show a much lower percent on microscopic examination. A prior study suggested that these patients have a smooth muscle percent of 10% to 36%. Concomitant intracorporeal fibrosis results in abnormal smooth muscle function, increased venous leakage and eventually impotence.

Article 1 confirms that the penis does in fact have muscle in it. Now, let's look at the importance of this muscle.

Healthy smooth muscle in the penis is required for an erection. This is well documented in another scientific article published by GJ Christ: The penis as a vascular organ. The importance of corporal smooth muscle tone in the control of erection (now known as Article 2) . This article is far too small to completely summarize Chri'sts 17 page article, but here is a tidbit of Christ's findings:

Quoted by Christ, the penis as a vascular organ Complete smooth muscle relaxation is both necessary and sufficient to elicit an erection.

In an essence, Christ went over (in detail, down to the chemistry) the smooth muscle's role in the penis. The bottom line of Article 2: smooth muscle is very, very important for proper erections. The smooth muscle causes an erection (which is set off through chemical reactions) by completely relaxing:

„Compression of the relaxed trabecular smooth muscle against the fibroelastic tunica albuginea causes the closure of the emissary veins,“ and thus results in an erection.

An erection cannot take place if the smooth muscle cannot completely relax. . . . Hence, the smooth muscle is not only important for an erection; it is the erection!

In the first article I pointed out that the penis is roughly 50 percent smooth muscle and smooth muscle grows due to stress, as skeltal muscle (the biceps, triceps, etc) does. In this article I am going to go over key ideas and theories that involve the smooth muscle in the penis, and how it intertwines with PE. The following points aren't facts; they are ideas:

• For the penis to enlarge, the smooth muscle must enlarge too. Enlargement of the penis might take place primarily through enlargement of the smooth muscle, or through a cycle - the tunica (see penis anatomy) enlarges, then the smooth muscle enlarges to accomdate, then the tunica and so on.

• Because the penis is compromised of 50 percent smooth muscle, and smooth muscle has a lot of the basic properties of skeletal muscle , we can presume that smooth muscle might react to stress the same way normal muscle does. Which is a no brainer! What are we doing here? Exercising! Moreover, nearly every single guideline we have is based off body-building/exercising/weightlifting concepts in one way or another! Think about it – Bib, presumably one of the biggest gainers used a weightlifting concept known as „progressive overload.“ Peter Dick, another big gainer uses a common weightlifting program known as „muscle confusion“ (in which he keeps the muscles guessing). And now, more recently we are now realizing cyclic training using deconditioning breaks helps us keep the penis in a responsive state. And cycylic training is a very popular weightlifting principle (if not the biggest).

• Albeit, this doesn't particularly mean we can attribute the growth to smooth muscle growth – but regardless, if the penis grows, the smooth muscle must grow too. Article 1 suggests that: less smooth muscle is equivalent to a higher chance of ED. Obviously this isn't the case for us Penile Exercisers. Most of men report harder erections through penile exercising.

• It is well documented that smooth muscle can grow due to stress. There are whole books written on this subject. Here is a good one: Hypertrophic Response in Smooth Muscle, by Charles L. Seidel and Normal W. Weisbrodt. Link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/084...Fencoding=UTF8

Opposed to traditional exercising gains, PE gains are permanent (for the most part). The permanency of PE might be contributed to the smooth muscle. Think about it like this: the smooth muscle in the penis is exercised when we jelq, stretch, and incorporate other exercises. These exercises take the penis (and the smooth muscle) beyond it's normal threshold. But what is the normal threshold? An erection. Masturbation, sex, anything that involves an erection is exercise too. It's typically just not enough to cause growth. But it should be enough exercise to keep the gains, once they have already been cemented.

The penis is an extraoridnary organ. Coherently, penile exercising is an extraoridnary process. No one is for certain how penis enlargement works, but it is probably much more simple than we think. By taking conventional wisdow (we know that muscle grows due to exercise) and comparing it to scientific facts (the penis is 50 percent smooth muscle and smooth muscle also grows due to stress) we can presume that the smooth muscle of the penis has a key role in penis enlargement.