5 Penis Fact

You are  together and shared many experiences, but what do you really know your penis? Here are five penis facts you surely didn't know.

You can break your penis

If the penis is violently twisted during  erection, it might break. Penis doesn’t have any bone, but the tubes that fill with blood during an erection. Blood pours out of them inside the penis and can be a reason a very painful swelling. Reported situations of penile fracture are rare, but it's thought that some males are too shy to say it to their doctor

Males have several night-time erections

Generally, a healthy man has three to five erections  a full night's sleep, with every erection finishes 25-35 minutes. It's general for men to wake up with an erection, informally named a "morning glory". This is in true the last in the series of night-time erections. The reason of night-time erections isn't completely understood. Also, studies show they are closely associated during the sleep known as REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. This is when dreaming is mostly. Whatever their reason, most doctors admit that night-time erections are a sign that everything is ok.

Penis length is not measured to foot size

The idea that the size of your penis is equal to your shoe size is a myth, according to a resarch. Researchers  measured the penises of 100 men, including teenagers and pensioners. The average penis length is 13cm (5.1 inches) when soft and gently stretched, and the average shoe size was nine (43 European size). Beside, researchers found no connection between shoe size and penis length.

Small penises make big erections

Shorter penises boost more in length than longer ones when they get erect. Study based on the penis measurements of 2,369 men saw that shorter penises increased by 79% when erect, nearly two times that of longer penises (57%).

The penis is not a muscle

Beside the popular belief, the so-called love muscle doesn't have any muscles. Because of this, you can't move it very much when you feel erection. The penis is a type of sponge that fills with blood when a man is sexually stimulated.