BPFSL vs. BPEL?

[penisesunite Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close penisesunite]

From what I gather from other people, the BPFSL tends to be about 0.5" up to even more than an inch bigger than the BPEL. Any ideas on why this is so? You would think that if you could stretch your penis that far, that you should be able to fill it up that far, right? Does this mean the smooth muscle is weak? Does it mean your blood flow is weak?

[Stumpy Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Stumpy]

I'm guessing there'd be a few factors at play.

When you get an erection you are filling the corpora cavernosa chambers to capacity ... but the penis and it's structures are held in position by ligaments. A manual stretch will be pulling and stretching not only the flaccid penis, but also those ligaments. One way to consider that (and you should approach this carefully) but it is possible to do an erect stretch ... obtain a rock hard erection, and still be able to stretch that erection further by hand. The same principle would apply to your flaccid length.

A manual stretch would likely exert more physical force than your body's ability to pump blood into it. That's not to say blood flow is weak, but I'm guessing that biceps are stronger.

Finally, and perhaps most fundamentally, an erection fills the penis in all directions / volume ... length and girth (height / width). But when you do a flaccid stretch you are only stretching in one direction ... length. So you don't have the other competing forces at play that a full erection has.

[Samurai Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Samurai]

My bpfsl has always been the opposite. .05" shorter than my bpel. Why can't I stretch it more?

[faithandhope Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close faithandhope]

My bpsfl is currently 0.1" more than my BPEL.

[not2big Senior Super ModeratorPEGym Hero Find all posts View Profile Close not2big]

The traditional explanation is to compare your penis to an elongated balloon. The less air inflating the balloon the longer you can stretch it. The more air in the balloon the fatter and shorter it is.

[letsdothis88 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close letsdothis88]

seems like erect=greater circumference=lose length. the surface area of the tunica is distributed differently between the two states