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I’m currently growing my own penis.
Which I know you were because all people think about when they hear the word ‘transgender’ is their genitals.
I’m not judging you, it’s fascinating, if somewhat inappropriate to ask strangers what’s between their legs.
Growing it myself is never going to be enough though, great as the testosterone is in that area at producing what can only be described as micro-penis from what used to be a clitoris.
From a tiny seed do might oaks grow.
Well, maybe ‘mighty oak’ is taking it a bit too far, but I’m supposed to exaggerate, right?
Call it personal preference, but I want something that swings between my legs.
Something I can whip out and pee with when I want to go.
I want to know that when I’m out with a woman and she slides her hand up my thigh there will be something for her to feel, something I can feel, something ‘substantial’.
Sometimes people ask me ‘when’s the op?’ as if all of this can be sorted out with one quick procedure.
I’ve just completed ‘top surgery’ – a double incision mastectomy with nipple grafts and chest contouring to give me a masculine chest.
The lower surgery will take at least a year, including all the operations and post-op recovery.
I will need a lifetime of hormone replacement therapy – one massive needle in my arse every three months.
I’ll also get an oestrogen blocker, again another massive needle but this time into my stomach, then a full hysterectomy and a salpingo-oophorectomy – the removal of ovaries and fallopian tubes.
Then, fanfare please, there’s the construction of the penis (phalloplasty).
They’ll flay my forearm to make it and use a skin graft to repair my arm so it doesn’t look like I’ve spent the evening with Hannibal Lecter.
I’ll need urethroplasty to pee through my new penis, a scrotoplasty involving testicular prostheses and, finally, erectile implants to enable erections and penetrative sex.
In short, I’m a grower, not a show-er.
At every stage there are risks and potential side effects.
If I tell you that it is, without a shadow of a doubt, you can perhaps grasp how severe the disconnect is between my brain and my body.
I’m not doing all this just because I’m bored or thought it might be ‘cool’ to be a man, I’m doing it so that I can finally feel at ease with my body and my place in it.
Being transgender is about so much more than just what is or isn’t between your legs but it’s also a massive part of it all because of how closely interlinked gender and genitals are in our culture.
When I was born, a doctor assigned my gender with one look at what was between my legs.
All I’m trying to do is correct the mistake that both he and nature made.

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You need to have erections regularly to keep your penis in shape. "It has to be essentially exercised," says Tobias Kohler, MD, assistant professor of urology at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.
To maintain a healthy tone, the smooth muscle of the penis must be periodically enriched with oxygen by the rush of blood that engorges the penis and makes it erect, Kohler says.
If guys are physically able to get erect, but never have erections during the day -- maybe they find themselves in very un-erotic circumstances for a long time -- they needn't worry. The brain has an automatic penis maintenance function built in.
Impulses from the brain cause erections during the dreaming phase of sleep , called the REM phase. It doesn't matter if you're having a hot sex dream or a zombie apocalypse nightmare -- your penis gets hard during that period of the sleep cycle.
But some men are physically unable to get erections, such as those who've suffered trauma to the nerves involved or who have nerve or blood vessel damage caused by diabetes .
"If they don't do anything to maintain normal erections, they will get shortening of the penis," Kohler says. Without regular erections, penile tissue can become less elastic and shrink, making the penis 1-2 centimeters shorter.
A device like a vacuum pump, which forces the penis to swell with blood, can help men with physical erection problems maintain a healthy penis, Kohler says.
Among men, there is no consistent relationship between the size of the flaccid penis and its full erect length.
In one study of 80 men, researchers found that increases from flaccid to erect lengths ranged widely, from less than a quarter-inch to 3.5 inches longer.
Whatever the clinical significance of these data may be, the locker-room significance is considerable. You can't assume that a dude with a big, limp penis gets much bigger with an erection. And the guy whose penis looks tiny might get a surprisingly big erection.
An analysis of more than a thousand measurements taken by sex researcher Alfred Kinsey shows that shorter flaccid penises tend to gain about twice as much length as longer flaccid penises.
A penis that doesn't gain much length with an erection has become known as a "show-er," and a penis that gains a lot is said to be a "grower." These are not medical terms, and there aren't scientifically established thresholds for what's a show-er or a grower.
Kinsey's data suggest that most penises aren't extreme show-ers or growers. About 12% of penises gained one-third or less of their total length with an erection, and about 7% doubled in length when erect.
Many men consider the underside of the glans (head) of the penis and the underside of the shaft to be most sensitive to sexual pleasure.
Researchers asked 81 healthy men to rate the erotic sensitivity of different areas of their bodies, including not only the penis but also zones such as the scrotum, anus , nipples, and neck.
The underside of the glans and underside of the shaft had the highest sensitivity rating for a significant majority of men, followed by the upper side of the glans, left and right sides of the glans, sides of the penis, upper side of the shaft, and foreskin (for the minority of men who were uncircumcised). The study findings were reported in the British Journal of Urology International in 2009.
Studies show that the penis steadily loses sensitivity as men age though it's hard to say exactly by how much. That's because different researchers have used different ways to stimulate the penis and measure sensitivity.
In general, the sensitivity of the penis is gauged by the least amount of stimulation a man is able to feel. That is called the "sensory threshold."
Despite differences between studies, the data show a clear trend when taken together. From age 25 on, sensitivity starts to decline. The sharpest decline in sensitivity is seen between age 65 and 75.
What's less clear is whether men really notice a loss of sensitivity as they age.
Kohler says that if they are aware of it, his patients seldom mention it.
"It is a super-rare complaint," he says. "On the other hand, difficulty with erections and difficulty achieving ejaculation are much more common."
Vibrators aren't only for women. They work on the penis, too. In fact, vibration is so effective on the penis that often men with spinal cord injuries can ejaculate with the aid of a special medical vibrator. For this kind of treatment, the vibrator is usually held against the underside of the head of the penis.
"Medical-grade vibrators aren't necessarily more powerful," Kohler says. The vibrators are tuned to stimulate parts of the nervous system involved in ejaculation. "They work at frequencies or amplitudes that are more specific to the [nerve] pathways."
Most men don't need a medical vibrator to trigger an orgasm. Kohler says when patients see him about delayed ejaculation -- difficulty reaching orgasm -- he suggests they try a store-bought vibrating personal massager.
Although vibrators often help men with ejaculation problems, you don't have to have any kind of medical condition to use one. You could do it just for fun.
"Most guys would be proud to know that their penis is twice as long as they think it is," Kohler says.
That's because half the length of the penis is inside your body. Just like you don't see all of a big oak tree above ground, you don't see the root of your penis tucked up inside your pelvis and attached to your pubic bone.
As seen in an MRI picture, an erect penis is shaped like a boomerang.
The skin of your penis is home to a diverse community of bacteria.
Lance Price, PhD, and Cindy Liu, PhD, researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute, in Flagstaff, Ariz., used genetic tests to identify the bacteria found on men's penises. Their study showed there were a total of 42 unique kinds of bacteria inhabiting the skin of the penis.
"We see that the human body is essentially an ecosystem," Price says.
But uncircumcised and circumcised penises don't have the same variety and abundance of bacteria, the study showed. The researchers first analyzed samples from the penises of 12 men who were planning to get circumcised. Samples were taken and analyzed again after the men were circumcised.
After circumcision , there were fewer kinds of bacteria on the men's penises. Many of the kinds of bacteria found to be less common or absent after circumcision were anaerobic -- meaning that they don't need oxygen to grow.
The inner fold of the foreskin is a mucous membrane, like the inside of a person's eyelids. Price says that certain anaerobic bacteria thrive in that environment but not on dry skin .
"I liken it to clear-cutting a forest," Price says. "You're going to get a lot more sunlight, and you're going to drastically change the environment."
The study was done in Uganda, and all of the men studied were Ugandan.
Liu says that she would expect to see some variation in the kinds of bacteria found on men in other parts of the world. "I think there is certainly variety even among the Ugandan men themselves," she says.
But the researchers are less interested in surveying the penile bacteria of the world than in understanding changes b
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