Penis enlargement procedures (sometimes euphemistically referred to as male enhancement procedures in spam email and television advertisements) are techniques alleged to make the human penis increase in girth, length, or hardness. Often, in the course of advertising fraudulent products, the distinction between temporary enlargement, i.e. erection, and permanent enlargement, is deliberately muddied.
Procedures range from manual exercises to stretching devices and surgical procedures, with reports of successes and failures around the world. While some of these are known to be outright hoaxes, other techniques have some measure of success.
Very little legitimate scientific research has been done specifically on penile enlargement, so any claims of significant and permanent enlargement can be biased or anecdotal. That said, much general research has been done regarding the efficacy (or rather the lack of) of the contents of the pills; otherwise, one assumes, that main-stream medicine would have made use of them if they indeed worked in any setting. There is also an element of risk with some of the more invasive procedures, with negative outcomes ranging from the tearing of skin and scarring, to permanent loss of sexual function. Due to the speculative nature of any hope for "improvement" and the many known cases of permanent injury involved in this endeavor, many medical professionals are skeptical of the subject.[1]
At present there is no proof in the scientific community of any non-surgical technique that permanently increases either the thickness or length of the erect penis that already falls into the normal range (4 to 6 inches).
Much of the marketing of pills and potions appears based on the unproven (perhaps false) premise that women require men to have large penises for any kind of sexual relationship. It may be concluded that a worry about the size of ones penis may be (in extreme cases) a psychological/psychiatric condition best dealt with by qualified medical practitioners.
Increasing the size of the "normal size" penis must be distinguished from the seeking of a remedy for a the recognised condition known as Micropenis where surgery somehow to increase the size is sometimes needed for the organ to function at all for urinary or sexual purposes.
