Current Events > 5 Scary things that will happen to your penis as you age

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The Droop

According to Steixnerand verified by the naked guys over 70 shuffling around every health club locker room coast to coastyour scrotum will droop as you get older.

Its an unavoidable aspect of manly aging thanks to a loss in muscle mass. At its most extreme, you develop what Steixner calls splash down syndrome, which is exactly what it sounds like.

When you sit to use the toilet, your scrotum actually hits the water.

Theres hope, however, thanks to an increasingly popular procedure called scrotoplasty. Thats right, you can get a sack-job and spare your septuagenarian self the indignity of the splash down.

There Will Be ShrinkagePermanent Shrinkage
No, not the out-of-the-pool constriction we all know. This is a persistent, progressive loss of size as you age.

What does that equation look like? Normal cells, once hale and hearty, get replaced by non-elastic fibers called collagen, which just sort of reel in the whole apparatus.

Want to make it worse? Keep building up that beer gut. As your belly gets bigger, the fat pad pushes out and a larger penile percentage gets buried under the skin. Gain weight, loose length. Simple math.

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For every 30 pounds you shed, you add an effective half-inch in length, says Steixner.

Going Around the Bend
Into your autumn years, you develop curvature. Youll dogleg left. Youll pull right. Thanks to repeated trauma from seemingly harmless things like sports and sexual activity, scar tissue is accumulating along the length of your penis.

And if that isnt unsettling enough, this scar tissue does not build up symmetrically. Where you were once an arrow, you become a bow.

Into your 60s and 70s, says Steixner, it can get worse and worse. Ive seen patients (whose penises) look for all appearances like a question mark.

Mercifully, theres help for punctuation mark syndrome. Today, injectable medicines help release the accumulated plaques anchoring the scar tissue holding your penis in that curve.

Its actually a botulinum toxin that does the trick. Thats right, botox injections. Down below. Bite your lip and think happy thoughts.

Erectile Dysfunction
There are more than 30 million men with ED, and the reason behind it boils down to blood loss.

Having ED is like having a heart attack of the penis, explains Steixner. And preventing it involves pretty much the same advice you give to someone with a heart condition. Eat well, exercisecontrol those and you should be fine.

Contending with ED is a billion-dollar market, with treatments from prescription pills and injections to boost blood flow, to penile implants designed to give men a natural erection without medicine.

If you take care of yourself, however, you can avoid all that, Steixner says. I have patients in their 90s who have perfect erections because theyve taken care of themselves.

Finally, some encouraging news.

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ED isnt even a real thing
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The Big C
Most men are familiar with the very real risks of prostate and testicular cancer, and symptoms of these are something to watch for as you age. But theres also a risk of skin cancer on the penis itself, especially if youre a nudist or like to frequent tanning beds au natural.

Also, men who are uncircumcised but remiss in their personal hygiene can create conditions that contribute to skin cancer.

Stay out of tanning beds, and if you are uncircumcised, keep the hood clean, urges Steixner.

Whats the worst that can happen? Dont ask.

Okay, you asked: In extreme cases, a complete removal of the penis is required, Steixner says. It happens. Maybe once a year. I have a patient"

Stop there, doc. Please. Just stop there. No tanning beds. Stay clean. We got it.

As for the less horrifying, more likely changes we talked about at first, know that as you age, your testosterone levels will decrease. That means slight but consistent loss in size.
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Whose alt is this?
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EyeWontBeFooled posted...

Whose alt is this?

I'm not an alt. Are you obtuse?
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This is the most depressing thing I've read all morning.
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That aint shrinkage if it simply hides it.

Got me all worried and shit.
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3khc posted...

That aint shrinkage if it simply hides it.

Got me all worried and shit.

Read it again. There is already shrinkage AND people make it worse by getting fatter.
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Callixtus posted...

3khc posted...

That aint shrinkage if it simply hides it.

Got me all worried and shit.

Read it again. There is already shrinkage AND people make it worse by getting fatter.

How much shrinkage? In inches.
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leverageblargh posted...

Callixtus posted...

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

Whose alt is this?

I'm not an alt.

An account made in 2017 is obviously an alt, even if it was made because/in case the little reggie's main ate the banhammer. Genuinely new users don't come to CE anymore.

My last somewhat known account was KhanJohnson/KhanofKhans, but who knows how long ago that was. I've been using this current account for over 7 months now, and it's my only one. It ain't an alt anymore.
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Callixtus posted...

ve seen patients (whose penises) look for all appearances like a question mark.

rofl
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I dunno. Tbh, I've seen lots of erect old men, and when the cock is erect it's pretty much the same as a younger dick.
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FF_Redux posted...

I dunno. Tbh, I've seen lots of erect old men, and when the cock is erect it's pretty much the same as a younger dick.

Ok we'll see what you have to say in 60 years when your scrotum is swimming in your shit.
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Callixtus posted...

your scrotum will droop as you get older.

Its an unavoidable aspect of manly aging thanks to a loss in muscle mass.

Hmm, I thought this was due to the loss of skin elasticity, not muscle mass.
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Callixtus posted...

Ok we'll see what you have to say in 60 years when your scrotum is swimming in your shit.

I trust redux when it comes to old mens erections
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leverageblargh posted...

Callixtus posted...

leverageblargh posted...

Callixtus posted...

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

Whose alt is this?

I'm not an alt.

An account made in 2017 is obviously an alt, even if it was made because/in case the little reggie's main ate the banhammer. Genuinely new users don't come to CE anymore.

My last somewhat known account was KhanJohnson/KhanofKhans, but who knows how long ago that was. I've been using this current account for over 7 months now, and it's my only one. It ain't an alt anymore.

In common CE vernacular all reggies are alts

Well I declare here, now, and for all time that this is my main!!
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I just want it to grow for fuck sakes.

Thats all I ask

Please Santa? Consider it.
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