Keisha Shakespeare-Blackmore, Staff Reporter

In addition to oils and creams, there are devices used to enlarge the penis. - Norman Grindley/Deputy Chief Photographer

In recent times, there has been an increase in the number of advertisements advising men on how they can get bigger penises. The solution comes in the form of creams and oils. Flair investigated whether men use these products, if they work and if they really want bigger organs. The question was asked of a number of men and their first reaction was a big laugh followed by, NO!

A few questioned the sanity of the query, while others asked whether the products would stop the muscle from 'rising' again. One said that if he was older, he might consider it, but being young, he has no need.

Penile exercises

Jimmysays that he has never tried any such products but he can testify that penile exercises work. One such exercise, he said, is placing a wet towel on your erect penis and tugging on the towel. He also said that there is another exercise that is called the tug or milking that works even better.

"How it works, first you hold the base of your erect penis; use the other hand to stroke it from top to bottom. If you do this for five minutes daily, for about three months, it is guaranteed that you will get girth," he said.

He told Flair that he has a few other methods that have been passed down in his family through the generations, but he does not intend to give out those secrets. He said he does not want every man to get a bigger 'third leg' because he wants to keep it for himself so he can get more women.

Mark, too, notes that he does not use enhancer oils or creams but he stretches daily while he showers.

It is amazing

"I stretch it to make sure it keeps out all the time," he said. It is amazing to see the measures men will go through to get a bigger 'instrument'. There are some rural folks who believe that a man can enhance the size of his penis by hitting it against a papaya tree. The downside of such a move, according to the legend, is that if the tree dies, the hitter will suffer erectile dysfunction.

Dr Hope Russell-Dunn, urologist at Fairhaven Medical Centre, said Jamaican men tend to have this brute force (pounding aggressively) mentality when it comes to sex. She said that men should realise that the size of the penis does not cause the male or his partner to get maximum pleasure.

"It has to do with the skill, foreplay and all that to achieve the feeling of sensation," she said.

She pointed out that stretching the penis might make it longer because when you stretch tissue, that's what it does. But it will not get girth. She added that sex is such a complex thing that the effect of size is very minimal in the whole process.

Be careful

"Men must be careful that they don't give up length for size. The point is, if you have something that is two inches wide and you stretch it, it will get longer, but it will become narrower."

Dr Russell-Dunn said that she does not know about penis oils and creams on the market or if they work. But she knows that the body produces growth hormones that scientists have made into products which are used mainly by men who have hypogonadism (a condition in which the sex glands receive little or no hormones which, in the man's case, will result in his having a very small penis).