[ ARC forum 2 ]
Written by Ivan at 04 Feb 2003 14:20:10: Re: Utter Bull
As an answer to: Re: re: Utter Bull written by Rood at 04 Feb 2003 03:29:19:
>Ivan...I've always been perfectly aware that PB may be someone else...or what have you...we can let our imagination run with this one. But I give him the benefit of the doubt, though he seems to exhibit a singular lack of imagination. Perhaps one person is juggling ALL of these recent characters from hand to hand, post to post?
>On the subject of a tight foreskin holding back one's erection...It is entirely possible. In my case my foreskin was stretched tightly over the glans during erection, such that there was absolutely no overhang. Neither did years of erections alter the diameter of the 1/4" (6mm) preputial orifice. Though it's entirely possible that erections stretched the length of my foreskin, it was not enough to notice. As the foreskin is VERY thin and in my case always stretched tight..the presence of a separate glans penis beneath was not apparent to me until a friend made me aware of the fact when I was aged 13. Though I did not measure my penis "before" and "after", there was not an appreciable or noticeable difference in length after my circ. But this is not to say that it couldn't happen with someone else. Perhaps even with our very own A...oh, sorry...PB?Sure, I understand and can picture all you say. But under those circumstances a measurement accurate enough to determine a half-inch difference is completely impossible. First there's the obscuring of the location of the end of the glans (as you said, you didn't even know it was there til you were 13 - it takes that kind of shrouding to hold back the erection. Second, this is the sort of measurement that's particularly prone to mismeasurement, perhaps willful, perhaps not. For instance you can make a half-inch difference easily depending on how hard toward the pubic bone you press, or whether you angle the ruler a bit. Someone predisposed to find more after surgery can find a way to convinve himself he's found it. But then, all of this would suppose that PB is genuine, and you and I both appear to find that doubtful.
BTW, measurement limitations and sources of error are one of the most fascinating topics tn all science. It gets to the whole question of how do you know what is really there.