Different Nerves in the Penis

I wanted to see if a thread could be started that would ultimately provide people with a very clear, in depth understanding of what the different nerves are in the penis, and of what each type of nerve does.

Hopefully, if people continue to contribute, over time, a discussion may lead towards greater clarity on this issue.

Arousal, pleasure, libido, erections, ejaculation, retraction or expansion, are all some of the different things that the penis does, and none of it happens by magic so there are nerves playing a role in each of these functions. We want be as specific as possible. What are the different nerves, which ones are doing what, where are they located, the more info the better.

From what I understand the dorsal nerves are responsible for pleasure, and the cavernous nerves for erections. Maybe someone has something to add to to begin with, if not I can investigate and update with more info, which people can then challenge or agree with and we’ll see what we can learn.

One quick thing I can say is that the cavernous nerves can often be damaged during a radical prostatectomy, and people can typically suffer erectile dysfunction as a result.

No one here is a qualified neurologist so any info you gain is just guys making stuff up because it seems to be right, but usually isn’t. In fact there’s another thread on here that’s full of that stuff. I read it all the time. You know what I learned from it today? I learned that humming makes your sinus release NO and that will make it all the way to your penis and help it grow. Now why didn’t I think of that?

HAHAHAHA! Oh god, this post is awesome. Then I look and of course it’s you JB55. Aren’t you better off knowing your circulatory system is much like that of a tree?

Well mine doesn’t make letters but it makes cute little pictures!

I say we do our best to keep the thread on topic and get what we can out of it. We aren’t theorizing in attempt to come up with some new idea, or new cure for something, we are just looking to find information that already exists- the location and function of different nerves.

All we want to find out is which nerves in the penis do what, and where they are located. I mean, come on.

And also, guys are going to theorize anyway. So at least we can try to bring some clarity to the theorizing and make it as productive as possible, instead of just giving up. But in the end of the day, the information already exists. There is no reason whatsoever why we can’t at least try to gather the information in one place on a thread.

How about a link to a book or a diagram or something? A bunch of dudes trying to make their dicks bigger is hardly going to clear anything up. Just more speculation and theorizing by unqualified people. You’ll never get any clarity or knowledge through a thread like this. Nothing better than a bunch of non-scientists and not-really-doctors opining on the interwebz.

I see where you are coming from, and I think a lack of confidence in the information being shared, and unreliability of some of the information being shared, can cause threads like these to kind of ‘go off the deep end.’

I did want to make an attempt, if we kept things really straight forward (focusing simply on the nerves in the penis, their functions, and their locations) that it would help keep things from devolving. Also, to focus on one thing at a time. If someone shares a piece of information, whether a book or diagram, to focus on rigorously trying to verify it before we could agree whether it were accurate.

I’ve done some research, but there’s always the feeling, kind of like what you said, when you read something, or see a diagram, online, that it isn’t really trustworthy.

However, the dorsal nerves being responsible for sensation, and the cavernous nerves for erections, I can feel pretty comfortable saying, is a fact. Because literally every single source says the same thing, and it’s pretty basic. So we kind of start with the basics and work our way up. The next step might be to find out exactly where the dorsal nerves and the cavernous nerves are. The first thing I would be looking for would be consistency across many sources. Maybe I’ll look into buying a book on the topic haha.

But I wanted to at least raise the question, because with more people sharing knowledge, if we stay focused on rigorously verifying one thing at a time, maybe we could separate at least some fact from fiction. I feel like, considering we aren’t about to try performing surgery on someone, there isn’t any harm in at least seeing what we can find out.

I guess I’ll do some more research, maybe I’ll even take a trip to the library at some point.

Research? You’re doing research? Gee many guys around here do research. The funny thing is they really don’t know what research is.
Research takes hundreds of hours of looking things up, going through journals and papers and textbooks; fact checking, cross references, which leads to hundreds of pages of notes that will eventually need to be organized, condensed and presented. Even the smallest topic on biology or the body, well research should take months or a year or two before one comes to any decent conclusion.

Let’s just say you’re looking things up that sound like something you want to hear. It’s just not factual.

I just want to know what the different nerves in the penis are, and where they are, information which is already known. Years of research would make sense for a theory which isn’t verified and could be challenged by experts in the field with different views, but I’m talking about fairly straight forward information that already exists.

Regarding wanting to hear things, looking at the outrageous claims in your posts, I think it’s safe to say that there are things you don’t want to hear, particularly, the truth, which would make it easier for people to manage your agenda driven attempts to create confusion and misinformation on certain threads.

If you want to calm down and have an honest, fact driven discussion about verifiable information, I would be glad to stop arguing and listen to what you have to say, but it’s clear your goals aren’t to educate but to mislead.

It’s up to you, if you ever want to let your guard down a bit and have a real conversation, let me know. In the meantime, I’ll make a trip to the library and start with some fairly straight forward information.

So the unqualified will do “research” and then come and discuss the findings with other unqualified people and come to a conclusion that is unqualified.

Don’t you get that being a researcher is a full time job? You’d have to have years of a science background to even remotely understand what you’re ” researching”. Why not do some research and teach us all about nuclear physics?

You’re using this thread to find a solution to your ‘injury” and you just won’t do it the right way will you?

I think the fact that you are so threatened by the idea of people educating themselves, mixed with the absurdity of your posts, tells people all that they need to know.

Medical books containing straight forward information that already exists isn’t unqualified, and if anything, it’s much more unqualified when people that already have qualifications misuse their knowledge to lie to people (which is what you do). I honestly worry about people who feel they need to just give in when someone with
credentials lies to them, but facts are facts, and by staying focused on one piece of evidence at a time, the truth will be forced to come out in the end.

Research is a very vague term. Now we’re supposed to be tricked into thinking that some complex theory about nuclear physics is the same as learning what the nerves in the penis are, and where. Your posts are disrespectful to everyone who reads them, and shows how condescending your views are of most people, to think that they won’t see though it, and question it. Cheap attempts at ridicule and exceptionally vague absurdities aren’t going to stop me from using common sense.

Overall your posts are incredibly mean spirited and condescending, and it really does a disservice to people who are genuinely interested in facts and learning.

Having an injury has inspired me to want to learn, but I don’t expect to be able to treat my injury from it. I’ve already found stuff that has shown to help my injury through trial and error, so this isn’t about that. I just am curious to learn, that’s it. And like I’ve said, I’m not against PE so people shouldn’t feel like I’m an enemy to the forum.

I just want to learn what I can, and not see people misinformed. I’ll see what I can start with, and hopefully this thread can shake the negativity and start to move in a more positive direction.

Okay so then open a book and tell me how a nerve functions; what is the mechanism for the nerve impulse; what chemical factors are responsible for creating that impulse what can enhance the impulse, what can impede or shut off the impulse. While you’re at it tell me the different types of nerves, what branch of the system they belong too and how those systems relate to each other and while you’re at it give me the names of the Cranial nerves. Okay go research!

The Human Nervous System 3rd Edition
by Juergen K. Mai (Editor), George Paxinos AO (BA MA PhD DSc) NHMRC (Editor)

Now this is the book to read. I think they’re on their 3 or 4th edition. Available on Amazon. I have the first edition but that’s kind of old and I know you want new stuff, you know current. Let me know when you get it.

I appreciate the recommendation. It’s 243$ for the hardcover and 198$ for the kindle edition. The cheapest used one they have is 192$. But I can see if a library that I can get to has it available, maybe one in NYC.

That book though is about nerves in general, which is fine, and I will definitely see if I can find it at library at some point this fall. I doubt a library near my house has it, but if by some chance they do I can get it sooner. What about anything focusing more specifically on the penis?

Current means that they are still learning new things. It’s safe to say there will be newer additions in the future with other changes.

Thank you for the recommendation. If it’s at a library nearby I can get it very soon, if not, hopefully at some point in the fall.

The always have it in medical school libraries. If you live near one go take a look. See if you want to talk about nerves, let’s say on my level which is no where near anything great, you have to start off with a foundation as to what nerves are all about. You can’t just sit down and play a great sonata on a piano if you don’t know the notes, the basics. Yes I know some gifted people can but you and I are not them.

Before the advent of the internet the only way to get decent medical knowledge was to go to a medical library, usually associated with a med school, and read books and journals and take notes. No one wanted to spend 300 bucks on a book if they didn’t have to. My anatomy book back then was over 500 bucks; I don’t even want to know what it costs now. All those books gave you the basics, gave you the language so you could progress and learn more.

Now all you have to do is look it up online; simple. You don’t even have to know what a blood cell looks like but you can read a few abstracts, not the full article, but a condensed version and become a researcher that everyone will listen to. The more ignorant someone is about the human body the more they’ll accept a plumber who did some research and now he’s letting us and the world know his great discovery!

This forum has some very bright people with good backgrounds in the biological sciences; people that kind of know the right thing and are more than eager to help. Sadly those voices get shouted out by the ignorant because they them selves know better. Hence the great help they could give members around here they don’t bother; it’s not worth it.

No one can tell a plumber what to do unless he is a plumber himself but because of the net the plumber can now look something up and tell the doctor what to do.