Am i too young to start?

I am 18, thats the truth, just turned it, BUT, i was late to puberty e.g shave one a week kinda thing, but i was wondering should i wait to start a jelq and stretch routine or is it ok to start now?

could it be dangerous for me to start now?

Rebu,
I’ll give you an honest answer: whether you’re 18 or 16, I think the biggest “danger” for a young lad to do this would be the impatience and wrecklessness of youth. Before you start tugging or squeezing your kiwi, make sure you are very well read on all of this shit, and begin slowly (I tell you this - you CANNOT *rush* your progress, you can only ruin it by trying to go crazy with PE).

I suppose the *legal disclaimer* would be that nobody under 18 should ever attempt this, blah, blah, blah….. I’m 39 and I found PE when I was 37, but damn do I wish I knew this stuff when I was 15 or 16 (why be a hypocrite?).

Just be very cautious - remember, you have only 1 kiwi, so don’t mess it up. As for the late puberty thing, I would recommend that you proceed with caution, take it easy, use low to moderate force, be patient. Then the gains will come.

If anything, I suspect that young guys (14-20 or so) would probably make better length gains because the connective tissues & other structures haven’t even hardened up yet (as they do in your 20’s). Just be careful - young guys tend to be dumb guys: always in a hurry & think they’re indestructible.

Best of luck,
- w a d

After I made my response to this post, I thought it about it some more, and here’s what I would recommend:

(1) Don’t do any extreme techniques - clamping, erect bends, ulis, etc. - you might end up with a severe thrombosis, which you do NOT want. Your younger & more pliable tissues - while an advantage for length gains - might make you more susceptible to those soft tissue injuries, even creating a vein weakness which could give you long-term problems.

(2) Always do a thorough warmup - not only will this help reduce your chances of injury, but it should temporarily soften up your ligs & tunica even more, helping your length gains.

(3) Carefully read the LOT theory, and stretch accordingly. There’s a lot of confusion, or so it seems, regarding the determination of one’s LOT. So, in a nutshell, it’s where your tug-back drops off definitively. As Bib explained, there will be some “movement” at lower angles, due to the PC flexing, but the sharp drop is where your LOT is.

(4) Stay away from hanging, it will be of no real benefit to you yet. In fact, hanging might tighten up your tissues, making length gains a little harder.

(5) Start every other day. After a month or two, you can move to 4 days of stretching. Eventually, it would benefit you to stretch daily and jelq every other day.

(6) Plot your course slowly, there truly is NO shortcut. You CANNOT rush gains with PE, only injury. If there honestly was a shortcut, we’d all do it and none of us would be at this forum very long (because we’d all have horse cocks!). You’re young, you have plenty of time to get big.

Good luckk & be smart,
- w a d

The Raw Secjay!

I started in my mid teens and don’t think I suffered any problems because of PE.

also i neeed to add that i developed a score running verticall from balls to tip of penis on skin, its quite narrow scar, i wasnt circumsized so i was wondering if you guys know what thats from??

thanks for feedback, very informative, i hope i can get some more opinions.

Rebu, please read the forum guidelines (the part about capitalizing). Thanks.

>I developed a score running verticall from balls to tip of penis on skin

See this.

It looks like this scar, the one starting/ending at the one and heading down.

Is that a raphe?

It doesnt curve around like that, It pretty much heads right up.

I hope this is all that it is, I was getting abit worried about it.

There’s no specific age to start, as far as I’m concerned. Hell, the original Sudanese (or whatever) cultures that started up jelqing and the entire idea of PE, would teach their children to do it starting as early as (get this) age 6. That’s right.age 6.

There’s nothing wrong with doing it at any age, unless you lack the maturity and discipline to do so. As someone stated above, when you’re young, you’re wreckless and you can act VERY stupid without knowing it, or caring about it.

I guess it can be put as simply as this: PE is just like body building, except for your penis. If you’re starting out at 130 lbs. And think you’re going to look like Schwartenegger in 6 months, you’re simply not mature, or not thinking, or both. If you want to make it a lifelong committment however, then it’s all good. Just be mature first of all, then understand what you’re getting into (learn EVERYTHING you can about it before you start), and make a true committment to it, just as you would anything you want bad enough.

Age is nothing. Maturity is everything.

admitedly, I started PE in my late 16’s and even browsed thunder’s, but did not post at that time. However my routine was sporadic at best, however I’m pretty sure that since my late 16’s I’ve gained about 3/4 an inch. Whether this is Natural growth or from PE? Don’t know.

I’ve been bodybuilding for 2 years and I understand that things like this take time, That’s not a problem, I just fought it may cause problems if i started during puberty when it may be growing itself.

That’s a myth. I’m not sure if a definite originator of PE is known, but it wasn’t the “Sudanese Arabs.”

There are no statistics on guys younger than 18, but I suspect there is point where one is too young. Sixteen (or close to the end of puberty) is probably the youngest anyone should be to try this. The main reason is the second part of your statement: they have to be old enough not to hurt themselves.

Excellent advice.

I think a few light jelqs cant do much harm but Iam thinking you may have natural growth left till 21, dont be in too much of a hurry

Can doing this stunt my natural growth?

I knew about PE at a very young age, something like 14 or 15. I would always start out but I never had the discipline to stick to it. I would go for a week, sometimes two and then I’d stop. I have a vague recollection of being 6.5 or slightly less at this age and badly wanting 7. Well I didn’t do enough PE to be able to say I got any real gains, but I did end up with a 7+” dick by 19 or so. So first of all no it won’t stunt your growth. Secondly I would say if you can be safe and disciplined you might be able to experience some very good gains especially since you might still be growing.