Originally Posted by mrweenie
Well think of it this way. Say you are not able to get erect straight away before stimulation and are semi hard. A bit of foreplay and blowjobs while flaccid can be quite arousing for a chick when you have her pulling on your dick and it stretching longer I suppose. I have an upward curve so when I dead stretch I don’t have to bend it straight to try get a better measurement. So I assume the bend makes me lose length.
Not quite sure what you’re getting at, but women (I’m told) are notoriously bad at quantifying penis size, so it’s hard to imagine the difference between BPFSL and EL having much significance.
Originally Posted by austfred
Tom, I use BPFSL in an extender sense. Its how far I stretch my unit in an extender for an extended time (eg 30 to 60 min). I find BPFSL a pretty good indicator of future PEPL. If I can stretch a bit more I find my BEPL increases a little later often after a short break. So that is the practical meaning BPFSL has to me
Logical, and it works for you. Looking at the bigger picture, though, we have guys who report their BPFSL shorter than EL. No third-party verification of course, and it puzzles me, but given doubts I can’t endorse your view for everyone, even though it works for you and others (and I hope for me ;-)
Originally Posted by gregorius
At start I had BPFSL 17.8 cm and BPEL 17.0 cm. Now I have still BPFSL 17.8 cm but BPEL 17.5 cm. Makes sense to me, there was “space” to grow. Maybe the CC filled up the “space”?
Fair enough, and I’ll admit I love seeing longer BPFSL. Typically these days it’s 19 cm, but if 18.5, one tug takes it to 19, then a couple of strong pulls will take it to 19.5, and of course I’m expecting EL to follow. I rarely measure EL.
Off topic, not long ago when I was a bit more attentive to my diet than now, I was losing weight, and put a cloth measuring tape in the bathroom to measure my waist when I weighed myself in the morning, before putting on layers of clothes (winter here). My wife saw it and said, “Are you measuring your penis at your age?” Rather than instruct her in proper penis measuring technique, I simply explained why it was there (and removed it). So I have a certain stigma about taking a ruler into the bathroom to measure EL (and sure as hell not going to keep one bedside to measure morning wood!!!). A workable alternative is a proto-ruler, in my case a long bug spray can that lives in the bathroom, which I can measure after with a steel measuring tape, which I keep handy for fix-up projects.
But for some reason, it’s always a disappointment—when I measure directly with a ruler, I find I have strong incentive to reach to fudge and reach X length, and manage to. This is why I occasionally suggest to residents of Murka (and Liberia and Myanmar) that they “get honest” and measure with that pesky meaningless metric stuff. Rest of you, learn yer fractions and measure in pesky meaningless inches (and maybe one day feet! :) )