Difference between BPFSL and BPEL?

Before I start in on this, I’m technically a bit on the heavier side, which makes measuring a little tricky, thanks to the fat pad. I’m five foot ten and two-hundred and twenty five pounds. (Apparently I’m forty pounds overweight ATM.) My BPFSL is around 8.5 inches by the look of things and my BPEL seems to be a little over 8 inches. I was going to ask, is this normal? Lastly, if you’re on the heavier side like I am, how much of a difference does placing the ruler half an inch up from the shaft make?

Completely normal my estimated friend, if you take some time go read through the forum you will realize that the majority of men have their stretched penis bigger than their erected. Why? I don’t know.

I agree with c3ifador. In regards to why it’s longer stretched than erected, I just assumed that because it was full of blood and thickened out, it loses that elasticity, like when you blow up a balloon. It’s easier to stretch a deflated balloon and it goes further in stretch than an inflated one. Just my thought’s on the subject.

Also about the ruler placement - it does make a difference. You are aiming to press it into the pubis/pubic bone, not the stomach :)

Okay, two more questions then. One, is it better to measure on your back or standing up? And two, if I have difficulty hitting my pubic bone above the shaft, is there a better way to measure?

I always measure standing up, I would posit that this is the most common way but to be honest, I am not sure enough for this to be taken as fact. Hopefully some others will chime in.
Pubic bone is a must for BPEL measurements, otherwise if it’s an issue just focus on NBPEL and doing what you can to be healthy until you are able to take BPEL :)
If going for stretched flaccid measurements, you can use a standard reference point. I would recommend a place on your groin that is identifiable. For me, bone pressed stretched flaccid is impossible due to the tension of the skin so I take mine from the same point in the groove of my groin

That’s actually my exact problem. I can find the bone itself fairly easily, but my finger sinks in. No, the problem is that trying to put the ruler on it, feels like I’m about to rip the skin clean off.

Your reply was not entirely clear - you can find the bone but your finger sinks in? … To the bone? If you can find the bone fairly easily then there should be no trouble putting a ruler onto it. It’s supposed to sink in towards the bone, through the fat-pad (not a reference to yourself being overweight, it’s the term used here for the spongy area of the pubis on all men).
I think I know what you mean about the ripping skin bit, please read back to my last message. When stretching the penis to take the meaurement, I cannot bone-press either, hence why I take it from a repeatable location along my groin/thigh :)

Maybe person has length potential, but at the moment that’s not used because balance with girth. In other words, it’s more comfortable for cells to keep such shape and if you want longer dick then you need to grow more cells and push more blood with supply system. I’m more curious how guys have opposite situation when erect stretch is actually longer than flaccid stretch. Do they kinda have inner limit and their erect is longer only because glans become bigger?

I honestly don’t know, because hard, I’ve got a girth of about six inches. So it’d make sense then for it to shrink a little.

The balloon analogy is on point. The tunica does have two layers, an inner layer with circular fibers and an outer layer with longitudinal fibers. When erect each layer fights the expansion of the other.

When you stretch flaccid you expand your penis only in length direction and the length of the circular tunica does not add so much resistance because there is no blood inside the CC.

And also if someone has an upward curve at high erection level makes sense to have a longer Bpfsl, because the curve does not exist at flaccid state.

Umm, wait. Erect stretched? I got lost somewhere in there, sorry!

6 inch girth? Before or after PE? Anyway, congrats on being in the top 0.001% of the world

Somehow I kinda got the image of a finger in a chinese finger trap when reading baout the two layers. Who knows why… Anyway, good words about the erection curve, I have an upward curve when above 95%, as do others, but many do not understand to take this into account.

I meant some people have bigger BPEL than BPFSL.

Ah right, okay. Yeah, I heard of that too, but doesn’t seem possible to me, I just assume those people are measuring slightly wrong. I mean a balloon can’t be blown up longer than it can be stretched, can it? Especially with one layer of the tissues expanding, reducing the length that bit more in exchange for girth.