mmmm, I was thinking. Drinking a healthy ammount of water is great, but don’t do what I did and drink too much. I had some pretty foul mineral loss for a couple days, and it wasnt fun. Even my flacid hangs went down, strange as it was. But enough about me…
When you absorb water, it goes directly into your blood, and your blood pressure raises to healthy levels. In a sense, your blood volume is greater. If you drink too much, you’ll end up pissing it out to relieve the pressure. I think this affects the flacid hang in two ways. Though various parts of the body show different ranges in how much they can swell, (ie. histamine reactions, your stomach when training for a hotdog eating contest, your head when you get arrogant, etc) the one part that shows the best capacity for swelling is, you guessed it, the penis. If your blood volume is increasing, it would make sense that you get a better flacid hang since your body is trying to equalize the blood pressure, and your the penis expands some as a result. Think of it like a balloon on the end of a hose, as you increase water pressure in the hose, it’ll swell a bit, but the balloon will swell more.
My second thought is that this is an evolutionary response. This is just hypothesis, though. Went Para_gumba said his bladder would explode when he needed to piss, I wonder if its because you have more activity involved in that area, hence increase in blood flow. Or possibly, we evolved so that when we needed to piss, the penis would elongate a bit so that we decreased the risk of pissing on ourselves (although a bunch of guys at my college are testing the limits of this theory…). Piss: Great for marking territory, not so great for trying to hide in the bush from animals with good smell. I dunno, what do you guys think? - PN
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