Dry Jelqing = Masturbating?

Hey everyone,

I am new to PE so this may sound like a stupid question. I have searched and read alot of posts on dry jelqing, including the FAQ to Jelqing. Dry jelqing seems alot like masturbating to me, except with more applied pressure to the penis. I am uncircumsized, and many posts say dry jelqing is the best for me. Am I reading the instructions wrong or does it really feel like masturbating?

Welcome, D-Alpha! I have the same “stupid question,” and I’ve been at Thunder’s for a few months now. I still don’t understand how jelqing can promote growth, even though I believe that many have made big gains from it. It feels simply like slow masturbation with a tight grip to me!

Masturbation is most often done, and is most satisfying, with a fully erect penis. Jelqing is done with the penis at approximately 70% erection. When the corpora cavernosa are not full of blood, you can manipulate the blood that is there by squeezing it toward one end. This causes the CC to expand beyond what they would normally and promotes new cell growth to accommodate the increased pressure, thus enlarging the CC and the penis.

Obviously this doesn’t happen overnight. It requires daily dedication.

I don’t doubt the effectiveness of jelqing. I just want to make sure I know exactly what it is. I don’t want to spend 3 months “masturbating”, and think I been dry jelqing the whole time. Beside the tight grip, a slower pace, and 70%-90% erection, are there any more difference between dry jelqing and masturbation? Thanks.

Your dick learns the difference between the two. I’ve been dry jelqing for 3.5 months and only one time did I wind up masturbating right after or during my session and cumming.

You can call it masturbation if, when you actually masturbate, you clamp the base of a 70% (not 90%) erection with one hand, close your grip just above the first with your other hand (thumb and index finger) and then slowly, over three or four seconds, squeeze the blood toward the head then release. If that’s the way you masturbate, then that’s what you can call it.

what are you starting measurements D-Alpha?

Thanks for the concise clarification, Westla. Somehow I think my penis just isn’t built for jelqing, but if hanging doesn’t work out, someday I may do some jelq.

Over the past month or so, I have been dry jelqing with a 90%-100% erection. Now I noticed some people saying dry jelqing should be done at 70%.

So I am now wonder whether 70% the best way to gain? During my course I have had no problem with my 90%-100% erect. I also don’t masturbate during this, and I am totally focused at gaining. I feel like I go through good workouts. However, I am willing to hear otherwise, if I ought to consider 70% to better my chances in gaining girth.

Thanks for any advice.

From what I understand, there’s a lot of controversy about jelqing at the level of erection you are using. Some swear by it, while others say it’s very risky. One thing that most agree on, however, is that higher level of erections tend to produce more girth gains, while lower levels of erection tend to produce more length gains.

I fluctuate from 70-90% erections when I am dry jelqing and don’t see how someone could stay at 70% for the whole session. It would seem to me that it would either go down or up from there.

This is the first time I have heard of this, and I find it very interesting. Is there a thread I can view to get more information? I have also heard on this website that slower jelqs with give you girth and faster jelqs will give you length. I wonder what other learned thunders’ bros have to say though. :jelq:

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