Just a few reactions from me.
Hbgreek, you said:
While hangers may worry about what weight they use, the point is not to hang large quantities. Weight-lifters, on the other hand, need a way to quantify strength. That's why they should care about weight.
I think you miss the point with both. Both PE-ers and weight lifters want to use enough weight to achieve a goal, be that a stretch of ligament or tissue or to build a muscle. Weight lifting isn’t just about lifting as much weight as possible. There are different types of lift to even target the same muscle, there are issued of “form” in your lifting and so forth.
I generally understand your point that you clearly won’t use the volume of weight in PE as weights, but that isn’t the issue. For example, I couldn’t and wouldn’t concentric curl with amount of weight I would bench press, but my approach to the process remains the same to maximise my goals.
Physically, also, weight training and PE are very different. Building muscle is a natural, healthy process. What we do to our penises is not supposed to happen.
Again, this is entirely inaccurate. Building muscle is a response to putting the body under stress, the body doesn’t want to naturally build such a volume of muscle, that is why we ache or feel fatigue. Hence, we stress the body, ensure nutrition is correct and let it build itself stronger.
What we do with PE is the same, although not targeting a muscle. We stress the structures of the penis and let them rebuild bigger/wider, etc.
Where it gets interesting is in this area. If two guys followed identical weights routines, diets, etc, they would both gain a similar sort of shape over a similar sort of time, in general.
Yet in PE that maybe isn’t the case. Firstly we could say the ligament or spongy tissue has two reactions to stress. The first is to grow, the second to get stronger. So what anatomically separates a good gainer and a bad gainer may very well be how their body acts to repair itself (because there must be a ultimate point where you can PE no more).
However, scientifically there are little controls of the methods people use to PE. My point is the more scientific control and knowledge that can be used to control the approach, the better for PE. But I’m not saying discount what you feel, but controlling the barrier between fatigue (good for gains) and pain (over-training) is a thin line which is best out of the human hands and in a controlled setting.
PEing within scientific controls then allows better feedback, both for the PE-er and for the wider community in understanding what happens during and what is best for PE. Yes there is a lack of knowledge, but that isn’t helped by the manual approach, because it lacks the controls to provide understanding and consistency and accuracy.
