Well, firstly to address the girth gains. I never consciously attempted to make any girth gains because I was after length from the beginning, and so never made any initial girth measurements.
My first girth measurements were after reading how most women really only prefer the feel of more girth, so I thought I’d see what I was working with and discovered that I had 5” at the base.
My first year was devoted to stretching with a mechanical stretching device that I saw on the hubbard site. I made a few modifications and sat in a hot bath for a half hour a day, five on two off, with the stretcher and after a year or so my unit was an inch bigger. I didn’t jelq, stretch or any other exercise as I found them to be uncomfortable.
Toward the end of the first year I tried clamping with the cable clamp and really enjoyed the inflation and 110% erection, but I never found that the swelling stayed for very long and so I lost interest in the exercise to focus on stretching alone.
I found that after a year my growth ground to halt and nothing would give me even a 1/16”. I took a couple of months off and found that I hadn’t lost any length and so went right back to stretching with my device.
After a couple of months I measured again and nothing.
I went back to reading and re-approached jelquing. I had originally not been able to jelq as I had a little to work with flaccidly and the head of my penis would get numb very quickly form the jelquing. In the preceding year or so, my flaccid hang had improved to the point where I had material to grip with without putting too much duress on the head, and I was then able to jelq and experiment with grip tension, duration of stroke and so on.
I have noticed in the time that I’ve been jelqing that I have taken on a baseball bat type girth which, when 100% erect or when clamped measures just over six inches at the fattest point. I have only claimed 5 7/8” base girth because that is the only measurement I’ve ever made unclamped, and the only other time I’m 100+% hard is with my wife and she would have questions if I stopped to measure then!
I have been toying with the idea of hanging recently again as I feel that there is some extra length to be gained from it, and even though I have finally pierced the 7” barrier, it may well just be that it was the quality of the erection more than a recent gain from exercise. And also I had put on some weight over the winter and I have probably lost about 10 pounds in the last month with increased soccer outdoors as the weather has been good, and so less fatpad to obstruct measurement.
So can I attribute the last 1/8” to jelqing? Possibly. I haven’t lost size as a result of not stretching, and I like the EQ from jelqing and vascularity, but it’s difficult to say long term, but I will stay posted.
