Haha, you are hooked buddy. :)
>> how much tension is needed and how long? <<
Well I don’t know how much tension is needed to have permanent elongation in the case of TA; it would also vary from man to man. But we can’t doobt it has to be a high tension. The main point, I think, is that if one wants to cause permanent deformation, FORCE is the major factor; time is a secondary factor.
I think it can help visualizing the penis as a hemp rope
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if it can stand, as a max weight, say 100 kg, then applying for a few seconds 110 kg wil break the rope; apllying 90 kg for say 10 minutes will break some of the fibers; how much time you do need to break a significative number of fibers applying a 30 kg force? An enormous amount of time.
It makes sense that some fibers in the tissue have different strength than others, but I don’t think many fibers will have a so low strength to be broken with less than half of the max weight of the strongerr fibers in the same tissue. But if applied for enough time, some fibers wil be consumed at microscopic level. To reach a significative amount of damage, a long time will be required, however.
>>If the CT is not stretched into the plastic range, no permanent gains have been created, right? Elastic creep is probably gone by the next day right? Then it’s back to square one.<<
The way I’m reading this bunch of stuff, is
a) the elastic properties of the tissue will allow to reach a longer state;
b) the viscous properties of the tissue will allow to mantain this longer state for more time than was need to reach that max lenght.
There are other factors that help to take advantage of this gap between [time required to elongate - time required to return at previous length] : nervous factors, un-crimping fibers, maybe cellular proliferation, tissue memory etc.. It helps also having daily erections: while sleeping expecially, because in the REM phase you have so hard erections that TA is stretched to his max lenght or near that.
So: it’s true that elastic creep is not ‘gain’ if you are meaning creation of new matter in the tissue (at least in a significative amount); but it is also true that, due to "creeping of tissue", or "dumped elastic elongation", the tissue is longer for a not so short amount of time.