Originally Posted by SimonClass
But I still see no reason why doctors say that pe is not possible when it’s really working.
I suspect that a good number of doctors (maybe a fourth of young, Internet-savvy ones) are aware that there may be ways to increase penis size through, for example, extended traction or pumping, but if a patient asks a doc about this sort of thing, the safest response, for reasons of liability, is to say that none of it works and to accept one’s God-given penis size. No doc wants to face a lawsuit when some patient has to have his gangrenous cock amputated. When knowledge of PE as a means of self-enhancement becomes more mainstream, to the point that most men are aware of it independent of their doctors, then docs may be less hesitant to talk about it, the same way they’re willing to talk about bodybuilding or other risky-but-mainstream self-enhancement activities for which they are not likely to be held responsible, should their patients participate in them.
Originally Posted by SimonClass
There would be a lot of money in this business, you can not deny it.
Yes, and there’d also be lots of money in the business of selling anabolic steroids to patients, if normal-sized muscles were considered a medical disorder. :) There are controversies in medicine today about the border between treating disorders and enhancing normal individuals (e.g., overprescription of attention-increasing stimulants for children and SSRIs for adults, or cosmetic surgeries for individuals who haven’t suffered burns and the like), but I can’t really see a lot of docs arguing that it’s their business to be helping patients increase the size of their normal penises. I’m sure some research docs would be interested in investigating the area (ostensibly to help treat micropenis…), but I don’t see government grants coming in any time soon for this kind of thing. ;) There’s a reason beyond the poor results that dick-enlargement surgeons (who often also sell expensive “medical” versions of things like vacuum hangers) are ostracized by mainstream communities of urologists. Right or wrong, they are seen as making megabucks off of men’s psychological insecurities and shirking their professional duty to help treat “real” medical disorders.
Originally Posted by AndroNYC
Fitness took decades to be other than scoffed at by the medical community- and they make their money now on supplements and equipment.
The “medical community” is making money off of supplements and equipment for exercise? :confused: Last I checked, doctors and mainstream medical organizations such as the AMA, AHA and ACS advised their patients to quit smoking, go for walks and swims, and eat more fruits and veggies. Supplement hucksters (not regulated by the FDA) make the profits off of pushing bogus diet pills and ab-zappers. Sure, when a legitimately effective and safe weight-loss drug is developed, the medical community will push it (and, yes, pharmaceutical companies will make ridiculous profits off of it — I’m all for some more socialism in our medical system) — obesity is a serious health problem in the US, after all — but doctors seem to be quite honest about the fact that there are, at present, no shortcuts to weight loss and fitness beyond old-fashioned (and free) exercise and diet.