Originally Posted by sparkyx
….. Buoyancy would generate mere ounces of force as opposed to lbs of force generated by the vacuum. ..
Really? How muc water fits in your pump? Doing a quick, rounded calc, I think a 9”x2,5” diameter tube can contain roughly 2 lbs of water. This is the buoyancy force. Not so low.
(I’m not sure the buoyancy force is already included in what you read on the gauge, though. If so, even without vacuum, when you insert your penis inside the tube you should read a variation in the gauge.).
Originally Posted by sparkyx
….. Plus, this would only work in the direction opposite of gravity or “up”. I hold my tube downward, so buoyancy should shorten my length.
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Given the shape of your penis and the fact that it is held by the weight of your body, it would penetrate as well in water and the compressive force on the sides would squeeze it as well, so the net effect hardly can be a shortening effect - than you add the force of the vacuum, and you see why your penis is lenghtened.
Out of curiosity : when you push your pump perpendicular to your body, how the hell you can read the length on the tube?
Originally Posted by sparkyx
….. This is why I believe girth tends to expand more in pumping than length. The “pull” for length would just be generated by the surface area perpendicular to the axial vector, which would be the glans primarily. Which may explain why blisters tends to form on the tip of the glands.
Blisters are caused mainly by the friction against walls. Since most of penises are slighly curved, expecially when extremely engorged, one side of the glans will have friction against the cylinder, causing the blister.
A nice effect, from a theorical point of view, of the higher density of water respect to air, is that it should mantain the penis more straight when over engorged. I’d check if this really happen, because it would suggest that water pumping is safer; but it also would suggest that water refrain expansion, compared to air, so at any given level of vacuum the penis would expand less.