What is behind the Sommer Penis phenomenon

34 centimeters – that long is probably the largest erect penis in the world. At least unofficially. Because its carrier, the New Yorker Jonah Falcon, did not get an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. An average penis manages to 13.12 centimeters. Women are not so important. The surveys always prove. Men, on the other hand, often have a very close eye on the size of their best piece. So if the penis suddenly appears a number larger, it stands out. This is exactly what many men want to have observed with increasing temperatures.

The journalist Tracy Moore once introduced the term summer penis phenomenon. She already reported in the now set “Mel Magazine” in 2018: “The summer penis is a difficult to understand phenomenon that is subject to fluctuating the seasons. No dumbbell can enlarge it, no food can fill it up.” It is a kind of temporary fluctuation of the penis size caused by heat. This ensures that the penis can be significantly larger in summer than in winter, where it is known to “withdraw”. Is that humbug or are there such seasonal fluctuations really?

A call to doctor Axel Merseburger. He is the director of the Clinic for Urology at the University Hospital Lübeck and press spokesman for the German Society for Urology. The phenomenon of summer penis actually exists, says the doctor. However, it is rare that patients would be presented with it because it is not seen as pathological. “A lot expands in heat. An iPhone also expands, but because it is only micrometers, you don’t see it,” he explains. “With the penis, the vessels are widened through the heat, which means that more blood flows into the threshold body.”

The penis does not grow in summer, it swells and neither to record -breaking size nor permanently. “This is almost like a beginning erection, which makes the penis bigger,” said Merseburger. “However, affected men do not get a longer penis. If it becomes stiff, it is as big as in winter.” Thus, the summer penis only has “sagging” penis effects. And even the better lover does not become a man through the summer penis. “He doesn’t make more potent, but he doesn’t hurt either,” says the doctor.

The opposite phenomenon to the summer penis? In the case of cold, the blood vessels and erectile tissue contract, which can give the impression of a smaller penis. “You know it from the sauna,” explains the urologist. “If you jump into the ice water after a sauna session, you can experience the summer winter effects in a row.”