“A hard man is good to find.”
- Mae West
Over the years, several women—and even men—have told me that a hard penis is more important than a big one.
One woman I interviewed said, “The most important thing about a penis is its hardness. Who cares about penis size! Give me a penis that’s rock-hard for a long period of time, and I’ll keep coming back for more and more.”
Another woman said, “A really hard penis is the biggest turn on of them all—simply because it shows that he really wants me.”
It’s true: a hard penis is the foundation of an optimal sex life. So it’s surprising that there isn’t more focus on penis hardness rather than penis size. But perhaps you’re as hard as you want to be. Perhaps you always have the sexual stamina to please your partner the way she or he craves to be pleased. But maybe you don’t. And if not, the kegel will help it happen. So, whether you’re a soft man wanting to become hard, or a hard man wanting to become harder, the kegel is the number one exercise for the job. But the kegel doesn’t stop there. Many men have experienced a long array of benefits from kegeling, such as:1
Ø Longer-lasting erections
Ø Multiple orgasms
Ø A cure for erectile dysfunction
Ø A cure for premature ejaculation
Ø A healthier prostate
Ø An improvement in penile blood flow
Ø An increase in intensity orgasm
Ø An increase in “shooting distance” when ejaculating
Ø An increase in control of ejaculation, which leads to greater sexual stamina
Ø An increase in angle of erection (for example, one man declared that his penis use to point towards the floor when erect, but now it points more straight out)
Ø An increase in penis size (generally caused by an improvement in blood flow)
Ø A cure for post-nucturition dribble (in which urine consistently dribbles from the penis at the end of an urination session)
Several penis exercisers have also reported that kegeling has helped enlarge the head of their penis. The head is considered one of the best parts of the penis to enlarge because it is the first part of your penis that your partner will feel during intercourse. So, to that end, the kegel is the first—and the most important—exercise you will learn. In fact, if you only do one exercise from this book, this is it.
The best part: the kegel is as simple as exercises come. It barely takes any time, and the multiple benefits makes the short time well spent. As far as penis exercises go, the kegel is also the only exercise that doesn’t actually involve exercising your penis, but instead real skeletal muscles.
Look, No Hands!
The kegel strengthens your pelvic floor muscles, which are skeletal muscles in the same class as your biceps, triceps, and abs. The pelvic floor muscles are located at the “root” of the inner penis—roughly half of the penis is actually inside the body, and this half is encircled by the pelvic floor muscles (see Appendix B). The only way to exercise these muscles is with your mind, not with your hands. And because kegels require nothing but the will of your mind, you can kegel anywhere, anytime, without anyone ever knowing.
Healthy pelvic floor muscles are essential to a healthy penis. Many doctors and sexual experts define the pelvic floor muscles as the sex muscles because of their heavy influence on the penis and therefore sex. Strong pelvic floor muscles provide the benefits you just read previously, and weak pelvic floor muscles often result in weak erections and premature ejaculation.
Demoting the PC Muscle
Kegels were originally developed by gynecologist Arnold Kegel in the 1940s for women. Dr. Kegel observed that if women exercised their pubococcygeus (PC) muscle, then they would have a healthier pelvic region, a tighter vagina, and stronger orgasms. Some women even noticed an increase in sexual desire. Men later found that they too could reap sexual benefits by kegeling.
When men kegel they aren’t exclusively using the PC muscle, which is well-established myth. A Registered Nurse and online moderator of Thunder’s Place Penis Enlargement Forums named Steve “westla90069” Beal largely debunked this myth in is his essay Locating the BC Muscle. “Men and women are different,” says Beal. “Females have essentially internal sex organs, males essentially external. The PC muscle is located in such a way that it is above and behind the penis and it contracts up into the pelvis. While its action on the rectum may add a little to the pull on the penis, it isn’t the main muscle being exercised when men do kegels.”
Men don’t use just one sex muscle when they kegel—they use a whole set of muscles, largely the bulbocavernosus “BC” muscle and the ischiocavernosus “IC” muscle (see Appendix B for more on these muscles).2Kegeling makes both of these muscles stronger, which helps pump more blood into your penis. And as Dr. Steven Lamm, renowned author of The Hardness Factor, says, “Increasing blood flow to the penis strengthens erections and enhances the function of your vital organ.”
Harder Than Viagra?
So how effective are kegels? A recent clinical study published in the British Journal of General Practice had 55 impotent men exercise their pelvic floor muscles with exercises like the kegel. Prior to the study, none of the men could maintain an erection for more than 30 seconds. By the study’s end, 40 percent of the men had completely fixed their erectile dysfunction, and 35 percent of the men showed significant improvement.3
“The results were a real surprise . . . Strengthening up the pelvic floor muscles not only improved strength, but also endurance,” said the lead scientist of the study, Dr. Grace Dorey, author of Stronger and Longer and visiting professor at the University of West England. “When men are going through a normal sex life, they should be looking to these exercises to extend their sex life. If men are performing reasonably well, this research would suggest that they may be able to improve their performance even further.”
Dr. Frank Sommer, a German Urologist and professor at Hamburg University of Men’s Health, conducted another study. The study involved 124 men who were separated into three groups. One group did pelvic floor exercises, one group took erection drugs (such as Viagra), and one group took a placebo (such as a salt pill). The pelvic exercise group took the lead with 80 percent experiencing stronger and harder erections, followed by the erection drug group with 74 percent, and the placebo group with 18 percent.
Kegels Help the Prostate
In The Prostate Health Program, authors Daniel W. Nixon, M.D., and Max Gomez, Ph.D., point out that exercising the pelvic floor muscles amplifies the circulation and stimulation of the prostate.
“When performed properly, Kegel exercises force blood into your penis and genital area, benefiting both the prostate and the urinary tract. In addition, Kegel exercises indirectly massage the prostate,” says Gomez and Nixon.
“Kegel exercises are also great for improving virility (potency) and achieving greater ejaculation and arousal control,” Gomez and Nixon affirm. “This impacts very favorably on the prostate, since a healthy sex life often equals a healthy prostate.”
A healthy prostate is important because behind lung cancer, prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men. Approximately one out of ten men will be diagnosed with the disease. And here’s the really bad news: the majority of men will have a problem with their prostate before they die. Whether it’s prostate cancer, prostate enlargement or prostate infection, each can have an ill effect on your penis, your sex, and ultimately your life.