I go by BD. I would say I am your typical young man, just with an innate interest in biology and sexuality. I always thought I would end up doing something medical-related until I zagged at 18 and chose to study software engineering due to job security and a mild interest in the field. After college, I worked for a Fortune 250 manufacturing company.

Under the surface, I always struggled with body image issues. Starting at 9, I was made fun of for being chubby. At 14 for being skinny. Add in high expectations from parents and sports coaches, and I slowly began to apply these same high standards for dating and my body. That average was not worthy of love or affection. This is far from the case, but that need to be elite to feel worthy ultimately led me down this path.

It came to a head at 16, When one of passing interest said something along the lines of “You will never be as muscular as him,” referring to the biggest guy at our school. So, I began to really get into bodybuilding. But that 9 was not my only insecurity.

Like many of you, I was very insecure about my penis. I started watching pornography at an exceptionally young age and subconsciously compared myself to these fully developed and not to mention well-endowed. So, my juvenile appendage looked minuscule by comparison.

Since I was so insecure about my size, like many, I went to Google for my issue. I tried a myriad of combinations in the search bar. And found the term “Penis Exercises” was a gold mine. And found many different forums on the practice. Which taught me the basics of PE and ultimately led to this book.

When I started PE, I was above average at 6 inches long with about 5 inches of girth. ( Despite what you see on the internet, the average is about 5.6 inches long with 4.5 inches of girth) But average was not good enough for me. I swore off sex until I knew I was big. Over the next year, I would do PE in the shower.

In the first 6-8 months, I grew an inch in length and half an inch in girth.
This gave me so much confidence and changed how I interacted with everyone.
By the end of the year, I was 7.5 by 6 Average girth (5.25 midshaft 6.5 base.) Finally, living up to my own expectations, I started to date. And ultimately took a hiatus from PE when I found out I was a bit too big for my girlfriend (now wife) at the time. She got used to my size after about a month.

I played around with PE throughout college. But due to schedule and more important matters, I could not devote enough time to the craft. But I did gain some girth in those 4 years. I was comfortable with my size. But I fell in love with the idea of getting bigger, which inevitably became a fetish. And is largely the reason I still
practice Penis enlargement for myself.

At the end of 2019, I decided to ante up to PE again. Bought about 300 dollars of equipment. I started posting about PE at this time. By 2021 I was about 8.5 by 6. And in 2022, I flirted with 9 inches long but caught covid that November and lost about an inch.

Covid is no joke. There have been thousands of reports of it causing erectile dysfunction. It’s a weird disease and impacts almost every cell in the body. I know it’s a controversial subject. But it is still a severe disease and has a myriad of long-term effects associated with it.

My loss in size was a blessing in disguise. This gave me a bit of fire to get back to where I was, but this time under my own approach, with everything that I learned in the past 2 years as the head of r/gettingBigger, the largest penis enlargement community ever. This book is the culmination of my work over the past 3 years and the intensive trial and error I did over the past 6 months to devise the first
science-based routine.

With this science-based approach, I gained ½ an inch in length in 5 months, doing ½ of the effort needed to gain previously. As of July 2023, I sit 8.5 inches long by 6.5 in average girth. With no desire to stop. My wife gets the final say as to when I hang It up. She is a very…. accommodating woman.

More introduction

This is not my first attempt to write a book on penis enlargement. This is probably my third attempt in two years to tackle the subject. The problem was I did not realize how much I did not know at the time. The book was supposed to be from a scientific perspective. The issue arose when science did not match practice.

For those uninitiated in the back-room dealings of internet penis enlargement, this has been a secret society for decades at this point. With a strong push to keep hush-hush over the holy grail that is penis enlargement.

To me, the author, it is a foregone conclusion that the penis can grow after puberty by harnessing biomechanics to manipulate the tissue of the penis to grow through a sort of hypertrophy (similar to muscle building HOWEVER, the inner workings of the penis are nothing like a muscle.) However, scientific proof is hard to come by. This is a taboo subject, after all. Imagine you were a researcher asking to get funding for penis enlargement techniques… you would be laughed out of the room. That money is supposed to go cure cancer, not solve the mundane issue of male insecurity.

So, it was left to the pioneers of PE to do the duty work themselves. The problem is that they looked at general ideas in science and bodybuilding. Treating this much like bone reformation, like braces treat crooked teeth. Or they treated this like bodybuilding, with progressive overload being the catalyst for changes.

This is where I come in. I spent nearly a decade doing PE their way (and made good gains, to be fair.) When I began to do my research, science did not line up with the practice. So, from January 2023 until the time of writing this, I spent 100’s of hours collecting data, forming routines, modifying said routines, and logging progress to develop what I am calling the therapeutic method for penis enlargement.

But to explain what’s so great about my version of the practices, we need to go into detail about the original practices for context. To understand why therapeutic PE a more surefire way to illicit gains is, we need to look at some basic anatomy and physiology of the penis and similar structures in the body. Extrapolate from research papers on how it applies to the penis.

In this book, I am not going into graphic detail about science. For one, it is going to take a lot more work. Secondly, this is a bit beyond the scope. I want this book to be a quick start to gain length. Most guys don’t care about science. They just want a bigger dick. While I love to learn science, I know it’s not for everyone. Expect a more comprehensive book… eventually.

And if it was not obvious from the title of the book. This will be information primarily about length. Length is what I did my experiments on, and it is easier to quantify. I am very confident in my findings when it comes to elongation. Girth, I know, still needs work, and I am yet to try practical applications. To make sure my advice is 100% concrete, I am only going to talk about what I have experienced, so expect a book for girth in the near future.

(Brief) History of PE

I am going to keep it real. I am relatively new in the world of penis enlargement. I have been practicing publicly for about 4 years at this point and have only been a leader for a year. But this gives me a few unique advantages.

One, I am not tied to old dogma. Two, I understand the plight of young men in this subject better than most of my older contemporaries. Internet porn just became a thing in my early teens. I lived through the same mental issues it gave you. So, I know exactly what kind of insecurities you are dealing with. Thirdly, young minds are much more open to change. I have completely flipped my theory of PE on its head this year because I finally understood the science behind it. But like many other forms of self-improvement. We learn from the mistakes of others. So, let’s go through and talk about the History of PE.

Tribal Penis Enlargement of Myths and Legend

Penis enlargement has probably been practiced in some form since the dawn of men. I can almost guarantee one of my caveman ancestors rubbed a stinging plant on his package in hopes the swelling would make it permanently bigger.

It is actually hard to find historical evidence of penis enlargement (go figure.) I could not find hard evidence on Many of these reported Tribes, meaning only tabloid articles or other PE “gurus” talk about the tribes at length.

The Karamojong tribe of eastern Uganda was rumored to use stones and hang them off the tip of their penis during puberty to grow to lengths “upwards of 18 inches” This practice became the baseline for length training. Length work needed to be done all the time for extreme results. The only problem is that I could not find evidence of the Karamojong doing said practice. But I did find an author, Yangki Christine Akiteng, who grew up in Karamojong Tribe and refuted these claims in a blog.

It is more likely that Uganda being right along the equator made most men showers due to heat, and lack of coverage, making them seem comically large and flaccid compared to European colonizers (this does rule out the possibility that the tribe is genetically gifted in regard to endowment.)

So, one of the first tenants of old school PE. Which is “always be in some form of elongation,” was caused by an urban legend. Moving to the Arabian Peninsula, we will find the apparent birthplace of Jelqing. Apparently, Arabic tribes would practice Jelqs, the most famous PE exercise ever. And their men would grow to great sizes because of this. I have even heard reports of the women of these tribes “jelqing” their infant sons in hopes they grow large members later on in life. Again, Like the stone hanging in Africa… I cannot find any hard evidence to pinpoint the origins of Jelqing.

For those unaware, Jelqing is no longer recommended. It’s inefficient, hard to get right, and easy to injure yourself. In general, we limit dynamic movements like Jelqs to mitigate risk. And for those that have no clue what a Jelqs is, imagine you apply the motion to milk a cow on your penis. This pulls in more blood (to the tip.)

Personally, I have mixed opinions on the Jelqs. It could have some use later on in PE. WITH THE RIGHT UNDERSTANDING, but as we continue to talk about the old ways, we will learn more about the shortcomings of the Jelq and how people made it highly dangerous.

Internet PE — ThundersPlace, Matters of Size and PEGYM

For more context about me, I started PE in 2013. Well, after the golden age of these communities. ThundersPlace, MattersofSize, and PEGYM used to be the meccas of Penis Enlargement, but after some mismanagement over the past few years, all three are shells of their former selves.

Let’s start with Thundersplace. Thunders hit their peak around 2003 2005 and slowly fell off to what is today. ThundersPlace made the idea of hanging and clamping quite popular, with large gainers using that as their main method of PE. Bib said he gained 4 inches in two years with his hanging device, which you could buy for just under 160 dollars. Like many other large gainers, Bib posted no pictures of results but with his experience in real estate sales. He could paint a very compelling sales picture.

Girtha popularized clamping. He is solely responsible for the use of organizational tools gone bad, the cable clampTM becoming a main stay in the PE’er’s arsenal. Like Bib, he had no pictures of his insane 2 inches of girth gained but wrote very erotic posts about his PE adventures.

Both of these men said their gains came from extremely long sessions. For hanging… upwards of 30lb off his penis for 2-4 hours at a time. Girtha would keep a clamp on and abuse Viagra for up 8 hours in what he called “clampathons” (he did not recommend these, however.)

From an outsider’s perspective, this seems crazy. That’s because it is no rational being would do this long term. No doctor would prescribe this style of therapy, and science says they gained in spite of their routines. More on that later.

I am not being 100% fair to Thundersplace. There are some good posts that are still relevant such as this one about positive indicators for PE. Which is largely correct up until today. During this time, there were warring philosophies, the hard and heavy method, or the less is more method… ultimately the hard, heavy method won out because insecure guys thought you needed to do whatever it took to gain the more work you do, the faster the gains. That’s far from the truth.

Matters of Size was the cult of personality of DoubleLongDaddy, AKA Michael Salvini. And Boy, DLD was quite the character. DLD was a self proclaimed agoraphobe (he was afraid to leave his house). At that time, he developed a system called Matters of Size. Which then became a popular forum for PE. He sold a DVD demonstrating his program, making it easy for newbies to follow along. He also began selling PE equipment (like myself) at a markup.

What really sunk his ship was that his greed caused him to push his paid programs and equipment more and more, which led to the downfall of the community.
Overall, the routines were not all that bad. I would consider them overworked now, but compared to ThundersPlace circa 2005, they are much safer. DLD was a proponent of erect stretching. Which pulled out the internal penis (this cannot happen, even with surgery.)

A lot of DLD’s stuff, however, was rampant speculation. He tried to cover all potential axis for gains, no matter how pseudoscience they were. So, these routines would end up being upwards of 2 hours daily, depending on the intensity.
PEGym is where I spent most of my time lurking. To be frank, I don’t remember most of the things I read there. “Big Al” was the main guy there. Like DLD, his routines were not awful, but like MattersofSize, greed is what led to its downfall with sponsorships from Bathmate and Phallosan Forte. Big Al is also a well-known PE coach, on which I now train several former clients.

PEgym is no longer its own site. It is now wrapped in the forum “biohacker.” The common themes here are chronic overwork, lack of specificity, non-existent risk prevention, and failure to optimize for the type of tissue. Simply put, if they spent more time focused on healing and less time literally beating their meat, They would have much better outcomes and penis enlargement would be taken much more seriously than it is now.

Bathmate Phallosan and The Rise of Pick-Up Marketers

After the fall of the forums rose, a new intermediate for PE information. Pick-Up Artist Bloggers. Their primary focus was on the dating of lifestyle. Still, like most men, they worried about their penis size in some capacity, found the old forums, and began to write about it in their own blog.

Since blogs are much easier to follow along with than most forums, this greatly lowered the bar of entry into PE, but there was a catch. Many of these Bloggers were (and still are) affiliated with the biggest brands for penis enlargement Bathmate Hydromax and Phallosan Forte. The bloggers would get a kickback on every sale they generated, incentivizing them to push the device.

Bathmate got some heat from the old forums as the founder was a member. And “stole” the idea of the Bathmate off a public forum. I don’t know if that is considered stealing. Bathmate launched in 2006 but really picked up steam around 2010 as its marketing machine expanded.

Phallosan Forte markets itself under “Scientific Research,” which they paid for. I am not saying Phallosan does not work. Its effectiveness is just highly exaggerated. Furthermore, like the Bathmate, the given routines were absolute garbage and led to more harm than good.

Again, the prevailing theory was of progressive overload and forced mitosis through traction. The penis does not work like that. Much like the mid-2000s, the 2010s were dominated by more is more, except with no counterargument against it.

On top of that, the blogger affiliates would give the same bad routines the device companies told. And some of the more prominent combined the mess of the old forums and the new devices to make routines. Increasing the risk factor greatly.

And at this time, social media and internet porn exploded onto the scene. This caused male body insecurity to reach levels never seen before in history. Making these devices quite compelling to the gullible young man (like this author.)

The Rise of PE Reddits

The year is 2018, and a little subreddit called ajelqforyou was founded. The Creator M9ter wrote the wiki and how he gained 3 inches in length. And over an inch in girth. In his early 20’s. Fast forward to his 40’s finds out his wife is a size queen and begins his journey to gain more size.

M9 kept his routines quite simple. Time under tension is king. Time under pressure is God. His theory used the medical evidence of chronic priapism caused insane girth gains as the backbone of the theory for girth.

And while for length, I would say it’s similar to the idea of plastic deformation. An elastic object will not return to the baseline shape if stretched long enough. His routines and ideas made much more sense than the old forums, albeit they were still brute force. For length, Ajelqforyou recommends hanging or extending for 4-5 hours a day at 4-5 pounds, and for girth, clamping for upwards of an hour.

Knowing what I know now, Ajelqforyou’s methods do work. Still, they are highly inefficient based on the properties of biomechanics that I will touch on in the next couple of chapters.

I started on Ajelqforyou with my rise as a PE “influencer” (I hate that term.) Still, due to some philosophical differences between M9ter and myself, along with having control over my content, I formed r/gettingbigger at the tail end of 2020.

Since then, I tried literally every type of routine. A Doctor found my subreddit and started posting extremely helpful guides on avoided injuries treatments and Erectile dysfunction. Hinkle_McKringlebry covered my weakness in front of said issues (as I only talked about what I experienced). Hink began testing what I thought I knew in passing. He is a practicing doctor. I better know my shit, so I began looking for proof of all my assumptions after his arrival. This sent me down the rabbit hole of proving my theories right, but in the process, I had to change my theory many times to match what science suggests. By doing so, I largely disproved the tenants of old-school PE. Hink is now my business partner. We founded Leviathan Wellness in 2022 with the goal of selling the best bang for your buck health supplements that help you beat your insecurities, not exploit them.

And now, in 2023, my new Colleague, PervMcswerve, AKA Adam of Massive Novelties, began posting about his own PE journey. He and I became fast friends as he continued to challenge my theory on PE.