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Whoever invents a pill that makes your penis bigger will be a trillionaire. How is it that nobody has figured that out?

tubby12345 5y ago
this is like some kind of reverse occam's razor argument but i feel like your point is blunted by the fact that there are lots of companies making tons of money off of viagra derivatives.
- voltagedivider 5y ago
  Viagra doesn't make your penis bigger; it temporarily alleviates erectile dysfunction.
  - tubby12345 5y ago
    I know how Viagra works. Do you know what the word blunted means?
    - voltagedivider 5y ago
      > Do you know what the word blunted means? I know of blunt statements and blunt/blunted knife blades but maybe I misunderstood your usage of the word. Care to explain?
MattGaiser 5y ago
Truffles do reproduce. So it is not a question of if it is possible, but merely how an observable phenomenon occurs. There are no penis enlargement pills yet beyond viagra and one of the problems is that there is no proof that anything drug can extend tissue in that way.
version_five 5y ago
"I've ordered products like this before, wasted a pretty penny I don't mind telling you. But if this works, I'll order a dozen. We're not selling penis mightiers Well you're sitting on a goldmine Trebek" It's not clear to me this is true. I think there may be some niche market, but I think most men wouldn't even consider something like this. A few people mentioned viagra, which has made a lot of money, but that's not about size. I remember reading a long time ago that there is some kind of "enlargement" surgery available, but that the motivation is almost exclusively the "locker room" rather than a sexual issue. Anyway, I'm sure that an invention as you describe may be interesting to some niche, but I don't believe it's one of the worlds burning problems, which is why it hasn't had any serious study.
- blacksmith_tb 5y ago
  Hard to tell where the sarcasm starts and ends, so my apologies if I am taking you too literally, but my assumption would be that we haven't seen 'serious study' of penis enlargement because it's highly unlikely there's some simple way of making it happen, especially one that doesn't also have side effects...
  - version_five 5y ago
    The quoted part is from a 20 year old SNL skit that sadly I just looked for and can't find online. Otherwise, I was serious, I don't think penis enlargement is high enough on most people's priorities that the field attracts any real R&D investment.
    - jdkee 5y ago
      https://ne-np.facebook.com/SNL-Videos-100575938567459/videos/celebrity-jeopardy-calista-flockhart-nicolas-cage-sean-connery-snl/338122197445248/ https://ne-np.facebook.com/SNL-Videos-100575938567459/videos...
      - version_five 5y ago
        Thank you!
    - wombatpm 5y ago
      Celebrity Jeopardy with Will Ferrel as Alex Trebeck
  - truffdog 5y ago
    https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgxp5z/what-happens-penis-enlargement-surgery https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgxp5z/what-happens-penis-en... girth is doable, length, not so much, is my understanding.
    - tsimionescu 5y ago
mardifoufs 5y ago
Hairloss is even more of a head scratcher. I've seen people buy pretty much everything to get back or just stop hair loss, and I'd bet the potential profits are way higher than penis growing pills. There are tons of communities of completely desperate men revolving around hairloss. Yet, a part from minoxidil and finasteride, which are far from ideal solutions and can't really regrow lost hair, there's very little good research and no new products in the past decade or so. It's really a testament to how complicated our bodies are, if even hair growth can be so difficult to reliably control.
- hcknwscommenter 5y ago
  I started losing my hair at 16. Minoxidil worked, like really well. I grew back robust hair at the bald spots. But I needed to apply it 2x a day and not exercise/shower for at least 4 hours after application. This did not work for my lifestyle. I stopped using it by the time I went off to college. Finasteride wasn't available at the time, and maybe would have been a better option. I did all right in the dating pool after 30, but my 20s were rough. All I would say to my younger self is: you have every reason to consider this a big deal, but at the end of your life (and even by the time you are 40), you will consider losing your hair to be a very very very minor thing.
  - rhinoceraptor 5y ago
    Minoxidil twice a day is unnecessary, the half life of topical minoxidil is about 22 hours, so once a day is sufficient. I have a compounded spray with 10% minoxidil, dutasteride, tretinoin and a few others that I apply about an hour before I shower for the day which works quite well. Also, one of the issues with minoxidil is that it is a prodrug, the active form is minoxidil sulfate, and some people don't express sulfotransferase as much in the skin to be able to make that conversion. If minoxidil doesn't work for you, then you want to either use oral minoxidil (the liver will activate it to minoxidil sulfate, the side effect of that is you will have enhanced hair growth through your entire body), or a compounded topical that has tretinoin, since that helps upregulate sulfotransferase in the skin.
    - 5y ago
andrewflnr 5y ago
Or reliable male birth control.
- jessaustin 5y ago
  Maybe there's no pill, but there are several procedures...
  - andrewflnr 5y ago
    Fair enough. Shall we say, reversibly or temporarily reliable. If any of the procedures are really reversible that's news to me.
- Jiro 5y ago
  Will not work. Because few women will believe a man who says "trust me, I won't make you pregnant because I'm on birth control".
  - seattle_spring 5y ago
    Maybe for anonymous or casual sex, but it would be immensely useful in committed relationships where trust is present.
  - jdougan 5y ago
    I think alot of dudes would want it in case she is lying about birth control. Every do often you hear about a paternity case where the alleged father had had a vasectomy years before.
  - andrewflnr 5y ago
    Before you bring out a snappy "Will not work", try to think about exactly it won't work for, and if you're making unwarranted assumptions about the goal. Just a few seconds would have helped.

this is like some kind of reverse occam's razor argument but i feel like your point is blunted by the fact that there are lots of companies making tons of money off of viagra derivatives.

voltagedivider 5y ago
Viagra doesn't make your penis bigger; it temporarily alleviates erectile dysfunction.
- tubby12345 5y ago
  I know how Viagra works. Do you know what the word blunted means?
  - voltagedivider 5y ago
    > Do you know what the word blunted means? I know of blunt statements and blunt/blunted knife blades but maybe I misunderstood your usage of the word. Care to explain?

MattGaiser 5y ago

Truffles do reproduce. So it is not a question of if it is possible, but merely how an observable phenomenon occurs. There are no penis enlargement pills yet beyond viagra and one of the problems is that there is no proof that anything drug can extend tissue in that way.

version_five 5y ago

"I've ordered products like this before, wasted a pretty penny I don't mind telling you. But if this works, I'll order a dozen. We're not selling penis mightiers Well you're sitting on a goldmine Trebek" It's not clear to me this is true. I think there may be some niche market, but I think most men wouldn't even consider something like this. A few people mentioned viagra, which has made a lot of money, but that's not about size. I remember reading a long time ago that there is some kind of "enlargement" surgery available, but that the motivation is almost exclusively the "locker room" rather than a sexual issue. Anyway, I'm sure that an invention as you describe may be interesting to some niche, but I don't believe it's one of the worlds burning problems, which is why it hasn't had any serious study.

blacksmith_tb 5y ago
Hard to tell where the sarcasm starts and ends, so my apologies if I am taking you too literally, but my assumption would be that we haven't seen 'serious study' of penis enlargement because it's highly unlikely there's some simple way of making it happen, especially one that doesn't also have side effects...
- version_five 5y ago
  The quoted part is from a 20 year old SNL skit that sadly I just looked for and can't find online. Otherwise, I was serious, I don't think penis enlargement is high enough on most people's priorities that the field attracts any real R&D investment.
  - jdkee 5y ago
    https://ne-np.facebook.com/SNL-Videos-100575938567459/videos/celebrity-jeopardy-calista-flockhart-nicolas-cage-sean-connery-snl/338122197445248/ https://ne-np.facebook.com/SNL-Videos-100575938567459/videos...
    - version_five 5y ago
      Thank you!
  - wombatpm 5y ago
    Celebrity Jeopardy with Will Ferrel as Alex Trebeck
- truffdog 5y ago
  https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgxp5z/what-happens-penis-enlargement-surgery https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgxp5z/what-happens-penis-en... girth is doable, length, not so much, is my understanding.
  - tsimionescu 5y ago

mardifoufs 5y ago

Hairloss is even more of a head scratcher. I've seen people buy pretty much everything to get back or just stop hair loss, and I'd bet the potential profits are way higher than penis growing pills. There are tons of communities of completely desperate men revolving around hairloss. Yet, a part from minoxidil and finasteride, which are far from ideal solutions and can't really regrow lost hair, there's very little good research and no new products in the past decade or so. It's really a testament to how complicated our bodies are, if even hair growth can be so difficult to reliably control.

hcknwscommenter 5y ago
I started losing my hair at 16. Minoxidil worked, like really well. I grew back robust hair at the bald spots. But I needed to apply it 2x a day and not exercise/shower for at least 4 hours after application. This did not work for my lifestyle. I stopped using it by the time I went off to college. Finasteride wasn't available at the time, and maybe would have been a better option. I did all right in the dating pool after 30, but my 20s were rough. All I would say to my younger self is: you have every reason to consider this a big deal, but at the end of your life (and even by the time you are 40), you will consider losing your hair to be a very very very minor thing.
- rhinoceraptor 5y ago
  Minoxidil twice a day is unnecessary, the half life of topical minoxidil is about 22 hours, so once a day is sufficient. I have a compounded spray with 10% minoxidil, dutasteride, tretinoin and a few others that I apply about an hour before I shower for the day which works quite well. Also, one of the issues with minoxidil is that it is a prodrug, the active form is minoxidil sulfate, and some people don't express sulfotransferase as much in the skin to be able to make that conversion. If minoxidil doesn't work for you, then you want to either use oral minoxidil (the liver will activate it to minoxidil sulfate, the side effect of that is you will have enhanced hair growth through your entire body), or a compounded topical that has tretinoin, since that helps upregulate sulfotransferase in the skin.
  - 5y ago

andrewflnr 5y ago

Or reliable male birth control.

jessaustin 5y ago
Maybe there's no pill, but there are several procedures...
- andrewflnr 5y ago
  Fair enough. Shall we say, reversibly or temporarily reliable. If any of the procedures are really reversible that's news to me.
Jiro 5y ago
Will not work. Because few women will believe a man who says "trust me, I won't make you pregnant because I'm on birth control".
- seattle_spring 5y ago
  Maybe for anonymous or casual sex, but it would be immensely useful in committed relationships where trust is present.
- jdougan 5y ago
  I think alot of dudes would want it in case she is lying about birth control. Every do often you hear about a paternity case where the alleged father had had a vasectomy years before.
- andrewflnr 5y ago
  Before you bring out a snappy "Will not work", try to think about exactly it won't work for, and if you're making unwarranted assumptions about the goal. Just a few seconds would have helped.