The Ageing Process

What happens to the penis and its plumbing bits as age creeps up on you?

This is a new section and I would welcome contributions. The subject was raised by Iain who has a set of photos taken at the age of 25 and is intending to compare them with an equivalent set taken at the age of 60. The obvious comparison is the quality of the erection, but any other observations would be welcome. Your comments and preferably photos would be most welcome.

Iain's comments and photos:

These pictures were taken at age 25 (in 1970). Their primary function was to provide outlines to draw around to produce accurate anatomical drawings of the male reproductive system. At that time it was not possible (or legal) to show such pictures in public, least of all to high-school students, but the available material was very sparse and of a low quality. I have very little artistic talent, so this seemed to be the best way around the problem. B&W
film meant home developing and printing, so it could all be kept in the family, so as to speak!

A few drawings were produced from them, but it was a very short path to the end of my artistic talents, and the project died a death. So what do these pictures show? A normal penis in a flaccid and erect state. There are one or two things to consider here:-

1) The angle of erection - about 45 degrees at full erection
2) An intact foreskin - in fact, this was very tight until my late teens - not so extreme as a phimosis though. I found the best (but painful) way to stretch it was to retract it before an erection, and let the resulting enlargement do the work! This can be seen in the erection photos where the end of the glans protrudes a little from the foreskin.
3) The surface venous drainage is well demonstrated in the picture taken from slightly below
4) The erect size was 165mm long by 134mm in circumference (girth) (6.5" x 5.25"). The flaccid size varied with temperature, degree of bladder distension and thought processes - conditions we are all familiar with!

So why publish them now? It would be interesting to see the changes that time, diabetes and hypertension have wrought over the years. To further this, I aim to take pictures now, in as close a pose to the original as possible, to demonstrate these effects. The erections are not what they were, but in this case, there is evidence against which they can be compared. It would also be useful to show the effect of erection aids such as Viagra as a separate set. It is sad that there is little documentary evidence of changes with age, but in this case, it is just by chance that I found the negs (surviving two house moves). We can easily get pictures of young ones and old ones, but rarely the same subject.

Another Example

Mid 20s	Mid 50s
Less hair, more weight, but very similar otherwise

Some more thoughts on the subject:

Re your new section Some comments on the effects of ageing combined with diabetes and 68 years.

Main observations for what I suppose what must be a medium to small penis. Just six inches at very best and very little when flacid and cold.

Although I can still get an erection it never passes above the horizontal. Whereas in my twenties and thirties 45 degrees above the horizontal was the norm.

In the past the strength of the erection was strong enough to hang a bath towel on the erect member, this is not now possible. Also witout continuous stimulation things do not stay up.

While I do not have photographs of it in its young state, I certainly have some of now, if that's of inerest. My feeling is there has been some shrinkage and the unerect appears much smaller than I think it used to.