Size isn’t everything. Having a big dick doesn’t necessarily make sex feel any better, right? Huge cocks are great to look at, but are they more trouble than they’re worth? The size of a guy’s dick, honestly, is pretty much a nonfactor.
But…having a huge cock definitely isn’t a bad thing.
So what happens when you don’t measure up? Some guys choose to take their fate into their own hands, so to speak.

A growing community of guys online are sharing tips, tricks, and progress pictures as they try to make their dicks longer and girthier. The subreddit r/GettingBigger boasts 168,000 members, and Google Trends shows search interest in the phrase “penis enlargement near me” has peaked in recent years. Guys want to get bigger, and there’s no shortage of methods for them to try.
On reddit, users post about using pumps and increasing pelvic floor strength to, in turn, make erections stronger—both means of increasing the size of one’s penis. There are guides for increasing blood flow, and many of them invest nearly a hundred bucks in a popular device called a Hog Stretcher, which comes in one of eleven lively colors. If the Hod Stretcher doesn’t suit your fancy, why not try the PeniMaster Pro series? It’s made in Germany so you know it’s quality. There are silicone sleeves to accompany vacuum cups, and an endless maze of advice, testimonials, and arguments between PE (penis enlargement) afficionados.
If the redditors are to be believed—and based on the amount of nitpicking around things like dick measuring methods, they likely are—consistent application of penis enlargement techniques should give you an extra half an inch. More if you keep at it.

Of course, if the devices freak you out, you can always try jelqing. Oh you don’t know about jelqing? Strap in. Thunder Place, an online community dedicated to increasing penis size with nearly half a million members (sorry, the puns really do write themselves), describes jelqing as “an exercise designed to force large amounts of blood through the penis, increasing the internal pressure and creating controlled damage or micro-tears in the structure of the penis.”
The last option is arguably the most extreme. Penis enlargement surgeries have been available since 2016, when a surgeon in LA named James Elist invented a device called a Penuma. The surgery reportedly costs up to $18,000 and should give you another inch or two when both flaccid and hard. Like a lot of surgical solutions, going under the knife to make your dick bigger comes with risks. A report from ProPublica in 2023 reveals that many men don’t get the result they want, or face extreme complications—I’ll leave out the details, but the word “disfigurement” is used twice in the article.
Like it or not, the size of your junk will definitely matter to a pretty large subset of people you’re fucking. For some people, taking the biggest dicks possible is a matter of conquest—a way to push their own limits sexually. Other people see big cocks as hyper-masculine or especially virile. Right or wrong, the size of your penis is intrinsically tied to your sexual viability for a lot of people.
Making your dick bigger is not for the faint of heart, to be sure. But if you’ve got a hundred bucks, and you’re determined enough, you, too, can own and use a Hog Stretcher one day.