When it comes to the nether regions, most men believe they know everything about their anatomy, or at least the things they think they ought to know. Here are a few fun facts you probably didn’t know that you perhaps should.

Fact 1: If you don’t think much for your health when it comes to lung cancer or dying at a young age, you might want to kick the habit of smoking for the sake of the lil’ guy.

Research has shown that smoking can shorten your penis by as much as a centimeter, this is because erections happen as a result of good blood flow, and by lighting up, you are calcifying the blood vessels and therefore stifling erectile circulation.

Fact 2: According to Spanish researchers, better looking men may have stronger and healthier sperm. This fact was deduced after researchers showed women photographs of men who had good, average and sluggish sperm and asked them to pick the handsomest guy. The results showed that the women mostly picked the men who were the best sperm producers.

Fact 3: This tit-bit may be a bit frightening for both men and the fairer sex, but none the less very true. Doctors can now grow skin for burn victims using the foreskins of circumcised infants. It is said that one foreskin can produce 23 000 square meters of human flesh.

Fact 4: Boys, if you thought it was impossible, think again because it is possible to break your penis. While there is no penile bone, you can still fracture it, and need I say that it is incredibly painful? According to doctors there is even a distinct ‘pop’ or ‘snap’.

Although extremely rare, it typically happens to younger men because their erections tend to be quite rigid, so exercise caution and if it suddenly appears black and blue see your doctor immediately.

Fact 5: Another thing thought to be impossible, is the fact that men are incapable of giving themselves oral pleasure. According to research, one in 400 men are flexible enough to give themselves fellatio – the act of stimulating a male’s penis using the tongue or lips , and if you like Marilyn Manson, simply have one of your ribs removed for that purpose.

Fact 6: There are two types of penises. One kind expands and lengthens when erect, otherwise known as a ‘grower’. The other appears big most of the time, but does not get much bigger upon erection also commonly known as a ‘shower’.

It is for this reason that you cannot assume that a guy with a big flaccid penis gets much bigger upon erection or that a guy whose penis looks small was born unfortunate as he may surprise you with a big erection.

Fact 7:  Men will be happy to tell their girlfriends/wives that their penis really does have a brain of its own and that the odd stirrings really aren't their fault. This is because the penis answers to a part of the nervous system that’s not always under your conscious control. This is called the autonomic nervous system and is also responsible for the regulation of your heart rate and your blood pressure.

Just in case you wanted to know, the brain is not necessary for ejaculation because that order comes from the spinal cord.

Fact 8: This might come as a shocker, but the male penis is actually shaped like a boomerang. Just like you can’t see the full size of an iceberg above water, you don’t see the root of the penis tucked up inside your pelvis and attached to the pubic bone. No wonder men think of their genitals as toys.

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