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I don't want to hijack the penis accident thread that Timbo001 started, so I figured I'd initiate a new one to explore something that I'm just starting to learn about -- the penile suspensory ligament (PSL). I'm really interested to hear from others about how theirs works or doesn't work.

To Gymfresh;
Did you possibly damage the penis suspensory ligament with your unusual style of wanking? That might cause the hard but seemingly disconnected condition you describe.

Good question; I think you're right. Someone mentioned the same thing about ligament to me yesterday. I just looked up the PSL and was surprised to see what it is; I had a completely different idea of what it was. Either I was born without a PSL or I completely wrecked it with my uncreative wanking method. It was disturbing to read on the web: The Penile Suspensory Ligament supports and maintains the erect penis in an upright position during sexual intercourse. Who knew? I still can't quite envision how it functions in practice. Does it contract as you get hard? It seems like some sort of frenulum, like the one that keeps your thumb from falling away, but I still don't understand how it works in those guys whose upright hardon snaps back against their lower abdomen. Maybe a "frenulum breve" of the PSL? Anyway, I envy guys whose penis seems to defy gravity and levitate as they get an erection. Never known that feeling.
 
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It's a ligament, so it doesn't get hard nor soft for that matter.
This ligament does to a certain degree support your penis. Be it erect or not. How much depends on this ligament and other factors.
Penisses slapping back against your tummy is mostly caused by it being erect in the first place. The penis suspensory ligament doesn't do anything really there.
 
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You mention hard or soft. I wonder then if it's to some degree the PSL that determines "the angle of the dangle" when guys are soft. Anyone know?

But I still don't understand your point about vertical erections being a function of the hardon itself, and not the PSL. If you inflate one of those tube balloons, it grows straight out -- not up. Something is pulling that 19-year-old hardon toward the lower abdomen, and I doubt it's blood rushing into the corpora cavernosae.

I don't remember enough about my youth to know whether I ever pointed anywhere but down with an erection. Maybe I did, and then damaged something with my rolling masturbation method. Or maybe I always had no PSL to speak of. I certainly have no recollection of any hardon sticking straight out from my body. It's always been more like the end of a jumprope: limp at the rope, hard at the handle.
 
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I'm pretty sure it is what connects the connective tissue of the penis to the pubic bone. I don't know the variability in length but it could have and effect on the angle. I think more the shape of the corpus callosum would determine the angle when hard though. I do know that cutting it can give you some extra length and is really the only surgical way of doing it.
 
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