Milestones in Growing Up - Looking Back

Looking back a longish way in my case :)

Donk's last post on the "when did you reach full size?" thread has suggested a new topic to me.

Perhaps the title should be not milestones in growing up, but "inchstones in growing long". Sorry.

Do any of the rest of you look back on certain stages or episodes in your growth, for instance when you suddenly shot past a certain length barrier, and still get a charge out of thinking about it? I admit I still do.

In no way can I match the spectacular growth of Donk amd a few others here; I suppose that I had about six inches or so in length to add to my prepubertal size to get to full development, to say nohting of bulk, but I took maybe up to about eight years to do it. Despite this long drawn out process there were a couple of pretty sharp spurts along the way, and a few moments which I can still vividly remember as very powerful ones for me in realising just how "special" I was (if only in this respect).

I will post a bit more detail here later .. meanwhile, any others care to reminisce?

DanDMan: I think for me it was when I was 11 or 12 when I first tried measuring my penis. I was too scared of getting caught with a ruler in the bathroom since I lived with my folks in a really small apartment. So I used my hand, and my penis was the same lenth as my hand lenthwise. This was really innacurate but the measurement came out to be about 5.5 to 6 inches. Looking back, its not bad for a 12 year old.
Now ten years later I've only grown a little over 2 more inches but much, much thicker. The girth came suddenly if I remember correctly, one day I just realized it was much thicker than previously.
From then on being big was a pretty neat thing. :-)

Donk: Good topic, Max. As this long post will show, I have given this way too much thought. Then again, maybe other posters' stories will reveal that I am not alnoe.

I regard my first milestone as the time when I was 14 and measured myself at 7" and realized I was bigger than average. I had read that average size was 6", so I decided an inch above average was pretty damn good for a guy who had always been the shortest (in height) guy in my class. From that moment on, I was obssessively interested with my further growth and monitored it closely. My main source of info. on the topic was a stash of porno mags I had managed to get my hands on. I based my "milestones" on ideas from erotic stories, articles, advice columns, and advertisements (e.g., for dildos, penis enlargers and extensions, porn movies, etc.) in the mags.

Here are my further "milestones" (ages are approximate because now, over a decade since I ended puberty, the details are starting to fade from my old geezer's memory).

7.5", 14/15 yo--Exciting because (1) it was my first indication that I was not finished growing (2) one of the mags had an ad in it for a 7.5" dildo which read--and I remember this vividly--"the just right size that looks like it was detached from a superman." Cool! I was a superman.

8", 15/16 yo--This seemed like a real magic mark that took me from the category of "bigger than average" to truly "well hung". In most of the erotic stories/"letters" the well-hung hunky hero whose sexual prowess wows the woman seemed to have a "powerful 8 incher." It also seemed to be the magical size that average men wished they were.

9", 16 yo--Another magic mark, which seemed to take me into a new category--well-hung among the well-hung. In the stories, ads talking about porno stars, penis pumps, etc. the 8-inchers seemed to be considered very well-hung but the 9-inchers were "huge", "enormous", "mammoth", etc. Seems like an average man would fantasize about being 8 inches with some degree of hope, but regard 9 inches as an unimaginable goal.

9.5", 16 going on 17--Now officially over 9 inches, I felt beyond "huge".

10", 17 yo--Magic because I was now in "double digits" and was bigger than most of the biggest dildos and porn stars being advertised at the time. An incomprehensible size to the men who wrote into the sex advice columns complaining about their small penises.

11", 17 yo--A milestone because it's where I stopped. It struck me as a very good size to stop at--more securely into "double digits" than a 10-incher, but not as flashy as a ruler topping 12".

Of course, after I started attempting sexual relations with the 11-incher I began to encounter some of the frustrations that go with such size. But during the growth process I was just excited to see it get as big as possible and I still love being my size.

A final note, back when I was 15 and near 8", I read an ad about a porn star's (allegedly) footlong penis and thought how cool would it be to get that big. I didn't have any expectation at the time that I would reach that size, but I fantasized about about it. I also wondered if the guy actually felt like a real freak. But decided I wouldn't care, I would still love to be that big. During the next couple of years, when I thought about my size I would think, yeah, it's big, but still not like ol' Mr. Footlong's. Then I forgot about that. It wasn't till a couple of years ago that I remembered that and realized, you know, I wound up close enough to that fantasy. Mine is certainly in the same category and, anyway, that guy's size was surely exaggerated. No girl has ever told me they wish it was an inch longer :-).

Finedessert: Well, Just for the record I'm no bigger Now than I was at age 14......I'm 6'2" tall now, and was well endowed at 14, it has held steady all these years at 7.5 inches. :P

Grandpa

willem73: The funniest thing to me, in my case, is that I didn't really realize how hung I was until my early college days. I KNEW what "average" was, but the only penis I had any experience with and saw on a day to day basis was my own, and the only other guys I'd ever seen were my father and brother, who were both even bigger than I was, soooo... I'd had limited sexual experiences in high school, and they'd all commented on my size (and been unable to take all of me vaginally), but for some reason I just chalked it up to inexperience on their parts. It wasn't until I was in college, and expanded my sexual horizons that I came to appreciate my size. Weird, huh?

Donk: [quote author=Finedessert link=board=meetgreet;num=1034533883;start=0#3 date=10/13/02 at 1300]it has held steady all these years at 7.5 inches. *:P
Grandpa [/quote]

Congrats, Grandpa. You have that "just right size that looks like it was detached from a superman"!

I can only recall two.

The first happened during high school, freshman year. A friend of mine was boasting that his dick was as long as our school lockers are wide, which in respect, isn't anything that spectacular but it was one hell of a comparison to make. We talked on the phone occasionally and in one conversation he mentioned measuring... I think he said 6.5. Something like that. I had an old tape measurer from my mom's sewing machine and wound up a little over 7. For some strange reason, I still had the anxiety that it was smaller than average -- maybe 'cause with respect to my build, I'm smaller than the average male.

The second: A college girlfriend and I were making out pretty passionately. My dick naturally responded and bulged out in my jeans; she remarked about how big it was. I assumed it hadn't grown until, at her suggestion, I measured it to its current size. Well, it was 9 then, and I fluctuate between that and 9.5" so no big deal...

As I said, in no way can I match Donk's series of milestones passed one after another in short order. Or his graphic way of describing each one.

Two or three episodes stand out pretty clearly though:

First was early on, I suppose 14, maybe 13 (memory of dates is pretty weak), at the height of my "measuring every few days" stage. I was going through a period of being very proud of my equipment, having always known it was bigger, even as a young boy, and as soon as I became sexually aware I was wanting to see just how big it would get. I think I had been "stuck" at the just over 7 or 7.25 inch mark for a while. For some reason I had not measured for a bit but on this particular night when I held the ruler to me .. 7.75". What will always stand out in my memory is the immediate surge of pride which resulted ... and a further inrush of blood, I was so proud that I pushed past the 8" mark as I watched. It felt as if I was passing into new territory, that very moment ... and it has always stuck in my mind. It still gives me the odd stir in the loins, just thinking about it. I felt such a lucky guy!

Second. I suppose a year or so on ... a friend showed me a copy of "The Perfumed Garden" and pointed out to me the section on penis size, where it said something to the effect that a man whose "yard" is less than 6 finger breadths "cannot please women" and a man whose "yard" is superior to 12 finger breadths "is of no use to women". The footnote translated these as 4.5 and 9 inches respectively. This was just at the point where I was nearing the 9 inch mark .. I already had a mixture of (secret) cocky pride and (equally secret) anxiety about what was happening to me. The thought that I was likely heading beyond the top of the normal range stirred up both the pride and the worry .. the words in the book didn't help me at a time when people were beginning to make similar comments in the showers at school. "How will you get that inside a woman?"

Third, much later milestone. Was in my first, or maybe second year at univ. I had thought that growth was at an end, and I was just 9.25" or a little more most times I measured, which of course I didn't very often. I was lying in the bath, and just enjoying the soak. For some reason I always got a strong erection in the bath - still do - and as looked and stroked it appeared pretty obvious to me, all of a sudden, that "he" was appreciably heavier, longer, reaching further up my stomach, generally bulkier and very much angrier looking than usual. So I grabbed a towel, headed straight for my ruler ... and for the first time ever saw myself nosing past the ten inch mark. You can imagine that when I got back in the bath there was a prolonged and repeated "celebration".

This I think, was also pretty well the first time I realised that my balls were getting very heavy, way outsizing any others I had seen. (Not that I had looked at all that many!) From that point onwards there was probably only a little more growth, though it seemed to me that the bulk and size of the glans and especially the balls continued to increase longer.

Funnily enough that was such a powerful experience that at the time I had to talk about it with someone. There was only one person I could tell, and he took me for a beer to celebrate ... Couldn't really tell anyone else what I was drinking to ;)

Any others care to spill the beans?

Finedessert: By now I'm sure that most people have seen the movie "Porkys" (if not you should rent it) Wherein one of the main guys would wake up with a woody, this one morning his mom open his bedroom door, he was making tent, so that mom wouldn't see he had a hardon he flips over and lands right on the wood (funny) after which he gets out the ruler and measures, gets his note book to jot down the results and says "Shit it's getting shorter"

Grandpa

blak9: Not really a milestone here. I just lost weight and noticed that I looked bigger.

Well, this is quite a thread ! Let's see... first of all, 1987, September, Black Sea seaside. I was 8 and I remember me noticing that my pee-wee was filling more the swimming-suite I wore when comparing with other guys (ah, the old-fashioned Communist designs for such clothes... pooh !).
In 1989, during a summer holiday a friend of mine showed me "a secret". He said he knew "what do older guys do with their cocks." "Huh ?" And he wanked (jerked) a bit, his flaccid penis gaining some size. When I did that, I discovered that my schlong was bigger, both length and width. But well, I ignored it.

The first time I measured my penis... Summer 1992, aged 13. Someone whose cock was reaching 12 (4.7-inch) cm fully erect (he was very happy to be "resting on the laurels of his virility") challenged me. To his surprise, I was 15 cm erect (5.9-inch). I couldn't truly care less; after all, a cock was a hidden stuff, nobody sees it so it's useless to compare 2 cocks simply because it's not a pride that you make public. And there he goes, Ralexx... when I met the same guy a year later, it was something else. Porn magazines were now available, xxx films were broadcast after midnight, boys were talking in the classroom, and penis size emerged as a topic, à la mode among teenagers (classmates). So, when I met again this guy (July 1994), M., he was 14 cm long, I was 16.5 (6.3) and we said we'll keep comparing our dicks to see if we're "men enough". In January 1995 he was still 14 cm, I was 17.5 cm (a bit under 7) - and, geez, he was 1 year older than me. Now drama occurred : I had the same size while he grew from 14 to 16 cm (May 1996), though less thicker. He was too damn close. "Ok, then..." and Ralexx searched for consolation in ignoring his size for a long time : 2 and a half years. M. moved from the town, so there was no chap to talk about penis size with. No ruler, no tape measurer, just the joy of feeling it thick and heavy and quite big.

New Years Eve came (1998/1999) and M. paid me a visit. Of course we ended with our pants down and fully erect. "OMG !" were his words. What was the problem ? He was 16, I was 19.5 (7.8-inch), but heftier; it really looked massive compared to his. (Don't ask what did he do next... you guessed, I bet... yep, the fel-- word). Another period of disinterest towards penis size issue came to me...
July 2002. I felt something was different, because when peeing I the flaccid size seemed bigger to me. Took the tape and measured again. 21.3 cm = 8.4-inch.
I stated 8.6 for LPSG (last measured December 2001), but it happens that I feel it's bigger, when having sex, around 9, maybe more, maybe less. But I don't jump from bed to grab the ruler, it would be at least childish. I simply have the intuition it will grow more. (Even though I'm almost 23/24 yo.)

9 - started puberty
10 - first circle jerk
12 - reached 6".
13 - reached 7.5"
14 - reached 8", stopped circle-jerking, lost my virginity (told her "Technically you just broke the law, but I won't tell." Besides which, thanks to Oliphant, no court could convict.) realized how just how large I was
15 - reached 9", first monogamous relationship
16 - reached 9.5"
17 - reached final size, 10.5", moved to LA, joined LPSG

Seems that a few people - Ralexx, JonB - have very accurate memories. Or did you keep a secret chart, or a graph?

Hahaha :D ;) ;D, Max, no, there is no secret chart in my case, LOL ! But I have an "elephantine" memory. Maybe that's why I like HISTORY so much.

[quote author=Max]Seems that a few people - Ralexx, JonB - *have very accurate memories. *Or did you keep a secret chart, or a graph?[/quote]

I have a photographic memory.

[quote author=Ralexx]Hahaha , Max, no, there is no secret chart in my case, LOL ! But I have an "elephantine" memory. Maybe that's why I like HISTORY so much. [/quote]

And anthropology too. I think you said you were planning a site on gender and sexuality. I'd like to see it.