Whether you give it a name or not, the ol' one-eyed wonderworm seems like a pretty simple critter from the outside, but it's actually a bit more complicated than many people think.
On the outside, there are five major things you can see: the glans or head, the corona, the frenum, the urethral meatus, and the shaft. For those who are uncircumcised, there is a sixth, the prepuce or foreskin.
Let's take it from the top.
At the tip of the penis you will find the urethral meatus, the opening of the urethra, where urine comes out when you urinate. It's also where pre-ejaculatory fluid and semen come out of the penis. The urethra inside the penis has both a urinary function and a reproductive one. This is not the case for people who have a vulva: urethras and vaginas are entirely separate orifices.....
How Big Is It Supposed To Be?
Penis size has nothing to do with body size. Bigger, taller people do not necessarily have bigger or longer penises. Shorter people don't necessarily have smaller ones. The size of your hands, feet, or nose is no indicator. Neither is how big a penis is when it is soft: some penises get a lot bigger when they get hard, other penises don't get all that much bigger when they get hard. Fat people do not have smaller penises than thin people, Asian people do not have smaller penises than White people, and Black people's penises don't average any larger than anyone else's. Those are all stereotypes, and have no basis in truth. Penises come in a lot of different possible sizes. That's nothing more or less than run of the mill human variation.
The growth of your penis during puberty is hard to predict. There is no magic age when puberty starts and stops, and therefore there is no magic age when your penis will start to grow or stop growing. Sometimes they seem to grow all at once, and a change will seem very sudden, and other times, the change will happen slowly. Again, that's just normal human variation. Lots of folks worry that their penis won't be big enough, and that sexual partners won't like it or won't want them as partners because of their penis size. That's really pretty unrealistic.
The penis size issue is a lot like the breast size issue. Breasts, like penises, come in all different shapes and sizes. Some people are attracted to big breasts. Some people are attracted to smaller breasts. Some people like them to be in between. Some people couldn't care less. Some people don't even like breasts at all. Most people find that there is a wide range of breast sizes that can be attractive to them, providing that there are other things about the person they're attached to that are attractive and interesting. Any person who decided to date someone solely because of their breast size would be pretty superficial - and really, it's pretty insulting to date or desire someone just because of a single body part. We're people, not parts.
Same goes for penises. Some people prefer longer penises. Other people prefer shorter ones. Many people like average-sized ones. Some people could honestly not care less whether there's a penis involved in their sex lives or not. And yes, some people don't like penises at all. Most people find that there are other, more important considerations than penis size when they are considering whom they like as a potential lover, spouse or partner. (Just for the record, this is all also true for gay and bisexual people, too, not just for heterosexual people....."
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