This fluid prepares your urethra for ejaculation (coming). The Cowper’s glands produce a fluid called pre-ejaculate or precum. The prostate gland is sensitive to pressure or touch in a way that many people find pleasurable. It’s about the size of a walnut or golf ball. The prostate gland makes a fluid that helps your sperm move. Seminal vesicles are 2 small organs that produce semen, the fluid that sperm moves around in. There are 2 of them - one connected to each epididymis. And it holds your sperm before you ejaculate (come).Ī vas deferens is a long, narrow tube that carries sperm from the epididymis to the seminal vesicles when you ejaculate (come). It connects each testicle to each vas deferens. The epididymis is a tube where your sperm matures. They make sperm and hormones like testosterone. The testicles (AKA balls) are 2 ball-like glands inside your scrotum. The internal parts of male sex anatomy are made up of: The anus has lots of sensitive nerve endings, so some people experience sexual pleasure from anal stimulation. The anus (AKA butthole) is the opening to your rectum.
But many people like having their scrotum gently touched during sex. The scrotum is super sensitive, so any hitting or twisting is extremely painful. Some people’s scrotum is larger on one side than the other. Your scrotum can be big or small, have a little or a lot of hair, and vary in color.
Your scrotum is covered with wrinkly skin and hair.
If it's too warm, your testicles hang away from your body. If it’s too cold, your scrotum pulls your testicles closer to your body. Your scrotum holds your testicles and keeps them at the right temperature. The scrotum (AKA ballsack) is the sac of skin that hangs below your penis. And for many people, it’s very sensitive. Usually part of it remains after circumcision. It looks like a small V just below the head. The frenulum is where your foreskin meets the underside of your penis. Sometimes foreskin is circumcised (when a doctor surgically removes your foreskin) soon after birth, so not everyone has it. When your penis gets hard, the foreskin pulls back and the tip is exposed.
The foreskin is a patch of skin that covers and protects the head (AKA glans). The shaft of your penis extends from the tip to where it connects to your lower belly. For many people, it’s the most sensitive part of the penis. This is where pre-ejaculate (precum) and semen (cum) come out of, and it’s where you pee out of. Your glans is also called the head or tip of your penis. For example, some curve like a banana when they’re hard. Some people call circumcised penises “cut,” and uncircumcised penises “uncut.”Įvery penis looks a little different. Others stay pretty much the same size.Ībout half of all penises in the US are circumcised, and half are uncircumcised (still have foreskin) - so both types are common. Some penises get much bigger when they get hard. The size of your penis when it’s flaccid (soft) doesn’t have much to do with its size when it’s hard. The average size of an adult erect (hard) penis is 5 to 7 inches long. This makes your penis get harder and stand up, which is also called getting an erection or hard-on. When you get turned on, blood fills these tissues. Your penis is made of 3 layers of spongy tissue. Your penis and scrotum are the two parts of the male (or what’s typically called male) external sex anatomy (outside your body). Sexual anatomy that’s typically called male includes your penis and scrotum (external male genitalia) and internal reproductive organs like the testicles.