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What Is Your Corpus Spongiosum?

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What Does It Do?

The corpus spongiosum is a chamber in your penis that surrounds your urethra (the tube your urine and semen run through on their way out of your body). It is part of the erectile system.

When you get an erection, your corpus cavernosum and spongiosum fill up with blood and get larger and larger until your shaft is stiff and hard.

Surrounding your corpus cavernosum and corpus spongiosum is your tunica albuginea. Your tunica albuginea is like a balloon.

When your corpus cavernosum and spongiosum fill up with blood, and your tunica albuginea can not expand anymore, you have a hard erection.

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The Purpose of The Spongiosum

Your corpus spongiosum is much smaller than you corpus cavernosum.

It's main purpose is not to create your erection, but rather, to provide support around your urethra during erection.

The corpus cavernosum provides the main size for your erection.

The spongiosum has a different purpose. It is like a protective wall surrounding your urethra. It keeps the corpus cavernosum from crushing your urethra closed when the corpus cavernosum swell up during erection.

This is necessary so that the semen will be able to flow easily out of your penis into a vagina. Otherwise the semen would be trapped inside of your body.

That is it's entire purpose!

Peyronies Disease

A bent penis, caused by Peyronies Disease, comes from an internal scar or fibrous plaque formation.

The scar(s) and or plaque causing a Peyronies bent penis is usually found in the 2 main erectile chambers of the corpus cavernosum.

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That scar is rarely in the corpus spongiosum. Although it can be. And if it is, the same methods for straightening the bent penis are equally as effective.

So that is what your corpus spongiosum is. And that is what it does!

Be Well.....

~ William