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November 23, 2009
Pressure Measurements
This article is about a treatment for erectile dysfunction, but the real reason I want to link to it is this bizarre description of pressure, which I'm sure is supposed to help clarify the concept.
Each shockwave applied roughly 100 bar of pressure – some 20 times the air pressure in a bottle of champagne, but less than the pressure exerted by a woman in stiletto heels who weighs 132 lbs. (60 kg).
Having never been inside a champagne bottle, I don't know what that pressure is like (so I don't know what 20 times the pressure feels like, either). And, while I'm sure that some people are familiar with "the pressure exerted by a woman in stiletto heels who weighs 132 lbs.," most of us are not.
100 bars equals 1,450.37738 pounds per square inch. That's about 41½ times the pressure inside a car tire inflated to 35 psi. That seems like a lot of pressure to apply to a flaccid penis.
Filed under Health | permalink | November 23, 2009 at 01:54 PM
