The Ultimate Guide To Puberty,
Puberty can be a strange and wonderful thing. It is the time of you leaving your childhood and becoming a teenager and then on to becoming a man or a woman, depending on your gender. During puberty you will be reaching sexual maturity, Adolescence and basically growing up.
When the time is right for you, your body sends a signal from your pituitary gland in your brain to your body for puberty to begin. During puberty, your body is going to change a lot and in very different ways. Some noticeable, others not so much. Girls attain adult height and reproductive maturity about 4 years after the first physical changes of puberty appear. In contrast, boys accelerate more slowly but continue to grow for about 6 years after the first visible pubertal changes. Puberty begins at around 47 kg for girls and 55 kg for boys give or take a few.
Your probably thinking to yourself, what is puberty and how will it affect me or change me? You can find a answer to these questions depending on your sex below.
Below is a guide to the world of Puberty.
The first bit of our guide to the world of Puberty is for the boys but it can also be a interesting read for the girls if they are interested in knowing the changes during puberty that occurs to the boys.
Boys and Puberty.
Definition and What is it
Pubescent boys during puberty change a lot. There are times where they might have feelings that they don’t fit in. During puberty in boys, there is a big rate of development, sometimes more then girls. Two pubescent boys can look very different from one another both physically and mentally. For example, one may have lots of body hair, be tall, look like they are older then their years and have a very deep voice while one of his peers may be short, little or no body hair, still look young and have a child like voice. This may change during their teen years or early adulteress but you may still ask, why and how do boys change into young adults so they become men? The simple answer lies in the understanding of hormones and Even in the womb, a male fetus contains small amounts of the "male" hormone—testosterone.
Puberty will normally start in boys between the ages of 11 and 15 and normally end between 15 and 18 but may differ depending on the boy.
Most likely, you understand what puberty is, after reading the above definition and example but are still wondering, what exactly will happen to my body and to myself during these times? The following are stuff that you will or may experience in puberty.
During a boy’s puberty, one’s male sex gland (also known as testicles by the general population of the world) will grow bigger over time and as they grow, the sex gland or testicles will hand lower “down there” and become more noticeable in the scrotum than they were before, as in, you can see them more, or through your pants/shorts they will be. This is why, many people say that famous line boy's balls will drop, but really they have already been there and in the boy’s scrotums, long before puberty even hit him.
One’s male penis (You only got one haha) will grow larger and both his penis and his scrotum will appear and get slightly redder/darker. One sex gland (aka testicle) will most likely hang lower than the other to prevent collision with the other sex gland for reasons due to the fact, it wouldn’t be nice for both you and the sex glands, There is no set one on what sex gland (aka testicle) hangs lower and it may change during a boy’s puberty session.
Because of puberty and its time frame, the boy’s penis size depends on how far the boy is into puberty. It would not be uncommon for a 13-14 year old boy who hasn't started puberty to have a 3 inch penis, and it would not be uncommon for a 15 year old boy who is far along in puberty to have a 6-7 inch penis. The average adult size is 6 and a half to seven inches. Bigger sizes and smaller may differ by the boy, many may have bigger, many may have small and some may just have average size.
Because of puberty, a boy’s body will start producing more sex hormones, so they have more sexual feelings and more erection and a possible sex drive. Erections (Boners or whatever you choose to call it) may and can appear when they're not even turned on (aroused) and sometimes at the most awkward moments and just about anywhere at any time. A boy may feel embarrassed, but it’s a natural part of life, and most times, no one will notice, unless you happen to be naked, or someone happens to be looking at your crotch area at that point in time. Erections will always go down, aka your penis will shrink and go back to normal size as the blood pours out of your penis and back into other areas. If it doesn’t after a period of say, a hour, you should seek medical help.
An erection is a hardening of the penis that occurs when sponge-like tissue inside the penis fills up with blood. Usually, an erection causes the penis to enlarge and stand away from the body.
During puberty, boys begin to experience erections (Boners or hardons) more then before they started puberty. A erection is the hardening of a penis (Aka it gets hard to the touch and you can feel it through your pants) due to sponge-like tissue inside the penis fills up with blood.. Erections occur when boys think about sexual things or they can even occur for no reason at all due to the general nature or they are thinking about sexual things in the back of their mind or see a hot girl or a hot guy…/.
Boys also may experience something called nocturnal emissions (also known as wet dreams for the lessees scientific people.). Wet dreams occur when the boy’s penis becoming erect when he is sleeping and he ejaculates in his sleep, Wet dreams are sexual dreams. A ejaculation is when fluid comes out of the penis (the fluid contains sperm). After a wet dream, you or your underwear may be a little wet when you wake up or you may wake up when you ejaculate due to the stimulus on your body Wet dreams will happen less often as boys moves through puberty and they eventually stop or they may not for quite some time after puberty.
During Puberty, a boy will develop hair around his penis, on his scrotum and around it, under his armpits, and start to grow facial hair. Your body will also start to fill out and to start to shape during puberty. His shoulders will grow wider and his body will become more muscular in most cases except for rare ones.
During one’s girl puberty same as boys, their skin may get oilier and most chances is pimples will usually start showing up when puberty begins due to the sexual nature of puberty and the other changes of puberty and also because of more hormones and oil glands that become more active during puberty,. Pimples are not caused by chocolate as many quack doctors like to claim, they are caused by hormones. Some of the locations you may see pimples bloom on are: general area around your face (most times your cheeks, noses, sides of your faces, and forehead), your upper back , or your upper chest. You may not get them on your upper chest and upper back, it all depends on what happens. Every puberty is different. Acne and pimples leave scares and cuts of squeezed, picked or popped and could lead to serious infections and even death. Please contact your local doctor, pharmacist or a dermatologist (a doctor that treats skin problems) on ways to clear up acne and pimples. There are many good treatments that can completely rid you of these nasties if the cream is applied as prescribed nightly. A plus side of this, is it only happens once in your life time and they wont continue to pop up throughout the course of your adulthood even through one or two might remain with you.
Also during puberty, some boys (once again, not all) will experience mild to severe swelling underneath their nipples which could look like your growing breasts! Don’t freak out or panic or rush to your doctor, this is only temporary and its happening because your body is changing so fast during puberty. Its not possible to grow breasts during puberty normally except in EXTREMELY-EXTREMELY rare cases
And one of the last major changes during puberty is the changing of the boy’s voice. The voice will start to sound lower and less child high pitched. .The tone might wobble, crackle or be difficult to control at first, but overtime during puberty, you will grasp it to talk normal after speaking. There is no lessons involved, its just something you grow out of.