Are there more nerve endings in a hand or penis?

[BaileyisDarcy]

Hand

Penis

[NineBreaker]

The hand definitely has more nerve endings. They are implicitly more, and more dense than the genitals generally (let alone the penis only). Behold, the Cortical Homonculus: it depicts the human body where the more dense the nerves in an area, the larger it is. As you can see, the hands are the largest of all, and the mouth comes second. The genitals though? Not so much.

[CauseNEffect]

Hit both with a hammer and see which one causes the most pain.

[Anonymous]

Would your hand tingle if i stroked it?

[Kitty1247]

Because I'm a medical biologist with extensive knowledge of human anatomy as part of my career in medicine.

Each fingertip alone contains nearly the same amount of nerve endings as the entire penis itself, with over 3000 touch receptors lying beneath the surface of the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis.

Contrasting this against the penis, which contains around 4000 nerve endings.

Essentially, just the TIP of your FINGER contains a comparative amount of nerve endings.

And we ask ourselves, why is this?

The simple answer is that it is incredibly evolutionarily advantageous to be able to sense the world around us by way of touch, and nowhere do we do that more than with our fingers.

The pleasure creating nerve endings in the penis/vagina had to only evolve enough to make us enjoy having sex enough to continue to strive to do so.

Once everyone was already having sex as much as possible while keeping as high fecundity as possible (the ability to have viable offspring that actually survive) it turns out that our sense of touch from an exploratory and survival standpoint was worth much more than gential stimulation. Which makes perfect sense.

Fun fact,

A research study attempting to determine the number of nerve endings present in the human finger tip and their reliability, concluded that test subjects were able to RELIABLY differentiate between two objects that were only 13 nanometers in size. Let me provide a comparative example that illustrates that.

The human fingertip is on average 1cm across.

The size of the planet is 12,742km across.

So the world is around 1,274,200,000x larger than a fingertip.

13nm * 1,274,200,000 = 16.56 meters.

This means, that if you had a fingertip that was the size of the entire planet earth, you would be able to feel the difference in the sizes of all of the different buildings in your city.

Try doing that with a penis / clitoris.

[wubbalubba_dubdub]

I would say penis!
Coz my hand doesn't ejaculate!

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

I would imagine the penis has more nerve endings.

[winterfox10]

The hand, especially if the penis was circumcised.

[Anonymous]

A hand... holding one.

[LegateLanius]

Hands have more for sensory purposes

[PrettyRegular]

I would say a hand. It's more complex.

[Logorithim]

Gotta be a penis

[BaileyisDarcy]

Because it feels better or because you feel more varied sensations though?

[Logorithim]

More varied sensations, plus it is just really sensitive.

[laughinglad999]

in the penis thats why we cun to quick sometimes

[hotstuffSRD]

Depends ya know

[BaileyisDarcy]

It really doesn't XD

[hotstuffSRD]

LOL 😂

[WhoDatGuy]

My hand doesn't cum

[CT_CD]

Hand

[BronzedAdonis]

Penis

[Anonymous]

Penis

[Slim57]

Penis I guess?