It may seem a silly question but how do you know if you have started puberty or not ?

usually development with pubes, and penis size. i used to think pubes cabe before cum until I read here. then there’s voice deapens, growth spurt. pit hair and face hair come later

I started to develop a lower pitch voice and some face hair occours. After a little also chest hair grow. Was around 11 y/o

Na, it’s not a silly question. It’s a good question. For boys, generally the start of hair growth around the penis is considered the visible start. Or first cum. Its variable but suffice to say that if you have pubic hair, you have started puberty.

My first changes were a few hairs above my penis and my balls got bigger.

Favianos Absolutely not a silly question because there various different changes and some things are more noticable than others. The first change most boys actually notice is pubic hair. Usually, the first external sign that you could notice if you were looking for it, is an increase in testicle size. In much more detail, puberty actually starts in the brain and a part of the brain called the hypothalamus starts making a hormone called GnRH. That acts on the pituitary gland (located within the brain not not really part of it) which then makes two more hormones: Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and Luteinizing Hormone (LH). The names refer to the effects in girls, which I will come back to, but in boys LH causes cells in the testicles to make testosterone. Testosterone and FSH cause the testicles to start to make sperm and it is this that makes them grow. Then testosterone causes all of the other changes we associate with puberty. Testosterone is responsible for the hair, in all the various places it starts to grow, including public, arm pit, happy trail, facial, chest etc. The issue with using hair to track progress through puberty, though, is that even fully developed some people are much hairier than others. Someone who is destined to be really hairy once fully adult may, when only half way through puberty, still be hairier than someone else who has just about finished puberty. Testosterone is also responsible for penis growth. The fact we have one at all, rather than a clitoris, is because we had a higher level of testosterone when we were inside our mothers womb and without testosterone, it doesn’t grow, hence why it seems to be left behind as the rest of us grows during childhood prior to puberty, then suddenly grows fast once we get to puberty. Then testosterone is also responsible for skeletal growth (via conversion to oestrogen), stopping growing, larynx growth (and hence voice change), oilier skin etc. It is also responsible for feeling horny and for making the glands that produce the non-sperm, liquid parts of our cum start to work, hence giving us the ability to ejaculate. So, back to those weird hormone names that don’t make sense for boys. In girls, FSH stimulates the ovarian follicles to get an egg ready for ovulation. The stimulation also gets those follicles to produce estradiol (an oestrogen) which is responsible for much of girl puberty. LH induces ovulation and thus causes the ovarian follicle to become the corpus leteum (yellow body) hence the name.

When do you start puberty ?

wills2010

I started around 13 and ½ that’s when I started getting hair

GeekyFanGirl

I started around 12 probably but I’m a late bloomer for my family

NunsWorseNightmare

I started early when I was like 9, had my first period at 10 and started getting my tits then too

PaigeP

12 and half

4x4

[unknown]

I had pubes at 9. Oh and hello everyone.

YoungandFree12

I think I just no, I knew when I started noticing more hair on me

HeyCameron

Pubic hair is probably the earliest sign. That happened to me long before other changes, like a deeper voice or armpit hair. The second change that probably happened to me was body odor and needing deodorant. When those two things happened, I knew it had started for me, even if other changes would come years later (and some barely at all, considering I’m 22 and still have almost no facial hair).

Vanessa9

Towards the end of my 10 year old when my breasts started to grow. But I think your question is more about boys.

ClaireBear

I was 11

jcone013

Pubic hair, and I guess growing down there. When it started I thought I had a weird rash at first.

Kaylyne2205

I was eight when my breast buds started appearing.
By the time I was ten I was already needing to wear a B cup bra.

Favianos

Kaylyne2205
Is 8 not freaking early ?
My sister is 12 she is barely starting

Triviadude

what do you mean by sister is barely starting?

Triviadude

what do you mean by sister is barely starting?

Favianos

Triviadude
Starting puberty, starting to grow boobs