It is quite a bit smaller if she has been on anti-androgens for some time.
::: applause ::::
A brilliant straight answer to an ironic rhetorical question! Only on this board… 
Think about it. A cubic meter is a thousand liters. If the volume of a human is 0.1 cubic meters, then that’s a hundred liters. Assuming we’re somewhere around the same density as water (give or take - we’re within the same ballpark) that 0.1 cubic meters equals a hundred kilos. Since the average human probably doesn’t (yet) weigh a hundred kilos, then the 0.1 number is not a bit small - it must have been rounded up.
It also means that if you store them efficiently, you could fit a lot more children onto a school bus.
/Slight hijack but relevant/ Shades of Jimi Hendrix (a client of this or similar site, according to news of the day):
Call me Frank, your right my method assumes that blood is spread evenly through the body, and thus is only a rough estimate. It does estimate the total amount of blood, though, which is what the OP asked for. If I’m understanding you correctly, your method only finds the difference in the amount of blood in between an erect penis and a flacid one.
excalibre, your right my estimate for the average human volume seems a bit much. It was just the first one I found on google. As to this:
I’ve been trying to sell my idea for a “child pulper” to the county school board for years. Unfortunately the de-pulpification process, which returns the children to their original, inefficent shapes is still somewhat flawed.
Couldn’t you just find an erect penis, cut it off, and squeeze it into a graduated cylinder until it is flaccid?
I don’t see why that should delay the implementation of the working module. After all, the first can opener wasn’t invented until ten years after the first canned food.
BULLSHIT!!!
I’ve read cites that say they’re closer to 5.4 inches long. Damnit.
My bookmarks got wiped or I’d link the study. I found it here… someone will be a"long" eventually.
Couldn’t you take the blood pressure of a man without an erection and then take it again when he’s aroused - wouldn’t the increased volume cause a measurable drop in bp? If the ammount of blood in him was known (or estimated) couldn’t the volume of his penis be calculate?
Right. Tell me again how sheep’s bladders can be employed to predict earthquakes.
You’re being whooshed. As Malodorous noted I was jokingly putting the parentheses in a different place, making it (0.1m)[sup]3[/sup]. That’s 0.001 cubic meter, or one liter.
There’s a joke in here about dense packing of penises, but I’m not going there.
Could someone work it out for me in ml - assuming 5.5 is the average. thanks.
Sorry - that was rude. I’m under pressure to come up with a number. If I get the time I’ll work it out myself.
I already calculated the volume above. Just multiply the cross-sectional area (pi times diameter in cm) by length in cm, which will give you cubic cm, which equals ml.
Chronos Kitchen Labs being sorely underfunded, our facility unfortunately does not contain graduated cylindars of a size appropriate to perform this experiment. Improvisations in equipment were therefore necessary. The apparatus for this experiment consisted of the following:
1 Cleveland Indians souvenir beverage cup, volume approx. 24 fluid ounces
1 plastic measuring cup, volume 1 American cup (8 fluid ounces
1 plastic measuring cup, volume 1/8 American cup (1 fluid ounce)
1 adult male human penis, 27.5 years old, Caucasian
1 adult male human scrotum, same specs as above
1 bathtub
Sufficient quantities of DHMO
Because of the lack of a measuring vessel of appropriate dimension in Chronos Kitchen Labs, the Cleveland Indians souvenir cup was used as the displacement chamber. The displacement chamber was filled to the brim with DHMO, and placed in the bathtub (which served as overflow containment system), where the human penis was lowered into the displacement chamber to the maximum extent allowed (the edges of the displacement chamber were flush with the surface of the skin surrounding the experimental specimen). Experimental difficulties were found in attempting to lower the penis alone into the chamber, and the scrotum was therefore lowered into the chamber as well. The staff of Chronos Kitchen Labs recognizes that this may introduce random error into the measured results; however, since the scrotum was included in both trials, no systematic effect should be observed in the difference. After removal of the specimen, the displacement chamber was refilled using the measuring cups, to determine the volume of DHMO displaced by the specimen (and therefore of the specimen itself).
The first trial was performed with the specimen in a flaccid state. On measuring, 1.0 cups (8.0 fluid ounces) of DHMO were displaced in this experiment. The experimental specimen was then exposed to a set of visual, auditory, and tactile stimuli until the specimen reached a turgid state, whereupon the experiment was repeated. On this second trial, the measurement procedure was repeated, and it was found that 1 cup 6.1 ounces (14.1 fluid ounces) of DHMO were displaced.
The sample size for this experiment was 100% of the specimens available to Chronos Kitchen Labs for study, and we may therefore reasonably conclude that specimens in this population increase in volume by an average of 6.1 fluid ounces. Probable sources for error in this experiment include spillage of DHMO from the displacement chamber while specimen was inserted and measurement error in reading volumes from the measuring cups. However, since these sources of error can be expected to have applied to the same degree in both trials, a determination cannot be made whether this measurement represents an underestimate or overestimate of the true value.
GOD I love this message board!
Chronos, you measured the displacement of your genitalia in both a flaccid and turgid state and then you posted the results of those measurements on an internet message board for all to see.
That took balls, man.
…someone was bound to say it sooner or later…
Substantially more than my theoretical calculation of 3.5 fluid ounces, but not too far out of the ballpark (or Cleveland Indians souvenir cup). Still, it’s somewhat less than half a pint.
Oh, and Bravo! That’s in the true spirit of the SDSAB!
but I ain’t repeating it.
My measuring device was only accurate to increments of 1 ounce. 6 ounces was the difference here, too. I used a narrower glass than the 24 oz cup, so there was no scrotum measured.