I happened to run across the following quote from Dr. Tim Birkhead, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Sheffield, in the following article:
“Penis length in humans generally varies from 10-20cm (erect), but there is a tribe in Africa in which the male member is much longer, and its owners tie it into a loose knot while walking.”
Is this quote accurate? If so, what is the name of this particular tribe so I run a Google search on it??
From some experiments I ran over the weekend with a kielbasa, I don’t see how it’s possible to tie a penis into a knot unless the length-to-diameter ratio is at least 15:1. Therefore, in order for this to be true, I suspect that this tribe must accomplish this feat by attaching weights to their penises for long periods of time, increasing its length but decreasing the diameter.
If ‘there is a tribe in Africa’ is as accurate and explicit as the good professor can manage, I think it’s a fair bet that he’s at best poorly informed.
In some African tribes, the penis is suspended by means of a soft ribbon looped around the waist and tied loosely around the gathered prepuce, holding the penis in an upright position, out of harm’s way; I suspect a misreading of an account of this practice is at the root of the story.
it seems like tying your penis would cause you to get a boner which I imagine would be unbearably painful while tied in a knot and cut off the circulation :eek:
Any man who writes books like the one cited below should (assumedly) have a good idea of how big male human members are and can be. The “knotting tribe” cite is utter BS, but you have to ask yourself why he doesn’t know any better, especially in his purported status an expert on human sexual biology.
The sadhus in India have been known to stretch out their penises, and do such things as lift rocks with them, or twist them around sticks, and bundle them up. It’s a religious thing, not an evolutionary thing.
For years I’ve had to struggle with undoing cryptic bra straps without ruining the moment. I think it’s about time women had something they have to undo too.
Further to what I said above; ancient Greek athletes had a similar contraption to stop their dangly bits flopping around when they competed in the nude. The name of the thing was Kynodesme - I’m not going to link to any pages showing one, but they’re out there.
I suspect that the article is either describing this in such an abiguous way that it sounds like he’s talking about typing the actual penis in a knot, or that the professor has made that mistake himeslf and is now repeating his mistaken understanding of the whole deal.
Googling for ‘Caramoja’ makes me highly suspicious that it’s complete fiction. Over half of the 300-ish results are all repetitions of a “unusual sex facts” text that appears to have come from Cosmopolitan about a decade ago. Hardly a reliable source.
As I said I certainly can’t vouch for it. All I can say for sure is that they must be one slow-moving group of guys if they’re walking around with dicks tied to bricks.
