# Downside of having a large organ? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 21, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892 "2007-03-21T17:40:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/21 "2007-03-21T18:53:39Z")
[QUOTE=matt\_mcl] I’d have to alter all my pants. [/QUOTE] Stay away from the pleated variety!!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/22 "2007-03-21T19:06:32Z")
[These](http://www.koalaswim.com) are right out. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/23 "2007-03-21T19:54:17Z")
In all seriousness, a friend of mine broke up with a guy because his organ was too BIG. There were other incompatabilities, but she would have been willing to work them out if not for the painful copulation. Also in all seriousness, there are other activities that a huge organ impedes. Specifically, larger organs are much less pleasant to have inside one’s mouth. Keep that in mind. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/24 "2007-03-21T20:04:21Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] There’s a downside ? [/QUOTE] I think it’s more commonly called the “underside.” ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/25 "2007-03-21T20:11:10Z")
I know a very attractive woman who is not only highly sexed but has gone through several (four to be exact) husbands. In regard to her third husband, she once said to me: “Larry has an 11” penis, but I divorced him anyway!" 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/26 "2007-03-21T20:12:38Z")
Does it wobble to and fro? Can you tie it in a knot? Can you tie it in a bow? Can you throw it o’er your shoulder like a continental soldier? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/27 "2007-03-21T20:13:02Z")
Instead of pleated pants, you could always go for some [Cleaver Pants](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldridge_Cleaver). > [@](#): > > In 1975, Cleaver modeled anatomically fitted men’s pants he designed featuring a “Cleaver sleeve” which was a penis sheath that was basically a sock protruding from the front of a pair of pants (see “Eldridge Cleaver Models his hot new pants” in Rolling Stone issue 197 dated October 9, 1975). The sleeve accommodated free movement and size changes of the enclosed male organ. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/28 "2007-03-21T20:16:44Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] Instead of pleated pants, you could always go for some [Cleaver Pants](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldridge_Cleaver). > [@](#): > > In 1975, Cleaver modeled anatomically fitted men’s pants he designed featuring a “Cleaver sleeve” which was a penis sheath that was basically a sock protruding from the front of a pair of pants (see “Eldridge Cleaver Models his hot new pants” in Rolling Stone issue 197 dated October 9, 1975). The sleeve accommodated free movement and size changes of the enclosed male organ. [/QUOTE] Was there a female version called “Beaver Cleaver Pants”? ---
**Author:** ![2pelo\_honey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/ecb155/32.png) [@2pelo\_honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2pelo_honey)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/29 "2007-03-21T20:24:58Z")
Gotta say, in all honesty, that a huge dick can make for some painful intercourse…my last b/f (sigh) was pretty damn huge, and there were certain positions/times when I could barely handle it… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/30 "2007-03-21T20:56:46Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] [QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Do you own a wheelbarrow? [/QUOTE] Of course. Why do you ask? [/QUOTE] Oh, I’ve just found that to be a handy way of carting around one’s enormous genitalia. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/31 "2007-03-21T20:57:01Z")
I have a guy friend who has a large organ. It’s porn sized. He has had severe problems getting laid because it’s so big. Even worse is that it took him longer to find anyone who was willing to take that on that he was attracted to, and the regular sized condoms just weren’t going to fit without a lot of pain and possibly breakage. Being average sized is a blessing for a lot of men. They don’t have to worry about a girl rejecting them because their penis is too big. ---
**Author:** ![Li\_l\_Pluck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee59a6/32.png) [@Li\_l\_Pluck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Li_l_Pluck)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/32 "2007-03-21T21:21:38Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] Hmmm. Pleated pants? This site ([http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2004/12/09/TheStatement/For-The.Gents.Mens.Fashion-1427509.shtml](http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2004/12/09/TheStatement/For-The.Gents.Mens.Fashion-1427509.shtml)) they are a fashion faux pas. [/QUOTE] Hmmm…that’s interesting. Not ever in my life having been a fashion queen, I’ve never heard of them being discounted outright. I’ve heard that they’re not recommended for certain body _types_, but not recommended, period? Nope. At any rate, I’m grateful that I tend to have enough confidence to wear whatever the hell I like. Within reason, of course; I don’t want to look like a total shlub. Oh, and keep this in mind about penis size: Some men are growers, but not necessarily show-ers (from the humble acorn sprang a mighty oak, and all that–though I myself am some of the latter, but, from what I’ve been told, a lot of the former) 😉 , while some of the show-ers are most definitely not very good growers. Yes, I’ve done my share of whoring around. Why ever do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/33 "2007-03-21T21:29:09Z")
[QUOTE=Li’l Pluck] from the humble acorn sprang a mighty oak, and all that–though I myself am some of the latter, but, from what I’ve been told, a lot of the former [/QUOTE] Is that how you came up with your user name? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/34 "2007-03-21T21:50:10Z")
[QUOTE=nashiitashii] the regular sized condoms just weren’t going to fit without a lot of pain and possibly breakage [/QUOTE] My boyfriend doesn’t have a pornstar-sized member or anything, but he _is_ larger than average – enough that regular condoms are uncomfortable and break frequently. We use Trojan Magnums (though not the XLs, thank goodness :eek: ), and I’m always kinda proud to have them in my shopping cart at the grocery store. I like to imagine other folks noticing them and thinking “Lucky!!” Which I am. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/35 "2007-03-21T23:19:18Z")
One advantage of being normal sized is that there are only a few very shallow women that will turn you down for not being large (Size Queens), where being really big would mean you probably get turned down by a larger percentage of women. There is probably a happy medium there somewhere, where almost all girls love the size, and only a very small percentage would turn it down for being too big. Of course you would probably also be turned down by a small percentage of women in the size queen camp that thinks you aren’t big enough. ---
**Author:** ![pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9e5f3/32.png) [@pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pretend_my_name_is_witty)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/36 "2007-03-21T23:25:01Z")
There was a list of the ‘downsides to having a massive cock’ in FHM or one of the other lads mags a couple of years ago. The one that I loved was… “If you’re standing in the showers at the gym with your massive meat swinging to and fro, at first other guys will be jealous. Then they’ll just justify it to themselves by thinking that you must have a semi. A semi because you fancy THEM.” ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/37 "2007-03-21T23:47:18Z")
[QUOTE=Misnomer] My boyfriend doesn’t have a pornstar-sized member or anything, but he _is_ larger than average – enough that regular condoms are uncomfortable and break frequently. We use Trojan Magnums (though not the XLs, thank goodness :eek: ), and I’m always kinda proud to have them in my shopping cart at the grocery store. I like to imagine other folks noticing them and thinking “Lucky!!” Which I am. 😃 [/QUOTE] I have a confession to make. When my fiance and I started dating, I soon started taking birth control so that we wouldn’t have to go through the ordeal of having to find condoms that fit and didn’t hurt him. The, erm, Magnum XLs were sometimes a bit uncomfortably snug for him. :eek: \<— After dating mainly regular sized guys, this was my face upon first seeing him nekkid. Uhm, yeah, it can be good, but it’s definitely really different and occasionally painful when the cervix is not having a happy day. We’ve more or less found a happy medium, and I’ve never been more compatible with anyone else. As for pleated pants, would you rather see cock shadow or not have to be subjected to someone’s crotch outline when you didn’t ask for it? It’s not a matter of fashionable dress, it’s a matter of utility. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/38 "2007-03-21T23:48:14Z")
Well, I think the worst part is passing out from shortage of blood during arousal… grin FML ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/39 "2007-03-21T23:55:29Z")
Hmmmm. . . I think I just might stick with what I have! ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892/40 "2007-03-22T01:27:11Z")
The downside is when ladies hear of my 4’ principal, and 3 manuals. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downside-of-having-a-large-organ/396892.md?page=3)