# Guys with huge penises. How do they live with them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 20, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663 "2008-08-20T13:21:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/81 "2008-08-21T02:50:54Z")
[QUOTE=Acid Lamp] **Gaffa** , Do you really think that on a message board with as many members as the SDMB, that we won’t have the usual distribution of size? [/quote] I expect it to be a Gaussian distribution. But I also know that self-reported data in this area tends to be one to two inches above reality. > [@](#): > > If you want specifics I don’t mind sharing. Since you seem familiar with Ron Jeremy, I’ll use his easily googled member as a comparison. I am as long as him under normal erection conditions. Occasionally, and with a significant amount of foreplay, I can be slightly longer, though this is painful and the skin feels stretched taut. Such a condition is also accompanied by the testicles ascending back out of the scrotum. I had an operation to correct [Hypospadias Chordee](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypospadias) on my penis at the age of two and this may be related to scarring. He is thicker than me, mine being approximately the same as a regular polish sausage. So I wouldn’t say that I’m claiming to be larger, we are for all intents comparable. In the film [_Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282856/), several of his co-stars mentioned that he never got fully hard, one said “it’s kind of spongy”. Hey, if you don’t want to back up your claim, fine. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/82 "2008-08-21T04:23:10Z")
[QUOTE=gaffa] Hey, if you don’t want to back up your claim, fine. [/QUOTE] Jeez, **gaffa** , I don’t know what your problem is with this, but just let it go. If you watch much porn at all, you’ll see plenty of men who are 10+ inches, so it’s not nearly as uncommon as you’re trying to make out. You have explicit details from both him and his SO. And his story is both internally consistent and not particularly flattering. At this point, given the above, your request for pictorial evidence is painfully close to sexual harassment. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/83 "2008-08-21T04:48:14Z")
[QUOTE=gaffa] Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Is there a volunteer willing to receive a video of proof of **Acid Lamp’s** remarkable appendage? [/QUOTE] [Moderating] If you don’t want to believe his claim fair enough, but persistant accusations that he is lying really don’t belong in GQ. Given that we have thousands of members\*, it’s not that extraordinary that we might have some in the the tails\*\* of the distribution. [QUOTE=gaffa] Hey, if you don’t want to back up your claim, fine. [/QUOTE] Let’s drop this line of commentary. Colibri General Questions Moderator - Yes, I realize what I said. \*\*Here too. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/84 "2008-08-21T05:13:00Z")
[QUOTE=Fubaya] But the subject came up at another website I visit recently and the smallest must have been 8 inches. It was a lively thread until I pointed out how remarkable it was that every single person was well above average. The thread died after my post. [/QUOTE] Well, [on the Straight Dope](http://i33.tinypic.com/fnybh2.png) … 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/85 "2008-08-21T05:14:31Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] I can believe that the average IQ of SDMB members is a bit higher than the norm. Penis size, though? [/QUOTE] If someone starts a list of Dopers who’ve been in porn movies, like the Jeopardy threads, I’ll do a statistical analysis. My penis has an IQ of 165, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/86 "2008-08-21T06:29:32Z")
Sheesh, guys, big dicks aren’t that uncommon! The first guy I had sex with pulled one just shy of 10" out of his britches and scared the crap outta me. I was direly unsure that the thing would ever fit, but it did and we did and it was a lot of fun once I got used to it. Then again, I’m apparently built for it and consequently am something of a size queen. Yes, I have had sex with several men in the 9-11" range, yes they did get it all the way in, no it doesn’t necessarily have to whang the cervix and hurt although some positions are more likely to result in this than others. If you want to get into some really fun details, I’ve had two threesomes (involving three guys in all, one guy was there for both occasions) with two guys who were both over 8" and have managed to accomodate them both vaginally at the same time. It helped a lot that they didn’t consider it to be too gay to be rubbing against each other as long as they were inside a girl while doing so. As I told one dude who was bragging on the size of his dick, “hey, I gave birth to a 9.5 lb baby with no drugs–what do you think YOU’RE gonna do to impress me?” 😃 The place where big dicked guys really get shortchanged is on oral–hardly anybody has a mouth big enough for a real whopper. Poor bastards… ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/87 "2008-08-21T06:39:01Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] Thing is, on so many message boards, whenever a big dick thread arises, it’s a guarantee that there will be many followup posts by all sorts of members (pun intended) claiming to be hung like the longest porn stars, giving the impression that Mandingo-sized penii are just a bit beyond the peak of the bell curve, and not at the very end. You’ll also see posts like “I’ve got a below-average sized penis, but even at just eight inches my girlfriend still has problems with my hitting her cervix”, “I’m _only_ seven and a half inches long, and _only_ just as thick as a beer can, but …”, and so on. [/QUOTE] It is extremely unlikely that the standard deviation of erect penis length in human males exceeds one inch; in all probability it is no greater than .825 inches. The mean appears to be no greater than six inches, and even this might be exceedingly generous [(cite)](http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=Q01IYUlpSWVoeWJ2Wmc9PQ). Nine inches is easily pegging a full four standard deviations from the mean, and anything beyond ten inches should be virtually nonexistent in the human population. With that aside, please feel free to resume the obligatory big dick jokes. History has clearly demonstrated that any discussion of penis size on the SDMB must necessarily degrade into the rhetorical equivalent of a _Porky’s_ movie, so carry on. Here on the SDMB at least, the sword is clearly mightier than the pen. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisBooth12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@ChrisBooth12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisBooth12)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/88 "2008-08-21T08:12:15Z")
Why is it so hard for you to believe that a penis can be that big? I have plenty of pictures (not of myself) that state otherwise ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/89 "2008-08-21T09:20:44Z")
I’m guessing that a lot of “big dick tales” are just the result of human imagination, but I could be wrong. It’s possible that the distribution is bimodal rather than Gaussian—I dunno. Maybe the really big guys just don’t whip it out for the folks in the lab coats holding the clipboards. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/90 "2008-08-21T09:45:40Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] Thing is, on so many message boards, whenever a big dick thread arises, it’s a guarantee that there will be many followup posts by all sorts of members (pun intended) claiming to be hung like the longest porn stars, giving the impression that Mandingo-sized penii are just a bit beyond the peak of the bell curve, and not at the very end. [/QUOTE] Yes but that’s not what’s happened here. We have (unless I’ve missed someone) two posts from people saying they have extraordinary penises. And this thread would be pretty much responded to by any SDMB member with an extraordinary penis. I recall a thread where someone asked about concrete trucks and a member turned out to drive concrete trucks. What percentage of the population drives concrete trucks? It’s the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/91 "2008-08-21T09:48:27Z")
…except of course that a concrete trunk is a little easier to stash inside your pants ---
**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:** [August 21, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/92 "2008-08-21T10:23:53Z")
Some Dopers will admit their less than impressive size, so I don’t think we need to worry that we’re particularly out of the standard deviation. > **[Ask the guy with a really small dick](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=252551)** > > fruitbat mentioned mentioned that there’s an over-abundance of male Dopers attempting to boost thier egos by overtly bragging about their penis size in posts poorly disguised as questions. So, here’s the “Ask the guy with a really small dick” thread.... ---
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/93 "2008-08-21T13:01:30Z")
[QUOTE=Turek] A more cringeworthy sentance has yet to be written. :eek: [/QUOTE] [slight hijack] I have absolutely no business posting to a thread such as this, but most people cringe when I say … that I had to keep my head still and my left eye wide open as the ophthalmologist slowly guided the **corneal drill** to the center of my vision to remove the rest of the metal sliver that the emergency room guy hadn’t removed two days prior to that when _he_ used a hypodermic needle to remove the main part of that sliver.I’ve had a few people tell me that they were upset to have ever heard those two words spoken together. [/slight hijack] Other than that, through casual glances in locker rooms, I’ve seen at least two penises that were about 7" when flaccid. So it seems plausible that there are a measurable number of real-life men who have 10" penises. Additionally, as others have mentioned, threads on topic X will have a tendency to have a self-selected distribution quite different from a Gaussian distribution. A common example: people complaining about product X – the people who have no complaints will not be posting to such threads because they have no reason to even read such threads. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/94 "2008-08-21T13:28:12Z")
[QUOTE=Voyager] …My penis has an IQ of 165, by the way. [/QUOTE] Impressive. But _mine_ knows the real answer to the airplane-on-a-treadmill debate. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/95 "2008-08-21T14:21:16Z")
And mine looks just like a 1920s Style “Death Ray” and was once in Mariana’s Trench. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/96 "2008-08-21T14:32:22Z")
[QUOTE=ChrisBooth12] Why is it so hard for you to believe that a penis can be that big? I have plenty of pictures (not of myself) that state otherwise [/QUOTE] I believe the reason **gaffa** is having some difficulty with the numbers is because of statistics like [this one.](http://www.mraverage.com/results.htm) > [@](#): > > The average erect penis length was 5.877 inches (14.928 cm). Standard deviation was 0.825 inches (2.096 cm) with 54 percent of the effective sample measuring between 5.5 inches (14 cm) and 6.3 inches (16 cm). If those numbers are correct, and if penis length is a normal (Gaussian) distribution, 10 inches is 5 standard deviations from the mean. 99.99994267% of the data lies within 5 standard deviations from the mean in a normal distribution. Now, that is making some assumptions that the distribution is normal, and that the Lifestyles information is accurate. If it is true, it’s pretty clear why **gaffa** may be a little skeptical of the claims. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/97 "2008-08-21T14:33:29Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] And mine looks just like a 1920s Style “Death Ray” and was once in Mariana’s Trench. [/QUOTE] You know Mariana as well? 1962- oh what a night… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/98 "2008-08-21T14:42:26Z")
> [@](#): > > And mine looks just like a 1920s Style “Death Ray” and was once in Mariana’s Trench. For how long? And how many times? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/99 "2008-08-21T15:08:42Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] Well, [on the Straight Dope](http://i33.tinypic.com/fnybh2.png) … 😃 [/QUOTE] I am quite skeptical of this graph as it only goes up to 15. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663/100 "2008-08-21T15:29:29Z")
I see two possibilities here. 1. **Acid Lamp** and/or one or two of the other python-panted posters are telling the truth, and the others are lying; or 2. There are some serious measuring errors out there. I’m inclined to go with a combination of the two. I’m certainly inclined to believe **AL** given that we have sort-of-independent corroboration of his claim. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-with-huge-penises-how-do-they-live-with-them/460663.md?page=6)