You’d think that, but you might be wrong:
http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x658f
The link is very NSFW. It goes directly to a video, and the video contains lots of penis…well, all things considered, not that much penis actually.
Obviously. Just because something is very unlikely doesn’t mean it’s impossible. But it would be rather crazily unlikely (if the numbers are true which, as I’ve said before, I don’t necessarily believe.) Once again, I’m just trying to explain why gaffa’s skepticism may be warranted, given s/he believes that the distribution of penis size is a Gaussian distribution. Most would and should be skeptical if they were coming from this assumption, given the data that is available. Personally, I would not make a bet, and I completely believe Acid Lamp’s claim.
I’d like to point out that all the doubters keep claiming that all these 10’'ers are so unlikely, yet no one has really said they have 10". AL said he’s “just under 10” and the females keep saying 8s and 9s. That’s a huge (heh) difference!
I thought about calling it a strawman, but considering the context, I think it’s more like a stalkman.
Okay, I can provide some non-self-referential anecdot6al evidence that the S.D. must be great enough that large penises are not that uncommon. (FWIW, my own is a small fraction of an inch above the adult white male median size quoted.) For most of the first 50 years of my life, I lived in a city that was in the 25,000-30,000 population range – not an enormous statistical universe from which to draw samples. And I certainly was not out looking to observe large penises! In chronological order:
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A man often on the wrong side of the law was arrested for murder (eventually convicted of manslaughter 2nd degree, not that that’s relevant). My first fulltime job out of college: office clerk in the Sheriff’s Dept., which ran the jail. So jailer and two deputies are standing guard over this guy as he’s being booked and clad in jail prisoners’ coveralls; I’m in the same room, typing up his booking paperwork. Now, rumor has it that this guy is extremely well-endowed, 12" erect. And he’s being made to strip, change into the jail uniform. I’ll admit it; I was curious – I looked. He was of course flaccid, but what was hanging was well in excess of 6" – if required to estimate from memory, I’d say slightly over 7". Size soft proves nothing, of course – but it certainly wouldn’t shrink when coming erect.
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A few years later, a roofer of my casual acquaintance, about my age, is dating a former classmate, a quite buxom and pretty blonde. I won’t go into th e theatre-of-the-absurd sequence of coincidences that let to my encountering him naked and erect at a party, but I can vouch for the fact that his claim of 9" hard was not an exaggeration.
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Using the old men’s room at the park, a relatively secluded building. Urinals are at one side of the facility – three of them, in an open area inside the building marginally larger than a toilet stall. Another, younger man at one urinal – clearly gay and looking to make a pickup, from what ensued. He exposes himself to me, erect and on a guess 7,5" (I didn’t stick around to measure!)
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The three teens we took in, we remained relatively close to in their young adulthood. One of them would occasionally get (a) quite drunk and (b) quite horny. On at least three occasions either I alone or accompanied by his girlfriend of the time had to put him to bed, three sheets to the wind and very much aroused. And he was significantly above average – somewhere between 7.5" and 8".
Needless to say, none of these were scientifically made measurements – simple eyeball estimates, instead, and in definitely odd situations. Nor was I particularly interested in doing a penis size study. They simply came to mind because of the reluctance on the part of several Dopers to buy into the relative commonness of larger-than-typical penises. If I, not seeking out the elusive megapenis in its lair, happened to encounter four unusually large penises from a sample of ~14,000 (males in a city of ~28,000 population), then my inclination is to believe that the bell curve (actually it’s that other form of curve, bell-like but with one short/truncated and one long tail) has to br graphed in a manner that does not make them vanishingly scarce.
I thought as much, because then it would be a foot.
No, internally.
I’ve seen WAAAAAY less than 300 peni IRL. Less than 25 even.
I have seen an 11 or 12 inch penis IRL. I was horrified. I wanted nothing to do with it - oddly enough it was attached to a guy who was about 5’5, 145 lbs. It’s like all his size went to his cock.
Further, I’ve seen more than one in the 8" range.
Most have been in the 5 " - 6" range.
One was less than 2" (poor bastard).
Is this scientific? No. However I have no trouble believing that a poster on this board could have a whopper, particularly since his IRL girlfriend has come on and confirmed it.
Crap, I could have sworn I told the thing NOT to automatically put a real link in my post! Can someone report it to a mod so they can break the link? Thanks!
Reported as requested.
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That’s very interesting.
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One was less than 2" (poor bastard).
I don’t recall meeting you, where was it again 
Standing up for us LICW’s*****, I’m sure I heard that the bigger the penis when flaccid, the less the increase when erect. For example, my own humble plonker increases from 50 to 66% between flaccid and erect, but could that happen to someone with a 7" flaccid member? I doubt it myself, but I’m open to contrary views.
***** Less Impressive Cock Wielders
- puff. pant * Hold up, I’m just revising my figures. Damn, it’s nearer 100% !
Acid Lamp’s account seems entirely believeable to me. He wasn’t bragging about his size, in fact his HR story was humiliating (and messed up – sorry you had to deal with that, guy!). Then his SO comes in and varifies his story.
Now, I myself have never seen a penis as big as Ron Jeremy’s or Acid Lamp’s. The biggest I’ve ever seen was around 7.5" erect. The smallest was around 3.5" erect. All the rest were somewhere in between. My sample group is only 28 or so, though.
I have a friend who was quite promiscuous throughout her 20s. Her sample group is over 100, and she has seen 2 penises in the 9 - 10" range. So there you go.
Let’s have it right. Having a large schlong, and wearing tight pants is simply asking for attention, imo. And complaining about having a large un, is like complaining about having too much money. I’ve got to say, I’m finding it very difficult - I nearly said ‘hard’… oo er! - to have any sympathy for Acid Lamp’s predicament.
Sorry, Acid Lamp, I meant the OP’s predicament.
That’s like a woman saying she has no sympathy for a woman with large breasts. Unless one is “blessed” with a large penis or breasts, one has no idea about what that person has to go through. Large breasts = always having to wear a bra, not being able to wear cute t-shirts without appearing slutty, severe sagging over the years, etc, etc, etc. I am always stunned when I hear of women getting implants greater than a C…I’m a C and would love to be much smaller. Anyway, the grass is always greener, yadda, yadda, yadda…Sorry if this was a hijack, but I just wanted to offer a comparison.
Eh. Compared to the amount of awkward excess flesh flopping around the typical adult woman, I figure a 10" penis is pretty easy to manage. In athletics, I’d rather be stuck with a large penis than with large boobs, which can get far, far, larger.
(I’m quite happy to be under 7", & I don’t actually want a penis that can reach higher than my navel when I’m standing up. I’d never be able to keep it inside my shorts!)
(I mean, literally. I have self-control.)
(Shut up. You have a dirty mind.)
It doesn’t. Someone earlier upthread mentioned that Ron Jeremy’s was always kind of soft, no matter the state of arousal. This correlates directly to gravity, the longer/heavier the penis, the less likely it is to stand at attention. At full arousal mine only points out and slightly down if I’m standing or sitting. Of course laying down, it flops the other way, being difficult to keep straight up. It also precludes certain positions as it places significant pressure on the area where the organ meets the crotch because of leverage.
And if this has already been asked and answered then apologies are extended. Before the real question - about 7.5.
Why is a penis not 12 inches?
Because then it would be a foot.
I think your envy is getting in the way of common sense. After a certain point, women aren’t interested in sleeping with guys of a too much larger than average size, and other issues are tied to this as well. In some cases that I’ve known, finding things like pants can be an issue because the crotch length is not long enough (you don’t want a giant bulge off in the side of the pant leg in an otherwise normal fitting pair of pants), and if you’re having this issue with pants, you might also have trouble with finding underwear that fits if you’ve got a small waist and enormous junk.
To relate it to my own clothing issues, I’ve got a large chest. It interferes with the fit of anything that’s supposed to drape across the chest, as I’m three cup sizes larger than the person that the average clothing manufacturer is designing for. This generally means that I get the choice of ill-fitting (in the midsection) tops or ill-fitting (across the chest and shoulders) tops. I get stares from men and women alike, even when I’m dressed conservatively, and often enough, I get glared at by small-chested women who appear to think I’m either slutty or are jealous of the fact that my boobs are big. I have also experienced on a regular basis the “talk to the boobs” issue, from men and women, and I played sports when I was younger, which, if you’ve never had big boobs, you don’t know the “joy” of finding a sports bra that’ll keep them under control without costing $50 per bra.
In short, if you’ve never been in the predicaments that either the large-penised or large-breasted have been in, so your envy and prejudices have won over any sympathy you may have had for them if it were a different size issue. Do you laugh at the guys who have teeny-tiny, can’t find 'em when they’re not aroused penises? Are you one of them?