# Is your penis length longer or shorter than average? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 16, 2005, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883 "2005-12-16T07:32:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/61 "2005-12-17T00:25:40Z")
I will single handedly bring the average down a bit. What I don’t have in length I make up with girth. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/62 "2005-12-17T01:06:09Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > I don’t know if you’re serious, but that’s completely wrong. Like every other aspect of televised fiction, the penises they’ve selected for you to see on their show were not chosen randomly. What’s wrong? That there weren’t enough penises to determine an average? Probably not, the sample was too small. I agree that the **nudity** wasn’t random, but I don’t think the appeal of a particular penis was the criteria for who got naked. It was always relevant to the story, not gratuitous (except maybe for that scene in the rec area where **everybody** was naked). If your story line was enhanced or dependent upon your nudity, you were nude. Didn’t matter what you looked like. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/63 "2005-12-17T01:17:41Z")
> [@Grossbottom](#): > > A hair under six inches, but my balls are huge. > > People think I’m speaking metaphorically when I make that claim. But barring birth defects and serious medical conditions, I can usually be pretty sure that in any given crowd, I’ve got the biggest balls there. If you ever have a vasectomy, you simply must post pics of the post-op swelling. As for me…since I don’t have any measuring devices here, I’ll have to let a nice Dopette stop by and do the measuring and report back. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/64 "2005-12-17T02:43:41Z")
> [@davenportavenger](#): > > Oh my god, this thread is getting me SO hot and bothered, even more than the last thread about penis size, which was what, four days ago? Too bad this is a text board, or I would cancel my Xmas plans and just sit around beating off to this thread all day. Lordy! I don’t see why some of you can’t get dates with stats like this. > > People who like to talk about dicks 24/7 usually are. Dicks, that is. Oh, come now. It’s all in good fun. Won’t you join us? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/65 "2005-12-17T03:17:03Z")
> [@Dave Attell](#): > > Every man wonders about the size of their penis. Laying alone in bed at night, or in a hammock with a parrot. You start thinking, “Do I have a small penis, or just gigantic legs?” I don’t know! > > Luckily, there is a test. The first time you show it to your girlfriend, or your fiance, or press it up against a bus window or something… When someone sees it for the first time, you want a reaction. You want some excitement. You want another language if possible, like, “Santa Maria! Ay Poppy! Oh no! Oh no! Guard, let me out. Guard! I’ll talk.” That’s good. > > But if someone looks at it and the first thing out of their mouth is, “Awww. Look at it.” That’s not good. Time to buy a Corvette. I did a quick search to authenticate **IT** ’s estimate of “average”, and it seems that no one can quite agree. In just the first page of hits there were averages of 5.3 to 6.2, which would, I suppose, put the average of the averages at about 5.7. Seems the problem every tester points to is a lack of participants. [sub]wanders off wondering what possessed me to even open this thread to begin with, and what that says about me[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/66 "2005-12-17T05:01:12Z")
Looks like **Ottoerotic** and I tie for first place. And we’re both from Wisconsin. It must be something in the milk. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/67 "2005-12-17T11:30:51Z")
Anything for science… :::::Busts out ruler::::: :::::Penis ensues::::: 5 1/2. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/68 "2005-12-17T12:07:33Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > Looks like **Ottoerotic** and I tie for first place. And we’re both from Wisconsin. It must be something in the milk. Check post 35. That makes three from Wisconsin, ‘The Home of the Seven Point Five Incher’. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/69 "2005-12-17T12:55:15Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > Check post 35. That makes three from Wisconsin, ‘The Home of the Seven Point Five Incher’. There must be something in the milk. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/70 "2005-12-17T21:35:49Z")
That isn’t milk… ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/71 "2005-12-18T02:41:51Z")
I guess it’s understandable that guys measure themselves, but I still laugh when _every guy I meet_ finds it necessary to tell me his length before we…or even if we don’t. Hey, I like surprises! Even online dating seems to have an unwritten rule that you email your dic pic (yep, they all seem to have them). If 5.5" is average, then I was a whole lot luckier than I realized when I was married. And it would explain some disappointments since then too, heh. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/72 "2005-12-18T02:59:49Z")
Well, using the calculations on my Rand McNally road map, my penis is about 140 miles long and no, I am not going to stop at the gas station to ask the attendant to verify the fact. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/73 "2005-12-18T07:46:53Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > Check post 35. That makes three from Wisconsin, ‘The Home of the Seven Point Five Incher’. Isn’t Wisconsin largely populated by Germans and Swedes? Maybe that’s the common denominator – Don Johnson might have started life as Don Johnsson. 😉 Haven’t measured, but I know I’m not from Wisconsin… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/74 "2005-12-18T08:05:54Z")
FTR, I just measured myself (hard to do, since I have only a tape measure (metal with sharp edgtes = not placed on penis). So I had to put a piece of masking tape along my wang to get a measurement. I am 7.5", and yet was not born in, not have I ever been to, wisconsin. Though I was born in VT, another fairly decently large dairly state.\ It must be the milk. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/75 "2005-12-18T08:16:10Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > It must be the milk. Or mis-use of milking machines over time. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/76 "2005-12-18T08:21:26Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > Isn’t Wisconsin largely populated by Germans and Swedes? Maybe that’s the common denominator I’m, well, [Walloon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walloons). ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/77 "2005-12-18T08:51:41Z")
Regarding proper measurement procedure, Cecil has [this](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_193.html) to say: > [@](#): > > Incidentally, for those who wish to pursue this matter on their own, you measure along the top. You’d be amazed how often this question comes up. As for me (why am I answering this?), the answer is 7.5. And my Wisconsin connections are limited: [ul] [li]Attended three Grateful Dead shows on consecutive nights at Alpine Valley in August 1989; and[/li][li]Got drunk as a goat at a wedding in LaCrosse in 1999.[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/78 "2005-12-18T09:24:32Z")
I’m longer than average: between 7.5 to 8, depending on how aroused I am. I don’t know average girth numbers, but I believe I’m probably about average in girth…it’s nothing special, and due to my length, it looks somewhat skinny. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/79 "2005-12-18T09:59:37Z")
I average out to be the 5.5" average, since the one on the left is 3" and the one on the right is 8". You’d think this would double my chances of dating, but in fact it halves them or more. A Way TMI Anecdote: The last guy I did nekkid stuff with was not what you’d called overly or averagely endowed (3.5" fully erect _maybe_). This did not bother me at all- in fact I consider big 'uns quite a turn-off- but I had trouble keeping a straight face when he was making sex talk and kept saying, without any sense of irony or sarcasm whatever, “[verb] that big [penis euphemism]… oh yeah, [verb] that big [penis euphemism]”. I don’t think he saw the humor when he said it for the fourth or fifth time and I finally looked around and asked “Where?” ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/80 "2005-12-18T15:56:37Z")
Last year, I would have said “average.” This summer, though, I was bass fishing on a local river, and was casting near a small bridge. Two locals were on the bridge, having a nice pee. What I head: Local #1–“Man, this river is COLD!” Local #2–“Yeah, DEEP, too!” So, I suppose I am far below average. At least based on that sample size. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883.md?page=5)