# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/81 "2005-12-18T17:25:29Z")
Confirmed: 5 3/4" Take **that** ignorance! ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Broken\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Wind)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/82 "2005-12-18T21:31:01Z")
> [@LiveOnAPlane](#): > > 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: ← Bolding mine** > > 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. Freudian slip, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/83 "2005-12-19T01:08:31Z")
> [@Broken Wind](#): > > Freudian slip, perhaps? Oh, man! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/84 "2005-12-19T01:18:12Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > 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. Well, what if she’s cute? ---
**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:** [December 19, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/85 "2005-12-19T01:50:42Z")
Lake Wobegon syndrome, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/86 "2005-12-19T02:15:59Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > 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… 😃 It is not a co-inkydink that “Johnnson” and “Winsconsin” rhyme, you know. 😃 I was born in Ohio, which- after a vigorous preparatory period followed by what can charitably be described as frantic measuring- is not exactly a hotbed of penile leviathans. No matter. I’m filthy rich. Not. ( I did get measured once, by a drunk and pleasingly/exceedingly horny girlfriend. Apparently I’m in the 6 inch range, but it was hard to tell because she was busy lacerating my appendix while she measured. I’ve been told by lovers that my rather thick shape lends itself to the kind of climactic events normall associated with Pompeii. 🙂 ) A few years ago, I discovered whilst changing clothes at my parents house that my brother is nightmarishly huge. He walked past me in just his jockey’s. My god. I mean, Sonny Corleone huge. I know, I know, large men when flaccid tend to not become much bigger when hard. Shush. I got one glance at him and realized that he had the brains AND the equipment. I suspect based on the coiled python he had packed in there that he probably was around 9 inches flaccid. Seriously. God damn… :eek: Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/87 "2005-12-19T02:44:01Z")
I can’t find a ruler that curves to the left. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/88 "2005-12-19T03:08:08Z")
I’m not the man my father is. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/89 "2005-12-19T03:52:29Z")
My darling Marcie says that I am “generously endowed” but the specifics are not for publication. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/90 "2005-12-19T04:20:05Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Well, what if she’s cute? I don’t think he would care. I have no penis; sometimes other people let me borrow theirs, though. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/91 "2005-12-19T04:47:24Z")
I measure at almost exactly 7", though I suspect I’m a bit skinny. Couldn’t tell you that for certain, though, as I’ve only limited comparison. And I apologize, fellow ignorance-fighters, but it will probably stay that way, too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/92 "2005-12-19T05:38:53Z")
> [@Cecil](#): > > 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. What if you curve up? Wouldn’t that short-change (tee hee) you? No specific numbers here. I’m not going to be poking any cervixes anytime soon, but the little guy’s gotten a compliment or two. ---
**Author:** ![lalaith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@lalaith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalaith)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/93 "2005-12-19T06:17:58Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > Watch it, girl, or we’ll start a “how deep is your hoo hah” thread. You can use the same ruler if you like. I was reading my Gray’s Anatomy and though it did give dimensions for the vagina (for those of you who want to know it’s “two and a half to three inches along its anterior wall, and three and a half inches along its posterior wall.” – So much for those fantasy porno stories where the woman takes a foot or a foot and a half up her “hoo hah.”), it did **not** give the dimensions of the penis. Darnit. I wanted to know. Sexism at its worst. ---
**Author:** ![lalaith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@lalaith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalaith)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/94 "2005-12-19T06:37:14Z")
Slightly off topic, but I thought the people who are on this thread might be interested in the following: To make it “workplace safe” I have inserted an extra space before the “rasputin.” [http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/04/28/](http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/04/28/) rasputin.shtml Ever since I saw this article (I was researching Rasputin at the time, not penises.) I’ve puzzled over: Erect or not erect I had never considered the question before. I don’t know if it’s stuffed, meaning the taxidermist could have, um, inflated it or if it’s floating in a jar meaning it’s not erect. But, at 30 centimeters, if it’s not erect, I’ve got to wonder what it was like erect. Though I have heard that someone with a large penis in the flaccid state doesn’t necessarily grow much when tumescent. If it did get substantially bigger then all I have to say is that I’m glad that Rasputin’s dead because alive he isn’t getting anywhere near me with that thing. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/95 "2005-12-19T07:06:49Z")
wasn’t the "preserved penis of rasputin’ debunked a long time ago as being some other object entirely? ---
**Author:** ![lalaith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@lalaith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalaith)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/96 "2005-12-19T07:24:28Z")
> [@pool](#): > > wasn’t the "preserved penis of rasputin’ debunked a long time ago as being some other object entirely? I’d be interested in hearing that as well. From what I’ve read about Rasputin he did indeed have a **huge** cock. Doesn’t necessarily mean the one the musuem has is his, but the article is dated from last year. So unless the museum did no verification or the article is false, it couldn’t have been debunked that long ago. Do you recall any specifics about the debunking? ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/97 "2005-12-19T07:29:12Z")
Well according to this Rotten article: [http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/historical/rasputin/](http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/historical/rasputin/) The supposed member is actually a sea cucumber Of course I know Rotten isn’t renowned for being accurate. ---
**Author:** ![sniperfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@sniperfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sniperfang)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/98 "2005-12-19T08:46:05Z")
> [@pool](#): > > Ok I just measured to be absolutely sure. At maximum arousal(boneage)… Uh huh. Most of us are just curious or mellow when we’re on the boards. You on the other hand, seem to be really, really happy. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/99 "2005-12-19T09:37:22Z")
> [@lalaith](#): > > … 30 centimeters… Equals 11.7 inches. And that, pickled in a jar? Rasputin wins. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883/100 "2005-12-19T09:57:45Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Oh, come now. It’s all in good fun. Won’t you join us? 🙂 Now don’t be harsh. Surely you too have had someone hold a gun to your head and force you to read a penis thread? Void if you enjoyed it 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-penis-length-longer-or-shorter-than-average/335883.md?page=6)