# Relative size of, um, female parts
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [June 14, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924 "2008-06-14T16:51:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@infomancanada\_gmail.com](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infomancanada_gmail.com)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/1 "2008-06-14T16:51:16Z")
Help settle a debate: Do smaller women (including, say, midgets or dwarfs) have small (shorter, less wide) vaginal canals than, say, a 6-foot tall woman? In other words, assuming that a heart or lung is proportionately smaller is small people, is the same true for something like a vaginal canal?
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### Author:  [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/2 "2008-06-14T16:53:43Z")
Well based on my size and length my wife is about ten foot tall.
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/3 "2008-06-14T17:34:56Z")
Yeah… within limits. It’s approx the same as men where median penis sizes are somewhat related to body size, but not entirely. It’s not entirely unusual to have larger men with smaller penises and smaller men with larger penises. I’d imagine the same bell curve applies to women.
So yes, a male basketball player and female gymnast might have a hard time achieving full penetration, and a female basketball player and a male gymnast might be like (insert your metaphor) but moist people will get by.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/4 "2008-06-14T17:40:31Z")
“Moist people”? 😃
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/5 "2008-06-14T17:56:19Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool]
“Moist people”? 😃
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That’s one demographic…
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/6 "2008-06-14T18:12:51Z")
[QUOTE=astro]
but moist people will get by.
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Winner, Best Typo of the Month, The Straight Dope June 2008.
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### Author:  [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/7 "2008-06-14T18:17:26Z")
astro, your last name isn’t glide, is it?
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### Author:  [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/8 "2008-06-14T18:27:06Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool]
“Moist people”? 😃
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Well, it certainly helps…
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### Author:  [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/9 "2008-06-14T19:03:23Z")
The only time I got to discuss the size of body organs in relation to overall body size with a medical professional, in this case an RN, she insisted that body organs were all the same size regardless of the size of the person. So, for example, Andre the Giant’s liver would not have been any bigger than Kate Moss’s. She did not know what filled the otherwise empty spaces that larger people would have had between their organs but did not see this as a problem.
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### Author:  [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/10 "2008-06-14T19:12:01Z")
[QUOTE=Napier]
The only time I got to discuss the size of body organs in relation to overall body size with a medical professional, in this case an RN, she insisted that body organs were all the same size regardless of the size of the person. So, for example, Andre the Giant’s liver would not have been any bigger than Kate Moss’s. She did not know what filled the otherwise empty spaces that larger people would have had between their organs but did not see this as a problem.
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I don’t have any real basis, but I’ve got to doubt this. Does it really seem plausible that my liver - that is, the liver of a five-foot-tall, hundred-pound woman - is the same size as [Nikolai Valuev](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Valuev), a boxer who is seven feet tall and weighs over three hundred pounds? He’s two feet and two hundred pounds bigger than me, and that’s not all bone and muscle weight.
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### Author:  [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/11 "2008-06-14T19:14:25Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool]
“Moist people”? 😃
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I don’t think that was a typo. Nice job. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/12 "2008-06-14T19:15:11Z")
[QUOTE=NinjaChick]
I don’t have any real basis, but I’ve got to doubt this. Does it really seem plausible that my liver - that is, the liver of a five-foot-tall, hundred-pound woman - is the same size as [Nikolai Valuev](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Valuev), a boxer who is seven feet tall and weighs over three hundred pounds? He’s two feet and two hundred pounds bigger than me, and that’s not all bone and muscle weight.
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Well, according to that article he’s a modern nerandothal, so I’m not sure that the comparison is valid.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/13 "2008-06-14T19:16:55Z")
[QUOTE=Napier]
The only time I got to discuss the size of body organs in relation to overall body size with a medical professional, in this case an RN, she insisted that body organs were all the same size regardless of the size of the person. So, for example, Andre the Giant’s liver would not have been any bigger than Kate Moss’s. She did not know what filled the otherwise empty spaces that larger people would have had between their organs but did not see this as a problem.
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This is certainly incorrect. [This article](http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1873697) documents a positive correlation between liver volume and lean body mass and total body weight.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/14 "2008-06-14T19:42:00Z")
[QUOTE=peekercpa]
Well based on my size and length my wife is about ten foot tall.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/15 "2008-06-14T21:07:21Z")
I’ve not heard there’s any big differences (oh shut up) and can safely say that I have not had any serious problems in that department what with my dwarfism. If certain things are any smaller than they’re not unusually so compared to most women.
Also I don’t think too many of us would appreciate the size of our vaginas being a matter for debate among a group of guys, which is my reading of the OP.
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/16 "2008-06-14T21:41:33Z")
As a consumer of pornography, it’s apparent that there is, externally at least, as much variation in the female sex organ as the male one. Labia and clitoris vary in length and thickness as much as penis and testicles do.
And I’ve seen porn involving women and men with dwarfism (pretty universally, and annoyingly, called “midgets”) and if you could not see the length of their limbs you could not identify that they were not of average height by their sex organs. Their average height partners had the above-average penises the market demands and their vaginas seemed to be as capacious as that of any average height woman.
[MRI studies](http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7225/1596) comparing a woman at rest and during sexual stimulation show [a dramatic increase in the size of the vagina](http://www.bmj.com/content/vol319/issue7225/images/large/schw4391.f3.jpeg) during sexual excitation.
Edit: No offense intended to Whiterabbit. But the same questions are asked of people of above-average height. In order for ignorance to be fought, we have to identify it.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/17 "2008-06-14T22:38:24Z")
I know, which is why I posted at all. There is a lot of ignorance out there.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/18 "2008-06-14T22:39:48Z")
[QUOTE=NinjaChick]
I don’t have any real basis, but I’ve got to doubt this. Does it really seem plausible that my liver - that is, the liver of a five-foot-tall, hundred-pound woman - is the same size as [Nikolai Valuev](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Valuev), a boxer who is seven feet tall and weighs over three hundred pounds? He’s two feet and two hundred pounds bigger than me, and that’s not all bone and muscle weight.
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Speaking of Valuev: judging by [this picture of him and his wife](http://www.boxnews.com.ua/foto.php?gid=293&id=10457&lng=en), we can only hope one of them is unusually proportioned for their stature.
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### Author:  [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relative-size-of-um-female-parts/452924/19 "2008-06-14T23:28:43Z")
This has been asked, and unfortunately, not answered [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=430630)
SSG Schwartz