# The Male Anatomy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-male-anatomy/8962>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 21, 2000, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-male-anatomy/8962 "2000-03-21T06:15:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Oz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ee7513/32.png) [@Oz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oz)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-male-anatomy/8962/1 "2000-03-21T06:15:00Z")

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Ok i’m sorry but i just have to ask this question, because im curious…and honestly i want to know where I stand. Does anyone know the average size of the male penis? If so please share your knowledge. thank-you

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**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-male-anatomy/8962/2 "2000-03-21T06:24:00Z")

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Six inches while erect seems to be the concensus.  
[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2\_193.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_193.html)[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1\_056.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_056.html)[http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpenis.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpenis.html)[http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000178.html](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000178.html)

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-male-anatomy/8962/3 "2000-03-21T16:14:00Z")

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Measured from the top, not the inside.

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**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-male-anatomy/8962/4 "2000-03-21T16:19:00Z")

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You can fit a ruler inside your penis?

Ow.

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**Gypsy** : Tom, I don’t get you.  
**Tom Servo** : Nobody does. I’m the wind, baby.

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**Author:** ![Crystalguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Crystalguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crystalguy)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-male-anatomy/8962/5 "2000-03-21T16:24:00Z")

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Back home in Texas, all measurements of this sort are understood to be between the tip and the floor. Now you know why I left Texas. Reporting two feet, six inches was just too humiliating.

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Crystalguy

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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-male-anatomy/8962/6 "2000-03-21T20:32:00Z")

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I believe Kurt Vonnegut covered this in _ **Breakfast of Champions** _.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-male-anatomy/8962/7 "2000-03-22T00:22:00Z")

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I read it in the 60’s in ‘everything you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask’