As we all know, the subject of human penis size has been a topic of considerable discussion both on this message board and in Cecil’s columns. I recall from following links which were provided by Cecil in his columns that there have been about 7 or 8 serious studies of human penis size since World War II. IIRC, the mean penis size (perhaps I should really say length) was remarkably consistent across all of these studies—somewhere in the vicinity of 6.00 - 6.25 inches. (Correct me if I’m wrong in that figure). But this information is in itself relatively meaningless without knowing the standard deviation of size.
This subject came to mind because of a conversation I had with my wife about one of her coworkers, who left her husband because his penis was too small. According to my wife, her friend had a wonderful relationship with her husband, and he adored her. She also said that her coworker related that the penis in question was of ‘average size,’ but her coworker really had her heart set on capturing the Big Bwangawanga, so she just up and moved out one day, leaving him the cat and a few Yanni CD’s. I maintained that her coworker was in all probability off on a wild goose chase, because I would guess that the standard deviation in penis size in the human population was probably pretty small—perhaps as small as half an inch. If my assertion is true, then anything bigger than 7 inches would represent a variance of greater than 2 standard deviations from the mean, which would put it’s proud possessor at or above the 95th percentile in penis size. Therefore, if my wife’s perfidious coworker intended to upgrade by even an inch, she only had a 1 in 20 shot at it.
Of course, my guess of half an inch could be completely out line, and the real figure could be 2 inches or more. So, does anybody have the hardcore stats on penis size?
Nope, they are afraid that people might use it to “change history” in an argument/discussion.
As far as tallywhackers go, I think the standard for measure would result in a lot of variance. Everything is generally very soft and squishy down there (even the supposedly ‘hard’ parts) so it’s difficult to define a uniform starting point and surface along which to measure.
Also, unless they are conducting this survey at a cathouse or strip joint, it may be difficult for the participant to be fully, uhhhh, “involved” in the survey.
Well, they had the same problem at another message board that I frequent, which also uses vBulletin. They solved the problem by enabling the ‘edit’ button for half an hour after posting, after which time it disappears.
There is some controversy regarding measurement, is the measurement taken along the topside or the underside of the penis. Measurements taken along the underside are open to exaggeration as there is no defined base point. There should be international regulations to cover this.
As for an “average” I can only pass on what I have heard from listening to many bar girl conversations. There is no average. Some can be porn star size and some just a couple of inches. Some nationalities do tend to be on the small size and there is no truth that some ethnic groups are all huge. This is a scandalous rumor spread by them selves.
As someone once said. It’s not what you have it’s what you do with it.
Or it is better to have a precision instrument than a sledgehammer.
All you need do is type “the definitive penis survey” into google to come up with a scientificly presented analysis. I don’t know how accurate the site is, but they have all kinds of measurements and graphs. I didn’t link it because they do have a couple photos of how the measuring is done that wouldn’t be allowed here.
In a nutshell, the “Mean± Standard Deviation” length of uncle willy standing at full attention for men 18 years and older is 161.5mm(6.4")± 31.5(1.2) according to that website.
According to their percentile table, mr 7" falls between the 70 and 80th. So the odds are like 1/4 or 1/5… not good but much better than 1/20.
Well, I tried Googling “penis size” and “standard deviation.” I really should have tried this first. I guess the reason that it didn’t occur to me to do so was because none of the pages in Cecil’s links contained this information, so I just blindly assumed that it wasn’t out there. But just from some cursory poking around, I see that the Italian study which mmmiiikkkeee referenced measured flaccid length, which is subject to far more variation than erect length. I’ll look into this some more during the next few days when I have more time, but I see that Kinsey’s data (erect measurement) show a mean of 6.21," with a standard deviation of .77." So my original guess might not have been too far off base. By his data, if your tool measures even 7.75," then your wife should take it to a taxidermist and mount it on the trophy rack after you die, because you were blessed with a whacker that stood at a full 2 SD from the mean, which would put you at the 97.5th percentile. In other words, only 25 out of every 1000 men are so generously endowed, which lends considerable support to my contention that my wife’s coworker should have stuck with what she had—cat, Yanni CD’s, and all. Having the ‘Big Ten Inch’ of song and fable would put it’s owner at 4.92 SD from the mean, which would place its owner well above the 99th percentile of the general population. That’s a Louisville Slugger you can really swing with pride.
I’m just feeling sorry for this poor guy, whose wife, whom he apparently loved, dumps him because his average penis is too small for her, and then she goes out and tells her friends.
Really, though, there’s more to this story than meets the eye. I have a suspicion that the penis size excuse is a cover story.
That is dead false. Normal distributions occur for most physical attributes. Map out the distribution of height. Low and behold, it’s a Normall Distribution. Next, graph foot sizes. Normal Distribution etc. etc.
Wessels, Lue, and McAninch (1996) reported an average erect length of 12.9 cm in a group of 80 normal men. Harding and Golombok (2002) reported an average erect length of 15.3 cm in a group of 312 gay men. In the latter study, measurements were taken by the men’s partners, which may account for the somewhat higher figure reported.
Not sure if this adds any new information to the discussion, but I did find that last sentence amusing.
“The average erect penis girth was 4.972 inches (12.63cm).
Standard deviation was 0.508 inches (1.29cm) or with 53.33% of the effective sample measuring between 4.725 inches (12cm) and 5.118 inches (13cm).”
Oh and I found this interesting…
“It is fair to say that in all cases, where medical staff has measured erect penis size, the average length has been below 6 inches and in every case where the surveys rely on self-measurement and voluntary reporting the average leaps over six inches.”
