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This is something that I’ve wondered about for years. Everyone from Comics in nightclubs to artist in magazines have always imaged black men with these huge donkey kong johnsons swinging almost to the floor, frightening women for miles around. Does anyone know how and where this rumor began :dubious:
It all started the day I got married. . .
Probably started by a black man with a really small one.
You wanna hear something funny? When the first white explorers were going through the New Guinea highlands the locals were trying to work out why they bothered wearing pants. One of the theories was that their penises were so long they had to wrap them around thier waists and cover them with pants.
According to Dr. Bergen Evans it is part functional and part saliciousness.
(Keep in mind when reading this that Dr. Evans and I don’t subscribe to these ideas. In other words - Don’t kill the messenger.)
"The myth of the Negro’s sexual athleticism seems to be in part functional, in that it heightens the likelihood and the dangers of rape and hence justifies ‘keeping them in their place,’ and in part sheer salisciousness. But it also seems a product of that itching interest, usually disguised as horror or moral indignation, which all people take in the sexual behavior of other groups. The Chinese we are told [in the book CHINA TO ME by Emily Hahn]* ascribe the most tremendous feats to white men."*
Bergen Evans, The Natural History of Nonsense, Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
I recall reading, years ago, that a part of the mythos derived from the following physiological phenomenon. I make no claims for the veracity of it, but merely report it for what truth there may be in it.
According to what I recall, at least, during most of this country’s history, typically it would have been unlikely for people to see the erect penis of either a black or white man other than oneself/one’s husband (as appropriate).
However, men might regularly see other men nude with flaccid penises, as in skinny dipping, locker rooms, urination, etc. Now, according to these reports, the typical flaccid white male penis drains the corpora cavernosa nearly completely of the blood that engorges it to produce an erection, this being the most physiologically efficient way to “store” a penis in temperate climates. But the pureblooded black male derives from groups adapted to a tropical climate, where partial engorgement even when flaccid is the rule, again with some physiological benefits – in both case having nothing to do with sex, but with heat loss through blood in near-surface areas.
Most men and most women who have observed nude men in non-sexual situations will observe that there is a marked difference in size in the same penis between total flaccidity and the flaccid-but-slightly-engorged state – a penis that might be 2" long totally flaccid and 6.5" at full erection would be, say 4.5" in size when slightly engorged.
Naive comparisons of a naked white man’s flaccid penis and a naked black man’s penis in repose, flaccid but somewhat engorged, led to the conclusion that “If I am that small soft and get that big hard, and he’s that big soft, holy ****! How big is he when he’s hard?!?!”
Ergo – instant urban legend.
Shaft.
Here is what our benevolent leader has to say on the matter.
Just thought I’d comment on a related myth that is the opposite side of the coin. Isn’t it rumored that black men do not like to perform cunnilingus?
If nothing else, when Martin Lawrence did an SNL monologue many years ago (for which he got banned) a good portion of it concerned this very topic.
Somehow, I get the feeling that this is one stereotype we’re NEVER going to see the NAACP speak out against.
I never thought much of it, but every black man that was a Life Drawing model (and I took a lot of Life Drawing classes—a lot of artists do) was well-endowed. Every one. I’m tellin’ you.
Of course, all models have to choose to be models, and I daresay that a lot of guys who were not so well-endowed probably wouldn’t want to be artist models, so there you go. (But the white guys sometimes had medium-sized wankers but I can’t remember a black guy with a medium-sized one.)
:shrug: Doesn’t prove anything. But maybe that’s why artists have a certain idea! 
I don’t remember that part of the game…
Come on now, why do you think Donkey Kong was with Peach (nee Princess Toadstool nee Pauline) in the first place? She wasn’t abducted, she ran off with him!
Blazing Saddles. At least, that was the first time I heard it.
Having visually inspected the non-turgid generative members of thousands of males of many diverse ethnic and social groups over the years, I feel qualified to add my (non-scientific) observations:
There seems to be little difference in size between groups and each group seems to have a typical range of small to medium to large. However, on those very uncommon (Less than 1:1,000) cases where someone is extra-extra large, they’ve almost always been a member of the ethnic group commonly referred to as black. I cannot recall a single specific incident where they were not.
QtM, MD
“It’s twue!”
“That’s my arm.”
“It’s twue! It’s twue!”
The only issue I have with any of the theories presented that have been based on observation of penes is that there are a number of sources from the 19th century that refer to the genitalia of all blacks being larger than that of whites. Not only were black penes supposed to be larger, but black vaginas, as well. Frank Harris, in his amusing but self-inflating autobiography My Life and Loves always makes a point of indicating that black women were “looser” during copulation (except, of course, when he wanted to praise an individual whom he described as being as “tight” as a “white woman”). I have encountered other references with similar themes.
My guess would be that there was simply a need to portray blacks as being driven by more animal lusts and that comparisons to beasts with larger sizes, such as horses, was part of the package. (J. Phillippe Rushton has attempted to portray the same idea with his pseudo-scientific comparisons of genitalia and IQ.)
While I sometimes say things like “gee, I envy you your job” to people, I think I’m gonna pass this time.