# Wikipedia article: "Penis" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-penis/500371 "2009-06-20T03:54:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-penis/500371/1 "2009-06-20T03:54:05Z")
Apropos the MPSIMS thread on the Wikipedia “Human anus” article, did anyone else click through to the [Penis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis) article that was mentioned several times in the Wikipedia talk page? It’s a little hard to judge size without a length reference, and of course compared to my own Holmesian endowment it is but a trifle, but does the accompanying photograph make anyone else feel a little, uh, inadequate? ---
**Author:** ![JFLuvly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@JFLuvly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JFLuvly)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-penis/500371/2 "2009-06-20T04:03:29Z")
It looks like a penis…just smaller! ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-penis/500371/3 "2009-06-20T04:05:35Z")
> [@Hyperelastic](#): > > does the accompanying photograph make anyone else feel a little, uh, inadequate? [This one could, but not really.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Horse_penis.jpg) But the picture I assume you to mean, no. As an uncircumcised penis, it perhaps looks a bit longer than a circumcised one (if that’s what you’re used to seeing), as might the fact that he’s shaved at the top. Otherwise it looks like a fairly regular flacid size. Their picture of the varying states of erection also doesn’t look to be a particularly impressive member of the species. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-penis/500371/4 "2009-06-20T04:07:09Z")
There are several photographs. I am going to assume you mean [this one?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Horse_penis.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-penis/500371/5 "2009-06-20T04:10:15Z")
I’m a girl but [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Labelled_bw_flaccid_penis.jpg) looks pretty big. I mean, it’s flaccid! ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-penis/500371/6 "2009-06-20T05:44:17Z")
It’s a good thing that they helpfully labeled the shaft, with an arrow and everything. Otherwise I’d have no idea where that was. ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-penis/500371/7 "2009-06-20T06:46:48Z")
That penis looks full of blood, to me. If I have to pee really bad or have recently had an erection it can easily hang to the end of my balls. What a lovely thing to say! Wee! ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-penis/500371/8 "2009-06-20T07:55:47Z")
Every time an anatomy book or Wikipedia says the meatus is part of the penis I have to do a reality check to make sure it’s not vandalism. Meatus! _laughing_ (I’m sure if I pronounced it properly it would be less funny.) ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-penis/500371/9 "2009-06-20T15:05:47Z")
> [@Leiko](#): > > Every time an anatomy book or Wikipedia says the meatus is part of the penis I have to do a reality check to make sure it’s not vandalism. > > Meatus! _laughing_ > > (I’m sure if I pronounced it properly it would be less funny.) Actually, any anatomical opening to the environment is referred to as a “meatus”. I enjoy intentionally pronouncing it meat-us instead of me-ate-us just to annoy my doctor wife. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-penis/500371/10 "2009-06-20T17:52:48Z")
Jeeez…Mr. Ed would look at that guy with envy in his eyes. Is that Ron Jeremy’s untrimmed brother? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-penis/500371/11 "2009-06-20T21:05:55Z")
(Never mind) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-article-penis/500371/12 "2009-06-21T00:58:24Z")
I’m suddenly reminded of the episode of the _Golden Girls_ when Rose tells us that her mother taught her the difference in men and women by showing her the sexual organs of bulls and cows. Dorothy and Blanche ask her if it wasn’t a shock on her wedding night and she said of course. “Man, that bull would have been jealous!” ETA: Found it at [Wiki Quote](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Golden_Girls#All_That_Jazz_.5B5.09.5D): > [@](#): > > ``` > Rose: [Talking about raising children] The hardest part for me was explaining to my Kirstin the difference between boys and girls. I knew the time had come but I kept putting it off. Finally I decided it was time to take the bull by the horns. > Blanche: So you told her? > Rose: No - I took the bull by the horns, turned him around and showed her what makes a bull a bull. > Blanche: You are kidding, Rose? > Rose: No! That's how my mother taught me. > Blanche: Honey, didn't that give you a false impression about...what a man would look like? > Rose: It sure did! Can you imagine my surprise on my wedding night with Charlie? Boy, that bull would have been jealous. > > ```