Penis Size Perceptions: The Grass is always Taller…
November 12, 2007
The UPI reported that “although men often have a better body image, a better genital image and more sexual confidence if they have a large penis, women don’t necessarily feel that bigger is better,“ according to a review in the British Journal Urology International. The results of “12 studies that measured the penises of 11,531 men found that on average, erect penises ranged from 5.5 to 6.2 inches in length and 4.7 to 5.1 inches in girth. A survey of over 50,000 heterosexual men and women found that 66 percent of men said their penis was average-sized, 22 percent said large and 12 percent said small.“ And, while “85 percent of women were satisfied with their partner’s penile size, only 55 percent of men were satisfied with their penile size.“
The truth is that we all have what we are born with, and there is no way to create more. Men should not purchase supplements that purport to increase penis size because they don’t work, and there are no surgeries that can give men more than they have. Fortunately, the vast majority of women are satisfied with the size of their partner’s penis, which shows that it matters more how men make love than what their penis looks like.
May 24, 2008 at 3:56 pm
i think men are behind these studies that claim that “women don’t necessarily feel that bigger is better”. in fact, i would argue that most women do feel that bigger is better, but that they lie to make men feel better about being inadequate in a way that they can’t fix but that is so important to them. see, women are kind and don’t want to upset the balance of the universe by breaking the truth to short, short men. there are enough wars as it is.
May 24, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Actually, the authors of the article reviewed in the British Journal of Urology International are two women and one man. The original article was published in Psychology of Men and Masculinity in 2006, you can read the original article here:
http://dfred.bol.ucla.edu/LeverFrederickPeplau-2006PMM-PenisSizeSatisfaction.pdf
May 29, 2008 at 6:01 pm
The methodology of this report (since it really is not a study) leaves much to be desired. The section on women’s views about penis size relies exclusively on secondary research. Basically, they are just summarizing what someone else studied and wrote. What this article really says is that little is known about how women really feel about penis size. (Also, they state in the beginning that they used an internet survey to gather primary data. Depending on the controls they used, this could be sharply skewed and completely inaccurate.)
Ah… I’m glad I took those statistics and research methodology courses in college.
May 29, 2008 at 6:03 pm
For all their fancy wording, this study really doesn’t do much. Like most sociological studies, you have to have a lot of faith.