wuerstchen Posted March 3, 2015 Report Share Posted March 3, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/03/the-results-are-in-study-reveals-average-penis-size The average length erect, based on the measurement of 15,000 penises, is 5.16 inches, the average girth is 4.6 inches. I guess my small penis is larger than average. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebraben Posted March 3, 2015 Report Share Posted March 3, 2015 oh what a wonderful job, taking the measurements of all those dicks. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmm good. oh and good forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 3, 2015 Report Share Posted March 3, 2015 Ben, maybe you can get on the measurection measuring team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Scott Posted March 3, 2015 Report Share Posted March 3, 2015 Another study backs up what this site tries to teach people and what I was taught in therapy. Although this study has the average at slightly less than what I was taught, the girth is less too! And I can really relate to how debilitating the body dysmorphia aspect is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaybeSparrow Posted March 3, 2015 Report Share Posted March 3, 2015 This is really amazing. I'm just at the average in length and a little below in girth. I honestly feel like crying tears of joy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuerstchen Posted March 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2015 Very happy for you! My wife ran across the article and sent it to me, "a piece on your second-favorite body part" was her subject heading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim_MN Posted March 4, 2015 Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 The study is a meta-analysis of 20 other studies. So, unfortunately, the research team didn't get the pleasure of measuring all of those cocks. The erect length was based on 692 men, not 15,000, as only four out of the 20 studies that were analyzed measured erect length. The authors mention this as one of the limitations of their study. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott8361 Posted March 4, 2015 Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 I find the stats claimed by this study to be skewed a little low, especially the girth. I have seen most guys to be noticeably thicker than my 4.5" girth. I've even measured a number of them. I find it hard to believe average girth is 4.59"! I don't find myself near average based on what I have encountered in real life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuerstchen Posted March 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 My girth is 4.75 and I am certainly thinner in that department than most penises I've seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaybeSparrow Posted March 4, 2015 Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 I've been surprised at the weird response to this study online. While I am smack at the average length and just a little below the girth (4.25"), many of my partners have been bigger than me ... with a handful of men (six that I can recall) being my penis twin. But the vast majority of my partners fit in the 5"-6" spectrum and girthwise around 5" (I never measured). I do question though whether anecdotal experience is worth going on since larger men are more apt to be sexual, so there may be a population I don't see in the sheets. I do find when I've been in locker rooms I've seen MANY men who are smaller than I am. And I may just attract bigger guys for one reason or another. I know many people who have had multiple encounters with men who were very small and I have only had one. Regardless I was under the impression that 5.5" x 4.75" was the dead center average and this study skews a little lower but not by much. Nonetheless the response to a study that could counter sexual shame and dysmorphia for many has saddened me. Too many jokes and put downs. The other funny thing is I don't disclose my dimensions when I talk to guys on apps or sites but when I show them pictures they are always overwhelmingly positive, so this response to how "pitiful" those average dimensions are makes no sense to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Scott Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 You are absolutely correct in what you say, the trouble with guy's who hang around the average size is they think they are small and as a result are less sexually active, often finding a partner and being totally faithful for many years. The average man is under represented in the locker rooms, in porn, nudist beaches and the like because he's not confident. That's why we see mainly bigger guy's, it's that simple! I have found the vast majority of what I've seen to be around my size, I have seen two visibly bigger. We often dismiss what is staring us in the face because it's not what we were led to believe, thus refuse to change a fixed opinion. I for one will celebrate these results, I see no reason as to why I shouldn't believe them. Even if they aren't 100% accurate they will be as near as dam it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott8361 Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Everyone seems to think this is some new, comprehensive, world survey. Its nothing but working with old data and selectively manipulating it to get a desired result. Like they say...figures don't lie, but liars figure. I don't believe the results. I think someone could make a mint doing a real survey with reliable procedures that no one could dispute. Why does this seem so hard in this day and age?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaybeSparrow Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 I guess I don't understand why you are hellbent to discredit a study that helps a great deal of the men on this board overcome dysmorphia? Average doesn't necessarily mean normal. Average is just the middle of a standard distribution of normal sizes. I suppose any penis size study will be flawed because the way they measure tends to be stretching the flaccid penis and then there's the whole thing of who will sign up to be measured. Will smaller men just not bother therefore skewing the results? Ultimately the solution isn't in measuring and reporting dimensions. I think we need on the whole better sex ed, more opportunities to be around naked people, and guys on the smaller side being more open about their stories, telling people when their language is disrespectful, standing up for their right to be beautiful and sexual and masculine, and making sure that there are positive images of us out there that aren't about cuckolding, humiliation or submissiveness (not that anyone into that is bad, but not all of us are and we should be represented). Sadly, I don't ever see this likely to happen. I'm trying to work on doing this in my own life but God Forbid I counter an offensive comments about small penises. I am accused of having one and my opinion is discounted or I am told no one wants to hear it or talk about it. So in the end, flawed or not, this study raises our cachet. And as someone sick and tired of being told what I am not (unattractive, undesireable, unmanly), I'll take it until some sort of small cock revolution happens. I wish I knew how to start it myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott8361 Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Ultimately the solution isn't in measuring and reporting dimensions. I think we need on the whole better sex ed, more opportunities to be around naked people, and guys on the smaller side being more open about their stories, telling people when their language is disrespectful, standing up for their right to be beautiful and sexual and masculine, and making sure that there are positive images of us out there that aren't about cuckolding, humiliation or submissiveness (not that anyone into that is bad, but not all of us are and we should be represented). Sadly, I don't ever see this likely to happen. I'm trying to work on doing this in my own life but God Forbid I counter an offensive comments about small penises. I am accused of having one and my opinion is discounted or I am told no one wants to hear it or talk about it. I agree with what you say above. That is where the focus should be. I just don't think you need to say the sky is green when it really isn't to make one feel better. Reality is what it is when it comes to what is average or "normal". I also don't think its going to affect the changes in attitude and cultural behavior you state above. That comes from a much higher level of human enlightenment. And as long as we live in a world where we chop off people's heads and burn them alive for being "different" I don't see that coming any time soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaybeSparrow Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 See but I don't think those results are that far off. Most men I have had sex with fall within the 5"-6" range in terms of length. Girth seems to be another matter but I have massive dysmorphia there. I don't know how to judge that. I think most men tend to be girthier than I am at 4.25" so I feel like I am sporting a pencil but when I look at photos of myself or see myself on cam, I look perfectly fine probably because I am also 5'2" and everything just looks proportional. I guess right there is the issue with using numbers. Very few of us take rulers to our lovers. I couldn't tell you what my boyfriend measures except I know he's around the same length and fatter than me. And many of my lovers have told me I was crazy when I admitted I felt insecure about my size. So maybe 5.16 is the average and we're conditioned to associate that number with "small" and visually I'm sure many people probably think a hot guy sporting a 5 actually has a 6 and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hankypanky39 Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 I think this is wonderful news and a fantastic study of pulling all the penis size studies together. Scientists have said all along that penises are probably smaller than the often quoted "6" inches. I think 5 inches long with 4.5 inch girth is very close to the true average penis. I think it is also fantastic news. Has anyone else looked at the graphs? Most guys are nearly the same size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acorn73 Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Still no standardized method of measurement. This study of studies is probably the best data we have so far but it is far from scientifically proven or even statistically sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebraben Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 just kind of fun to read though kind of a fun forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott8361 Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 Another thing I find hard to accept with this study is the distribution graph that shows I would be in the 95th percentile for erect length with a 16cm (6.3") long penis. If I were to claim my bone pressed length i would be even higher! I find that hard to believe... If I was in a room with 100 random guys my cock would be longer than 95 of them?? Just seems unrealistic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 And here is how it appears in another article about the study. ********** TUESDAY, March 3, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Some good news, guys: A new analysis of penis sizes will help reassure most of you that you're normal, researchers say. Many males worry about their penis size, even when there's no cause for concern. But until now, there has been no formal review of research into penis size and no attempt to develop a system to show the range of sizes of flaccid or erect penises, the researchers said. The British investigators reviewed 17 published studies that included more than 15,500 men whose penises were measured by health professionals using a standard procedure. The average length of a flaccid penis was 3.6 inches, the average length of a flaccid stretched penis was 5.3 inches, and the average length of an erect penis was 5.2 inches. Looking at things another way, the average circumference of a flaccid penis was 3.7 inches, and the average circumference of an erect penis was 4.6 inches. The study was published online March 3 in the journal BJU International. The findings were used to create a set of graphs, which should help doctors when they're counseling men concerned about their penis size, or when investigating a possible link between condom failure and penis size, the researchers said. "We believe these graphs will help doctors reassure the large majority of men that the size of their penis is in the normal range," Dr. David Veale, of King's College London, said in a journal news release. "We will also use the graphs to examine the discrepancy between what a man believes to be their position on the graph and their actual position or what they think they should be," he added. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck45 Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 green when it really isn't to make one feel better You're right, it isn't green or is it. We assume everyone sees the same thing when we apply a color. Your green might be interpreted by my brain differently. Interestingly my left and right eyes see colors different especially in the green spectrum. And we know the sky is actually colorless. So are we saying 5+ is average to make people feel better or are we saying 5+ is average because it is? I don't say 5'9" is the average american height because I am 5'10" and want to feel good. Its because that is the height. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott8361 Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 green when it really isn't to make one feel better You're right, it isn't green or is it. We assume everyone sees the same thing when we apply a color. Your green might be interpreted by my brain differently. Interestingly my left and right eyes see colors different especially in the green spectrum. And we know the sky is actually colorless. So are we saying 5+ is average to make people feel better or are we saying 5+ is average because it is? I don't say 5'9" is the average american height because I am 5'10" and want to feel good. Its because that is the height. [color:blue]When I was in my teens and twenties the supposed average was 6.2" according to the survey of the day...Kinsey. Now 6.2" is way at the right end of the scale...a 95% dick! I'm easily 6.5" with only the slightest bone press, so looking at their graph I could say mine is around 96 to 97% ?! I don't feel I have a big cock, but a new survey is suddenly telling me I do??? I look at mine and still see blue. I guess I am a glass half empty kind of guy. I could be jumping for joy, yet I'm not. I have seen and held longer and thicker ones...those that would really be in the 90% range in my mind. I just don't think mine should plot that high on any graph. [/color] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck45 Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 Referring to Kinsey is like only following Freud in psychology. Outdated info and erroneous. I might not believe a doctor that uses medical texts from the 1800's? Norms can be deceiving. I apparently am in the top 6% or 2% (IQ) depending on which psychologist scale you use..."gifted". Do I feel gifted, no. Does it matter, not really. Its just a number for comparison not judgement! In 45 years or so I have only seen 2 erect penis pushing maybe 7-8". Just my observations. And remember 5% in the USA over 6.2" would be 7,500,000 guys or so. yeah you might run into a few LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodEnuf Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 Kinsey's size data is viewed as highly skewed by today's clinicians. It was self-measured, self-reported, and used only men who had volunteered to participate in a study of their sexual activities. At the time it was published, his study on male sex was revolutionary. Alan G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon81 Posted March 8, 2015 Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 None of this helps guys like me who are a solid 4 inches or 4.25 on a good day while pressed to the bone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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