THE NORMAL PENIS: SIZE MATTERS
“Phallacies” abound regarding the penis. Size is the usually the biggest focus. Despite widely held assumptions about differences in penis size, remarkably little is actually known about what normal size is. Innumerable jokes abound on penis size, as does daily banter between men of every geographic and socioeconomic group. Usually unspoken, penis size is seen as a surrogate for importance or power. It matters.
However, the medical literature has remarkably little documentation of normal penile length. Urology textbooks don’t even acknowledge that anyone would care to know. The earliest known report on penis size was in 1879, when Krause concluded average erect length was SV4 inches. The scant research available more recently indicates Krause’s eyes were bigger than his topic really was. Or maybe penises were bigger back then - when men were men. More recent studies show the average length of the erect male penis to be almost five inches.
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Brazilian urologists in the nineties presented a study on the topic at the American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting. These adventurous physicians determined average erect length to be 5.7 inches (ranging from 3.5-7.5 inches) in Brazil. I joined hundreds of other inquiring urological minds attending this presentation to witness the unveiling of cutting-edge data. We expected their findings to finally answer the big question.
However, we neglected to take into account that most urologists are males. Instead of a spirited intellectual debate, the only meaty discussion involved a group of French urologists demanding that, had the study been performed in France, the measurements would have been much larger. Boys - even grown urologists gathered for the world’s largest gathering of urological minds - will be boys. The Great French-Brazilian Penis War was the highlight of that year’s convention.
The Kinsey study on sexual behavior was one of three that asked men to measure and report their own penis size. Their most significant finding was that men lie about the size of their penises. Really.
We have even less information about girth. The World Health Organization did its own study because of complaints by British men that government-approved condoms were too tight. The British standard requires the condom to measure 52 mm (about 2 inches) wide when placed flat on a table. They found over one-third of the penises in Britain didn’t fit. Maybe that will quiet the French once and for all.
The sixteenth-century Indian book of love, the Kama Sutra, describes three kinds of men based on penis size. Hares are defined as having penile length of six fingers. Bulls are eight fingers long, Stallions twelve. We must assume the fingers are side-by-side, not lengthways.
