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Is that a banana in your pocket?
The Big Penis Book. Excerpt from the introduction by Dian Hanson
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No racial or ethnic group is uniformly large and no group is uniformly small. Women, we are constantly assured, care nothing about penis size. Men may be more candid, but there are also male fans of the small penis, either as a symbol of youth or for its amazing ability to make one's own penis look larger.
All that out of the way, who can deny the allure of a big dick? Flaccid or erect, it is aesthetically stunning - commanding every onlooker to consider capacity and consequence. Many viewing the photos for this book blurted out, "I wouldn't let that near me!" As if anyone were offering. Everyone takes the big penis personally, as an object of fear, arousal, and endless fascination, that last derived from the Latin fascinum, meaning both phallus and magical spirit. Big shoulders, big lapels, and big hair may come and go, but the big penis never goes out of fashion. And because humans walk upright, their penises are a more obvious accessory than those of most animals, a quirk that has hardly escaped man himself.
The medieval codpiece began as a practical addition to European menswear in about 1420. Men wore just tunics and stockings at the time, as underwear didn't exist, and when tunics got shorter a simple triangle of cloth was designed to hide the genitals. Over the next hundred years this flap of cloth was refashioned - first to lift and project, then padded, then padded a great deal more, then molded into an elongated oval that projected up and out from the groin, giving the appearance of a monstrous permanent erection. By 1,500 codpieces were worn from England to Italy, with every country vying to outdo the others in size and originality of adornment.
The evolutionary path of the codpiece illustrates the intense competition engendered by penile display, a competition older than man himself. Many species of monkey establish group hierarchy and mating rights by displaying an erect penis.When confronted with a superior erection, a male of lower status responds by cowering or presenting his buttocks to be mounted. An interesting evolutionary result is that primates who engage in penile display are better endowed.
The gorilla, for example, has the smallest penis of the great apes, measuring a humble 3 cm when erect. Gorillas also operate under the one-male mating system, wherein the dominant male has the right to impregnate all the females, making penile competition unnecessary. Chimpanzees, on the other hand, must compete with other males to win favor with females, who are free to choose their own mates. Chimps are fervent displayers with penises nearly three times the size of the gorilla's. Since humans have the largest penises by far among the primates, we may speculate that man was showing off long before the codpiece came along.
Professor Alfred Kinsey was probably the most prolific penis measurer in history, collecting statistics from 3,500 men for his 1948 book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Kinsey's technique, much disputed, was to provide his subjects with a blank card that they were to place along the topside of their erection, mark, and return to him for measurement. From these 3,500 cards Kinsey concluded that 65.7% of all erect penises are between 5.5 and 6.5 inches, with a mean length of slightly over 6 inches. Just over 15% measure between 6.75 and 7 inches, while about 8.6% are between 5 and 5.25. The remaining 10.5% spread out to each side, with about twice as many men above 7 inches as below 5. Penises measuring 8 or more inches account for only 1.8% of Kinsey's subjects, and he found none measuring more than 9 inches. Kinsey did not compare figures between racial or ethnic groups, but the did take an interest in the relative size of sex offenders' penises, finding that the cocks of exhibitionists, contrary to what one might imagine, are generally of average length, and that only sexual aggressors against minors have unusually large penises, averaging 6.5 inches erect.
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No racial or ethnic group is uniformly large and no group is uniformly small. Women, we are constantly assured, care nothing about penis size. Men may be more candid, but there are also male fans of the small penis, either as a symbol of youth or for its amazing ability to make one's own penis look larger.
All that out of the way, who can deny the allure of a big dick? Flaccid or erect, it is aesthetically stunning - commanding every onlooker to consider capacity and consequence. Many viewing the photos for this book blurted out, "I wouldn't let that near me!" As if anyone were offering. Everyone takes the big penis personally, as an object of fear, arousal, and endless fascination, that last derived from the Latin fascinum, meaning both phallus and magical spirit. Big shoulders, big lapels, and big hair may come and go, but the big penis never goes out of fashion. And because humans walk upright, their penises are a more obvious accessory than those of most animals, a quirk that has hardly escaped man himself.
The medieval codpiece began as a practical addition to European menswear in about 1420. Men wore just tunics and stockings at the time, as underwear didn't exist, and when tunics got shorter a simple triangle of cloth was designed to hide the genitals. Over the next hundred years this flap of cloth was refashioned - first to lift and project, then padded, then padded a great deal more, then molded into an elongated oval that projected up and out from the groin, giving the appearance of a monstrous permanent erection. By 1,500 codpieces were worn from England to Italy, with every country vying to outdo the others in size and originality of adornment.
The evolutionary path of the codpiece illustrates the intense competition engendered by penile display, a competition older than man himself. Many species of monkey establish group hierarchy and mating rights by displaying an erect penis.When confronted with a superior erection, a male of lower status responds by cowering or presenting his buttocks to be mounted. An interesting evolutionary result is that primates who engage in penile display are better endowed.
The gorilla, for example, has the smallest penis of the great apes, measuring a humble 3 cm when erect. Gorillas also operate under the one-male mating system, wherein the dominant male has the right to impregnate all the females, making penile competition unnecessary. Chimpanzees, on the other hand, must compete with other males to win favor with females, who are free to choose their own mates. Chimps are fervent displayers with penises nearly three times the size of the gorilla's. Since humans have the largest penises by far among the primates, we may speculate that man was showing off long before the codpiece came along.
Professor Alfred Kinsey was probably the most prolific penis measurer in history, collecting statistics from 3,500 men for his 1948 book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Kinsey's technique, much disputed, was to provide his subjects with a blank card that they were to place along the topside of their erection, mark, and return to him for measurement. From these 3,500 cards Kinsey concluded that 65.7% of all erect penises are between 5.5 and 6.5 inches, with a mean length of slightly over 6 inches. Just over 15% measure between 6.75 and 7 inches, while about 8.6% are between 5 and 5.25. The remaining 10.5% spread out to each side, with about twice as many men above 7 inches as below 5. Penises measuring 8 or more inches account for only 1.8% of Kinsey's subjects, and he found none measuring more than 9 inches. Kinsey did not compare figures between racial or ethnic groups, but the did take an interest in the relative size of sex offenders' penises, finding that the cocks of exhibitionists, contrary to what one might imagine, are generally of average length, and that only sexual aggressors against minors have unusually large penises, averaging 6.5 inches erect.
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