Is that a banana in your pocket?
The Big Penis Book. Excerpt from the introduction by Dian Hanson
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The Kinsey Institute recently updated this study with 300 volunteers who were personally measured by researchers, who found the average erect penis had shrunk to just 5.5 inches in length. Perhaps this was always a more accurate measurement, as any man holding a card to his penis in private would be tempted to stretch the truth. This discrepancy between professional- and self-measuring is corroborated by two other recent studies, one published in the September 1996 Journal of Urology, which found the average erect penis to be only 5.08 inches long when measured by researchers, compared to a far more generous average of 6.1 inches claimed by men measuring themselves for the JackinWorld.com website.
Dr. Kevan Wylie from the Royal Hallamshire Hospital of Sheffield, England, and Ian Eardly from St. James Hospital in Leeds have compiled the most comprehensive overview of penis size. Their report, published in the June 2007 issue of the British Journal of Urology International, combines the findings of 12 studies conducted since 1942 involving 11,531 men. It concludes that the average penis is between 14 and 16 cm (5.5 to 6.2 inches) in length and 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 inches) in circumference. This would seemingly end the debate, except that nearly all penis size studies, including Kinsey's, Masters and Johnson's, and possibly JackinWorld's, have concentrated on the western Caucasian penis. Until someone undertakes a global study, measuring men on all continents in their precise proportion to world population, the length of the average erect penis, and thus the starting point for the large penis, will continue to elude us. Curiously, the only study to come close to this globalideal was conducted over 100 years ago, under somewhat less than scholarly conditions.
Dr."Jacobus X" (Jacobus Sutor), a 19th century French military surgeon, served 28 years on posts in Asia, Africa, South America, and the Pacific islands. Like many in the days of white imperial rule, Sutor felt free to experiment upon "native" peoples in ways unimaginable today, by which I mean he was a tireless penis measurer. In his book Untrodden Fields of Anthropology, published in 1898, Jacobus reported on the sexual characteristics of both men and women, but showed a clear preference for his male subjects, whom he measured at every opportunity, both flaccid and erect, including many back home in France.
Arabs showed the largest average size, measuring 7.2 to 7.6 inches in erection - big enough, according to Sutor, to "produce serious mischief in the rectum of any poor wretch who consented to suffer its terrible attacks."He was most taken with the African penis, which he described as feeling in erection like "an India rubber tube filled with liquid," and it was among the Malinkes tribe in Senegal where he found his individual prize-winner: "a terrific machine" nearly 12 inches in length, with a diameter exceeding 2.3 inches,"more like the yard of a donkey than that of a man." Sutor's theory was that circumcision, practiced by Arabs and many African tribes, was responsible for their larger penises, writing: "It is certain that the removal of that portion of the skin, and the mucus surface of the foreskin, which compresses and caps the gland, and often prevents it coming out even when in erection, interferes with the development of the young boy's organ." A clever theory not borne out by Kinsey's measurements of circumcised Americans.
The phallus, or representation of the penis, has been worshipped as a holy icon in Egypt, India, Syria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Italy, Spain, Germany, Scandinavia, and ancient Galacia. Hernán Cortés reported finding phallic idols in the temples of Mexico. Stone phalli, many of enormous size, can be found on some Pacific islands. In the Bible, Ezekiel 16:17 accuses the Jewish women of making gold and silver phalli and committing "fornication" with them as a primitive act of worship, proving that men are not entirely alone in phallic appreciation. The Greeks and Romans had a purely phallic god in Priapus. The god was charged with protecting livestock, assuring abundant crops, and making sure human penises stayed as hard as their own.
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The Kinsey Institute recently updated this study with 300 volunteers who were personally measured by researchers, who found the average erect penis had shrunk to just 5.5 inches in length. Perhaps this was always a more accurate measurement, as any man holding a card to his penis in private would be tempted to stretch the truth. This discrepancy between professional- and self-measuring is corroborated by two other recent studies, one published in the September 1996 Journal of Urology, which found the average erect penis to be only 5.08 inches long when measured by researchers, compared to a far more generous average of 6.1 inches claimed by men measuring themselves for the JackinWorld.com website.
Dr. Kevan Wylie from the Royal Hallamshire Hospital of Sheffield, England, and Ian Eardly from St. James Hospital in Leeds have compiled the most comprehensive overview of penis size. Their report, published in the June 2007 issue of the British Journal of Urology International, combines the findings of 12 studies conducted since 1942 involving 11,531 men. It concludes that the average penis is between 14 and 16 cm (5.5 to 6.2 inches) in length and 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 inches) in circumference. This would seemingly end the debate, except that nearly all penis size studies, including Kinsey's, Masters and Johnson's, and possibly JackinWorld's, have concentrated on the western Caucasian penis. Until someone undertakes a global study, measuring men on all continents in their precise proportion to world population, the length of the average erect penis, and thus the starting point for the large penis, will continue to elude us. Curiously, the only study to come close to this globalideal was conducted over 100 years ago, under somewhat less than scholarly conditions.
Dr."Jacobus X" (Jacobus Sutor), a 19th century French military surgeon, served 28 years on posts in Asia, Africa, South America, and the Pacific islands. Like many in the days of white imperial rule, Sutor felt free to experiment upon "native" peoples in ways unimaginable today, by which I mean he was a tireless penis measurer. In his book Untrodden Fields of Anthropology, published in 1898, Jacobus reported on the sexual characteristics of both men and women, but showed a clear preference for his male subjects, whom he measured at every opportunity, both flaccid and erect, including many back home in France.
Arabs showed the largest average size, measuring 7.2 to 7.6 inches in erection - big enough, according to Sutor, to "produce serious mischief in the rectum of any poor wretch who consented to suffer its terrible attacks."He was most taken with the African penis, which he described as feeling in erection like "an India rubber tube filled with liquid," and it was among the Malinkes tribe in Senegal where he found his individual prize-winner: "a terrific machine" nearly 12 inches in length, with a diameter exceeding 2.3 inches,"more like the yard of a donkey than that of a man." Sutor's theory was that circumcision, practiced by Arabs and many African tribes, was responsible for their larger penises, writing: "It is certain that the removal of that portion of the skin, and the mucus surface of the foreskin, which compresses and caps the gland, and often prevents it coming out even when in erection, interferes with the development of the young boy's organ." A clever theory not borne out by Kinsey's measurements of circumcised Americans.
The phallus, or representation of the penis, has been worshipped as a holy icon in Egypt, India, Syria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Italy, Spain, Germany, Scandinavia, and ancient Galacia. Hernán Cortés reported finding phallic idols in the temples of Mexico. Stone phalli, many of enormous size, can be found on some Pacific islands. In the Bible, Ezekiel 16:17 accuses the Jewish women of making gold and silver phalli and committing "fornication" with them as a primitive act of worship, proving that men are not entirely alone in phallic appreciation. The Greeks and Romans had a purely phallic god in Priapus. The god was charged with protecting livestock, assuring abundant crops, and making sure human penises stayed as hard as their own.
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The Big Penis Book
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The fascinating phallus: undressed to impress
John Holmes, from a private collection
Photo (c) Jay Myrdal