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Women don't want men with big p***ses
A study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE in November 2015 took the novel approach of asking women to show their p***s size preferences with the use of 3D printed models of 33 different dimensions.
[3D-printed p***s sizes]
The women were asked to choose between 33 differently sized 3D-printed 'p***ses' - including the examples shown. The largest in the set was A, while D was the smallest; they were blue for racial neutrality.
Image: Nicole Prause et al.
The sizes had been printed across a range from 4 inches to 8.5 inches in length, and from 2.5 inches to 7.0 inches in circumference, based on previous studies giving an average American p***s size when erect of 6 inches (15.2 cm) long with a girth of 5 inches (12.7 cm).
The 3D-printed shafts were in blue plastic so as not to suggest any particular race that might prejudice the women's ideas of average size.
The 75 women indicating size preferences from the 33 blue models chose slightly differently depending on the kind of relationship they were thinking about (and in any case showed they desired a size that turned out to be only slightly above the averages found across studies):
For long-term s*xual partners, they went for a p***s of slightly shorter circumference and length compared with their choices for one-night stands, choosing an average length of 6.3 inches and a girth of 4.8 inches.
This compared with their preference for one-time s*x partners being for a length of 6.4 inches and a circumference of 5.0 inches.
More p***s measurements
A number of different studies have sought to determine an average p***s size. One published in 2001 took measurements of 3,300 young Italian men aged between 17 and 19 years.
It found the median average length of flaccid p***ses was 9 centimeters (3.5 inches), and the flaccid circumference (at the middle of the shaft) was 10 centimeters (3.9 inches).
Another study examined a different population, of 301 physically normal Indian men, and sought to compare its results with size findings in other countries.
The results, the authors of the 2007 study said, "will help in counseling the patients worried about the pe**le size and seeking p***s enlargement surgery."
Flaccid: mean average length was 8.2 centimeters (3.2 inches) and circumference (of stretched flaccid p***s) was 9.1 centimeters (3.6 inches).
Erect: mean average length was 13.0 centimeters (5.1 inches) and circumference was 11.5 centimeters (4.5 inches).
The findings, published in Nature, included a table that listed previous findings on p***s dimensions around the world. Click here to see the table.
Tape measure
Research studies have measured p***s sizes and found an average - the typical erect p***s would fit well within the range shown on this ruler.
Of the 16 studies they cited, from various countries, the earliest was carried out over a hundred years ago and published in 1899.
They all arrived at similar average p***s lengths:
Flaccid lengths ranged around 7 to 10 centimeters (2.8 to 3.9 inches).
Flaccid circumferences ranged around 9 to 10 centimeters (3.5 to 3.9 inches).
Erect lengths ranged around 12 to 16 centimeters (4.7 to 6.3 inches).
Erect circumference (only one previous study) was around 12 centimeters (4.7 inches).
Heightened concerns, 'misguided' desires for enlargement
The authors of the study from India wrote that the definition of normal pe**le size was of "considerable interest" as there was a "steady increase in the number of people complaining of 'short p***s' and seeking pe**le enlargement procedures."
Other research has suggested that most men who seek surgery to lengthen their p***s have an overestimated view of what a normal p***s size is.
In the study of 67 men complaining of a short p***s, none was, in fact, found to be severely short. The authors said there was an increasing number of men seeking surgery to lengthen their p***s.
Only a small effect of obesity and age on erect p***s size
In 2015, researchers in Saudi Arabia published the results of a retrospective cohort study of 778 men with an average age of 43.7 (ranging from 20 to 82 years) who attended urological outpatient clinics in Saudi Arabia.
Men were excluded from the study if they were under 18 years old, presented with a complaint of small or short p***s, Peyronie's disease, conge***al curvature, clinical hypogonadism, previous pe**le surgery or trauma, or a combination of any of these.
After medically inducing an er****on the researchers took measurements and established an average:
P***s length of 12.53 centimeters (4.9 inches) from the skin over the p***c bone to the pe**le tip
P***s length of 14.34 centimeters (5.6 inches) from the p***c bone to the pe**le tip
P***s circumference of 11.50 centimeters (4.5 inches).
The researchers also measured the men's body-mass index (BMI), which increases with obesity. There was a weak correlation between greater BMI and shorter erect pe**le length when this was measured from the skin over the p***c area, but not when the measurement was made from the bone to the tip.
This suggests that the p***s would appear to be shorter when there is more fat under the skin at the visible base of the p***s.
This study also showed a weak correlation with increasing age for erect p***s dimensions.
However, the authors noted that slight decreases in size may be of limited concern to "aging men" - they found "the difference between men of 70 and 20 was less than a centimeter."
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