It is not uncommon to hear women
speculate about men’s member after sizing up their broad shoulders or
scoffing at their dainty hands. Few days ago, some women were caught off guard,
while looking at a group of men at an occasion and using their height, body
size and even their wrist size as a yardstick for how endowed they would be
below the belt.
But sincerely, there is no evidence
to show that there are correlations between a man’s twigs and berries with the
size of his extremities, or his height, or even his race?
In a 2002 study conducted at the
University College London, researchers wanted to know if a man’s shoe size
correlated with the length of his unit. Measuring 104 men’s feet was easy;
measuring their penises was not. That’s because there is no perfect way to measure
a man’s penis. Should length be measured when it’s flaccid, stretched, or
erect? Most men would probably want their penises to be measured when they are
erect; but not all erections are created equal.
In this study, and in many others
that measure penis length, the researchers stretched the penis with a defined
amount of force to determine how long it could get. This gives a pretty good
indication of how long the penis would be when fully erect. (You can also
inject a hormone into the penis to make it fully erect, but the idea of a
needle near a penis makes for very few volunteers.). The result of this study,
to the relief of all size seven shoe-wearing males, was that “there is no
scientific support for the relationship” between the size of shoe and length of
penis.
Another study, which looked at body
height in addition to foot length, had similar results.
Researchers at
University of Alberta measured the height, shoe size, and stretched penile
length of 63 healthy men. They found that body height and foot length were only
weakly correlated with the size of their penis and that “height and foot size
would not serve as practical estimators of penis length.” However, the issue of
height is not so clearly resolved.
In 2002, a group of Greek
researchers measured the body compositions, including height, weight, waist/hip
ratio, finger length and penis length of 52 men, aged 19-38. They found that
age and body characteristics were not associated with size of penis except for
the “index finger length, which correlated significantly with the dimensions of
the flaccid, maximally stretched penis.” Another study—this one with 1500
men—found that length of index finger was significantly correlated with penis
dimensions.
As with correlating height to penis
size, we could probably use a few more studies on this subject, but there is
evidence that finger length may have something to do with hormones, which have
something to do with growth of a penis. Researchers have speculated that the
ratio of index finger to ring finger can provide clues to how much testosterone
a fetus is exposed to in the uterus. Longer index fingers may be a proxy to
higher amounts of testosterone in the womb, and therefore, larger penises.
What is the point of this study? It
is not necessarily to debunk notions of shoe and penis size; it is to get an
accurate assessment of what is “normal.” Many men worry about the size of their
penis. Almost 12 percent of men are concerned that their penis is too small,
but anxiety over a small penis is somewhat unfounded.
Most men fall within a normal range
of penis size, which, according to the Kinsey Institute, a center that studies
sex, gender, and reproduction, is between five to seven inches when erect. Men
have a built-in system for turning a small, flaccid penis into a larger one; it
is called an erection. And, while men stress over the length of their units,
most women are actually concerned with girth.
Though women may like to speculate
on the size of things, and none of this may be based on solid research, a man’s
penis size isn’t everything. It has nothing to do with his virility. Most women
are satisfied with their partner’s penis. Although bigger sometimes feels
better, there is one urban legend that all men can take to heart: it’s not the
size of the ship, it’s the motion of the ocean.
Courtesy: MensHealth.
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