The anus, once opened up, can accommodate intrusions of considerable length, but girth - diameter - is an issue. (Typically unsubtle porn titles: Big Guns, Big Wood, Bigger Than Life, The Bigger the Better, The Biggest One I Ever Saw!, Hot Rods: Young and Hung, Like a Horse, A Matter of Size, and Ken Ryker’s compilation My Big Fucking Dick.)īackground II: more physical reality. Monumentally more is the stuff of dreams. More is better, and much much more is best. In Gayland, dicks start at this level (7″) and go on up from there, gaining in value with every half-inch. Note that 7″ is only a half-inch short of truly extraordinary. These facts about the real world don’t translate well into perceptions and practices: a 5″ dick is seen (in real life and in porn) as *small* (this is my size range, and I can attest to the fact that men who really care about size find it unacceptably small), and in porn a 6″ dick isn’t notable enough for mention write-ups of pornstars almost never mention a dick size below 7″, though 7″ is fairly common in these write-ups. Trying to put this into simpler terms: the average erect penis is between 5 (on the low side) and 6 (on the high side) inches long, and almost all hard dicks are between 4.2 (on the low side) and 7.5 (on the high side) inches long. … While results vary slightly across reputable studies, the consensus is that the mean human penis is in the range 12.9–15 cm (5.1–5.9 in) in length with a 95% confidence interval of (10.7 cm, 19.1 cm) (or, equivalently, 4.23 in, 7.53 in) - that is, it is 95% certain that the true mean is at least 10.7 cm but not more than 19.1 cm. Most of human penis growth happens between infancy and the age of five, and between about one year after the onset of puberty and, at latest, approximately 17 years of age.Ī statistically significant correlation between penis size and the size of other body parts has not been found in research. Flaccid penis length is a poor estimate of erect length. However, the mean of an erect human penis is approximately 12.9–15.0 cm (5.1–5.9 in) in length. Measurements vary, with studies that rely on self-measurement reporting a significantly higher average than those with staff measuring. When compared to other primates, including large primates such as the gorilla, the human penis is largest, both in absolute terms and in relative size to the rest of the body. The most accurate measurement of the human penis comes from several measurements at different times since there is natural minor variability in size due to arousal level, time of day, room temperature, frequency of sexual activity, and reliability of measurement. Here’s the relevant part of the (rather disjointed) Wikipedia article on human penis size: (Earlier posting on Fussell - Bruce Weber’s obit - on this blog here.)īackground I: on penis size. A place where the gigantic and grotesque are worshiped. But there’s a a whole complex world in which this deformity, this abnormality, is celebrated and venerated: the world of gay male fantasy, especially as represented in gay porn imagery. Clothes, you realize, have the effect of sausage casings.” About penis size, Fussell said: “You will learn that every man looks roughly the same - quite small, that is, and that heroic fixtures are not just extremely rare, they are deformities.”Īll true. Among them: “Fat people look far less offensive naked than clothed. It contains dozens of memorable observations. ![]() … In 1987, the inspired editors of GQ magazine sent Fussell to a far-flung nudist colony, and the resulting essay, “Taking It All Off in the Balkans,” is something to behold. Add to this list of punishing, witty and literate writers Christopher Hitchens, who died at the end of 2011, and it begins to seem as if the Mayan calendar, which predicted global ruin, took aim instead at our stinging public intellectuals, our necessary horseflies. ![]() The last of our great curmudgeonly essayists - Gore Vidal, the art critic Robert Hughes and the historian and social critic Paul Fussell - died this year. ![]() The most profound tectonic shift in our literary culture in 2012 was one that, by and large, no one noticed. (Mostly about sexuality/sex, rather than language.)įrom the NYT Magazine “The Lives They Lived” section of 12/30/12, on Paul Fussell (born 1924), by Dwight Garner:
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