As most readers of this blog will be aware, there are things that men worry about even more than their risk for prostate cancer. So … here is some information from a study just published on-line in BJU International that (for some strange reason) has already been widely picked up by the media.
According to this paper by Veale et al., based on data from a total of more than 15,000 men from all around the world:
- The average length of a male human penis is
- 13.12 ± 1.66 cm when erect (equivalent to 5.16 ± 0.65 in)
- 9.16 ± 1.57 cm when flaccid and pendulous (equivalent to 3.61 ± 0.61 in)
- The average circumference of a male human penis is
- 11.66 ± 1.10 cm when erect (equivalent to 4.59 ± 0.43 in)
- 9.31 ± 0.90 cm when flaccid and pendulous (equivalent to 3.66 ± 0.35 in)
- There was no correlation whatsoever between penis size and
- The length of one’s index finger
- The ratio of the lengths of one’s second and fourth fingers
- Foot size
- Race
Quoted in an article on the Reuters web site, one of the authors of the paper stated very simply that:
There is not a “right” penis size for a man of any height, just a range of “normal”.
The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink has decided to turn off the opportunity for comment on this particular topic for some fairly obvious reasons … but we did want to make sure that our readers were aware of this report.
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