FACTS ABOUT PENIS SIZEOriginally Posted by teh bri
Copied from Netdoctor.com
In the last few years, it has become apparent that the average man's penis is not as long as had been thought previously.
For decades, medical books and articles in the press have confidently stated that penile length is generally about 6.5 inches (16.5 centimetres).
As a result, a lot of males who are slightly shorter than this have felt rather inadequate.
However, it now seems that the statistics on which this 'average' was based could well have a serious flaw. It is this: the figure was originally calculated by collecting measurements that men had carried out themselves!
Self-measurement of this sort is notoriously unreliable.
Why? Because so many males don't know where to measure from or use inaccurate rulers or ancient tape measures.
Also, there's probably a tendency for guys to round their 'scores' upwards, in an attempt to make themselves sound better-endowed. And the results tend to be skewed by people who falsely claim to be 10 or 11 inches long.
In recent times, a number of scientists have attempted to obtain more reliable figures, by the simple expedient of employing a trained person to carry out the measurement of each man.
And the results, which they have produced, seem to indicate that the average adult male is considerably shorter than had been thought.
In reality, the mean length of the erect penis appears to be only about 5.88 inches (14.9 centimetres), which is considerably less than the 'old' measurement.
Does all this matter?
If you're a woman, you probably think that this concern about fractions of an inch is rather silly.
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