A new study out from academics at the Kinsey Institute surveyed the length of the fully erect penises of 1,661 men. This was then "sliced and diced" (the numbers, not the penises) to find various statistical averages. The 1,661 penises were all (theoretically) as erect as possible in order to measure the maximum length they could attain.

Below are some of the findings of the report with both the length in centimeters (as reported in the article) and converted to inches so that those of you living in backward (non-metric) countries won't need to run your own conversions.

The average erect penis length for the 1,661 men was 14.15 cm (5.57 inches) with a range from 4 cm (1.57 inches) to 26 cm (10.24 inches) – one person at each extreme. 141 of the men (8.5%) had erect penises less than 4 inches long (10 cm or less). 37 of the men (2.2%) had erect penises 7.5 inches long or longer (20 cm or more).

The youngest men, ages 18 to 23, had the shortest average penis – 14.05 cm (5.53 inches) and the oldest group, ages 60+ had the longest – 14.63 cm (5.76 inches) – though there were only 9 men in the oldest group and 753 in the youngest.

By ethnic group, the American Indians had the shortest average – 12.86 cm (5.06 inches) with a sample size of 14. White/Caucasians averaged 14.18 cm (5.58 inches) with a sample size of 1,475. Black/African Americans had the longest average length at 14.66 cm (5.77 inches) with a sample size of 38. (The survey was done in southern Indiana!)

By sexual orientation, Heterosexual/Straight had the longest average length – 14.16 cm (5.57 inches); Bisexuals came in at 14.33 cm (5.64 inches); and, contrary to popular opinion, Gay/Homosexual men had the shortest average penis length in the survey – 13.99 cm (5.51 inches).

This large study should bring some reality to statements about penis length. The article also gave full details on circumference for anyone who wants to read the article.

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Herbenick, D. et al. (2014). Erect penile length and circumference dimensions of 1,661 sexually active men in the United States. Journal of Sexual Medicine 11: 93-101.

Very interesting information. I pretty much thought the average penis was around 6 inches and you finding support that. I know that my father and my brother were both very much hung. Following castration, well there isn't much there now. I don't need it anyways. It is just a vessel to pee now. Good job Jesus.

A major problem with this study is that once again the various types of individuals who would be considered by society to be "gay/homosexuals" are all lumped together.

A friend of my hubby and me (who's close enough to call me Mom) does statistics for a living and has a hubby whose penis is exceptionally long (a hair over 7 inches, she says), so I thought these statistics would interest her.

I was right. She looked up the original report and did some math. She said (disregarding the definitions of "straight" and "gay" or the possibility that many gays were reluctant to report themselves as such) that the difference between the straight and gay populations was not "statistically significant" (her words). She said according to her calculations, if you took two groups of "straight" men, one group with 1598 men and the other with 128 men, the groups would have slightly better than an even chance of differing in average penis length by the amount the report says gays and straight men differed, and another study done the same way would stand about an even chance of finding that gays' penises are longer.

She did confirm, however, (no surprise) that her hubby is a rare find.

Sandi

There was a guy in the Army, years back who claimed -for a bet- that his dick was longer than the cat's tail.

He won, but only after insisting that both were measured from the same place!

daifu-orchid (imported) wrote: Tue Mar 11, 2014 7:30 pm There was a guy in the Army, years back who claimed -for a bet- that his dick was longer than the cat's tail.

He won, but only after insisting that both were measured from the same place!

LOL. I thought the ending was going to be that he was measured against a manx cat.

I wouldn't say that just over 7" is exceptionally long... In that case, I'm exceptionally long, I've dated guys that were much longer...

uuMachine (imported) wrote: Thu Mar 13, 2014 1:11 am I wouldn't say that just over 7" is exceptionally long... In that case, I'm exceptionally long, I've dated guys that were much longer...

Depends on what you mean by exceptional, I suppose. According to my friend the survey indicated that her hubby would be in the top 5%. Maybe that's not "rare," but his penis is longer than any I've seen. But then I haven't seen all that many erect penises.

The longest cock, I have seen and sucked, was over 10"and uncut, the guy was 125 pounds only, it was just amazing.

This being EA, where some are just a little shorter, and some not at all, how does the eunuch measure up? -um, down?