What's the average penis size

How tall are you?

According to Lifestyles

Length
Circumference

It also depends on what your ethnicity is.
Some other relevant links are http://wwwu.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/amiklaut/dr_nick/answer19.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_penis_size .

Fun fact. In ancient greece woman actually prefered a small penis’. Ever notice all the statues have small ones. Also Priapus was looked down upon because of his large member. It was considered unsightly to have a large and or circumcised penis. That is also where they got the term Priapism from.

What are female opinions?

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Well, as a female, I’ve seen my share and find what is attached to them much more interesting than the organ itself. And “average” means that half of them are larger and half smaller…who cares? Don’t worry about it. Learn how to be a good lover.

@iceblue; your response means?

I admire the answer gailcalled most women say that how’re among there friends they tell a whole different story they all say “bigger is better” I’m sure a female coined that phrase

actually gailcalled according to quite a few sites most fall below average.

@gailcalled it means that i dnt think a girl is going to respond…but never mind…cause i can see that you just did… =X

I read something years ago that said 5 1/2” was the average length, but I can’t remember where I acquired this information. This is not a measure of a person’s character, though. Gail is wise, and knows what she is talking about!

Interesting question. Since you didn’t specify the question as geared towards humans, I will throw in my 2 cents. Oftentimes, penis and testes size is correlated with the type of mating system in which a primate lives. Gorillas, for instance, have very small penises and small testes. Why is this? Because a typical gorilla group consists of an adult silverback male and several adult females with whom he breeds. Since the silverback is the only male who breeds with the females, there is no sexual competition and no need for testes of high volume (= less sperm) or a large penis.

On the other hand, chimpanzees live in very large groups with many adult males and females. Their mating system is considered to be promiscuous, with everybody mating with everyone else (this is simplified). Since there is much competition for access to ovulating females, male chimps need to be able to mate as quickly as possible and try to mate with many females. Accordingly, male chimps have thin, pencil-like penises (built for quick entry, usually ejaculating in several seconds) and enormous testes. They need the large testes because with more sperm there is an increased chance that they will successfully sire offspring. Small testes would not fare so well in a chimp society.

As it turns out, human males have extremely large testes and penises for a “monogamous” primate species. Based on morphology alone, humans are definitely geared for mating with multiple females.

I read in glamour that 5 in was the average. But who cares? I say whatever fits, fits. Size doesn’t matter

I think about 5” to 6”. An estimate (to figure out his size) is about half the length of his foot, although I’m not exactly sure that is even an accurate statement. I’m pretty sure that’s why guys like to use the pickup line “I have big feet.”

Honestly, I don’t think size matters. I read an interesting article, though, that reported most women prefer penises that are 5–7” in diameter, and 2–3” in circumference.

No wonder women complain so much. They want a penis that defies the laws of physics!

@witty I hope you meant 5–7” in length, because a penis that has a diameter of 5” would be 15.7” in circumference(almost as big as a baby). I am pretty sure that the circumference is pretty close to the same number as the length.(5” long = 5“circ.) Also, a penis with a 2” circumference would be 0.6369” in diameter.
@kevbo You are hilarious!

My favorite penis was my wasband’s at 7 and 3/4 inches long.. SO’s is 5 inches, and although he does a pretty good job with it, I miss the extra two inches.

@uber; I have always been led to believe that one adds up a lot of numbers (say, the height of all the students in your class), divides by two and, thus gets an average…with half being shorter and half being taller. Why would penis sizes be different? How would you define “average”?

3” in diameter? 7 3/4” long? Ouch. And I have to laugh when I imagine people lying around w. tapemeasures.

you see an honest woman LOL. The bigger the better. Women will settle but never forget the “Big One” they let go lol

Not all women. I ran from a brief encounter with “The Big One” with relief. And my friends do not say, “Bigger is better.” They say, “Learn the fine art of how to make love. I can buy a salami at the deli counter.”

And Priapism, altho named after Priapus, describes a medical condition that is not fun, in which a man has an erection for at least four hours that he can’t shrink. Usually requires medical intervention.

And my friends do not say “Bigger is better.” They say, “Learn the fine art of making love. If I wanted a salami, I’d go to the deli counter.”

@gail The salami comment- Classic! You are as funny as kevbo. I love fluther, this is great. I haven’t laughed so much since, I don’t know when!

@all; sorry about the “salami” repetition. Fluther has been flooded and acting up.

@bulb: you see how smart we get as we age?

@Hollister0221 That’s true, but I wouldn’t give up the “other things” SO does for any size!! The man knows how to compensate!!

@gail yes that is how averages work. But consider this 20 guys have a 4 inch penis and 4 guys have a 9 inch penis. The average would be 4.8 inches. So based on this example its not half larger and half smaller.

Hmm. Good point. I have to think about that. But you have preselected a very anomalous group. What if you simply took a roomful of several hundred guys and measured them? (Gad, what a thought.)

Average size is larger than median size, so most guys are below average (according to Wikipedia).

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LOL!!!

@kev; the math is starting to interest me much more than the original question. How does Wikipedia get the average penis size for the entire adult male population? (I will check out the article, however.) And why is average larger than median? Give me a concrete example, plz. I have trouble w. abstract math concepts.

@kev and others; sorry that I asked before doing my own research. I understand now.

I take it you came across a nice pretty graph. Thats how i understood it so easily.

Wikipedia used, as an example, average income in a town where Bill Gates lived. His annual income threw the average off.

Ohhh thats a good example.

A 7incher is good, but I have also heard that 5–6in is average. Hmmmm I dunno. I think that is actually small, hehe.

I stumbled on this site of Penis Facts… It has a little thing about size, and some other cool facts…

@iceblu , I read this on the article you posted… OWWW!!

No. 4: You Can Break Your Penis

There is no “penis bone,” but you can break your penis all the same. It’s called penile fracture, and it’s not a subtle injury. When it happens, there’s “an audible pop or snap,” Montague says. Then the penis turns black and blue. And there’s terrible pain.

@iceblu, great article! I’m changing my username to “grower.” ha!

@scamp yea, i thought it was appropriate for this Topic.

@kevbo you would, so then i can safely say that your not all show at first? =]

wow this question has really sparked alot of debates and topics. U guys are great