Studies Show Men’s Penises Are Getting Larger
Here’s why researchers are not celebrating.
If we lived in classical Greece, news that penises are getting larger would worry most men. Aristotle taught that a small penis was preferable for conception because semen cools down in a large penis, becoming “not generative.”
Today, Aristotle’s small dick energy theory has been debunked. Yet, although countless studies have found penis size doesn’t affect conception, sexual pleasure, or make the world spin, researchers are still fixated on penis sizes.
Or at least fixated on average penis sizes.
In what has to be the most academic study on dick size, a recent meta-analysis composing 75 studies found that in the last 29 years, the average erect penis length has increased from 4.8 inches to 6 inches — an average global increase of 24%. To get these results, researchers crunched the numbers of over 55,000 penises worldwide, comparing erect, flaccid, and stretched lengths.
More interestingly, they found that the stretched penis lengths had not changed in the last 29 years, but the erect lengths had. In other words, the growers are getting showier, and the showers are staying the same.
To understand why this matters, we need to get into the nitty-gritty of how to measure…
