Originally Posted by charlie dog
I’m looking at it from the perspective of not comparing myself to myself, but to others. If everyone is measuring differently, and reporting their stats, that’s an apples to oranges comparison. Ultimately, in the grand scheme of things, I guess it really doesn’t matter a whole lot, but I’m just a little anal and feel BPEL measurements should be from the exact same spot for all for the sake of uniformity.
While I can understand your motivation for this, I think it would be easier to get the sun to rise in the west and set in the east than to get every guy on the planet or hell even every medical or scientific “study” to use identical measuring techniques, let alone be honest about the size of their penis. When a self-reporting study (Kinsey) shows an average size at least a full inch bigger than any other 3rd party measured study, that’s a fairly obvious clue that comparing yourself to others (in the general population sense) is going to be a difficult, if not impossible endeavor.
After all my reading and researching and insecurity-driven desire to find out “where I stand” in comparison to others, I’ve come to the simplistic, but perhaps obvious conclusion that, you know big when you see it. And I’m definitely not even remotely close to big, regardless of what any study I’ve seen says, or how they measured, or how many participants there were. So, I agree with you, if I jam my ruler so it comes out my ass, which I most definitely do! Then the number looks pretty good. But I did that originally to get my starting point, and I continue to use that method to track my gains. I would never dream of telling anyone on the planet that that’s my actual size though.