Originally Posted by slipstream
Because of what sta-kool found, I think we can safely say that it is closer to BPEL. It isn’t NBPEL, but I just don’t think that these nurses would be pressing as hard as we do when measuring. Maybe add another 1/8" to get something equivalent.
We can probably decrease it by 1/8 as well because the hard ons were voluntary and.. When the time came to measuring.. EQ probably wasn’t 100% in 100% of the individuals.
What ska-kool found was a link to the cornell sun (weird "news/blog" site, I ended up reading other articles from it).
Specifically this link, which is what made me assume it was bone pressed:
Inside of the article it reads
Originally Posted by cornell_sun
Lifestyles Condom Co. Released the results of it’s own more extensive and (hopefully more accurate) study: they found the average length of an erect penis to be only 5.877 inches with most men falling in the 5.1 to 6.2 inch range. This time, measurements were taken by nurses from the point where the penis meets the body (at the pubic bone). The study also found that the average erect penis had a girth of 4.972 inches, with three quarters of dudes measuring between 4.5 and 5.5 inches around.
The other two links that said something different.
Originally Posted by kong1971_from_MOS
Length was measured from the point at the base of the erect penis
Originally Posted by mraverage.com
The following criteria were enforced by a doctor and a team of four nurses, who attended each of the seven nights of the penis size research. Measuring of length was from the point at the base of the erect penis where the top of the penile shaft meets the pubic area to the tip of the glans ("head")
Maybe I’m misreading something here.. The base of the erect penis where the top of the penile shaft meets the pubic area sounds like NBP to me.
What’s troubling me is that we have this figurative chart from LifeStyles, a website from ansell that gives the averages and number of participants and some forums and a college newspaper as the only sources reporting the measuring method. It seems really troublesome to get some *hard* data on this. I’m leaning towards that it was NBPEL because they are a condom company and wouldn’t be interested in BPEL measurements. http://www.free -condom-stuff.c … on/research.htm
It’s missing that really important piece of information (for us).
Come next Wednesday if I don’t receive a reply back I’ll phone them and see what I can extract.