NEWS: Info reassures men who think their penis is small

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men worried about having a small penis are usually pretty average, but have a false idea of what the normal size is, according to a report in the medical journal Urology.

This best way to reassure men with penile concerns is to educate them, the author of the report says. Men should know that a normal-sized penis is 1.6 inches or more when flaccid or 2.76 inches when stretched out.

The findings are based on a study of 92 patients who went to the andrology department at Cairo University Hospital in Egypt over a 2-year period complaining of a small-sized penis. Each subject provided a sexual history and completed a standard erectile function questionnaire.

Penile length and girth were assessed with a tape measure in both flaccid and fully stretched states. The men were asked what they considered a normal-sized penis and then were informed about the actual normal size.

Study author Dr. Rany Shamloul, at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, reports that all of the men met the thresholds for normal penis size and did not have erectile dysfunction.

However, on average, they estimated that the “normal” flaccid length should be to be 5.1 inches.

The education and measurement sessions solved the concerns of 79 men. The other 13 subjects still insisted that their member was too short, but with further psychosexual counseling, most were convinced otherwise.

“Men complaining of a short penis can be treated using the basic principles of sex education with objective methods of penile size evaluation,” Shamloul concludes. “This combination can correct any previous sexual misconceptions, relieve unnecessary anxiety concerning penile size, and decrease the desire to undertake still-to-be verified lengthening procedures.”

SOURCE: Urology, June 2005.

>>>However, on average, they estimated that the “normal” flaccid length should be to be 5.1 inches.

Flaccid?

Welcome to Thunders Place

Psychosexual Therapy to the right and Penis Enlargment to the left.

Shamloul may buy it, but I’m not and I bet his wife doesn’t either.

“Men complaining of a short penis can be treated using the basic principles of sex education with objective methods of penile size evaluation,” Shamloul concludes. “This combination can correct any previous sexual misconceptions, relieve unnecessary anxiety concerning penile size, and decrease the desire to undertake still-to-be verified lengthening procedures.”

How many of us here, whether we’re “average” or even “above average” , FEEL like it? Ummm, none? I look at a lot of the guys stats and think that I’d possibly give my left nut for numbers like that. Then I wonder why they’re still PE ing. Could it be they’re not convinced they’re big enough? My stats are, theoretically, average. (My girth is, again, theoretically) a tick above average. I wonder if I’ll ever feel above average? When I reach those awesome numbers, will I feel like stopping because I’ve “arrived”? I’m starting to get a grip on why I feel the way I do about my penis size, but I wonder if I’ll ever feel BIG. I’m not sure any amount of “re-education” will change my mind, whereas, the “still-to-be-verified” lengthening procedures, HAVE changed my mind. PE works.

Get the fuck outa here. Half the guys out there are always turtled in when there flacid like BG said and they do nothing about it. 5.1 my balls.

They are saying that the men with the small penile paranoia think that average flaccid is 5.1 inches. The doctors said average is about 1.6 which I think is complete BS as well.

Why base anything on a group of guys who went in saying they feared their penises were too small? These guys probably WERE below the average, if you had to guess, though maybe not as much as they thought.

They must have meant flaccid stretched length of 5.1 inches, i.e. erect length, is average according to the doctors. They said the men were measured in the flaccid state and when stretched out (flaccid)