Penis Size: The True Average

they are speaking about erect sizes or flaccid stretched sizes..?
flaccid pendulous penile length 8,7 cm
flaccid penopubic penile length (to the pubic arch) 10.2cm
and stretched flaccid penopubic length. 14,3 cm

So again no exact measurements lol as we know that stretched length can differ from erect..

NBPFSL, which is normally slightly longer than erect length. Many studies measure stretched length instead than erect length, because it is easier.

I wonder if they might have made an error in quoting the mean testicular volume at 19.8 ml? That is only 1.2 cubic inches. Does it not seem a bit on the small side for a mean? All the other measurements seem to be mostly as I would have expected though there is some ambiguity about the length measurements because of the verbiage that they used. “Penopubic” typically refers to the junction between the penis shaft and the skin of the pubis. However, in the text of the study they define penopubic as “to the pubic arch”, which as you know, is a bony structure of the pelvis. So, it implies these measurements are bone-pressed.

I’m actually happy after reading all this I always thought I was just average at 6 NBPEL because I never knew most studies were done BPEL . So I’m actually pretty big compared to the average guy at 6.5 NBPEL with a 5.5 girth . Gave me a good boost in confidence

What a remarkable post, its true averages are lower than everyone thinks (and trust a woman to judge size) a good example of averages to see the validity of these studies take a read of the thread by OZ ‘gangbang next friday’ or something to that effect. He said alot of the guys at the gb were well below average, perhaps actually around average after reading the first post of this thread.

I am 6.5 BPEL and I feel average…am I wrong…will we ever figure out what the average BPEL is? I have determined that the average MSEG is 4.8, I wish I knew what the average length is…

Hi,

I found this interesting interview of the founder of the condom size and facts blog:
http://condommo nologues.com/ti … ng-condom-size/

He talks about penis size depending on the type of study, in order to define a good conversion factor between penis girth and condom width (the one written on the box), basically 2.25.
He defines the three kinds of studies and the corresponding averages:

Not sure if this has been posted before, but here is a graph comparing girth from four different studies.

condom size and facts

My girth ranges from 4.4 - 4.7, which puts me around the 30%-40% percentile. Not bad considering I thought at least 19/20 men had bigger girth than me.

If one had to settle on a number for the average length of the erect adult penis, measured dorsally, then based on the best data collected in the excellent first post it would be 140mm. In the lingo of this site, that’s 5.5” NBPEL.

And because penis size follows a log normal distribution, the median size is likely to be 10-20mm less. In other words, there is a high probability that 50 per cent of men are smaller than 5” NBPEL, which is fully in accord with the best quality large survey, that of more than 3000 Italian soldiers, which found a stretched length of 125mm at the 50th percentile.

But perhaps more important than these single numbers is the large range: the difference between the 5th and the 95th percentile (that is, what can uncontroversially be considered “normal” variation) in all studies that report frequency distribution is at least 2-fold. That would be analogous to “normal” adult height in a given population ranging from 3’5 to 7’ or more! This huge variation is surely a significant factor in the insecurities some men harbor about their normally sized and perfectly serviceable penis.

The survey on the last link shows the median of 14 cm measured on the bottom, not the top, but not pressed. If that is measured while fully erect and not pressed down that is somewhat close to a BPEL top measurement. So they come up with 14 cm (5.5 inches too). They discuss why a true bell curve distribution isn’t going to happen, but why it is more of a shifted one. You can see the drop offs pretty quickly on length at 12 cm (4.72 inches) and 17 cm (6.69 inches). That’s actually shifted a little lower than the usual 5-7” range you read about.

Yes there is a huge variety of sizes somewhere equivalent to the height distribution you speak of. I do think that perhaps that causes some of the complexes. Other contributing factors are things like porn, where everything is made to look bigger (like all the shorter Hollywood actors appearing tall) and the selection of larger dicks anyway. I think that our society’s general size queeniness on all things (houses, paychecks, food portions and even dicks) is another contributor. We are told almost universally that bigger is better, right? Lastly I think it is also people being really crappy at measuring and overstating sizes when discussing things. How many “eight inch” dicks have I run into that are just slightly bigger than me? I’ve lost count.

I’d like to say that studies like this will make insecurities go away, but I doubt it will make much of a dent. If this was a rational problem then it would, but this is about irrational behavior. I’m mired in it more often than I care to admit and I’m the first to say it’s irrational :) .

While this may be true for many men, particularly those with penile dysmorphic disorder, there are others who are making (more or less) rational decisions based on incorrect information/beliefs about the size of the “average” or “normal” penis. It’s presumably for those men for whom this thread was started. After all, most heterosexual men have little or no experience with the erect penises of other adults, so this is fertile ground for misconceptions to grow.

Since this survey isn’t presenting new information and 75% of men say they have a small penis, I’d say that the overwhelming majority of guys have this going on. While most straight guys haven’t seen another guy erect except in porn, we all took sex ed class so know what the stats are.

I feel better now that I’ve read this post. I always considered myself below average in comparison to what I’ve witnessed in movies. And though I knew camera angles and the mere fact that those guys were in the movie for a reason, I still felt below average. I had never gotten complaints from my sexual partners and not to brag, but I have had more partners than I care to remember. Fortunately, I have had no Disease and only have children (that I know of) that were planned. I started to PE after researching the subject of permanent enlargement without surgery. I started at 5.5 BPEL and 5.25 EG. My gains after PEing have led me to 6.0 BPEL and 5.5 EG. My goal is to achieve 7.0-7.5 BPEL and 6 EG. I have gained a lot of knowledge to help with my journey from various PE sites, but have gained even more at this site. At least I know now that I started at about average.

I watched an interesting movie the other night. It was streamed from the internet site “solarmovies.so”. The movie is “Unhung Hero. ” It is about a young man who proposes marriage publicly. His girlfriend says no, because his penis is too small. This starts him on a world wide quest to find out how to increase his size.

What did he discover?