November 4, 2011 | Sex Life

Penises are smaller than bananas

A study claims to have finally discovered the real average length of the human penis. 

The National Academy of Surgery said that the average cock is about 3.7 inches when flaccid and between 5 to 5.7 inches when erect. This would mean most of the men on, well, pretty much any hook-up site are liars.

The Academy said its study was important in order to establish, once and for all, that most men around the five inch mark are perfectly normal. It said that this will hopefully deter men from seeking potentially dangerous operations to get a bigger dick.

"The feeling of having an insufficiently-large penis can be a source of anxiety and psychological suffering for a man," the Academy said in a statement. "There has been an increase in demand for penis-enlargement operations in recent years, due to what some people call 'locker-room syndrome.'

It's something we call "porn viewer syndrome"; in erotica you see bigger than average dicks, and even on amateur video sites it's more likely that someone with an oversized cock is going to want to show it off. So all of us normals might start to feel inadequate.

The Academy warns that "lengthening procedures may have only limited results and could have a risk of certain complications, in particular regarding erections."

And what good is a huge dong if you can't get it up?

Your penis isn't small. It's just 'insufficiently large' [news.com.au]