New Study on size

[helpmeout Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close helpmeout]

US adult's average penis is 5.6 inches long when erect | Business Standard



If anyone who can find the actual study that was just released in the journal of sexual medicine can post it or the measurement methodology it would be greatly appreciated.


According to this Average length = 5.6
Girth = 4.8

Self reported, but the study was confident it was accurate. Do you guys think this was BPEL or NBPEL? And do you think it would be exadurated upwards do to self reporting?

Edit. Found the study. However you need to have an account or something to view the full text, as the summary doesnt have the methodology. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...12244/abstract

[Kfdarling Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Kfdarling]

Woohoo! I use to be average now with PE I am above average according to the survey!

[EraStyle Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close EraStyle]

I think it's BPEL. If that's NBPEL, then the average BPEL is over 6" which seems a bit off

[frisson Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close frisson]

That is definitely BPEL.

[mazinstar76 Member Find all posts View Profile Close mazinstar76]

I have downloaded the full text.

Here are some more info:
They say that they communicated to participants that is was important that they measure and report accurate data (in order to receive custom fit condoms). Men have been motivated to do accurate reporting. They believe that this study was unlikely to self-select men with larger penis sizes.

There were 1824 men (1661 returned results) in the U.S. at least 18 (90.2% of them were up to 39 years old).
They got illustrated directions on how to measure from the underside base.
They do not mention in this paper if it was bone pressed or not (besides mentioning underside).
The exact methodology of measure is described in another paper which I do not have access to (title: "Rates of condom breakage and slippage using a condom fitted to penile length and circumference"). In this other paper they also include the illustration of the tool they where using to measure.
Men had to use a printed copy of the tool. Length: mean 14.15 cm (SD=2.66), median: 14.00 cm
Circumference: 12.23 cm (SD=2.23), median: 12 cm

According to this study, 83% of men have an erect penis length of 16cm (6.3 inches) or less.

A note from the study: Oral stimulation of a man's penis resulted in reports of greater lengths (compared to fantasy alone = significantly smaller).
Also related to this study, is this one: Breakage, slippage and acceptability outco... [Sex Transm Infect. 2008] - PubMed - NCBI

If someone has access to the "Rates of condom breakage ..." paper (I mentioned above), please share the detailed methodology.

[Steneo Senior MemberPEGym Hero Member of the Month Dec 2013 Find all posts View Profile Close Steneo]

They got illustrated directions on how to measure from the underside base.
They do not mention in this paper if it was bone pressed or not (besides mentioning underside).
The exact methodology of measure is described in another paper which I do not have access to (title: "Rates of condom breakage and slippage using a condom fitted to penile length and circumference"). In this other paper they also include the illustration of the tool they where using to measure.

Here is the illustration from that other paper on how the measurements were done. The length measurements at least don't look at all comparable to how we measure.

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[CLOSEDDennyA Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close CLOSEDDennyA]

This looks very similar to the You Fit condom sizing method...this is good because they use letters and odd numbers making it less likely to fudge numbers.

[helpmeout Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close helpmeout]

It's bad though and not accurate average wise because there are MANY people who measure larger from the bottom and many people who's scrotum rides high on the shaft and measure much shorter such as myself (I.e. Turkey Neck)

I am 7 bpel, 6ish nbp, and if I measured the underside my nutsack gets in the way at about 4.5 inches

[inchingup Member Find all posts View Profile Close inchingup]

From the article...
<<<It was found that the smallest erect penis in the study was about 1.6 inches (4 cm) long, while the largest was 10.2 inches (26 cm) long, the Huffington Post reported.>>>

1.6 inches to 10.2 inches - that is quite a range.

[Ivor Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ivor]

I wish people who report studies like this used more precise words than 'average'. Was it the mean or the median? They're probably similar for a statistic like penis size (unlike, say, income), but not identical.

[Kfdarling Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Kfdarling]

1.6! Not tryin to be mean but can you even do PE at that size? It has to be all glands? Yikes.

[Going411x7 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Going411x7]

I'm one in a thousand. I'll bet we're ALL one in a thousand in one way or another.

[Going411x7 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Going411x7]

5.6" x 4.8" sounds right on the mark, to me.

[Big Al AdministratorPEGym EditorMale Enhancement Coach Rep.PEGym Hero Find all posts View Profile Close Big Al]

5.6" x 4.8" sounds right on the mark, to me.

That's right about my finding on averages too (+.1 L, -.1 G). This seems like a well done study

There's a similar thread about this study here: https://www.pegym.com/forums/gym/617...-seee-0-a.html

I debated on whether or not to merge the threads, but there were enough differences in the articles to leave them as individual threads.

[not2big Senior Super ModeratorPEGym Hero Find all posts View Profile Close not2big]

Actually there are three:
https://www.pegym.com/forums/gym/616...gth-study.html