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Just curious what everyone thinks.

I range from 6.75 and 7 in erect

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If this was to me Snail... I know how to measure my erect penis and YES that is the TOP(Dorsal) measuring. If I measured from Bottom (ventral) I would probably be 10 in hahah

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So I'm guessing you are the one who put 7". Did you just come into this thread to brag about your dick?
A) Nobody cares how big your dick is
B) This thread is about what you think the average penis size is.
C) Obviously if you thought 7" was average you would not be in here bragging as you are.

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~6 would be the average. (voted 6.5)

Dude, I am not bragging. Sorry that I miss read the title of the thread. Just chill out since you seem to think that this is a big deal.
The US average of penis length is 6.5. So I am above average. Sorry that I made a mistake.

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While I myself am much smaller than 7", I have seen quite a lot and they are all pretty big. My sampling only includes the southern US, so I have no way of knowing if the rest of the world pushes that number up or down.

There have been many scientific penis size studies done, mostly by condom manufacturers, but also by sex researchers, and the average erect penis size is just under 6".

5.8" to be exact, +/- a quarter inch variance between studies.

Average girth (circumference) is just under 5 inches (4.9").

Based on the responses on this survey, it seems most people here know this fact, as 85% correctly picked either 5.5 or 6.0".

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Yeah, six inches is often thrown around, but this is one where I think the results of all but the most scientific of surveys are going to be exaggerated, so I voted 5.5

Honestly, it's just impossible to figure out. There are different methods to measuring, and even the more "scientific" methods used in studies say things like to use a ruler rather than a tape measure (uh, isn't going to be accurate AT ALL if there is any curve at all), and to lightly (but not too hard - how vague is that?) press against the pubic bone. For myself, depending on how aroused I am and how much I push a tape measure in to the pubic bone, I measure anywhere between 5 and 5.75." With a ruler I'm pretty much always going to be more like 4.75" because my penis has a curve (and not even a huge curve!). A couple of times when I was extremely aroused and measured immediately before orgasm, I measured over 6". I just don't believe it's possible to accurately measure a penis, let alone find an average.

But yeah, it's probably somewhere around 5.5"

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Well, gaging from your own, how big would you say the avg. guy was that you've seen in person?

In person I'm gonna have to say between 6.5" to 7.5". Between summer camps, boy scouts, church retreats, changing areas, band, sports, friends, and sexy-time friends I have seen a lot of erect dongs and the vast majority fall in that above range. If N=125 (rough guess) then I'd hazard that ~10% were less than 6.5" and I have always been the smallest in the crowd at 4.75-5". There were always a few on the other end of things too around the 10 or 11" mark, but those were rarer than the smaller ones. That is how I ended up with the answer I gave. I had seen the studies that put the number lower, but from my personal experience I have always thought of it being a lot higher. Maybe they just grow them big in the south?

Wow, interesting! Huh, I always thought the "real average" was arnd 6-6.5", at least for white American guys. At 7.25" I thought I was doin' pretty good, but from your estimates I guess I'm just in the middle of the pack. Oh, well, I do know that I have some thickness going on, bec the few condoms I have tried on were painfully tight on me and actually prevented me from being as thick as I otherwise would. (5.75" around). But I'm not crazy thick, either, but hey, I'm happy w/it.

Besides your "sexy time friends," how have you seen so many erect ones? When you wrote N=125, do you mean that you've prolly seen abt 125 penises in your life, erect ones or total? Maybe it's diff in the South, but here in CA most guys are pretty squeamish, and it's rare to see another guy nude. Like no one took showers in school except maybe some of the sports teams. Guys will change under towels at the gym, etc. And even if they are more confident, they certainly aren't sportin' boners. So most of the "bones" I have seen besides my own, have been online, but most guys who sport wood on the internet are packing more than the average Joe. But I have also begun to notice that many guys aren't always as big as you think they are, like the camera angle makes a big difference. And sometimes they will say this porn actor has a 8 or 9" penis, and you look a little closer at it, like its size in relation to his hands and face all, and you realize, no, this dude is sporting maybe 6.5"! ha It's marketing to appeal to this super virile fantasy.

I've also noticed that a penis pic from the side makes it look huge. Like I will see a pic of a dude and think, wow, he is hooked up, and then you look closer at it and remember that the "scientific measurements" of avg. penis size are all taken along the top. Next time you see a pic of a dude that looks moderately well endowed, side 2, look at its length just from his pubes to the tip, along the top. Ignore his nuts and whatever else. Then try to gauge what an inch is based on his thumb or even the size of his penis head. Then make your fingertips that length and count the inches. You will be suprised and prolly realize, oh, this dude is maybe 6" or whatever it is. Then you look at his face or pecs or somewhere else on his body and see if that same length sounds right. I did that the other day after I found a site that has a lot of amateur pics of fully naked guys on it, bec I wanted to get a better idea of what actually is normal. Again, prolly more guys who are fairly well hung are more confident to post there, but most of them looked pretty normal. But yeah, judging from that, I would say that, contrary to the stats that suggest the avg. guy is a little under 6" erect, there seems to be a LOT of guys who are right around 7", like you said.

But avg. also usually doesn't separate based on ethnicity and stuff like that. So there could be differences like that. Though I've seen recent studies, Men's Health had an article on it last year or so, abt international averages based on nation, though the studies weren't exactly all done the same or with the same sample size. But it still gives you a good idea. Anyway, you can look at nations individually, though most other nations are multicultural, too, though not usually as much as the U.S. But anyway, even in Europe and Africa, the average was rarely over 6.5" or so.

But maybe more Southern guys are hooked up, ha. If so, more ladies need to be aware of that fact. Could increase travel to the area, hahah. Are the Southen guys you've seen erect mostly white, black, etc.? Like I said, I'm white, my parents are both Yankees, but ethnically I'm mostly English and Scots-Irish. A little Dutch and German. And I know that most white Southerners are also of English and Scots-Irish ancestry. So maybe my "tribe" tends to be hooked up? Not huge, but more than able to please a woman... Don't know abt my Dad, but I know my brothers are pretty big and my cousin on my mom's side is HUGE. At least 8". I saw him a few times when we were teens. Though I had him beat on girth, haha.

Now horniness level has nothing to do with penis size, but some of the horniest guys I have ever known have been Southerners, haha. An old friend of mine from AL prolly got a boner every time anything with two legs and breasts walked by. He was hilarious. Maybe it's the humidity or something in the water, or the fact that Southern women are the best (well, ok, not all of them, haha, but the amazing ones are amazing, and this is coming from a CA guy..), but that could definitely contribute to it!

This can be deceiving. Some guys are 'showers' while others are 'growers'. I am definitely a shower. When I was growing up, I was smaller than most the boys around me in that dept. Yet little did I know, when I got hard, I would grow to longer than the majority of them. That's why I thought I was shorter than average for so long until I started having sex and the women I was with would always tell me how big I was compared to other men they had had sex with. I'm 7"

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Thanks for sharing, LC. Yeah, if you are small flaccid but large erect, then you are a "grower," bec you grow, ha. Yeah, it's true, I've heard that from so many places, that you can't tell an erect size from a flaccid one. Large or small when soft, you don't know how much the guy will grow when erect, it could be a little, it could be a lot! Me, I've always been a "shower." Even as a kid, before puberty, compared to the other boys I knew who I saw, I was usually the biggest, especially on the thickness level. But I bet a lot of those guys now are like me when erect, you never know. But I bet a lot of guys who shrink up a lot as an adult prolly go to the gym and see some guys there who hang lower and think, man that guy is prolly huge when it counts and may feel like less of a man. But the reality is they may be the one that the other guy would envy! ha

But man, thanks for sharing your size and the ladies' comments, bec I am 7", too, and I am never sure how I compare. But if you are also 7" and they said you are larger than most, I guess we are pretty hooked up after all.

Which isn't to say that as men we don't make way too big of a deal over penis size anyway, haha.

You're not wrong there. I think large penises are to men what Julia Roberts was/is to women. In other words, we all want our penises to be larger because we think women want them large. Just like how so many women want(ed) to look like Julia Roberts in the 90s because they thought that's what we wanted them to look like, which for me and many other men definitely wasn't the case.

One of the women who told me I was big said that she'd only had one bigger, and that it was just too big to be pleasurable. Another woman who was a friend with benefits was always saying "your cock is so nice". To me as an impressionable early 20-something, that rung alarm bells, as it sounded like she was trying to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find a compliment. Later I asked her if she thought it was big. I wanted her to say "HELL YES! YOUR DICK IS THE BIGGEST, LONGEST, FATTEST PIECE OF MEAT TO EVER GRACE MY INSIDES YOU ARE SUCH A STUD" but she just said "It's not huge, it's just... the perfect size. I dunno what it is that I like about it... it's just so.... nice". At that moment, I understood it. Size wasn't everything. What we men think women want in a penis and what women want in a penis are two different things. We think they want size above all else, but what they want is something that is a comfortable fit whilst hitting all the right spots. So there is such a thing as being too big. I know I've bottomed out a few women over the years, and going by porn I've watched, I'm far from enormous. If I'd been even an inch shorter, those women wouldn't have enjoyed it any less.

There might be a big deal made about penis size in the media and popular culture, but most men will inevitably find it's a very different world in real bedrooms with real women. In reality, the tool matters very little to them, and the person it's attached to matters a lot. That's just how women work.

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I was saying ~125 erect penises seen in real life. If we include the internet that number crosses over into 5 digits. As for "showers" and "growers" it seems that there are more showers in my personal experience. As to the how: "Dick games" just sort of happen in fits of exuberance or drunkenness where I'm from, though oddly enough never in a setting that is exclusively or majoritively homosexual. It seems like it needs to be at least half straight guys for a party to encompass silly nudity and boner games, but I'm not complaining. As for race the vast majority I've seen in real life belonged to white guys followed by a small minority of black guys and then a stray asian guy every once in a while and absolutely zero hispanic guys now that I think about it (must mean that the hispanics are more modest cause they were always at the parties too). The white and black guys seemed pretty comparable to each other while the asian guys did tend to be a bit smaller on average (though they were also smaller overall as well - height, weight, etc.) It does seem odd to me that californian guys are squeamish about nudity. My perception is that californians are much more liberal than the south; I mean you guys do have public nude beaches.

Well, there aren't too many nude beaches, and I don't know how "official" they are, plus most of the people who go to them are old, ha.

Politically liberal doesn't = nudity. In fact (and a gay teacher I had in grad school who taught a class on masculinity in America taught this), that ok, yes, our culture in general is more tolerant of homosexuality and that makes it easier for gays to be open in our society. The downside is that even though straight ppl here may be more "tolerant" of gay people, tolerance of another's difference isn't the same as wanting to be perceived like that yourself. A white person who is just "tolerant" of black people doesn't necessarily "act" black and may make fun of people he perceives as "acting black." It's the same here. Bec homosexuality is more open and there are prolly more open homosexuals here, there is more of a possibility for a straight guy that he may be perceived as gay. So, to prevent that, he has to work extra hard to "prove" which team he is on. He might say, you're gay, that's good for you, doesn't bother me. But if someone asked if he himself was gay, he might get defensive abt it. And he also, though he is tolerant of what other people do in their bedrooms, doesn't himself want to be the object of a gay man's attention. And bec he knows there are more gay ppl around out here, he may be extra careful in changing at the gym, etc. bec he doesn't want gay men lusting after him.

In a culture such as the South where homosexuality is more openly frowned upon, there is also the assumption that most men aren't gay and that those who are are obviously so, and a belief (whether true or not) that there aren't that many gay men around, most of them are in the big cites on the coasts, etc. So, straight men actually feel freer to do things like that that they might not do if they knew gay men were around, or because they feel less likely to be interpreted as doing something gay since most ppl there don't immediately make that assumption. Just a theory, but I'm sticking to it, ha. Supported by historical photographs and letters of men together in social settings before homosexuality was thought to be some innate condition. Men were a lot more intimate w/ea other prior to the 1920s. This is before homosexual became an "identy" it was thought of in terms of behavior prior to that, and behavior that was limited to sexual expressions. So guys goofing off, skinny dipping, sitting on ea other's laps in photos, holding hands in them even, wasn't given a second thought. But as our society became more homophobic, these aspects of our social history were discussed less and less, until now, partly due to both men's studies and queer studies in academia.

So, what exactly is a "boner game" haha -- I've never even heard of such a thing. Yeah, either I"m going to the wrong parties, or ppl here in SoCal don't do such things, ha. Maybe at gay parties, ha, but not straight ones, that's for sure. We are actually pretty modest in SoCal. Girls in bikinis at the beach, that's abt it. SoCal isn't as crazy as most of the country believes. We are actually pretty normal and boring... ha WHere do you live again, ATL?

I can see your theory as a definite possibility. As for a boner game, that can be anything from the junk showing game in the movie "Waiting" to teabagging someone who fell asleep with their shoes on to actual feats of endurance and strength such as playing the drinking game quarters with only your erect penis (mad skillz) or seeing who can hold up the most weight (usually in the form of wet towels and such). Or nothing so defined and it is just a guy getting naked and running around doing the harlem shuffle or being a "partyboy" (a la Jackass). I have lived in most parts of Texas and in Tennessee and these sorts of things just seem to crop up and happen at parties under the proper circumstances, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

This is always an interesting question to ask, but what is the answer. We would all love to know definitively where we are placed in the world map of cock size but not happening as self reported size is ALWAYS bigger than independently measured.

I have read many different papers on this from urological centres around the world and the measured by professional ones (Along the top, standing, penis held para to floor and gentle bone press) and most of these seem to come out around the 5.1-5.7 inch range. SO we go to all of the different websites and read posts about the average man being 7 inches but everyone on that site is suddenly 10 inches, lol. It is amazing when this happens that cameras, phones etc all seem to break etc. I blame the government!!! lols

I have seen maybe 20 hard cocks in my life and can only guess the size of them. I have seen too many to count online, but would you show it online if you were truly small? I can say that as a 15yo me and 3 of my mates had the tape measure out and they measurements of all of us were about 2 inches shorter than we had claimed - of course it was cold and because we were nervous

I am also unwilling to trust photos as these are doctored more often than not. I have, as we all have, seen the 8 incher that seems to be measured properly but doesn't compute as 8 inches - then when we look harder we notice their thumb is over an inch wide and their hand about 12 inches long hmmmmmmmm lol.

It would be interesting to see what people think about curing us of these false reports that only serve to damage each of us in the long run. ALSO more and more is being asked about girth these days as I assume the 'stretch' is more pleasurable than the little extra depth.

So if the average is 5.5x4.5 then that means that a large number of us will be bigger/smaller than that and the most of us will be about that length. I also think that under 4x4 and over 7x6 is much rarer than we are led to believe on the inter(always tells the truth)net.

Just my thoughts - never worth much these days ................................

I've never seen another penis in public, besides my own and my Dad accidentally. I voted for 6. I'm a little below that, but it's been a while since I measured. Also, I'm more of a grower than a shower, depending on how excited I get. If I'm watching a really good porn, my penis gets very hard, but I also lose the hardness very quickly if I get interrupted. But, I can get it hard again quickly too.

I range from 6.5 and 7 in erect

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I don't grow much, soft I am just under 6 inches and hard just over 7 inches.

I am guessing that everyone that posts here is likely to be bigger than average.

Just thought I would pop back in here and say I am impressed with the 5-6.5 average that's appearing above. I don't think I have ever seen people agreeing to that average as everyone seems to be 7+ if asked their size.

I know that many people or studies say that 5.5 or 6 is the average size, but in my experience most guys I know or have seen are mostly larger than that. Although I am 5 my self I have only seen a few guys with the same size.

I think it is fair to say that not enough focus is made on girth as this is not a visual thing, but surely this is more important than extreme length?

Yes, I agree, girth is important ( as is length to a certain degree) but it's how one uses what one has that counts in the long run.

AGT I couldn't agree with you more !!

I guess many of us have insecurities and some of these internet inch claims make us feel a little inferior - a healthy focus on how we use it is always the way forward.

Matty, It works both ways. I am fairly well endowed (length and girth) I learned very early on in my sexual activity that because of my size, I had to be very gentle, especially with the younger girls that I was dating at the time. ( my dad gave me some good tips) Basically, the bigger you are the more careful you have to be.

I always get confused by what we think of as big as I think it is relative to our experiences in life and porn. I read on other sites various averages from5.1-6.5 inches to7.5 inches as average but all the medically measured ones come in at averages between 5.1 and 5.4 inches. I am also interested that the average girth is meant to be 4.75 (fairly consistent average across all studies).

So, for fairness sake - how do we start a poll for girth (circumference) and what we think is average.