A scientific study claims to have settled
the age-old debate on whether penis size actually matters.
As reported by MailOnline earlier this week,
research in Scotland claims that women who have frequent vaginal orgasms are
more likely to credit larger penises for them.
Stuart Brody, a psychologist at the
University of West Scotland, surveyed 323 women on their previous sexual
encounters and whether length influenced their ability to climax.
Apparently, the women who reported the
highest number of vaginal orgasms were more likely to rule that bigger was
better. Brody told Live Science: ‘This might be due, in part, to greater
ability of a longer penis to stimulate the entire length of the vagina, and the
cervix.’
However, it’s not all so damning. Apparently,
if the above is true, it only applies to some women and some orgasms, some of
the time.
But it does pose bad news for the
sisterhood, because if the size of the penis matters, then surely the vagina
must too. After all, friction is friction – and women’s bits vary as much
as ours.
Given society’s on-going pre-occupation with
size, perhaps we should take this gesture and introduce it into popular culture
– all for the sake of fairness of course. Then, we can all laugh at each other
together. What fun.
But let’s not stop there. Don’t
breasts need to be the perfect size, shape and pertness too, right?
Naturally, I’m being facetious, but it
proves my point: this sort of mocking of the opposite gender cuts both ways.
After all, men can put a master key in a
door, but if the lock’s too big then it won’t open. And that’s not our fault.
Even the Karma Sutra explains that there are
three sizes of penis and three sizes of vagina; the perfect combination on
which depends on personal preference. Something else which trashes yesterday’s
conclusion.
So maybe Brody isn’t right. With all due
respect to him, this study was anecdotal and led by a psychologist, not a
medical doctor. It’s mere opinion. Hardly a robust scientific discovery.
A very good reason why we should all shrug
it off. Not least because all this self-entitlement about other people’s bodies
is vulgar.
That said, the size debate does need to
stop. Why? Because we don’t need an answer – it wouldn’t change anything – and
it’s mainly promulgated to (quite literally) belittle men. Sadly, because we’re
too polite to contest it, it’s allowed to thrive.
But no more. Not only is it factually
incorrect, it’s also dangerous for our young men to hear. Last month, a 17
year-old boy emailed me via my website. He’d quit his rugby team, stopped going
out and refused to date girls – all because he thought his penis wasn’t ‘good
enough
This boy (who actually had nothing to worry
about, but then again none of us do… all penises are sufficient) had been
conditioned to hate his body from everything he’d seen and heard over the
years.
This is no longer just a matter of
physiology, it’s a mental health issue too. And given that us men are more
prone to depression, suicide and early death, the women who wiggle their little
fingers should grow some compassion.
This includes celebrities. Because, if
somebody such as Ed Sheeran stood up and mocked the opposite sex’s private
parts, like Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera have, his career would be
over.
Likewise, if a scientific study looked at
the tautness and depth of female genitalia, it would be lambasted as obscene.
That’s probably because it would be. It
might also make a lot of women feel pretty rubbish, which is what I found most
disturbing about the response to yesterday’s story; so many commentators took
great delight in the knowledge it would hurt many men. How sad.
Source: Daily
Mail UK
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