Previous studies on women’s preferences for male genital
size have been mixed, and even though it is the men who typically worry about
the size of their own genitals, it is not unusual for women to prefer
large-size male genitalia, even if it is up to a point.
But scientists have always argued that the old studies
relied on questionnaires, which they say may not always provide honest answers.
However, it is now scientifically proven that size does,
indeed, matter significantly because women tend to be more attracted to men
with large genitals.
A new study by Australian researchers found that while
the average woman rates the average man with large genitals more attractive,
large genitals also give tall men a bigger attractiveness boost than shorter
men.
A publication of the study result in the journal of the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, however, notes that the
returns on bigger genitals start to decrease at a flaccid penile length of 2.99
inches (7.6 centimeters).
The study suggests that women’s preferences for bigger
male genitals could explain why human males have relatively big genitals for
their body size.
In previous related studies, scientists only asked women
to judge the attractiveness of male figures in photos with only penile size
varied, when in fact no trait is ever evaluated in a vacuum.
But in the Australian study, researchers at the
Australian National University, showed 105 young Australian women life-size
computer-generated figures of nude men, varying the figures’ flaccid penile
size, height and shoulder-to-hip ratio.
Height and shoulder-to-hip ratio have previously been
shown as factors used by women to judge attractiveness. The computer
simulations varied penile width in sync with length, so that all penises were proportional.
The results revealed that women preferred taller men as
well as high shoulder-to-hip ratios (meaning that the wider the shoulders were
than the hip, the more attractive the man).
Shoulder-to-hip ratio was a major determiner of
attractiveness, accounting for 79.6 percent of the variation in hot-or-not
ratings.
Though the effect was less extreme, women also preferred
larger male organs, at least up to 5.1 inches (13 cm) flaccid, which was the
largest computer-generated penile size in the study. Beyond 2.99 inches,
however, the additional attractiveness per extra length started to decline.
When the researchers controlled for shoulder-to-hip
ratio, they found that a larger penis had a greater effect on attractiveness
for taller men, hinting that a larger penis just looked more proportional on a
taller man’s body, the researchers wrote, or it could be that women were biased
against shorter men to the extent that even large genitals didn’t help.
Interestingly, women’s own features mattered as well. Researchers found that
taller women were more likely to find taller men attractive. Women with greater
body mass per height were slightly more likely than thinner women to weigh
penile size more heavily in their judgments of attractiveness, though the difference
was small.
Researchers say the findings might help explain why
humans have remarkably large genitalia given their average body size.
It is a fact that male humans have the largest penises
that any other primate species: For example, male gorillas can weigh as much as
180 kilograms, but their erect penis length is only about 1.5 inches (4 cm).
Human males weigh about half of what gorillas do, but
studies peg average erect or flaccid-but-stretched penis length from 4.7 inches
(12 cm) to 6.5 inches (16.7 cm).
Evolutionary biologists theorize that large human penises
might help remove sperm from
competing males during sex, but in an era before
clothing, women may have been drawn to mating with men whose genitalia caught
their eye.
Men with larger penises, then, may have passed on their
genes more readily, resulting in the large-genitals trait being handed down the
generations.
In other words, males may have females to thank for their
greater-than-gorilla-sized genitals.
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