Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Long Walk Off A Short Peter

So someone ran a study and found that reassuring people actually helps their mental state. Nobel Prize? Here's the article.

Excerpts:
Men worried about having a small penis are usually pretty average, but have a false idea of what the normal size is, according to a report in the medical journal Urology.
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"Men complaining of a short penis can be treated using the basic principles of sex education with objective methods of penile size evaluation," Shamloul concludes. "This combination can correct any previous sexual misconceptions, relieve unnecessary anxiety concerning penile size, and decrease the desire to undertake still-to-be verified lengthening procedures."

Of course, this study was about reassuring men that they did not, in fact, have small penises. Once again education is touted as the cure for all that ails.

However, it's quite possible that education would be catastrophic for the mental state of some men. For example, the man who promised he would deliver a rather large package to one of our fairer staff members last week, but showed up with a tic-tac container. Would he be able to handle the fact that he's possilby in the 5th percentile in terms of what he's packing? Does he talk big yet all along know he's small (just to bed his prey?)or has he somehow gone through life under the delusional belief that he's got bratwurst instead of a little smokie.

Little Smokie


Bratwurst


Or is he just plain nuts and thinks he's got a summer sausage?


The question seems to be: What is more fun? Is it more fun to make men feel better about their length and girth or is it more fun to let them know how small and unsubstantial some of them really are? Or alternatively, what is the bigger problem for society, men who feel inadequate or men who think they have footlongs?

3 Comments:

Blogger Dr.Moi said...

the staff at littleboxes must have worked overtime to put this post together. job well done!

my favorite line in the article is:

"Men should know that a normal-sized penis is 1.6 inches or more when flaccid or 2.76 inches when stretched out."

stretched out?!?

as for your more metaphysical questions, i've never met a man who didn't love his penis, some of them undeservingly so. sure, men might feel insecure but not to the extent that women feel insecure about their bodies and hate themselves over their body image. so it's not clear that penile perceptions play a significant part in the psychology of man. that said, much of politics and academics is governed by the "my penis is bigger than yours" syndrome, which may stem from insecurity but may also "arise" out of narcissism.

i'm off to incubate my penis...

11:30 AM  
Blogger littleboxes said...

maybe they could be called pianists?

Meanwhile, we keep wondering about who exactly does the penis stretching in these penis length studies. We've got a few staff members looking for jobs and frankly, "penis stretcher" looks kinda good on a business card.

11:12 AM  
Blogger ben said...

i think you folks at the littleboxes offices had too much fun doing google image searches for "summer sausage".

4:49 PM  

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