Listen, I haven’t been single for quite some time, but one thing that seems prevalent in the dating world is a massive fixation on “size.” For the longest time, both men and women were convinced there were two telltale indicators of a man’s penis size: feet and hands. There are even some theories that fingers could reveal the truth of a man’s intimate size. All three are untrue — the size of neither feet, nor hands, nor fingers actually indicates anything. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t something that gives away what a gentleman may be packing.
A recent interview on Steven Bartlett’s podcast ‘Diary of a CEO’ with famed urologist Dr. Rena Malik tackled all things sexual health.
The doctor covered a lot of topics, including sexual health statistics, erectile dysfunction, testosterone, porn, and addiction. One snippet, as pointed out by LAD Bible, was the doctor’s truth bomb about penis size.
“The longer your nose length from the bridge down to the tip, that is correlated with the length of a penis,” she stated. “At least with the Japanese population they studied.”
The good doctor was referring to a 2021 study.
Published in the journal Basic and Clinical Andrology, researchers correlated that a person’s stretched penile length, or SPL, was closely linked to the measurements of their nose. The study focused on men in their 30s to their 50s and discovered that men with larger noses had an SPL of 5.3 inches, while men with smaller noses had an SPL of 4.1 inches. Another study in 2023 supported the 2021 study. It is important to note that penile size is likely predetermined by birth and is not affected by height and weight.
Generally, the determination reveals that penile size is genetic.
Still, according to Healthline, penis size can vary within families, too. We are all susceptible to de novo genes, which means there are slight mutations that form from those foundational genes that give us differentiated features from our family members.
Researchers believe that factors such as early-life nutrition and hormones can also impact a man’s size, noting that neither race nor masturbation habits seemed to have any measurable impact on size. Environmental estrogen, however, could potentially hinder a penis’s growth. It’s found in plastics, personal care products, and pesticides.
A majority of penis growth happens during puberty, with men reaching “full size” by about 18 or 19 years old. A 2014 study found the average penis is 3.6 inches long while flaccid and 5.2 inches erect.
Much like age, a man’s penis length is really just a number; it doesn’t indicate anything about his worth or his performance. Like they say: It’s not the tool, it’s how you use it that really matters. Especially when it comes to sex.
