I haven't posted in ages, but with a member name like mine, I had to chime in with a little story in this thread. First, for the record, I'm 8.25L x 6.75G (I have a photo up with the girth tale-of-the-tape.)
It's funny how initial impressions leave their mark. I'm, well, let's just say over 45. Back in the 7th grade when guys were first required to shower together, there was this black guy named Danny whose flaccid cock was absolutely huge - thinking back, probably substantially bigger than my cock is hard, or so it seems in my memory. So, at that young age and not appreciating what a large dick meant, I thought myself as like all other guys, especially compared to Danny. As the school years went by, I began to notice I was longer than most and bigger around than just about all, but I still had the Danny frame of reference, so I considered myself average at best. I started having sex in my late teens and all my partners and my first wife all told me how big I was. "No," I always thought, "I'm not Danny. I'm not big." Years later, after I got divorced, dated a lot of experienced ladies, and remarried, hearing from most of them nice things about my size, I thought that maybe I was a little better than average - but even 25+ years later, I still remembered Danny and felt inadequate. Finally, the internet came into being and fast connections and fast searches and I finally found some size charts and realized - OK, I'm doing alright, size wise. I started camming for $$ and finally felt happy with my dick size. But I still wonder - what did Danny ever do with that massive thing. To this day, I have never seen a bigger penis. Here or anywhere. Now I know, it was a freakish reference point for an impressionable young mind.