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Science proves women like men with bigger penises - Health - Men's health | NBC News

A study released today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) offers an explanation: Women are attracted to penises, and the bigger the better.
“Penis size does affect attractiveness,” lead author Brian Mautz, a University of Ottawa post-doctoral researcher said in an NBCNews.com interview.
Past research has seemed to indicate that women, as a group, are drawn to larger male members. But those results have been disputed as sexist, or scientifically flawed, or both.
So Mautz and his team, working at the Australian National University, designed an experiment in hopes of settling the controversy. They created 49 unique, computer-generated, nude, life-sized male figures. Each figure varied in three traits: height, shoulder-hip ratio and flaccid penis size.
The researchers then displayed all the figures to 105 Australian women with an average age of 26. The women, who were not told which traits varied, were asked to rate the attractiveness of the figures as sexual partners on a scale of 1-7. The women were alone in the room and their responses were anonymous.
 

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If I had it to do all over again I think I would have geared my graduate school research work more toward the obvious instead of taking actual risks... Oh well! Thanks for posting this it made me smile.
 

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So how much $$$ went into this study ?? that most women already know
 

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It's official: penis size does matter › News in Science (ABC Science)

Some new research from down under

After aeons of speculation, science has finally answered the biggest question of all - Does penis size matter? - with a resounding 'yes'.
Australian researchers have found that penis size is just as important as height when it comes to female assessment of male attractiveness, and that bigger is indeed better - to a point.
The results of the study, which asked a group of women to rate the attractiveness of a series of computer-generated images of varied height, body shape and penis size, are published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science .
"We found that flaccid penis size had a significant influence on male attractiveness," the authors write.
"Males with a larger penis were rated as being relatively more attractive.
"Our results directly contradict claims that penis size is unimportant to most females."
The researchers decided to vary not only penis size but also height and body shape to make it less obvious which characteristic was being manipulated in the digital images.
They found an interaction not only between penis size and height, but also penis size and body shape.
"There was an interaction - penis size was more important if you were a tall individual or a V-shaped, more muscular individual," says co-author Professor Michael Jennions from the Australian National University.
However biggest is not necessarily best. At a length of 7.6 centimetres - an under-average penis size according to large-scale survey of Italian men - the proportional increase in attractiveness began to decrease.
The female participants were told the study was investigating male attractiveness but were not told which male traits were being varied in the life-size projected images.
'P' for 'peacock tail'

The study findings support the hypothesis that penis size partly evolved because of female choice when everything was on show before humans wore clothing.
Penis size at the extremes may be a hormonal signal, or is merely an aesthetic quality, much like the peacock's tail, suggests Jennions.
But before you reach for the tape measure, he is quick to point out that preferences for penis-size or other physical attributes don't necessarily affect how we ultimately select our mates.
"When you're talking about a preference as opposed to how people act and what they do in their lives - we may be perfectly happy with the partner we have even if they are not as tall or well-endowed or have as large-a-breasts as we would like."
Jennions says genital evolution is a topic of great interest to biologists because genitalia evolve unusually rapidly. However there is a notable lack of data in humans.
"We thought it's kind of strange that there's so little done on human penis size and it's such a topic of popular conversation," he says.
"There are endless discussions about it but where's the data? So, being scientists, we thought why don't people just use a completely standard objective method that we would use if we were working on crickets or fish or frogs."
"That's what science is all about. That's how you resolve an issue."
 

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This almost feels like the penis pill industry has just taken some recent hit from something and is struggling to get itself back on its feet. I wonder if their "warehouse" burned down or something. :biggrin1:
 

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This almost feels like the penis pill industry has just taken some recent hit from something and is struggling to get itself back on its feet. I wonder if their "warehouse" burned down or something. :biggrin1:

You just know the marketing divisions will have this study printed on the side of every box of penis pills, pumps, stretchers...you name it. I won't even get into the plastic surgeons who could use it to sway guys on the fence about penis enlargement surgery. I know most doctors are ethical, but some...not so much.
 

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Size definatly matters. Most women don't really want a penis that is too big or too small. From my personal experience at the large end of the spectrum, girls like to see it and play with it more than actually having it inside of them. When a girl sees a guy with a large penis, she subconciously thinks he will be good to mate with.
 

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I think most men (and the popular media) tend to read these headlines as saying that women generally just want 'big dicks'. While they found longer (flaccid) penises coincide with increased average attraction ratings, the increase really drops off quickly as you go over 7.6cm in length. This looks to me like they're just saying women are generally less attracted to small penises.

I think this was a very well-done study, since it doesn't try and overly politicize their findings to make people feel better about themselves or to feed in to the researcher's own fetishes/racial motivations (as we've seen many times before.)

What nobody seems to be talking about are the conclusions that affirm a high shoulder/waist ratio is by far the most desirable trait. It seems like an extra inch around your shoulders makes a way bigger difference than another inch on your dick or of height.

So yes, your average woman is more attracted to average/larger penises than they are to smaller penises. I've always been of the opinion that you shouldn't care too much what the average wants, since ultimately we end up dating individuals with their own preferences, not the aggregate. Of course, as a taller, big-dicked man with a triangle torso this is easy for me to say (like when those who grow up rich say how little money matters), so take that with a grain of salt.