There's something weird about Scanlan's pics, not sure what, don't really care either, thats just my personal opinion on a very unimportant issue. Maybe its the weird angles rather than just taking the most basic, easy dick pic possible which is one looking down from your own pov. you just hold the camera pointing down at it from about your chest and click. easy. but he doesn't want to do "specific pics." I'm actually kind of pissed i read all this shit.
As far as ppl pushing the ruler/measuring tapes into their public bone, as long as its on the top of the dick, that seems alright, because body fat can fluctuate much easier than dick size, so if you lose X amount of lbs for example and don't know about bone-pressed measurements, you'd go through life thinking your dick randomly had a growth spurt. the part covered by body fat is obviously not useable, its just an accuracy thing.