Penis Size

Dear Men,

Stop worrying about your penis size.

Love,
Science.

When it comes to body image issues for men, guess what's at the top of the list.


Yup, it's penis size. With height and weight coming in close behind.

A new study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine found that thirty percent of men madly worry about their penis size; thirty five percent are happy, and the rest fall somewhere in-between.


Men who are older, gay, or bi, are more likely to be worried.

The scientists at Kings College, London, quantified penis anxiety with the help of a questionnaire called the BAPS, or Beliefs About Penis Size Scale.


Participants were given statements like 'I will be laughed at by a partner in a sexual situation.'…


…or 'I'll never feel just right.'…


…or 'I won't be able to be naked in front of other men.'…


…then they were asked to rate the statements from 1-5; strongly disagree to strongly agree.

The big takeaway from the results is that someone's penis anxiety has nothing to do with how big their penis actually is.

Plenty of guys who have penises below the average of 5½ inches — when erect, in case you were wondering — were totally happy and confident; while plenty of others well above the average were very insecure.


The most surprising outcome (for me) was the number of men who agreed that they were worried someone would be able to tell the size and shape of their penis — with their pants on!


Evidently, the anxiety goes way beyond sexual encounters and bleeds into everyday life. It's sort of alarming how common penis anxiety is, and just how deep the anxiety goes.

Amusingly, many of the men who have high anxiety were teased in the showers as young adults, or by a former partner.


So, are the sexual partners of these men as concerned as they are? The data's mixed, and also largely hetero.

One study found that women who are more likely to orgasm from the internal clitoris — otherwise known as a vaginal or G-spot orgasm — expressed more interest in their partner's penis size. But, even then, it still wasn't much concern. After 2.99 inches of flaccid penis, women cease to be impressed with any additional length. And that's good news because 3 inches flaccid is below the average.

Other studies found that it's the height-to-penis ratio that matters most, and not the length of the penis itself.


All this size business isn't actually about pleasure anyway. Seriously, a big penis is not a requirement for great sex. Essentially, to the best of my knowledge, vaginas and anuses are only sensitive in the first two to three inches. And people of all penis sizes all around the world have great sex. Even lesbians have great sex, and there's not even a penis in the vicinity. So, what's the deal?


For the most part, small penises aren't considered a "problem" because they can't pleasure their partner, they are a problem because they're not masculine, lol.

Small penis equals not masculine, equals not a real man, which equals not good enough. So no wonder their self-esteem is shot and they're plagued with anxiety, those poor freaking babes.

So lemme know your thoughts down below; have you ever worried about your penis size? If you don't have a penis, have you ever worried about your vagina size? Lemme know.

SEX

Sex is awesome, but also so terrifying!


Did you know that nineteen million new STIs occur every year?!?


And nearly half of Americans have not been tested.


Also, it's believed twenty five percent of Americans have an incurable STI.


And those who have STIs, OMG, one in four reportedly don't tell their partners!


So, the main point of this news is: Wrap that thing up!!! It may not feel as fantastic, but life is long, and it will feel even longer with burning and/or bumps and/or the other stuff.

The Succession of Stupidities By Selfie Stick Scumbags

There is no shortage of weird, WTF, just stupid news today. Lemme just get something off my chest real fast: I hate selfie sticks!


I used one once, I tried to convince myself that it was awesome for twenty minutes, and then I hated it forever. Which is why I had almost no empathy when I saw this:








Good.

Matter-of-factly, I'm dreadfully disappointed douchebag didn't decapitate himself and castrate the dude in the pickup.

Kid Kicks the Bucket Because of Preposterous Parenting

The first thing I want to blog about today are my Parent of the Year nominees: Joseph and Paulette Richardson.



These two were raising 16-year-old Kendal Ball, who really really wanted to try alcohol.

According to court records, he had been asking them constantly over the past 3 years. And for these parents, it was a really big deal because Kendal's biological father was an alcoholic.

So one day, they decided to teach the kid a lesson and show him the hazards of drinking. So they gave him shot after shot after shot and he just gets obliterated and the parents put him to bed — with the hopes he'd wake with a horrible hangover at worst (in the morning).

But unfortunately, when they went to check on him later, he was found unconscious and blue.

And very unfortunately, Kendal would die because of alcohol poisoning! Which makes me wonder how much they gave this kid to drink!

When the emergency medical technicians transported him to the hospital he had an alcohol level of .587! If you're unfamiliar, that is about 7 times the legal limit!


And now both parents have been charged with involuntary manslaughter meaning these two could face up to twenty years in jail!

GM: General Motors

There's been a big story for a while now that there are a hundred and twenty four deaths at least linked to an ignition-switch defect that GM just didn't care about. The defect would cause car engines to fail...


So, kind of a big deal. And it's not like they just only recently found out about this; GM engineers and managers knew about this defect for more than a decade — and didn't issue the first recall until February of 2014!

It seems very much a case of amoral accounting: It might actually cost us as a company less to just let them be out there and deal with cases on individual basis, than issuing a massive recall on fleets and fleets of vehicles.

And the big news today is according to two sources, GM will be paying out nine hundred million dollars!!! One source saying:


But the biggest news to me is according to one of the sources:


And that is insane!

Of course, on top of this the first of the civil cases against GM start in January of 2016, but no one's going to be criminally charged — even though people knowingly lied to regulators about something that was killing people!

It's not like they don't know who some of those people are — in 2014 they pushed out 15 executives, but getting pushed out of a company and going to jail for a very obvious crime are two vastly different punishments.


And if you think about it, this is essentially voluntary manslaughter for profit. The only difference between criminals at the top and criminals at the bottom is the guys at the top get to wash away their sins in a fountain of money.

An Update On the Prosthetic Penis Case

In an update on 25-year-old Gayle Newland, aka "Kye Fortune", who, if you remember, had a long-term relationship with a woman who didn't realize that she was a woman over the course of their relationship because the victim in question always wore a blindfold when they had sex — where Gayle would use a prosthetic penis — and even when they hung out and watched TV together.

I know, it's weird, it sounds like a story you'd hear on The Onion, but it is not!

And the update is that she has just been convicted on 3 charges of sexual assault.


It looks like Newland is definitely going to serve jail time. It's just a matter of how much.

UFC News That Is Bigger Than Just UFC News

Over the course of the past 2½ years have I become a fan of the UFC, and MMA in general. They've made massive strides in being a more legitimate sport, we've seen these big stars blow up, and if you even remotely know about the UFC, you know about the Diaz brothers — and you either love them or hate them.


Regardless of your personal feelings, some bullshit just went down.

If you don't know, back at UFC 183, Nick Diaz went against Spider Silva.


Nick Diaz lost that fight, it seemed like it was over, but then it came out that both of the fighters failed drug tests. Spider Silva for anabolic steroids, and Nick Diaz for marijuana.

So what happens: Anderson Silva gets a one-year suspension, while Nick Diaz gets a five-year suspension and a $160,000 fine!

That is insane and very very troubling!! This ruling comes from the Nevada State Athletic Commission and it sends the worst message ever! Not only is marijuana not a performance-enhancing drug — unless that activity in question is a marathon of Family Guy on Netflix in your sweatpants — but also because his ruling has come down for personal reasons.


Nick Diaz has shown no remorse for smoking marijuana, because it very obviously is not enhancing his performance. During his hearing, when he was asked questions, he answered on pleading the fifth to everything even when he was asked if he speaks English.


And it just bothers my mind that Anderson Silva will get one year for steroids! And Jon Jones who was caught with coke (not even having a deal with the Nevada State Athletic Commission), and hit a pregnant lady with his car, while he was most likely high on cocaine — he definitely had cocaine in the car — and he was "suspended indefinitely" even though as soon as he gets his legal stuff cleared, he gets a title shot as soon as he wants.


It's just an ugly day for sports when someone's personal feelings can essentially end a guy's career. Diaz is 32; he doesn't have many years left.