This Week In My Pants

Penis size measure by Lifestyles.


This has been a big week for penis news. A recent industry study reported that Indian men (and presumably us) require smaller condoms. This, of course, is a compromised study in that it’s comparing a commercial standard to ‘reality’, not reality to reality. However, it is something. Human Sexuality is in many ways a subject where the ‘light don’t shine’. There’s a huge dearth of study into the subject and many researchers run into more controversy than funding. However, the condom issue (especially high failures like 20% in India) makes it a matter of public policy. The Indian study looks pretty solid and interesting. There are definitely height differences between races, so penis differences seems possible. What that means, however, is something else.

I first saw this in the BBC, but their report was total shit. They said that Indian penises are 3-5 cm shorter than ‘international standards’ while purposefully omitting what those standards are. Squeamishness or whatever, but it’s an incomplete report. The original Times of India report is much better. It reads,

“As per international standards, most condoms are 150 mm to 180 mm in length and 44 to 56 mm in width. But data collected in Mumbai till 2001 showed that 60% of the participants measured 126 to 156 mm in length and 30% between 100 and 125 mm,”said a city researcher, pointing out that there was a difference of at least 5 cm in length.

I don’t understand centimeters, so I’ll take the Wired translation – ‘The penises of 6 in 10 Indian men measured were 5-6.1 inches long, and 30 percent were between 3.9 and 4.9 inches.’

Condoms, on the other hand, are designed for penises 5.9 to 7 inches long, which is far from the Indian average. In fact, according to the survey, 90% of Indian penises are less than 6.1 inches, making larger ones quite rare. It should be noted that American men may also not fit into condoms, and thus the penises could be the same. This study didn’t compare penis to penis. However, the high failure rate among Indians makes that seem unlikely. Indians probably are ‘lacking’ in the lingam area, and Sri Lankans prolly as well.

The meaning of this, of course, is questionable. Penis size has had different value throughout time, though it now seems to be considered important. The Wikipedia article has a comprehensive round-up, but it seems that many women do value penis size, though they also claim to be content with their partners piece. Honestly, penis size seems to be most discussed among men, and size matters more to gay men than to anyone else. For the average guy I’d say that a healthy pocketbook is more important any day.

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Comment by anon girl
2006-12-18 14:53:11

Erm – have to say that South Asian men are on the small side compared to their european counterparts. Size does make a difference, but it is more important for the guy to be enthusiastic, creative and experienced, this can make up for a lot and it doesn’t matter how big it is if you don’t know what to do with it or the corresponding female organ. However, there has to be a minimum size and it is much better to have reasonably sized one. A friend of mine was once compelled to break up with a guy because of a lack of girth and length of his offending organ – she said it was fairly impossible to do anything with it and was quite distraught at the time, as she really liked the guy, but some things are very important in a relationship…

I got some condoms for my Lankan man recently and they were a bit too big for him. We checked out the pack and durex make condoms of varying diameters which they display in milimetres on the pack – this happened to be a rather wide variety when we compared it with our usual. I can’t remember the exact dimensions. I think the usual was 48mm diameter and this one was 56mm or something like that. A jewish guy I once encountered had a rather large schlong and had to buy a certain brand that would accomodate its unusual width. On the up side, giving head is much easier with a smaller one, so there are some fringe benefits.

I think women are generally quite forgiving about size, so men don’t have to worry much as long as they’ve got the minimum and can put some back into giving stimulation using a range of techniques. I think they should be more worried about the fact that some of them don’t seem to know what the hell they are doing down there. Given that men are more obsessed about the size of their penises than women, it would follw that gay men are more picky about size.

 
Comment by Curious Yellow
2006-12-18 15:35:28

Size is probably not the issue here.
I think Indi is trying to highlight 2 things. The incompleteness of the bbc study compared to the Indian one, and that condom makers do not seem to know the requirements of their target market in Asia?

 
Comment by anon girl
2006-12-18 16:23:30

Dear curious, please note the following:
“The meaning of this, of course, is questionable. Penis size has had different value throughout time, though it now seems to be considered important. The Wikipedia article has a comprehensive round-up, but it seems that many women do value penis size, though they also claim to be content with their partners piece. Honestly, penis size seems to be most discussed among men, and size matters more to gay men than to anyone else. For the average guy I’d say that a healthy pocketbook is more important any day. ”

I think he was using the way that manufacturers perceive “the norm” as a springboard into a discussion of what the norm is and why it is relevant to people, I think it was you who got the wrong end of the message, not I. This is probably why rounded up with this paragraph, which amounts to musing about size, the significance of it to different people, the south asian perspective, what the social and psychological implications of phsyiological variation mean in to the modern man and woman in the context of sexual relations (both hetero and homo) as well as broader, non sexual issues of self-image perception.

 
Comment by indi
2006-12-18 18:18:42

I was talking about size, BBC and condoms were tangents.

I think size matters psychologically, but far more to the guy than the girl. The fact is that very few women can orgasm from penetration alone, and no amount of inches is going to change that. A man needs fingers, lips and most importantly a brain to get anywhere. Most women needs a rich experience to climax whereas men can have a great time with a two dimensional image on newsprint. I think the whole penis size debate comes from the visual focus that men have, not from women.

If the study is correct then I doubt it’ll make any difference in the Indian male’s sex life, but he will definitely get a lot more shit around the water-cooler at work, especially abroad.

 
2006-12-18 19:30:25

[...] The reputation of the Sri Lankan penis is under attack. I got a call from T today and he was concerned about about Indi’s latest post that covers the Indian penis study as reported by the BBC. [...]

 
Comment by awomanaman
2006-12-18 19:41:14

so what’re you packing indi???

 
Comment by Yo
2006-12-19 01:13:11

This whole issue reminds of a joke I got by email ages ago. I dug it out for your reading pleasure…

===

Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India, gets a call in the middle of the night.

“Mr Prime Minister, this is the Secretary of Health, Sir. I’m sorry for waking you, but we have a national emergency. A ship carrying a supply of several thousand tons of latex has sunk and we will not be able to make any condoms for at least the next one month!”

“One month! My gosh, we can’t have all those unwanted babies, it’ll cripple our economy!”

“We’ll have to import some Sir. The nearest supplier of condoms is Sri Lanka, Sir.”

“I don’t want to ask them for help, they will think less of us. What shall we do?”

“Sir, how about you ask them for condoms that are ten inches long and six inches thick? That way they will know just how big Indians are!”

So the PM agrees, and arranges the shipment. He is the first to inspect them when the consignment arrives, and sure enough, they are ten inches long and six inches thick. Then he notices that all the boxes are labelled:

MADE IN SRI LANKA
SIZE = SMALL

 
Comment by Curious Yellow
2006-12-19 18:11:34

@anon girl
I meant that Indi was not bringing up the “does size matter?” issue up, but merely pointing out that the condom manufacturers did not know the requirements of their target market.
Some women are size queen’s, maybe they suffer from some sort of Electra complex?
And size doesn’t matter, as long as you’re getting some. Like my father was extremely fond of saying, “son, worst pussy I had was good pussy”.

 
Comment by Ahmad
2006-12-21 17:03:36

Hence Indians are proved to have small and thin penis than the others. Now they will say this covers the whole south asia which absolutely wrong. When Pakistanis are labelled as terrorists then they say no south asians are diverse .

Shame on you indians that you have small rat like dick. You should commit suicide. I am a pakistani and we have decent size penis 6 inchen long on average . All my friends have at least 6 inches long penis and we have well thick penis because my penis is thicker than 56mm .

Now you will say that inidans are like pakistanis. I have to say majority of pakistanis are different from majority of indians because the nearly black skinned inidans shits originated in the Toilet AND we pakistanis are the sons of the soil of Sapta Sindhu (Indus land) , the ancient rig Vedic home of our ancestors ARYANS.

Comment by long john
2006-12-21 18:04:36

So, you’re saying that you and your friends actually got together, whipped out your dicks and a tape measure and wrote everything down?

The parties in your area must be lots of fun.

Comment by Janus
2006-12-22 11:56:53

Right.. Your idea of evolution must have started with the Big Flush..

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Comment by Asif
2007-01-26 04:56:41

Hey stupid Paki, you’re still an indian….just drawing a line on the map and calling yourself Paki doesn’t make you different from who you REALLY are, INDIAN. Think about it, if you can, IF you haven’t been inter-breeding with your sisters, dividing a house you’re living in and telling other members of your family that they’re not supposed to come to this side of the house, doesn’t make them not be part of your family. You still share the same blood, your roots are still the same. So, don’t think you’re any different from indians. And if you believe in Allah, then blame him for having made you more superior than others….because I thought in Allah’s eyes everyone was equal?

Comment by sobaan
2007-03-12 23:14:19

i am also a pakistani and i think itis wrong to talk to aneyone in that matter whatever colour, creed or race, we are all the same.

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Comment by Bashir
2007-10-26 21:45:30

maybe u and ur friends do more than measure ur penises sizes. u should kill urself!

 
 
Comment by diyva
2007-04-12 08:26:24

Ahahaha its funny how indian men have small dicks, and indian men think sri lankan men have small ones, oh please, i lefted my indian boy friend not because of the size of his dick even though it was smal,because all indian men want sex sex sex sex indians are known to have sex consistently and its sucks for us indian women, i turned to our south neighbour men sri lankan, and i will never look at an indian man again, yes indian men are abit pretty than sri lankan, but what the sri lankan men lack in looks the have good packages, and the provide emotional aswell as very good physical relations they are not after sex sex sex they love you the way you want to be, i told my sl bf that my last boy friend had a dick size of 5 inches which never felt good, only to him, my man has a 7.3 inch dick beat that indian men, SRI LANKAN MEN FOR LIFE, i urge indian women to make the switch you won’t regret

 
Comment by Niraj
2007-05-09 09:59:09

Who is that Pak’s who spoke about Indian Dicks…
You fuckin…American Ass Licking Castrated Bitches…Read carefully
Pakistan was a Part of india before..Pakistan never existed.
So there should not be any difference in us atleast Physically.

Mentally for sure….Huge difference in us…

For all you non-Pak

Have you heard about economical growth in Pak..HAHAHAHAHA

Have you heard about a Pak Doc….Yes I have…and he is jobless

Have you heard about pak getting a noble award….HAHAHAHA

Have you heard about Pakistan….HAHAHAHAH

Have you heard about Pak movie/song…..Just to tell you…HAHAHA (INDIA PROVIDES THEM.)

Have you heard ..pakistan…comletely depends on America…

Have you heard of Osama and Dawood in Pak…we all have !!!!!

Anyways fuck you guys,

Niraj Sanghavi

Comment by XYZ
2008-08-10 03:14:39

shut up u sick indian freak……u dont know wat u r talking abt……

pakis r better looking and have a lighter skin colour than indians……u probably cannot digest the fact that indians have got smaller dicks so now u r dragging pakis into this…..to all the non-indians out there:

indians drink cow piss
indians r vegetarians-hence the small dicks
90% of indians r way below the poverty line
indian movies r cheap and the hit songs of indian movies r performed by pakistani singers
99% of indians r dark skinned and ugly
indians are the best ass lickers in the world…….they were ruled by mughuls and then the british

 
 
Comment by sara
2007-06-26 19:38:07

I have to agree with Niraj, that the size of the Paki dick and Indian dick should be the same. Physically, there is no difference between the two since we are one race, no matter what we call ourselves! Having been with Indian, Pakistani and Caucasian men, I have realized that Indian and Paki dicks are much smaller compared to caucasian men, however Pakistanis are no bigger than Indians! Infact I have come across more Indian men with thicker dicks than Pakistani men. Paki dicks are very think, some are 6inches long yet very thin! Girth is more important than length

 
Comment by kiddah
2007-07-02 06:38:38

thats all bullshit most people in india r homeless leavin in streets and they have all these birth defects and other health issues maybe that plays a role in their size cuz im indian and i m at 7

 
Comment by desi what
2007-07-02 06:43:34

kiddah i agree the results would have changed if they picked up normal city or village people or pornstars then street rats

 
Comment by yo
2007-07-02 06:51:20

ya if u look arund the net u get different averages sometimes showin white being bigger then black or asian almost asame size as white

the indian survyors should have balaneded it

 
Comment by Ahmad
2007-08-23 22:39:50

You indians will never accept that paksitanis are physically much more stronger and on average taller than average indians. I live in germany and I have seen lots of indians here . Yes sout asian outlook is same but then european outlook is also same. But this does not mean that italians are physically same to the germans eventhough for you ugly indians they are same europeans.
According to my observation I have noticed that most of the indian men are shorter with weak body stature. This is totally different from pakistanis who are taller than average indians and have good strong body stature. For me it is not surprising that indian men who look physically weak bodywise are going to have small penis. Do not confuse the outlook of pakistanis and indians with their body statistics.
Secondly here in germany the indians girls are always ready to date a pakistani. Earlier I did not know why they are so curious about that but after the findind of short indian penis which does not surprise me , I can understand they are interested in paksitani dicks.
End Conclusion
An Indian who is naturally shorter and physically weak is likely to have short penis
A Pakistani who is naturally taller and physically strong is likely to have bigger penis
You harami indians cannot get away with this fact.

Comment by Bashir
2007-10-26 22:03:42

am neither pakistani nor indian, but i think its a shame what the two of you ar doing! well, am black and by statististics blacks have the bigger penises in the whole world! but that doest mean i should look on a fellow human being and insult him of being inferior. let alone go into other political backi biting

 
 
Comment by 00
2007-12-04 23:41:46

A widespread research done by Dr. Gomez de Diego, director of the medical company Andromedical specialised in andrology, in 2001, took into consideration several studies by physicians of different nationalities. He concluded that the average erect penis size for adult men is 14 cm, confirming the aforementioned research carried out by Dr Eduardo Gomez de Diego. The studies of average erect penis length conducted on adult men worldwide included United States 12.9 cm, France 16 cm, Italy 15 cm, Mexico 14.9, Germany 14.48 cm, Japan 13.0 cm, Saudi Arabia 12.4 cm, Brazil 12.4 cm, Greece 12.18, India 10.2 cm and South Korea 9.6 cm.[59]

 
Comment by ankush
2007-12-08 02:43:02

i think ahmad’s girlfriend has dumped him for an indian guy that’s why he is frustated,poor guy.neway big or small you can’t change what you have so be happy with what you have and try to make the best of it.

 
Comment by Patrick
2008-04-21 01:16:09

I don’t agree that indian and asian men are smaller than caucasians. I am a white guy and a 4.25 inch dick. I have many indian and asian friends they are all bigger than me

Comment by 1979rambo
2009-04-12 22:52:36

It varies from every individuals genetic makeup. Try tellin these stupid idiots…LOL

 
Comment by thisguy
2009-06-27 01:18:02

thank you

 
 
Comment by chah sadiq
2008-05-05 11:43:09

first of pakistan and indian is not the problem . it is the ignorance thats the problem, pakistan is not a race neither is india do your research please how could brown skinned color people be from the aryan race . all colored skinned came from three races white,oriental,and black and if pakistan ,india,sri lanka and all the other south asian countries would be more opened minded and mixed more they would not have such small penises:).

 
Comment by yasir khan
2008-05-07 22:18:48

my name is yaser. i am frm Pakistan. my size is 5.1 inch. my partner is not satisfied from me because once there was she look my friends penis when he was taling bath. my friend’s size is 8.0 inch and she is very intereseted in him. tell me what can i do?

 
Comment by random white girl
2008-05-22 07:10:25

listen poeple im a white girl from London UK and have always found south Asian men more attractive simply beucz of there natrual tanned skin. but u r comparing penis sizes of poeple that are poor and barely have anything to eat. also one must note that u yes it is true that indian and pakistani ar pretty much the same it is worth noting the differnce between the 2 is religous and indiands r mostly hindus while pakistanis r mostly muslim and a miniorty of pakistani being christian too. now with that being said the next point is hindus do not eat meat this is a lack of protien in the diet and may constitute for indian men being smaller. now the its not a definate that there smaller one must take into account the accuracy and reliability of the study conducted but in my opinion if a study on penis size on south asian men were conducted in the UK where diets r obviously better and people live healthier we may find a different average. cuz in in the UK south asian r the largest ethnic minoirty yet everyone percievs blks r the largest ethnic minorty in the UK when infact they r third after eastern europeans. however my boyfriend who ive been happy with for 4 years is pakistani descent and is broad shouldered well built natrual male with a 7.5″ lng and 6″ all the way around penis. he does however eat alot of protien and is a big fan of chicken and rice which is what i think is a driving force in the manz size of body and penis. i think if we were tomeasure the sizes of other ethnics in poorer cuntries den we may find smaller penisis in poorer parts of africa too

 
Comment by Elizabeth
2009-02-09 21:28:42

I know this is way off topic here, but I have a question for the guys. I don’t mean to be offensive or anything, I’m just curious. The guy I’m currently seeing is Sri Lankan (well he’s actually from Texas, but his parents are from Sri Lanka) and I was wondering if Sri Lankans are somehow physically different, seriously. I’ve noticed that right before Lankan boy cums, he has this thin, clear discharge, not just a little, but a lot, and I’m worried that he might have some disease or something. I’ve been with white guys, black guys, Mexican guys and Native American guys, and they didn’t seem to have this. Again, sorry if I’ve offended anyone, but I really am curious.

Comment by Abu
2009-02-10 11:55:34

That’s coz we are more virile than the rest ;)

 
 
Comment by Elizabeth
2009-02-11 08:02:54

What do u mean? Sorry, but I don’t get it.

Comment by Jack Point
2009-08-03 16:50:32

That’s normal, pre-cum. Your guy may be having a bit more flow but not an issue.

 
 
Comment by Anika
2009-04-15 21:03:33

Oh well..Ive been with an Indian and Pakistani..Both were punjabi.and both had around the same dick size…Pakistani men are very horny and for them sex outseide the context of marriage is absurd..SO if you do fall in love with one, please abstain from sex or your life will only be filled with that(coz for them sex outseide marriage is like a forbidden fruit and they want more and more of it once they get it)…
Having said that personally ive seen two dicks but lost my virginity to a paki..Wasn’t a lot of fun though what made it fun was the fact that I loved him…Stop chattering about penis sizes coz what really matters to a girl is the emotional element in love-making… It takes a lot for a woman to orgasm…And personally, I would prefer a man with a 2 inch penis to a man with a 7 inch penis if the man with a 2 inch penis loves me endlessly and shows that love on bed:)

 
Comment by Indian
2009-08-03 10:09:36

I’m Indian male (Bengali Hindu) and my penis size is 18 centimeters or 7.1″ so all this penis size generalization is wrong.

 
Comment by ZMen
2009-08-26 19:14:10

I think there is a false propaganda goin on… I donnow bt mine is 8.5 n I still cant believe that Indians have it small….
Bt to show the size is all abt showing how virile one is….I can comment that a few Indian friends had even bigger….n some were veggies…. so I can say frm personal exp….its nt abt being a veggie!

I think most of the statistics added here can be without proof…as such measurements have nt been performed on new age indis… as 1.Nutrition levels have far increased 2.Indians bodies have overcome malnutrition of the British years

N I think…its time we Indians measured up, n change the preconceptions….

 
Comment by narsi
2010-06-05 01:56:02

Well!
To those Pakis who thought so much about the size of the Indian penis – well, thanks. Looks like you guys took lot of trouble to go out and measure some penises! I heard of population census which most sane countries (please count India into it – since I see less number of guys arguing on the indian penis side :)) anyways do, but a penis size census. It takes a lot of jobless men (seeped into useless, painfully/harmfully useless stuff like religion), it takes a lot of mutton heads (there is a lot of mutton in Lahore – dont mind me thinking it as coincidental to call you all mutton heads)………….well it take a lot of jobless men, to do a census on penis size.

Congrajulations Pakis!

Now for size! Well, our Pakis here are absolutely ignorant here of what most woman say (they ignored what a few women or pretended men here actually said – out of habit) – in any case, they tend to cover up their women in totality (in clothes? actually, that is only symbolical, they cover up in minds too) that they dont know what a WOMAN wants! and they are hopeless in ever being able to discover(probably – we’ve not yet proven that they have a the ultra-small-penial-size disease that some of their western tribes have revolted against).

It happens. Shit happens. Apparently, the sword ‘mentality’ is still on in Pakistan. And since they have suddenly realized the dumbness of swords in a world of guns, they are kind of keen on proving penis size as a favorable replacement. It does boost the ego of a man who carries a sword in front of a sneeringly looking gun! :))

Now for actual size estimates. I wouldnt say Indians have small penises. I would simply say that these guys here are so much behind DICK size… that I could safely call them DICK HEADS and assume they would be absolutely proud about it (if somebody laughed – then God bless you for understanding the joke).

So DICK HEADS (hereafter abbreviated as D.H – no, not D.H.Lawrence? I heard a Paki ask – who is that – with or against the prophet? Thats okay – he isnt mentioned in Cure-aan!!!)… so D.H, like I said. Find some work! Make your economy better. Or the one with a presumably (not yet accepted – there is simply no census – three woman who slept with lots of men are unfit to compare – they saw too much and are confused!) LARGER DICK head…er… DICK… same either way ….

Well, er… make your country better… get that military out… get Achmed, the dead terrorist out please…. Silence, I’ll kill you…:)

Well.. please kill… since there is nothing better you can do.

Now for facts for some D.H, D.loving nuisance cases. Pakis are not too different from the Indus river originated races. You carry the same genome (do you know what that is – it is a kind of sword actually, do believe me) as most other south asians do. You are not dark skinned, agreed! but Indians are not 99 % dark skinned like some ignoramus, typical Paki-like, ultra-allah-mad-anti-social-psychopathic-BABOON remarked. They are a mixed race and penis sizes therefore vary…

So much for having fun. Good night. May allah keep your DICKs large and you, very competent D.Hs and..:)
and may he keep your brains as pea sized as ever. Sorry, I just insulted the PEA (of was that PEE? Considering that you only understand the DICK language :)))..

Good night (what was the equivalent in allah’s language?)

 
Comment by narsi
2010-06-05 02:13:02

:)

that was a taunting smiley for dick-heads (Pakis please read as is. All else, read as ‘Pakis’) who just read my last post.

i am around

take my word – dicks, arent swords. They cannot be – try piercing into each other and when you come back convicted for perversion and probably arrested or tasered, please remember what I said.

your era is done – you came and you’re gone – miserably gone with no hope of return.

now sheathe your sword- make quintessential monetary sense and sell it as an antique.

a mind imagining and possessed of the big-dick-ghost, can see very little else.

See! at least now. After so many shamelessly defeated wars!

I am a proud Indian muslim. When I see pathetic creatures like you on forums like these, I drop a message for you to read. Hoping, it will cure you D.Hs…

I probably wouldnt return, so you guys can bark around like a lot of trailing, car-chasing dogs with pea-sized-brains in their DICKS, do… !

BBYE

 
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Why I Live In Sri Lanka

People often ask me why I live in Sri Lanka. I find this a rather strange question, but here is one answer. My family is here. Lately I've been in the neighborhood and I have lunch with my Achchi (grandmother) at least once a week. On one level, I will never starve in this country. On a more important one, it is a blessing to spend time with the people I love.

Publishing a Magazine

Publishing a magazine is hard, but fun. Desh asked me why I was going into meatspace, and I guess the best answer that i have is that its fun. There's a lot of waking up and running around and working with other people (not usually my thing), but in this case I enjoy it. The design part alone is a lot more free than Web Design. I can work with

Hubba Hubba

Amma started a blog, largely spurred by her experiences on the protest line in the Free Trade Zone. Apparently the women there get harrassed daily (or nightly as it were) by flashers and zipper-men. This is a serious issue, however, I would like to draw attention to a lesser pandemic striking Colombo itself. There are reports of Sri Lankan boys visiting respectable houses, playing cards and taking off their pants. I have not personally seen

Sarong So Right

I love wearing sarong. It's so fresh and so clean clean. In Sri Lanka everybody wears sarong, though the more city types juss wear it around the house. Regardless, I can wear a sarong all weekend without attracting attention - unless I go out at night. Then every bouncer at every club is looking at my feet like I pooped on the floor. I don't bother with security, I just pretend to know the owner