Study Says Penis Size Really Does Matter... Sort Of

Making sense of a nonsense study.

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When it comes to penis size, the old adage goes, "It's not the size of the boat, it's the motion in the ocean."

Hell ya, fucking right.

A new study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine finds that penis size actually does matter. Or something like that.

323 female students at the University of the West of Scotland were asked about their past sexual experiences. Of them, 160 said they experienced vaginal orgasms only— meaning of course, that they did not also have a clitoral orgasm (there's a difference, remember?). Of that pool of 160, 33.8 percent said they preferred longer-than-average penises, 60 percent said size made no difference and 6.3 percent said longer penises were definitely more pleasurable than shorter.

Which would seem to indicate that size doesn't matter at all, right? A whopping 60 percent said so. Here's where it gets interesting.

According to study researcher Stuart Brody, a psychologist at the University of the West of Scotland, size does matter because the women who reported the highest number of vaginal orgasms IN THE PAST MONTH said longer was better.

Seriously, this has to be the most ridiculous study in the history of the studying. Unless these women were working in brothels, we have extreme doubts about the validity of any of this. There is something in science called sample size. Let's just say it's not penises that are too small here.

[via NBC News]

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