Supersize Me
The Size Princesses In Us All
By Frolic Tan Lopez

Self-proclaimed “wild one” Mikee dela Cruz believes “we are all size princesses – not queens, just princesses.  While we are not really exclusively looking for the biggest one around, we don’t like finding the smallest one there is, too.  We want them at least regular – the bigger than the regular, the better,” he says.

Dela Cruz is talking about penises, “about dicks, that thing hanging between men’s legs that seem to get more attention than the men themselves, so that it seems that they have lives on their own.”  He should know, of course, since his “wild, wild ways have shown me what’s around,” says Dela Cruz, who already came across a”14-inch Subway sandwich looking to rip me open, and (at the same time) a toothpick that (of the size of) my thumb when erect – I’ve seen the extremes.”

But even sans his experiences, however, others less experienced are “theoretically as picky as me in more ways than one,” Dela Cruz says.  “We like it big, even if not as big as THAT salami; and we don’t want it small, at least not as small as a completely used Mongol 1 pencil.”

A subjective observation, this one is, but one that is actually backed by various studies since the “size princesses emerges in every one in one way or another,” Dela Cruz says.

UNDERSTANDING THE SIZE FASCINATION

According to Donald E. Greydanus, M.D., author of Penis Size, as quoted in Coolnurse.com, “The size of your penis is simply determined by factors called genetic traits, which you inherited from your parents.  There is nothing you can do to increase or decrease the size of your penis – it will develop into its adult size as you change from a boy to a man through the process called puberty.  Most boys start the changes of puberty between 10 and 14 years of age, though a few will start earlier or later than these ages.  First, the testicles (balls) begin to enlarge and then hair starts to grow around them.  The penis then starts to enlarge, first in length and then later in thickness.  Though there is much normal variation, the final penis size is reached four to six years after the testicles first started to enlarge.”

Anatomy lessons aside, Cory Silverberg asks in Does Penis Size Matter? (about.com) if, yes, penis size really matter.  “The reality is that sometimes penis size matters, and sometimes it doesn’t.  There are those of us who have unique personal tastes (affectionately known as size queens), but others prefer variety.  Some folks might be happy driving a Tercel one day and an SUV the next.”

Studies after studies after studies attempt to look at the fascination with size.

On the one hand, for women, only briefly touched here, in a survey done for the Archives of Sexual Behavior Volume 35, No. 1, (2006) by A. Stulhofer [How (Un)Important Is Penis Size for Women with Heterosexual Experience?], of 556 women between the ages of 19 to 49, only 18% said penis size is THAT important – and of these size queens, 22% said the girth is more important than the length (18%).  In fact, 85% expressed satisfaction with their sexual partners’ penis size, even if only 55% of the men were satisfied with their penis size.

It is, obviously and on the other hand, men who have more issues with their own meat.

Thus, in Does Size Matter? Views on Penis Size, written for the Psychology of Men & Masculinity by the American Psychological Association (2006, Vol. 7, No. 3), Janet Lever of the California State University in Los Angele, and David A. Frederick and Letitia Anne Peplau of the University of California, also in Los Angeles, note that “the media equate a man’s penis size with his power and masculinity.  Men’s worries about their personal inadequacies have created a large market for penis enlargement products and procedures.  A recent issue of For Him Magazine featured separate full-page ads for three different penis enlargement pills: Argionic Desire, Magna-RX, and ProPlus.  These advertisements promised an increase in penis size of up to five inches over a 60-day period.  The ads also included testimonials that reinforce men’s belief that women are more sexually satisfied by larger penises: ‘I’m [now] eight inches and much thicker.  My girlfriend wants it all the time” (ProPlus, 2005, p. 131).’”

The male dissatisfaction with penis size has been noted time and again.

In an Internet survey of 52,031 heterosexual men and women, for example, most men (66%) rated their penis as average, 22% as large, and 12% as small, thus, understandably, 45% wanted to be larger, and only 0.2% wanted to be smaller.

Thus, while “penis size is determined entirely by factors out of our control, (it) may be the single greatest cause of anxiety for men young and old,” Silverberg says.  “Questions about penis size abound: What’s the average penis size? Can I increase my penis size? Does penis size matter as much as I think it does? Some of these questions have easy answers, most of them don’t.  What can safely be said is that concern about penis size is almost always misguided.  Great sex is much more than the sum (or length) of its parts.”

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