An anonymous reader requested that I talk a little bit about penis size. Namely, how very sad it is that porn seems to have made average guys feel inadequate, and how very unimportant size is anyway.

Your wish is my command.

PENIS SIZE IS NOT IMPORTANT.

Women have had this experience for a long time. It seems to be catching up with men lately in other areas, but especially in the penis department. The entertainment industry, in this case the porn industry, makes its trade by displaying unnaturally perfect examples of unattainable physical beauty in order to evoke an emotional response on the part of the consumer. In the battering-ram sensibilities of porn, bigger is better. So a nine inch penis is better than a seven inch penis, itself already two inches above average size.

And gentlemen, when I say that five inches is average size, I mean that, in the average of three penis size studies puts 5.75 inches at exactly the 50th percentile. Smack in the middle. Half of all dicks are smaller than 5.75 inches.

As you can see from the chart, if your dick is seven inches, you are in the 93rd percentile. 93% of dicks are smaller than yours.

But, none of this matters. Your dick could be three inches long, with only .04% of dicks being smaller, or you could -gasp- have no dick whatsoever, which happens to be the reality for many transgender men, and it wouldn’t matter at all.

NEWSFLASH: Dudes without dicks are just as valid as dudes with two dicks. Dudes with seven inch dicks are just as valid as dudes with three inch dicks.

Your dick really is the least important part of you.

Your dick has no baring whatsoever on your ability to please a sexual partner.

If you feel like 2-4 inches of penis is what’s standing between you and a fulfilling life, you need to reevaluate your priorities. Hell, of you feel like 2-4 inches of penis is what’s standing between you and a pleasant morning, you need to reevaluate your priorities. Whichever end of that penis you see yourself on.

There is more to sex than penetration, there’s more to penetration than penetration with your penis.

Figure out what is possible, figure out what you care about, and go with that. If you want to have pleasurable sex with someone you care about, penis has nothing to do with that. If you want to have bad sex with multitudes of strangers, if you want to have self-confidence and take pride in your body, if you want to win friends and influence people, penis has nothing to do with any of these things.

Put porn and other media where it belongs: in entertainment. The guys in porn have clown-shoe penises because that’s the unrealistic standard that they’re promoting. Same with the tits, and the plots, and all of that shit. Real people, real sex, has nothing whatsoever to do with it.