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"The bigger the penis, the better the sex."

This assumption is a staple of modern fiction when it comes to Sex Tropes. The basic (mistaken) rationale seems to be that a woman's erogenous zones are located solely in the deepest, darkest, unexplored reaches of her nethers, where only equipment of sufficient size (ie. length) is capable of reaching. Anything less may as well not be there at all.

This trope is the reason why Compensating for Something is, by its very nature, an insult: everybody knows that a real man has a big penis (or at the very least, an average one). A heroic character, when his penis is mentioned (which isn't all that often, except by innuendo), will usually have a big one. Consequently, this is also the reason why villainous or loser characters are portrayed as having a small penis, or a small something else meant to represent a penis. It's a deficiency that makes them bad people, or at least not cool like the heroes are, and may be a key to their underlying motivation. By further extension, Good People Have Good Sex, to some degree because they're usually well-endowed. Expect many authors to give us the exact dimensions of this uberpenis, conjuring the mental image of a PoV-character either breaking out a measuring tape at a romantically inappropriate moment or somehow possessing their own finely-calibrated genitals.

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Unsurprisingly, most writers don't really think through the Real Life implications of a twelve-inch penis:

Regardless of personal preferences, someone's nethers can only stretch and fit so much; if a guy's penis is too big for his partner's orifices then intercourse will be awkward, physically painful, or even outright impossible. It assumes that intercourse is all there is to sex, thereby demonstrating certain failures of knowledge and imagination. Some women are unable to climax solely from vaginal stimulation and excessive length may prevent them from receiving the additional vulval and clitoral stimulation they need. Truly extraordinary size can make it difficult or even impossible to sustain an erection due to blood-flow complications making any degree of performance impossible. While size can matter to women, girth benefits them more than length, and both take a back seat to technique because female genitals can accept a reasonable range of "inputs." One size does indeed fit all, so long as the "all" knows what they are doing.

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Super-Trope to Black Is Bigger in Bed, which is the erroneous assumption that black men are "gifted" with bigger penises than men of other ethnicities. When a large penis has comedic value instead of (or in addition to) sexual value, see Gag Penis. Contrast with Teeny Weenie, which is a penis which is smaller than the average, and often leads to mockery of the guy who has it because of this trope. The female equivalent to this trope is Buxom Is Better. Often related to IKEA Erotica and Raging Stiffie. When taken to extremes can become a case of Anatomically Impossible Sex, or alternately of Writers Cannot Do Math.

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Anime & Manga

Roberto from Monster. If we are to believe the obese prostitute with whom he was having sex.

Panty from Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt certainly believes this, but this trope is actually subverted when she tries to have sex with Brief after she regrows her hymen in the final episode — his size just makes it even more painful.

in the final episode — his size just makes it even more painful. Averted in Koibana Onsen, Shuuhei's large penis makes it even harder for him to get intimate with his girlfriend who has anxiety problems.

Randel Oland from Pumpkin Scissors is implied to sport his very own biggus dickus thanks to his many hospital visits and a persistent nurse who just wants a urine sample from him. It kind of becomes an obsession for her and a horror for Randel himself.

Subverted in Interspecies Reviewers, Stunk and Zel try to settle an argument on whether girls really like big dicks by going to a fairy brothel, where it turns out they measure you to determine which of their girls can safely have sex, after payment. Stunk is restricted to the two largest fairies, while Crim is rejected outright.

Comic Books

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 9. "I prefer lovers with big, thick dorsal fins."

Several characters in the Italian porn series Ramba. Deconstructed; it is shown as being painful to the women involved and is sometimes used to deliberately torture them.

In the Love and Rockets "Palomar" stories, Gato, who has been married to both Pipo and Guadalupe, has a huge one. Pipo has apparently become accustomed to it and doesn't think much of average-sized men. She dates Igor, of comparable size (Gato and Igor actually compare in a bathroom), and later has several sexual encounters with an unnamed, sleazy-looking character who dwarfs even Gato and Igor. She has no problem with his size in any opening. But then there's Fritzi, who has a fulfilling sex life with mostly average-sized men - ironically including Pipo's son Sergio - and is twice married to the "love of her life," Scott the Hog. He's described as having a barely functioning "choad."

Killer Condom and To The Bones by Ralph König: Exaggerated, parodied and deconstructed: Inspector Maccaroni sports a 40 cm thing. He's shown having a first time with a rentboy, who thinks he cannot handle it despite his profession. Maccaroni claims that "they all whine like that in the beginning, but in the end, they all love it". However, Maccaroni is unhappy because he feels that his lovers only love his penis and think they tend to forget that "there's a person hanging from it". Discussed: Maccaroni meets a similarly well-endowed porn actor, and they have a talk about how very large penises can be troublesome.

Titi Fricoteur The titular character is a pre-teen Kid-anova in Late 19th/Early 20th century France that was noticeably hung from birth and is basically grade-school gigolo sleeping with numerous girls and women old enough to even be his grandmother "studying" under a Cool Old Guy with the same endowment and reputation around town.

Gold Digger: While it's never shown on-screen (other than the Hentai side-comics made by the same author), Prince Stryyp "Stripe" 'Gia definitely has this, as part of his overall representation as The Ace. He gets a few Distracted by the Sexy moments from women and a very active sex life with his wife as a result.

Comic Strips

One older Lynda Barry strip parodies Cosmo-style "what do you want in your man" quizzes. The quiz has "I want a man with a big one" as an option for every single question, as apparently this is an important priority for some women.

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Mythology and Religion

In Norse mythology, the god Freyr often has statues where he has a very large and erect dick. He is a god of fertility, but it's still kind of weird.

In Greek mythology: Satyrs were often portrayed as having large penises. The "better" part is debatable, though. In early Greek art they were usually rather ugly, but handsome satyrs would show up later. Still they were almost always drunken, impulsive rapists. Priapus, a minor god of fertility and protection, had a gigantic cock. Actually a subversion - he was impotent and quite ugly.

Perhaps the most sexually-explicit verse in The Bible is Ezekiel 23:20, which describes the prostitute Oholibah's bedroom antics (God's analogy for the spiritual adultery of the kingdom of Judah): There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Professional Wrestling

Scott Steiner was well known for bragging about the size of his penis, and judging by all the women that followed him around, it did mean he was skilled in the sex department.

Val Venis always bragged about his penis and his skills in bed, which seemed to be true given the amount of semi-naked women that he usually hanged out with. There was also the fact that his in-ring character was supposed to be a porn star.

Tabletop Games

In Dungeons & Dragons' "Book of Erotic Fantasy" it is specifically averted. Your character's size has no impact at all on his sexual prowess. It also says a player can choose how big he is just like he can choose a character's eye color.

In the free hentai RPG Big Breasts Small Waist, the bigger a male character's...equipment is, the higher his Appearance stat is, and the more SEXP his partner gets from an encounter with him.

FATAL naturally has stats for this, about which the less said the better. Suffice to say that the "Roll for Anal Circumference!" meme is Not Hyperbole.

FAPP has the Hyper mutation, which allows the body part to which it is applied to roll an extra dice when making an attack with it when a 6 is rolled. However, each hyper mutation you have slows you down by one square of movement per turn, and if it is applied twice to the same body part, you become stuck.

Theatre

In the Broadway production of The Addams Family, Gomez tells Mal that the deed to his house was originally bestowed upon his ancestor Alphonse the Enormous by Queen Isabella of Spain for "services rendered". (When Mal asks what the "services" were, Gomez nervously repeats his ancestor's name and title a couple of times, and then says, "Do you want me to draw you a diagram?")

Implied by the ghost of John Barrymore in ''I Hate Hamlet" Andrew : You padded yourself to play Hamlet?

Barrymore : Un-necessarily.

Satan implies this about himself in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, discussing his considerable "presence."

The NSFW Cirque du Soleil show Zumanity has an entire song about this. Now, I don't care if you're a Pisces or a Taurus

But you got to be hangin' like a brontosaurus

Cause before you undress I've got a little confession

I'm looking for a man who makes a big impression

A man who can make my body rock

A man like Jack with a big beanstalk...

Video Games

Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri: The quote for one of the technologies has Nwabudike Morgan saying "Gentlemen, forget what your courtesans have told you: size does matter!" Also in a Dirty Limerick at Sparta Command; A handsome young Cyborg named Ace, / Wooed women at every base, / But once ladies glanced at / His special enhancement / They vanished with nary a trace.

In Fate/stay night, although Rin actually freaks out when she sees Shirou naked, she was a virgin and extremely nervous (so was Shirou, for that matter); Saber and Sakura are admiring, but not shocked. Shiki, on the other hand, managed to impress even the relatively experienced Kohaku.

Comes up at least Once per Episode in Dragon Age In Dragon Age: Origins, the Warden can make a remark along these lines when Wynne confronts him over his relationship with Morrigan. Wynne: It's as if she's forgotten you exist above the waist!

Warden: To be fair, there is quite a bit of me below the waist.

Wynne: By the Maker! Is a little decorum to much to ask for!? In Dragon Age II, Male!Hawke can, after sleeping with Fenris, quip that "it can be a lot to take in." Implied by Blackwall in Dragon Age: Inquisition's Trespasser DLC, after his suggestion when Sera wonders why dwarves feel the need to make their tunnels so tall is that they're Compensating for Something. Sera asks what that says about Blackwall's big sword. Blackwall: That's not compensation. That's a counterweight. Played straight with the Iron Bull, as there are multiple references to people, possibly including the Inquisitor or Dorian , walking funny after spending the night with him. Josephine is also impressed when she accidentally sees him naked during his romance arc.



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