A Japanese study that only used Japanese men as subject, claims that the length of a man’s nose is a good way to reasonably guess the length of his member.
According to report, study authors measured all the subjects’ body parts and penile length and they found that nose length was correlated with penile length, rather than hand length or foot, as generally believed.
Published in the journal Basic and Clinical Andrology, Japanese researchers studied bodies of 126 middle aged men where they noted the height, weight, measurements, weight of testicles, length of the penis in flaccid state and also the circumference of the penis.
They measured the distance from the center of the eyes of each subject to the beginning of the nose. Those who had noses smaller than 1.8 inches had a penis length (stretched) of around 4.1 inches. If any of the corpses were 2.2 inches long or a little longer than that nose size, then their penises measured 5.3 inches.
Based on these findings, the researchers concluded that, “The fact that nose size is related to SPL (stretched penile length) indicates that penile length may not be determined by age, height or body weight, but has already been determined before birth.”
The study has been dismissed for its limitations.
In response, a surgeon who specialises in sexual health, Dr. Rena Malik, says the average size of a flaccid penis is 3.6 inches, while the average size of an erect penis is 5.17 inches.
Malik warns that, contrary to the mythical claim, you can’t possibly tell the size of a man’s penis simply by looking at his hands and feet. He expresses support for the Japanese findings.
Meanwhile, a sex coach and clinical sexologist, Patti Britton, speaking to EverydayHealth, says it is not the size but the girth [thickness] of a penis that gives sexual satisfaction.
Britton notes that most people overestimate the size of the average penis and that most men barely measure more than five inches even when they’re fully aroused.
