Vast numbers of men - in one estimate the greater majority - think that they have a penis much below the average in size. Perhaps they should console themselves with the thought that many men have extremely diminutive organs. Pomeroy states that the smallest penis encountered in the Kinsey surveys was 1 in. long In the Forum study the smallest erect penis was found to be 4.75 in. in length, quite large compared with many of the specimens that do exist. There are instances reported in the medical literature of penises that do not exceed 1 cm.

In the Jacobus survey the Hindu man was reckoned to have a penis that only averaged around 4 inches, a much smaller figure than for the other races investigated. In the Chartham survey the smallest organs in the various nationality groups were as follows: English - 2¾ in.; West German - 3½ in.; Negro - 4 in.; French 3½ in.; Danish - 5 in.; American - 3½ in.; and Swedish - 5 in. As we have already suggested, with the groups being rather small no racial conclusions can be drawn.

Some research studies have been too small to appear as regular references in the literature. Kinsey himself identified on 19 studies of sex behaviour which are in any sense taxonomic. Of these the smallest were based on data gathered by a probation officer who interviewed a hundred boys who were passing through a juvenile court in Seattle, on interview returns from a hundred handicapped females, and on data derived from a study "of 40 superior single men." This latter investigation, the smallest of the nineteen cited by Kinsey, was based on single

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• Largest human penis
• Largest penis in animal kingdom

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The Illustrated Book of Sexual Records is a compilation of well over 400 sexual superlatives from all around the world.

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