Women do find men with larger penises more attractive and academic

Bigger is indeed better.

The problem, they say, is not the size, but how to use it. However, according to a new academic study published in PLoS Biology, women generally prefer talented men.

“We confirmed our previous findings that women find larger penises more attractive,” lead author Dr. Upama Echi of the University of Western Australia wrote in a Conversation article discussing the penis findings.

The team set out to determine why the human penis is disproportionately long and thick relative to the size of our bodies compared with other great apes, and why its main function is to “transfer sperm.”

They found that giant monitor lizards serve two purposes: to attract mates and to intimidate rivals – like a deer’s antlers or a lion’s mane.

To determine the dual functionality of this versatile tool, the researchers recruited more than 600 male and 200 female participants and asked them to rate computer-generated male characters that varied in height, body shape, and, most importantly, penis size.

They asked female participants to rate the characters’ sexual attractiveness, while men were asked to rate how threatening they were, both in terms of their fighting ability and as a dismissed competitor.

Schlong Story synopsis: Women find taller men with a V-shaped upper body and larger penises more attractive. However, at a certain point, further increases in penis size or height diminish in value.

Meanwhile, the researchers believe that male counterparts view a good hang as “a sign of their opponent’s greater fighting ability and greater sexual rivalry.”

From this, the researchers concluded that penises evolved to be large both as a result of women’s sexual preferences and as a sign of men’s fighting prowess.

They point out that humans walked upright long before the invention of clothing, meaning a man’s masculinity was always on display, like a badge that communicated their status to rivals and potential mates.

Ultimately, however, the researchers speculated that sexual preference had a greater impact on penis proportions because, according to the study, “penis size’s effect on attractiveness is four to seven times greater than its effect as a signal of fighting ability.”

“While the primary function of the human penis is to transfer sperm, our results suggest that its unusually large size evolved as a sexual ornament to attract women, rather than purely as a status badge to scare men, although it does both,” said co-author Michael D Jennions, emeritus professor of evolutionary biology at the Australian National University.

Of course, there are some caveats to this codon-centric study. They noted that they only asked participants to rate penis size, height and body shape, without considering how other characteristics such as personality and facial features affected subjects’ perceptions.

The researchers also note that “cultural standards of masculinity vary around the world and have changed over time.”