Adriana Sommer da Costa
Psychologist and Sexologist

The size of male sex epitomizes what seems to be doing the rounds in sexuality. The size of penis for the sake of masculinity is corner stones even more so than sex itself. There might sound a way too overrated, but undeniably, it's constant nagging.

Back in history, penis size and idolatry always walked hand in hand. Overvaluation is anywhere to be found, all the way from the treatises of Kama Sutra to the likes of Freud and elsewhere.

If the prior is to be considered, then size comes linked to animal properties and if the post comes to be the case, even women would feel sexually minimized by its power within- whatever that means.

All this melting pot of repressions and bigotry towards sex and sexuality of a bygone era, whereupon indulging sexually by touching own sexual organs or even clasping a look of it and any action of sexually charged purposes would come laden with fear of merciless punishment of man made deities and the lot. As time flown by all got passed on and on until today increasingly a gap legacy for us to bridge over when talking about sex-related issues.

Mostly youngsters when in need of conceptual searching and further explanations on their own sexuality hardly ever go up to their relatives for clues and therefore end up getting clued from peers or the internet. This is anything but a solidarity way of unveiling sexuality hiccups.

Stemming from it are there misconceived ideas of misinformation that instead of helping wind up by getting in the way.

So penis size finds its very roots in plain ignorance and sheer misplacement. Why? It's known that when it comes to penis girth and length, a man worth his money get a little carried away by myths and self imposed insecurities. Additionally, not restricted solely to size. It boils down to fallacies carried on culturally that a woman's sexual delight lies in a fat and long penis, so they prefer well hanged men.

Regardless of sexual orientation, such worryingly notion of size matters stems from a social line of perception that is, the bigger the penis the more virile or the bigger the better and more meat even more macho bravado. It's anything but misnomers and old wives' tales not to say the least.

If this kind of concept is part of a man's mind, it's likely to rebound in his relationships, since its imposed domination to the couple will bring about serious repercussions. This is so because of his blindfold convictions on her dependency on to his phallic organ. His macho-like side imposed in its worst off conceivable manner.

One research too many undergone at the best known sexuality institutes came up with such figures of men who in their vast majority fall under normal standards of roughly 8.5 to 9.4 flaccid and 13.9 to 20.0 in erection. Despite all this, still they seemed unsatisfied and if they could increase, they would die for an extra centimeter or two of extra hardon length.

Girth is another matter to go by, as most women seemingly incline to quality rather than gross measurements as opposed to gay men much into gap fillers and taken things to extremes.

The vaginal internal walls are definitely prone to cumulative pleasure of penis fretting on its walls. So it's due to thickness other than length.

As you know, 99% of what you read is total codswallop if not questioned before being brought into play. In terms of sexuality, although alike biologically, men and women may come off downright different sex-wise, nonetheless, bound to make up for discrepancies disregarding of sizes.