Project Willow wrote: I believe Biological Anthropology has the goods.... The longer the core and peripheral limbs, the more surface area, more effective the transfer of heat out of the body through vasodilation. The opposite principle is at work in colder climates, where you get shorter limbs and a more barrel shaped core.
I think that's probably true, but then... Australian aborigines, who evolved in a hot climate, are generally shorter in height than Nordic people, who evolved in a cold one... And the limbs of both, so far as I've noticed, are pretty much proportionate to their height. I haven't started measuring their penises, but it's probably only a matter of time. Inquiring minds must know.
I'm see what C2W meant, though. These kind of physiological comparisons, even of individuals rather than groups, could go down a very bad road, very quickly. In fact, they just did...
Project Willow wrote:Might explain the lack of the Irish (ehem, sorry.)
Apology not accepted! I'm a wee bit Irish myself (no, not that wee bit) and I object to this blatant rassism. I
am the RI PC In-Crowd, and I demand compensation for this slander. Through PayPal or something (it'll have to be arranged). You wouldn't believe how googly-eyed I'm getting over it!
Project Willow wrote:Frankly I can't figure out any kind of fitness a larger penis size would bestow on an evil person.
Yeah, it doesn't really work, does it, either as an identifier of wrongdoers, or as a root cause of their evil, or as anything else, really. Sorry Stephen. I don't think I should bother with the small-cocked Special Forces theory either now, since the only one I have concrete evidence of minisculity against was actually one of the good guys - working for Churchill's Special Operations Executive during WW2, fighting the Nazis and supporting the partisans in occupied Europe. Not sure he deserves to be posthumously mocked for something he was born with. Or that anyone deserves that, really.
The other two examples I had, who were involved in far more evil domestic operations in Northern Ireland and on the mainland, were probably just homosexuals in a time when (honest to God) people believed that men became gay simply because they had small dicks. In fact, that belief lasted right into the Eighties. I used to have a book (admittedly, it was written by a journalist for The Sun) about the serial killer Dennis Nilsen, which boldly stated that he turned to homosexuality for that very reason. Published in
1986! And it was a qualified psychologist who'd explained this to the author (or so he claimed).
Uh... where was I? Oh, aye. Big penises. I reckon they're probably alright, on the whole, and that most of their owners are okay too.
There's some shocking objectification of men in this thread, though. Buying and selling our 'equipment', as if a big penis were a mere toy to be played with.
Oh, wait...
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