Porn And Penis Size Expectations (video)

[JayPR]

I just watched this video (see below) and started to think about guys and their expectations about penis size when they are growing up.

I've noticed that many guys think that their penises are small because they tend to compare themselves with men in porn. My roommate in college was one of them He was average (I would say a bit above average) but he was always complaining that his dick was small or not enough, and it was affecting his confidence. I think most guys growing up are not exposed to situations where they see other guys dicks in order to have a realistic perception of what average penis size is, what small penis size is and what's is big. The only penises beside them they have seen are from porn stars and we all know that those are on the big side of the spectrum.

Even know, I've seen people commenting on YouTube videos or movies where perfectly average size dicks appear and the first comment they make is that it is small.

What do you think about this? How was your experience? Did this happen to you?
If you are average, did you always think that you were small because of that? Were you insecure about your penis at some point?

 

[Murphys]

Outside of porn (and how this site), I’ve not seen another man’s penis. I’d see porn, see the size the star’s penis, look at my own, and conclude I was small. Speaking from my own personal experience, having made such a comparison and conclusion, it had a negative impact of my self confidence.

That this site permits for open and frank conversations has been extremely beneficial for me. I truly believe that most (if not all) men would benefit from having such conversations in real life.

 

[1096994]

That's my story exactly! I was your roommate from college...well, not exactly, but I felt very similarly. The only other men I'd been nude around were all family and size is common among us all, so I never knew any different. I always felt that I was average in size, it wasn't until college that I'd had my first real sexual experiences and was told other wise. One girl even stopped what we were doing so aghast that I thought I was average that she pulled up an average size chart online to prove me wrong.

I think that early experience of feeling average developed a since of acceptance (and maybe even humility) around my penis. Now, later in life and feeling like my size is sought after, I'm wanting to flaunt it and fuck any willing woman I can. However this isn't super conducive to my relationship or my job. All that really just to say, I wish I had put myself out there more when I was younger instead of feeling limited like I do now.

 

[spaj8987]

For a long time i thought i was smaller than normal. I'm old enough to have a considerable amount of my upbringing happening without the internet. My experiences with penis size came from magazines for the most part. And then there were videos and of course the internet. No one and i mean no one talked about it. It was just insults or bragging. So even when there were times were i caught attention because of how big i was, i thought i was getting that attention because of how much smaller i was. Yes, it was both tragic and hilarious.

It wasn't until my late twenties and having someone tell me multiple times that i was large did it finally crack in.

Very accurate video though. And is very much needed so men and boys don't internalize sheer madness for no logical reason.

 

[BigAl9]

I grew up before any of the opportunities available now to compare. Whenever family went swimming, the adults always stood with their backs to any audience when they changed to swim suits. The only thing I had to go on was the word of a few fellow male classmates who bragged of sexual conquests, and their own size. Of course no one ever saw others, at least as far as I knew. I had a medical issue at that time.which excluded me from gym classes so I saw I one is showers.

This changed when I went to college, and pledged a fraternity. In the frat house there was a common bathroom, with a common shower, so my perception changed a great deal.

I was a virgin until spring after I turned 20. Someone found out that I had never had sex with a woman. Arrangements were made to correct that. The woman I was with that first time was probably 10-12 years older than me. Her comment/compliment to me about my size was that I had a very large cock. She really showed me a very hot time.

Two years later l, btw no intercourse after, I got married. She was a virgin. I had college training by this time. I had read the Kensey Report and the report by Masters and Johnson so I was not ignorant when it came to being with a virgin.

I was in my mid-30s before I saw any porn. However, being a biological science major I was well read on human anatomy, norms and averages and exceptions.

Because of all this I was probably spared size confidence issues as so many younger men who were exposed to porn early in their youth or early adulthood.

 

[Buckeye1980]

Outside of porn (and how this site), I’ve not seen another man’s penis. I’d see porn, see the size the star’s penis, look at my own, and conclude I was small. Speaking from my own personal experience, having made such a comparison and conclusion, it had a negative impact of my self confidence.

That this site permits for open and frank conversations has been extremely beneficial for me. I truly believe that most (if not all) men would benefit from having such conversations in real life.[/QUOTE

 

[Buckeye1980]

True, this site allows me to chat about topics I would never feel comfortable talking in person.

But I have seen many penis in the locker room and urinal stalls. And I am certain many have seen me.

 

[palakaorion]

Classic grower. I'm quite unimpressive when relaxed/turtled. I'm upper end of average length and just average girth when excited. And I'm just over 6 ft tall with wide shoulders and hips so an average endowment looks less impressive. But it gets the job done.

I didn't deal with size confidence issues because available porn at the time seldom featured erect penises. The availability of seeing Circus Penises in action on demand online might have changed that.

 

[deleted4500261]

I was definitely affected by porn and also growing up around guys that would say they had 12” dicks (they didn’t, but when I was a kid I believed the nonsense). I also had a couple of friends that had huge dicks and so I was convinced mine was small.
It wasn’t until recently when a female friend told me there was a rumor that I was “big”. I was speechless. Me? No way!!!
I asked what she thought “big” was. She said 7” or more.
I looked up average size on the internet and realized that I was above average. I had brainwashed myself for over 40 years that it was small. Then we find out that for the most part only men really care about it.

 

[BigAl9]

I can with confidence say that porn had little to no influence on my expectations concerning penis size. I was a virgin until I was over 20 years old. It was at that time that an acquaintance found this out. Arrangements were made to eliminate that feature of my life. I was introduced to a woman who was probable 8 to 10 years older than me. She taught me a lot about being a sexual person. She also told me that I was very well endowed. Of course I had nothing to confirm what she was telling me. I was living in a group house, being a college student at the time. The shower facilities were open showers so I observed many other men there. I knew that I had size above many there. Later when in the navy I also observed a similar situation in boot camp and on two different ships on which I was stationed. I had no exposure to porn until I was well into my 30s.

 

[Gusgilman]

Uh--no. Seen too many fishing pictures where the fish is held way in front of the guy to look big.

Porn has a lot of these tricks---but if you watch close sooner or later somebody will wrap their fingers around this 'monster' and even the tiny girl hands-- the finger tips almost touch---on a supposedly big hard cock?!?!

Too funny!