In 2017, the University of ********** began conducting interviews for a study of married women's attitudes towards penis size. The study involved in-person interviews with married women between the ages of 25 and 55, all of whom who had agreed to have their interviews and anonymised information used and published in the course of the study.
Participants were recruited via social media advertising and features in a range of women's magazines and were paid $300 for filling in pre-interview questionnaires and being interviewed.
Each interview lasted for between 45 minutes and an hour and were conducted by a female researcher of similar age to the interviewee. Given the observed tendency of participants to have problems accurately describing penis size, participants were provided with 35 models of penises of varying lengths and girths (between 3 and 9 inches long and 3 and 7 inches in circumference).
In total, over 2000 women completed the interviews -- all of whom lived in the United States. Videos were stored digitally, and edited transcripts were produced of each interview, with excerpts being used to generate profiles of each of the participants.
In addition to biographical details about their background and sexual history and preferences, participants were asked about their views relating to penis size, including the largest and smallest penises they had encountered during vaginal intercourse, details of their marital partner's penis, and their opinions of all of them.
While some interviewees gave relatively short, factual responses, most gave detailed answers. In many cases, interviewees volunteered frank and unflattering descriptions of their marital partner's penis.
In January 2020, the University's secure server was illegally accessed by a hacker and the archive containing edited transcripts and profiles of all interviewees was breached. It still remains unclear whether contact details of the interviewees or the videos of the interviews were compromised. However, the transcripts and profiles themselves contain information which could potentially enable the participants to be identified, and in August 2020, these transcripts and profiles began to surface on the internet.
A preliminary assessment of several hundred of these profiles reveals some common themes:
Most women encountered their 'smallest penis' early in their sexual careers, typically in their first two or three encounters of full vaginal sexual intercourse. Almost unanimously this provoked negative reactions, ranging from boredom to dissatisfaction and disappointment to anger and rage.
Only 5% of women reported that their husband was their 'largest penis' and of those, only half had slept with more than five men. Moreover, none of these women reported their husband's penis as being more than 7 inches long or 5.5 inches in circumference.
In contrast, over 90% of women reported that their 'largest penis' was over 8 inches long and at least 6 inches in circumference. Participants gave longer answers to this question, were more willing to go into detail and use more positive and descriptive language. When describing their sexual activities with these partners, very few women -- just 5% - mentioned oral sex on them as taking place, while 90% reported it as something they performed on this partner.
In contrast, when describing sexual activity with their husband, 88% reported his willingness to perform oral sex on them and/or his skill at doing so but only 3% said that they performed oral sex on their husband.
95% of women confirmed that they had slept with at least one partner whose penis was bigger than their husband's, and of those, 70% said that their 'largest' penis was at least two inches longer than their husband's and 63% said that it was least one inch bigger in circumference.
All women who reported that their husband's penis was smaller than their 'biggest penis' said that they would prefer a larger penis as their 'perfect penis', often the same size or slightly bigger than that of their 'biggest penis' partner.
Women with children tended to say that they wanted a bigger 'ideal' penis in terms of girth than women without children. Taking this into account, there was no significant difference between ages in terms of preferred length, though women of lower socio-economic classes tended to prefer slightly thicker and longer penises.
Black women, who represented 30% of the interviewees, expressed preferences for slightly longer and thicker penises than white women and Asian women.
The average size of respondents' 'smallest penis' was 4 inches in length and 3.5 inches in circumference.
The average size of respondents' husbands' penises was 5 inches in length and just under 5 inches in circumference.
The most commonly cited proportions of a 'perfect' penis were 8 or 8.5 inches in length and 6.5 inches in circumference.
Here are some examples of the leaked profiles.
Interviewee no: 238
Location: Albany, NY
Age: 39
Ethnic origin: White Caucasian
Height: 5ft 6"
Weight: 140lbs
Occupation: High school teacher
Married since 2011 -- 2 children (6 and 4)
Sexual partners: 12
Age at first PIV experience: 18
Smallest penis encountered during PIV: Interviewee chose model of penis 4" long and 4" in circumference.
Excerpt: "My first time was with a guy from high school, a very nice guy, we studied together, we had fun and we had dated for a few weeks before and after our prom and one night, his parents went shopping for a few hours leaving us alone in the house. We seized the opportunity, it was his first time too. I don't have a very clear sense of his penis size but I was aware of a sense of disappointment, a kind of 'Is that it?' feeling, when he pushed himself inside me. This model seems about right, from memory. I recall thinking afterwards that I wanted to try it again with someone else soon, and I did!
Largest penis encountered during PIV: Interviewee chose model of penis 8.5" long and 6" in circumference.
Excerpt: "The largest penis I have ever had sex with was huge, to be honest. It was a guy at college, I had had a couple of encounters with guys in my first year but they were nothing special and I was waiting for my first 'proper' sexual experience, I guess. He was your classic jock, good- looking, athletic, cocky and two years older than me and had something of a reputation as a ladies' man, you could say. We hooked up at a party and I went back to his room on campus and we fucked all night. I could barely get my hand round it, he was very hard and he was thick not just at the head but all the way down, and to be honest, it kind of scared me at first but despite his reputation he took things slowly, and we were able to have sex, just in normal missionary position though, as I was too nervous to try anything else. The first time hurt like hell but the next morning we did it again and it felt better this time, from behind and me on top, we kind of went for every position! We dated through the summer but broke up when he left the university in the fall. He loved to get me to kneel before him and suck him off in front of a mirror while he watched. After a while, my jaw would get so sore! He kind of spoiled me for other guys for a while, nobody measured up after him."
Husband's penis: Interviewee chose model of penis 5.5" long and 5" in circumference
Excerpt: "I met my husband through work, he was teaching at the same school and while we started as friends, when he left the school to teach elsewhere, he asked me on a date, saying he'd always liked me but didn't want the hassle of dating a colleague! Things moved pretty quickly, we moved in after six months, he proposed after a year and we got married a year later when I was 30 and he was 33. We have a good sex life, though having kids has got in the way - he's an amazing dad, by the way. His penis is an OK size, I guess and he's a considerate lover, we're compatible and he is also very skilled orally, which I love. I'm afraid I've tended not to go down on him very often in recent times -- we joke about it being his birthday present! I guess ideally I would like him to be longer and thicker too but he's a great package overall and I feel very lucky."
Views on penis size: "I have to say that my ideal size is pretty big, maybe not quite as big as the guy at college - or maybe just not much bigger! This kind of size [interviewee indicates model of penis 8.5 inches long and 6 inches in circumference]. In terms of length and girth, I think length is obviously important, as there are sensitive parts that guy reached that nobody's really hit since, beyond my cervix, but girth is important too, that sense of being stretched and opened up is hard to beat and to be honest, I do miss that, so I think both are important."
Interviewee no: 640
