The male penis's head is designed to remove other males' semen from the vagina during sex... how does that make you feel?locked

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – -28 points – 1 years ago

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I'm reminded of a joke I heard a long time ago (copy/pasted from elsewhere online)

The American Government funded a study to see why the head of a man's Penis was larger than the shaft. After 1 year, and $180,000, they concluded that the reason that the head was larger than the shaft was to give the man more pleasure during sex.

After the US published the study, the French decided to do their own study. After $250,000 and 3 years of research, they concluded that the reason the head was larger than the shaft was to give the woman more pleasure during sex.

The Irish, unsatisfied with those findings, conducted their own study. After 2 weeks, a cost of around $75.34, and many pints of beer, they concluded that it was to keep a man's hand from flying off and hitting himself in the face.

Bravo. Had not heard that one before.

It makes me feel uncomfortable that someone would actually believe something so fuckin stupid

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/147470490400200105#:~:text=The%20human%20penis%2C%20with%20a,back%20over%2Funder%20the%20glans.

so you just found some crazy study online by some academic kooks and, rather than apply an ounce of critical thought, you just believed it.

smh

Interestingly, the main author is respected

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_G._Gallup

Edit: not saying I buy the premise of the article though

Edit 2: every reply from the above commenter gets 5 upvotes in 2 minutes, while all my comments get 5 downvotes in 2 minutes… nice job being subtle lol

that doesn't really mean much with regard to the validity of the study, though

I can't open the link, it's not loading for me for reasons unknown. So I'll take the title at face value, and say that as a theory or hypothesis it sounds plausible. Penile adaptations to outcompete other males isn't unheard of, the most well known example is canine knots.

Again, that’s not what my point is. I’m just disputing the characterization you made

Edit: every reply from the above commenter gets 5 upvotes in 2 minutes, while all my comments get 5 downvotes in 2 minutes… nice job being subtle

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lol, who told you that?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/147470490400200105#:~:text=The%20human%20penis%2C%20with%20a,back%20over%2Funder%20the%20glans.

lmao, this is a theory, and this study hasn't only not been peer-reviewed, it doesn't seem to have gained much of any traction in the academic community in the last 20 years.

if I paid 600 college students to fuck each other, yeah, I'm going to find that one penis is going to squish out the cum from the last penis, but that doesn't prove that it evolved specifically for that purpose. isn't simple displacement, and a task that could be as easily performed by a dildo or fist or anything else that you shoved into the jizz-filled cavity.

don't believe everything you find on google.

Your comment hasn't been peer reviewed, so I'm gonna take your advice and not believe you.

A theory is the most solid thing science can produce. What you’re wanting to say is hypothesis. Also, OP should provide the relevant section of the original review by Baker and Bellis 1995