North Carolina’s Michael Phillips revealed that he had a 0.38in member in bid to reduce stigma of the condition

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      Yeah if he is correct I wouldn’t want to shout that out myself but congrats on him for bringing awareness to an issue that I’m sure many men’s lives have been worse for. Not like we can control the size of any body part but it would make for difficult relationships. Yes I know size isn’t everything but that’s a bit different category of issue is all.

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        I think the full phrase is “size isn’t everything, its how you use it” but bro has nothing to use. As disabilities go, its one of the easier ones to have - able bodied and normal-looking with all five senses. It sucks that he misses out on sexual relationships, but so do loads of people with much worse conditions.

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          I’m not sure he misses out on sexual relationships at all though. Strap ons are a thing, and can be very effective (ask a lesbian, or a trans man!) and there are LOTS of ways to have sex that don’t involve the traditional act people tend to reduce it down to.

          Also, disabled people also have sex. The idea that they don’t is ableist AF.

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            Of course many do, but many also don’t/can’t - I can declare that as an objective fact. Ableism indeed.

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            Yeah the jokes are universal too, there’s no getting away from it. Feminism has stood up against body shaming (with limited success) but even amongst many feminists there’s still small dick jokes

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          Also when you get older sometimes even as a guy you may not be able to perform, it happens. So as long as you have an understanding partner you can get around those times. Mean I’m unsure on actual performance issues but really penis in vagina, while most common (I think?) is only a bit of what couples can do for fun in that area. Hell I think there’s so much more besides that but not for this topic.

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    I read a blog post years ago by a trans dude about how seeing how little the winner of a smallest penis contest gave a shit helped him not give a shit about his own dick situation.

    so, i guess it’s nice for insecure people to see stuff like this?

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      I read a blog post years ago by a trans dude about how seeing how little the winner of a smallest penis contest gave a shit helped him not give a shit about his own dick situation.

      I’m convinced body dysmorphia is linked to a lack of some public nudity at beaches etc where you can see fat, short, flabby etc all on display and realize you’re kinda normal, our only interaction with nudity is the body types seen in porn.

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        I live in an area of Germany where nudist beaches (FKK in Germany) are very popular, and it doesn’t seem to help body dismorphia at all

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        You do occasionally see flaccid cocks in media and IRL, but only from guys confident enough to show it in the first place, which skews public perception a fair bit.

        I went to school with a girl who’d only ever seen erections drawn. To her first boyfriend, she said “is that it?” the first time she saw a boner. It was a perfectly average cock, but she’d been expecting something the size of a cucumber

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          You do, but sometimes those aren’t real. I remember watching some behind the scenes stuff for Spartacus, which has a lot of flacid cocks on screen, and some of the actors wore prosthetic cocks instead of showing their own. I assume that larger men were more likely to show their own, and smaller men were more likely to have a prosthetic (though I have no evidence for this), so it still skews things.

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        Its not specific to nudity at beaches, but more of a general thing. Expectations about what a body should look like and the extreme focus on a binary gender is incredibly harmful for everyone, since it creates boxes were everyone tries to fit into. When we AS society collectively work on demolishing these boxes it remives a lot of stress for everyone who previously had been excluded by these boxes. Realizing, that bodies are different and that it is no shame to look different from some arbitrary beauty standard, that’s unreachable for most people, is one of the best things that can happen to you.

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    Seeing the insane amount of giant pickup trucks Americans drive, this guy is just a waterdrop in a giant ocean.

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      They say in the article 0.6% of men. That sounds like a small number, but if you have around the usual 300 Facebook friends, then you know someone.

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        I never had to give my size to anyone. How do they know everyone’s size to come to the 0.6%? That’s only the known cases. The penis-size-compensation trucks say otherwise.

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          As with all things, you can arrive at trustworthy estimates for things by surveying a sampling of people and then applying statistics. You don’t have to ask every person on earth. This is called the law of large numbers.

          Also, they are defining micropenis as 2.6 inches so there are probably even more people who don’t meet this definition but would like more size.

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            But in general, people with a small penis add a few centimeters when asked about their size. Some also add a few inches but no one knows what that ancient system works like. So when I hear a penis size in inches it already sounds small.

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              Yeah. We’re on a different topic now from “how do they know - no one asked me.”

              I would hope they made this very anonymous to reduce any incentive to lie. But I am sure dudes even lie to themselves, so it is probably difficult to get good numbers. Maybe someone has studied how much people lie about this and they used that to adjust the estimates?

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    This dude was interviewed on British TV a while back. It was amazing how open about the whole thing he was.

    He wanted to raise awareness because if he had sought medical help when he was young, the likelihood of medical intervention being successful is greatly increased.
    He wants other people to go get help if they need it.

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      It was amazing how open about the whole thing he was.

      Influencers gonna influence. My man found his niche and he’s cashing in on it.

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        Well at least his influence is probably gonna help some people mentally and physically without dispersing any toxicity. So if some influencers are gonna cash, happy for it to be him rather than toxic fucks like Tate fuck for brains or the creepy smile mr beast

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          Idk. If he’s just going to be the Colmes to Tate’s Hannity…

          Any time I see a UK or US publisher run its “Look at these weirdos” segment, its typically as a prelude to do something incredibly gross. Like the time Tucker Carlson tried to convince a bunch of young men to take testosterone and sun their assholes.

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    I never thought I’d say this, but I’m pretty sure this dude is lying about how small his dick is.