THE SIZE QUESTION

Most men know what size penis they have because they've measured their erections. Some are happy with their size, but the majority would rather be bigger. Some of those who are not happy are actually bigger than average—they feel small anyway. To all men a big dick seems to be somewhat magical— much as beauty seems to be in women. Just as certain women may yearn for beauty and believe that if they had it their lives would be transformed, so do certain men yearn for longer, wider penises.

Even those men who are happy with their size begin to bristle when you talk to them about somebody really well endowed. Long Dong Silver, for example. Long Dong Silver is the porn star who became world-famous, briefly, when he was mentioned during the 1991 confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Anita Hill, as a character witness against Judge Thomas, said the judge had made inappropriate sexual remarks to her concerning, among other things, Long Dong.

You can see Long Dong in a video called Long Dong Silver: The Legend. The video seems to have been made up of odd bits and pieces; there isn't even the pretense of a story, and Long Dong is on­screen only sporadically—but you keeping watching, waiting for him to appear again. He's a nice- looking black man with well-developed buttock muscles and an eighteen-inch, knee-length penis. One of his tricks is to tilt his pelvis so that his penis swings from side to side like a wobbly pendulum. "Is that erect, or not?" men always ask. Who knows? It seems to be extended at all times, but it points down, not up. If it pointed up it would reach as high as his heart; if it pointed straight out you could hang laundry on it. Maybe it points out or up when he has sex. There are a few scenes of Long Dong having sex in the video, but they're shot from behind so you can't see what his dong is doing. You can see the face of the woman he's engaged with and she appears to be in agony. On the sound track is the Long Dong Silver song—a jaunty ballad about the man and his adventures with "what hangs between his knees."

In fact, a huge penis may not be altogether an asset. Franklin Russell, the naturalist writer, told me he had a friend who had a really outsized penis. "You realize," Russell said, "that an erection is a vascular event. The blood rushes to the penis. This huge guy confided in me. He said, 'I don't dare get
a hard-on. I'm afraid I'll black out.'"

Vatsyayana, author of the Kama Sutra, divided men into three classes according to penis size: the hare, the bull and the horse. He also classified women by the size of their vaginas, as deer, mares and elephants. And he made the sensible observation that the most comfortable sexual unions are between equals—the hare man with the deer woman, the bull man with the mare woman, the horse man with the elephant woman. The same is no doubt true today, and yet to men it seems to be beside the point.



Source: The Book of the Penis by Maggie Paley