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a quarter of a teaspoon. We’re talking drops.
    But some people really want to make a splash. They’ll try anything. Some believe that priming the pump will make a difference. Will it? Will your quickie produce any more or less than your lengthy sexual encounter? Let’s go to another study out of Canada. Twenty-five men between the ages of twenty-two and forty-four were gathered together, and they provided more than 290 different specimens over a four-month period. They were told that they had to forego any ejaculations for at least three days before producing their contribution to the study. The scientists found that the time taken to produce an ejaculation was significantly related to the concentration of sperm in the ejaculate, but that it had no relation to the actual volume. This was confirmed in another study of 142 men in a clinic in Sweden in 2008. So slow down, speed up—it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t change how much you will come.
    There’s just not that much you can do. Moreover, even if you can make a statistically significant difference, it’s not likely to be one you’re going to notice in real life. Most men come less than a teaspoon. Shouldn’t that be enough?

 
    Start Small, Stay Small
    No matter how many times people say that size doesn’t matter, it continues to be a topic of discussion. Men are worried about it. Women are talking about it. We’ve already discussed some of the myths as to how people try to judge the size of a penis by looking at other parts of a man’s body, be it their feet, their hands, or even their forearms. Faithful readers know that none of the prediction methods work. There’s no way to judge the size of a man’s penis by looking at some other part of their body.
    What about if you catch a glimpse of a penis when it’s still soft? Can you judge what size that penis will be when it gets hard?
    A lot of people also worry that if a man’s penis starts small, it will stay small. They assume that if a man’s penis is small when it is soft, it will remain peewee-sized when it gets hard. And, the erect penis size is what people really care about when it comes to sex.
    Could there actually be a study on this topic? Of course there is. In fact, there are more than you’d imagine.
    The first big study was done by Masters and Johnson in 1966. They gathered together forty men whose flaccid (soft) penises measured between 3 and 3.5 inches and another forty men whose flaccid penises measured 4 to 4.5 inches. Then, they measured how much the penises lengthened when they became erect. What they found was that the smaller penises grew about 3 inches, while the larger penises grew about 2.75 inches. Not much of a difference, in fact not a statistically significant difference. But this meant that larger flaccid penises were likely to be larger erect penises.
    This was a pretty small study, and it didn’t have much of a range of size among the flaccid penises. So in 1988, researchers used Kinsey data to do a much more comprehensive analysis. They divided about 2,500 men into two groups: those with flaccid penis length 3.5 inches or less and those with flaccid penis length of 4 inches or more. The first group had an average flaccid length of 3.2 inches, while the second group had an average flaccid length of 4.4 inches. When the penises became erect, however, the differences narrowed. The first group had an average erect length of 5.8 inches while the second group had an average erect length of 6.5 inches. In other words, flaccid penises grew, on average, more than an extra half inch when becoming erect. To be thorough, they also examined the effect that height and weight might have on these measurements. Neither of these was associated with penis size at all, flaccid or erect.
    To recap, this was a study of over 2,500 men. The average size of the flaccid penis was 3.9 inches, and the average size of the erect penis was 6.2 inches. The average circumference (if that’s your thing)