Measuring soft dick then watching it get hard so I can measure again !

The Naughty Sciences of Measuring a Growing Dick: An Experiment in Erotic Growth

In the realm of human sexuality, there exists an odd obsession with size. More specifically, with regards to men: the size of their penis. Women, on the other hand, seem to be far less obsessed with their own genital proportions, perhaps because in the social economy of sexual worth, it is the Other’s desire that matters most.

It is with this increasingly common measurement mania that we turn our attention to an amateur pornographic video titled “Measuring Soft Dick Then Watching it Get Hard So I Can Measure Again!” (NSFW link). The title says it all: this film aims to capture the act of measuring a penis twice, once when limp and once when erect.

Our protagonist, a tall, athletic white guy with a shaved head and a scruffy face, appears on screen. He announces that he will be measuring his soft cock and then watching it grow. He does not state a specific reason why, but we can only imagine the reasons behind such a curiosity.

First, he retrieves a ruler from a drawer. The implication here is clear: this is no spur-of-the-moment home video, but a carefully planned scientific experiment. We are dealing with an expert in the field of sexual science, not just an amateur porn star.

Our subject lays the ruler down the center of his flaccid penis. It is surprisingly large, almost as big as the ruler. He then takes a black marker and carefully marks the top of his head with a tick. This measurement is documented on camera.

Then, our man begins to stroke his cock. The video cuts away, only to return a short while later. Now, he is fully erect, and his dick has grown visibly bigger! He lays the ruler down once again, and this time, he has outgrown it by a good inch.

He marks the new length and then flips the ruler to get the girth. Impressively enough, his cock now has a circumference of almost 6 inches.

What can we learn from this video? In a scientific sense, there’s an important anatomical lesson to be gleaned here: penises increase in both length and girth when undergoing an erection. But beyond this basic biology, the video also hints at the very real and important psychological phenomenon of men’s worries about their endowments.

Indeed, our protagonist’s willingness to carefully document and film his measuring has the air of a man desperately seeking validation. And who can blame him? In a world saturated with dick pics and pussy talk, where every mainstream sitcom makes glib reference to the desirability of a ‘mint’ package, men are constantly bombarded with the message: you must measure up.

This video also points to something sometimes forgotten in all the hubbub around the ‘size queue’ – that men care as much, if not more, about how their dicks look to others as the women in their lives. Whether due to influence from steroids, the killer bodies of porn stars, or the distorted ideals of social media and the uncanny ubiquity of well-endowed men on TV and film, a veritable epidemic of runaway penis envy seems to have seized the population.

All of this might seem ripe for mockery or dismissal as the ‘male gaze’ gone mad. But a closer look reveals profounder truths: Anxieties about insufficient size can be just as psychologically-oriented and debilitating – for men, as well, of course, for women – as body dysmorphia or a dozen other disorders.

The bottom line is this: regardless of how many dicks are measured, how many lengths compared and girths juxtaposed, there is no ‘true’ scale of measurement, no ironclad standard against which to calibrate one’s own genitals. What matters more is the way in which we think about our sexuality – with both love and affection, and with hope for more. In short, with humans instead of just ideals.

Sometimes, the greatest anatomy lesson is the one where the naked eye comes to see itself anew. And perhaps if we all exercised a bit more empathy, we would learn that true satisfaction, the greatest titillation, is to be found in organs outside of our pants.