Penis Enlargement India - Long and Big Penis in India
A well-known British scientist, Richard Lynn, recently published a study that lists and compares the average erect penis lengths of men in 113 countries. His findings, which appeared in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, range from the large sizes of the Congolese (which at an average 7.1 inches rank No 1) to the lengths of South and North Koreans, which average a little more than half that figure (at 3.8 inches, the smallest). Indians were part of the study too, but, with an average of just 4 inches, rank just above Koreans and Cambodians (3.9 inches), sharing the 110th spot with Thais (also 4 inches).
The source of Lynn’s data on Indian penis lengths is a little-known study called ‘Study on proper length and breadth specification for condoms based on anthropometric measurement’, which began with grand ambitions more than a decade ago and then slid into obscurity.
In the year 2000, Dr RS Sharma, head of the Reproductive Health and Nutrition division at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), heard of a study that the Union Ministry of Health wanted undertaken. Prompted by frequent reports of condom slippage in India, the Ministry was keen to know if this phenomenon could be traced to a discrepancy between Indian penis and condom sizes. It was a question that had rankled Dr Sharma earlier too. Condoms in India were made to global size specifications, and no proper study had ever been done on Indian sizes. Offered a chance by the then ICMR Director General NK Ganguly, Dr Sharma agreed to lead this research project.
Over the next few years, he and his team would have to go about the country asking men to unzip their trousers and offer their penises at their stiffest for measurement. When he started the study in 2001, Dr Sharma knew it would not be easy to accomplish the task in a hurry. But he did not expect it to take five years. “The average Indian penis is like no other,” says Dr Sharma, “Here, people from various ethnicities and physiques have to be accounted for.” The doctor decided to draft a task force of urologists and gynaecologists across the country. Many refused to be part of a study with such an “audacious subject”, but eventually he got a team ready to report sizes from seven centres—Patna, Guwahati, Cuttack, Chandigarh, Delhi, Mumbai and Hubli. Each would send at least 200 samples, and from this data, Dr Sharma would attempt to answer the truth about the size of the Indian penis.
Armed with the foresight that getting the consent of participants to have their erections measured would be difficult, Dr Sharma sought the help of Dr Sujoy Kumar Guha, a well-known biomedical engineer at IIT Kharagpur, who among other things has helped develop an injectable male contraceptive (although it is yet to get government approval). “It was an interesting subject [whether Indian penises were too small for condoms], one that many people believed could be true. It was crucial that participants not be inhibited in having themselves measured,” Guha says in a telephone interview. To ease the process, he developed a digital camera for a man to take a picture of his erect penis under conditions of minimal light. With a special algorithm developed to process the data captured by the camera, it was thus possible to arrive at the size of the penis in question. The camera trials were a success, but the method was too expensive. According to Guha, the camera’s development cost over Rs 2 lakh, and the ICMR did not have a budget large enough to make one for every centre. Instead, a kit that relied on measurement tape was put to use.
Penis Size in India
In Mumbai, the study was conducted by head of KEM (King Edward Memorial) Hospital’s Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, along with four other individuals. They began work in 2004, and while they had a promising start, it still took as long as two years to complete. Finding participants was the key challenge. KEM’s 30-year-old health centre at Malad proved to be a good location to get volunteers. “Youths living close to the centre, either because they knew the centre for so many years or for some other reason, readily agreed,” he recalls.
Each participant was paid a nominal sum (a figure the researchers do not disclose) as travel compensation. “They seemed very excited by the idea,” says Dr Shinde, of the centre’s early days, “They would just go into a room, work up an erection and call for measurements to be taken.” To facilitate the task for participants, Dr Shinde had at the centre a stack of magazines that could offer them visual stimulation. He also encouraged participants who were married to get their partners along.
“It was going so smoothly, and then we hit a [bad] patch.” Of the few thousand approached, very few agreed to participate. Many who had agreed at first failed to show up. “We had been discretionary at first,” Dr Shinde says. “At the centre, [when] we had a bit of luck going, we approached only those with whom we had built a rapport over time. But later, when we couldn’t find enough participants, all discretion was thrown to the wind.” Dr Shinde and his team started scrounging around in the hospital, asking relatives of patients and other visitors to sign up for the study. “We would take the male relatives of patients aside and just blurt out what the study was about and its objectives,” he says.
In Chandigarh, the data target was met much faster. Dr SK Singh, a urologist at the city’s Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, managed to secure the measurements of around 220 participants within just six months. But he claims to have hardly slept a wink in that period without having dreams of the study. “Every patient or individual I met in that period was a possible participant,” says the affable 55-year-old doctor. He would broach the subject in the gentlest fashion, he says, and only after building a rapport. He would throw in the bait of a free check-up, and if even this did not work, he would appeal to them as good citizens. “Do this for your country,” he would say.
The kit developed for the study had two paper strips. One would be wound around the penis to mark and measure its width, and the other, its length. Of each penis, three erections were to be measured, and the average noted as the final measurement. However, many volunteers were either unwilling to have someone hold and measure their erections, or if they did agree, they would turn flaccid at the slightest touch or glance. To counter these problems, Dr Sharma decided to train them in using the kit to measure their own organs. However, of the three measurements, at least one would be conducted by the investigator. These markings would be taken twice at the investigator’s clinic, and once in the privacy of their homes, where, it was believed, they would be most comfortable and able to attain their finest erections.
A well-known British scientist, Richard Lynn, recently published a study that lists and compares the average erect penis lengths of men in 113 countries. His findings, which appeared in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, range from the large sizes of the Congolese (which at an average 7.1 inches rank No 1) to the lengths of South and North Koreans, which average a little more than half that figure (at 3.8 inches, the smallest). Indians were part of the study too, but, with an average of just 4 inches, rank just above Koreans and Cambodians (3.9 inches), sharing the 110th spot with Thais (also 4 inches).
The source of Lynn’s data on Indian penis lengths is a little-known study called ‘Study on proper length and breadth specification for condoms based on anthropometric measurement’, which began with grand ambitions more than a decade ago and then slid into obscurity.
In the year 2000, Dr RS Sharma, head of the Reproductive Health and Nutrition division at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), heard of a study that the Union Ministry of Health wanted undertaken. Prompted by frequent reports of condom slippage in India, the Ministry was keen to know if this phenomenon could be traced to a discrepancy between Indian penis and condom sizes. It was a question that had rankled Dr Sharma earlier too. Condoms in India were made to global size specifications, and no proper study had ever been done on Indian sizes. Offered a chance by the then ICMR Director General NK Ganguly, Dr Sharma agreed to lead this research project.
Over the next few years, he and his team would have to go about the country asking men to unzip their trousers and offer their penises at their stiffest for measurement. When he started the study in 2001, Dr Sharma knew it would not be easy to accomplish the task in a hurry. But he did not expect it to take five years. “The average Indian penis is like no other,” says Dr Sharma, “Here, people from various ethnicities and physiques have to be accounted for.” The doctor decided to draft a task force of urologists and gynaecologists across the country. Many refused to be part of a study with such an “audacious subject”, but eventually he got a team ready to report sizes from seven centres—Patna, Guwahati, Cuttack, Chandigarh, Delhi, Mumbai and Hubli. Each would send at least 200 samples, and from this data, Dr Sharma would attempt to answer the truth about the size of the Indian penis.
Armed with the foresight that getting the consent of participants to have their erections measured would be difficult, Dr Sharma sought the help of Dr Sujoy Kumar Guha, a well-known biomedical engineer at IIT Kharagpur, who among other things has helped develop an injectable male contraceptive (although it is yet to get government approval). “It was an interesting subject [whether Indian penises were too small for condoms], one that many people believed could be true. It was crucial that participants not be inhibited in having themselves measured,” Guha says in a telephone interview. To ease the process, he developed a digital camera for a man to take a picture of his erect penis under conditions of minimal light. With a special algorithm developed to process the data captured by the camera, it was thus possible to arrive at the size of the penis in question. The camera trials were a success, but the method was too expensive. According to Guha, the camera’s development cost over Rs 2 lakh, and the ICMR did not have a budget large enough to make one for every centre. Instead, a kit that relied on measurement tape was put to use.
Penis Size in India
In Mumbai, the study was conducted by head of KEM (King Edward Memorial) Hospital’s Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, along with four other individuals. They began work in 2004, and while they had a promising start, it still took as long as two years to complete. Finding participants was the key challenge. KEM’s 30-year-old health centre at Malad proved to be a good location to get volunteers. “Youths living close to the centre, either because they knew the centre for so many years or for some other reason, readily agreed,” he recalls.
Each participant was paid a nominal sum (a figure the researchers do not disclose) as travel compensation. “They seemed very excited by the idea,” says Dr Shinde, of the centre’s early days, “They would just go into a room, work up an erection and call for measurements to be taken.” To facilitate the task for participants, Dr Shinde had at the centre a stack of magazines that could offer them visual stimulation. He also encouraged participants who were married to get their partners along.
“It was going so smoothly, and then we hit a [bad] patch.” Of the few thousand approached, very few agreed to participate. Many who had agreed at first failed to show up. “We had been discretionary at first,” Dr Shinde says. “At the centre, [when] we had a bit of luck going, we approached only those with whom we had built a rapport over time. But later, when we couldn’t find enough participants, all discretion was thrown to the wind.” Dr Shinde and his team started scrounging around in the hospital, asking relatives of patients and other visitors to sign up for the study. “We would take the male relatives of patients aside and just blurt out what the study was about and its objectives,” he says.
In Chandigarh, the data target was met much faster. Dr SK Singh, a urologist at the city’s Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, managed to secure the measurements of around 220 participants within just six months. But he claims to have hardly slept a wink in that period without having dreams of the study. “Every patient or individual I met in that period was a possible participant,” says the affable 55-year-old doctor. He would broach the subject in the gentlest fashion, he says, and only after building a rapport. He would throw in the bait of a free check-up, and if even this did not work, he would appeal to them as good citizens. “Do this for your country,” he would say.
The kit developed for the study had two paper strips. One would be wound around the penis to mark and measure its width, and the other, its length. Of each penis, three erections were to be measured, and the average noted as the final measurement. However, many volunteers were either unwilling to have someone hold and measure their erections, or if they did agree, they would turn flaccid at the slightest touch or glance. To counter these problems, Dr Sharma decided to train them in using the kit to measure their own organs. However, of the three measurements, at least one would be conducted by the investigator. These markings would be taken twice at the investigator’s clinic, and once in the privacy of their homes, where, it was believed, they would be most comfortable and able to attain their finest erections.
