Has anyone seen this study?

I saw this in the news the other day and thought people would appreciate it. Apparently, "anogential distance" is the medical term for "taint size":

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/05/12/study-links-crotch-length-infertility-men/

And how many of our tax dollars paid for this bit of tomfoolery? Don't get me wrong, Baylor is a widely respected institution, but even they will find a way to spend money in a perhaps less than necessary fashion. Next time my partner and I are together, I will take special pains to measure his anogenital distance. I already know how long his penis is and I can say unequivocably that it works just fine for me!

Play On!

LadyDoc

Great reply Ladydoc! That kind of thing is common in academics. Very often useful and applicable research is produced. Sometimes, they just do studies because that's their interest. My favorite part is the doctor who said she has been saying this for years. I can picture her in her office after the study was published yelling at her colleagues, "See! See! I told you all this is significant!" lol.

What a waste of money. I f they want to throw money away give it to me. May be should do research and i got get a big grant to come up with something stupid as well

Thankfully, it's deemed 'noninvasive,' so male patients will simply be asked to whip it out at the intake desk. 😃 It may also reopen all those other interconnected issues men have, about penis size, etc.

Haha, I remember reading something about this a while back....

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/ghv8i/key_genital_measurement_linked_to_male_fertility/c1noksx

someone who took part in the study ^

full published text with diagrams of the measurements made v

http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.1103421&representation=PDF

Again, our tax dollars hard at work!

Just as a matter of curiosity who thinks these things up?

I saw this in the news the other day and thought people would appreciate it. Apparently, "anogential distance" is the medical term for "taint size":

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/05/12/study-links-crotch-length-infertility-men/

There's no real reason to scoff at this anymore than other types of medical studies, and certainly no reason to do the whole 'tax dollars at work' routine. Since apparently this variable was known to determine more or lesser fertility levels in (stud) animals, there is a valid reason to wonder how this effects humans.

And while the whole thing sounds funny and embarrassing, if it's never studied, researchers will never know what the determining factors really are.

I'd also suppose that depending on the news source and their own (often ideological) take on the study, it can presented as a frivolous and naughty waste of time or something more serious that just happens to involve sex parts. Maybe it''s also thinking out of the box. You know, in movies it's usually the hero who ends up saving the day who comes up with an 'out of the box' solution. Of course, this is no movie and there is no hero involved in such a study, but still.

Here's a better and more detailed explanation of the study.

http://scicurious.scientopia.org/2011/05/13/friday-weird-science-guest-post-the-distance-between-your-testicles-and-your-anus-taint-unimportant/

Just as a matter of curiosity who thinks these things up?

Probably people who are curious about many things other people don't think curious ... 😃 😃

Anogenital distance ? How do you measure this exactly ?

Anogenital distance ? How do you measure this exactly ?

It's explained, with a diagram even, in the link I provided below. What position to assume and how it is measured from where to where ... rather embarrassing actually and perhaps even a bit hilarious upon first hearing, which may explain the incredulity and scoffing. But I guess the anal opening is as good a ground zero as any other place.

For fantasy stories I've always liked the concept very much and surmised it could be extended to other measurements, the medical words to which I don't know - anus to navel, anus to breasts/nipples, anus to vaginal opening and so on ... really an interesting concept in the way of humiliation and embarrassment. I also wonder if any such measurements were ever taken in the previous century in the guise of ethnic/anthropological research? It wouldn't surprise me. There were continents full of colonial peoples who had to little to say.

Interesting information indeed, thanks to agracier for the link.

I have no doubt this procedure will be included in many play exams from now on.

The difference in anogenital distance might be related to the testicles being in a lower temperature position when the distance is greater, which can allow for better sperm production in the same manner that less fertile men are told to wear boxers instead of tighty whities.

Here's a bit more of a scholarly article on the subject and methods.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092750/

I have no doubt this procedure will be included in many play exams from now on.

I wouldn't be surprised if Dr. Sigrid Kitzsler already included these measurements in her assessment examinations ... ha ha ha.

An added bit of embarrassment. Use a small inserted dildo as anchoring point for the anal ground zero starting point. A string or perhaps a thin measuring tape could be attached and then used to measure multiple distances. Taut stretching of the measuring device should certainly keep the patient aware of what's going on ... 😃

Here's a bit more of a scholarly article on the subject and methods. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092750/

Good article, though I can't say to have understood all of it from start to finish, still enough to follow. I did notice the following:

Funding: These authors have no support or funding to report.

meaning I suppose that the authors did the study on their own time and dime, using instruments and devices already on hand ... if so, that's what I call Heroes of Science.

^^^^ They had the subjects and the supplies were a ruler, pencil and paper in the clinic and a microscope and slides in the lab.

Seems inexpensive enough to fund yourself.

No, they had digital calipers. I paid at least $20 for mine...

If approached from a common sense POV, it only makes sense that men with smaller penises are less fertile. take a guy with a 10 inch for example. If he has been regularly ploughing his SO then her body eventually adapts to the cervix being penetrated. Upon ejaculation, the sperm have now bypassed the most deadly part of their journey to the egg and that is the vagina itself. With this out of the way, the sperm now face a less dangerous trip to the uterus and the egg, thereby making fertility far more possible.

If approached from a common sense POV, it only makes sense that men with smaller penises are less fertile. take a guy with a 10 inch for example.

That does indeed sound intuitively logical. But you still always have to do the math to be sure.

Anyway, the unusual part of this study had to do with the anogenital length. That would otherwise seem to be of less consequence, but if a statistical study shows it does matter, voila - something new learned and something new to explain and see if it can be of any practical or predictive value.

The notion that penile length is associated with increased fertility is ridiculous. Otherwise natural selection would have selected against shorter ones and they wouldn't exist now. Banging the cervix would only alienate the female partner. Men and their conceptualization of their genitals are totally absurd and stupid.

Almost as ridiculous as the notion of balls swollen with semen.

If you think it's ridiculous then it is..... But it's really not lol...

It's science (Ron Burgundy)

If approached from a common sense POV, it only makes sense that men with smaller penises are less fertile. take a guy with a 10 inch for example. If he has been regularly ploughing his SO then her body eventually adapts to the cervix being penetrated. Upon ejaculation, the sperm have now bypassed the most deadly part of their journey to the egg and that is the vagina itself. With this out of the way, the sperm now face a less dangerous trip to the uterus and the egg, thereby making fertility far more possible.

That's ridiculous. The cervix doesn't get penetrated by a penis at all. The cervix is at the anterior aspect of the vagina, NOT in line with its length. Take a look at a diagram of the female system you'll see. A penis can slide by and bump the cervix, but the cervix's position makes it impossible to be penetrated with a penis

Sorry but I'm with Susie here. If men with larger penises were more fertile then in a few generations large penises would be the norm. What if this continued unchecked? Can you imagine how big they would get? The bell shaped curve exists for a reason.

Susie I see your logic and agree with it but what happens when long dong silver runs out of room? I'm just going by those radical porn films.. You know, the ones where a 5 foot tall porn star is getting ploughed balls deep by some guy with a 10+ inch long penis. does the Vagina stretch that deep to accommodate and if so, how deep can it stretch?

Susie I see your logic and agree with it but what happens when long dong silver runs out of room? I'm just going by those radical porn films.. You know, the ones where a 5 foot tall porn star is getting ploughed balls deep by some guy with a 10+ inch long penis. does the Vagina stretch that deep to accommodate and if so, how deep can it stretch?

How big is a full term baby? Sorry, couldn't resist.

Those 5' nothing porn stars don't take the 10" monster on their first day of work. All human tissues can change to accommodate the stresses they experience, vaginas too.

VERY few can ever take 10 inches in their vagina.

If you look at the films, those guys with 10 inches are fucking their women from a distance-NOT pounding against them pelvis to pelvis.

Susie is entirely correct. Those guys have to wearing rubber spacers if they thrust all the way in. My ex said having her cervix pounded was very painful. I like to bury my wood so to speak. As Albert King says in "Crosscut Saw".

Then again, I've seen women get vaginally fisted to mid forearm...