Does penis size matter? Evolutionary psychologist tackles age-old question
dailystar.co.ukone sex study finding that 71% of respondents agreed that size matters when it comes to sexual pleasure.David Buss is an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, studying how humans have evolved to desire different traits.Now, in an interview with science podcaster Lex Fridman, David has suggested that the focus on penis size may only be a recent development in human evolution.Lex asked his guest whether penis size matters for women in sexual selection, with David responding: “There’s controversy about that,” before acknowledging that he’d seen very little scientific research on the topic.“I think that there’s individual variability.
This is something that comes up again when I ask women in my classes, ‘what do women want?’ Some will say a large penis,” he added.“But I think there’s variability in that preference and it also might depend in part on the variability of the woman’s anatomy.”In the aforementioned study, run by digital health clinic Medzino, it was found that more than half of Gen Zers think that penis size is important, compared to only 29% of their younger millennial counterparts.Therefore, David suggested: “My guess is that it’s something that is perhaps a quirk of culture or something that is evolutionarily recent.“But I don’t know, it’s a topic that hasn’t been explored much, I’ve never done work on it.”This comes as health experts from MARS claimed to have revealed the average UK penis size, ranking the UK’s men in 66th place on the global scale at 5.17 inches.And although these responses might leave lads fretting over the size of their member, other sexperts have acknowledged that penises that are too big can cause discomfort in sexual partners, and stressed the importance of.
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