Interesting article I found on PinkNews.
According to a new study, penis size does matter to some
people, but they may not be the ones you would expect.
University of Brighton senior lecturer Dr Christopher
Morriss-Roberts suggests that in the bedroom, penis size doesn’t matter, but
that to sportsmen in a locker room the situation is different.
In researching his PHD, Dr Morriss-Roberts interviewed four
straight athletes and four gay ones, all who play a variety of sports like
tennis, football and rugby.
His findings suggested that the athletes, gay and straight,
were likely to look at other men’s penises in the changing room, comparing
different sizes.
It also found that athletes were likely to “idolise” those
with larger penises, and those teammates were more likely to be leaders in the
team.
Some of the gay respondents said they felt self conscious
changing in front of straight men, and one saying he thought it might be
”unfair to change in front of heterosexual athletes, in case they felt
uncomfortable”.
While straight athletes said they attempted to maintain
semi-erections so their penises looked bigger, gay athletes didn’t as they felt
they had to act in a ”heteronormative manner to de-emphasize queer behaviour”.
Writing for OutSports, Dr Morriss-Roberts said: “This
knowing of who has a large c*ck and who didn’t within a homosocial environment
helped individual sporting males climb up a social hierarchy of importance,
“Those with the larger penises were revered and idolised by
their teammates as a symbol of masculinity.”
The size of teammates appendages also were the basis for
jokes outside of the locker room, and were discussed and joked about in social
situations.
The reputation of those with larger penises was dififcult to
maintain, his findings suggested, and those teammates had to maintain more
active sex lives.
According to the Dr Morris-Roberts, those with smaller
penises, especially if they were overweight, had to work much harder in order
to climb the social hierarchy.
He wrote: “In the thesis I argue that a large penis is now
an essential component of hegemonic masculinity, and should be considered a new
tenet of masculine capital – taking into account the significance it has on
social hierarchy in the sporting environment. I have called this
cock-supremacy.”
He concluded: “My work suggests that cock size does matter
in sport, irrespective of sexuality, sporting discipline and age.”
