{"id":1527,"date":"2026-01-25T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2026-01-25T10:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:31:14","slug":"women-do-find-men-with-big-penises-more-attractive-academic-study-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"Women do find men with big penises more attractive, academic study confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"

They say it\u2019s not about the size, but how you use it. However, it turns out that women generally prefer men who are well-endowed, per a new academic study published in\u00a0PLOS Biology.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe confirmed our earlier finding that women find a larger penis more attractive,\u201d wrote lead author Dr Upama Aich, from the University of Western\u00a0Australia, in a\u00a0Conversation Piece discussing the phallic findings.<\/a><\/p>\n

The team had set out to determine why, relative to our body size, the human penis is disproportionately thick and long compared to other great apes, when it\u2019s primary function is to \u201ctransfer sperm.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhile the human penis functions primarily to transfer sperm, our result suggests its unusual large size evolved as a sexual ornament to attract females rather than purely as a badge of status to scare males, although it does both,\u201d said co-author Michael D Jennions, a Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Biology at Australian National University.Kaspars Grinvalds \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They found that a titanic tallkywacker served two purposes: To attract mates and to also threaten rivals \u2014 much like a deer\u2019s antlers or lion\u2019s mane.<\/p>\n

To determine this multipurpose tool\u2019s dual functions, the researchers recruited more over 600 male and 200 female participants \u2014 and\u00a0had them rate computer-generated\u00a0<\/a>male figures that varied in height, body shape, and, most importantly, penis size.<\/p>\n

They asked female participants to rate figures\u2019 sexual attractiveness while men were asked to assess how threatening they appeared, both in terms of fighting ability and as a competitor in the sack.<\/p>\n

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The well-hung come out on top in this scientific battle of the bulge.Vadzim \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Schlong story short: Women rated men who were taller with a V-shaped upper body and larger penis more attractive. However, there was a point where a further increase in penis size or height had diminishing value.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, their male counterparts saw being well-hung as an \u201cindicator of a rival with both greater fighting ability and as a stronger sexual competitor,\u201d researchers argued.<\/p>\n

From this, the researchers deduced that penises evolved to be big due to both the sexual preferences of females, and as sign of combative prowess in males.<\/p>\n

They noted that humans walked upright long before the invention of clothing, meaning that one\u2019s manhood would always be on display, like an badge broadcasting their status to rivals and potential mates alike.<\/p>\n

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Men associated larger manhoods with sexual prowess in rivals.Pixel-Shot \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, ultimately the researchers surmised that sexual preference played a larger role in penis proportions, given that the \u201ceffect of penis size on attractiveness was four to seven times higher than its effect as a signal of fighting ability,\u201d per the study.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the human penis functions primarily to transfer sperm, our result suggests its unusually large size evolved as a sexual ornament to attract females rather than purely as a badge of status to scare males, although it does both,\u201d said co-author Michael D Jennions, a Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Biology at Australian National University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They say it\u2019s not about the size, but how you use it. However, it turns out that women generally prefer men who are well-endowed, per a new academic study published in\u00a0PLOS Biology. \u201cWe confirmed our earlier finding that women find a larger penis more attractive,\u201d wrote lead author Dr Upama Aich, from the University of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsliked.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}