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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff Mom never told you?

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Speaker 1: From House top works dot Com. Hello, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. This is Molly and I'm Kristen Kristen. Today,

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Speaker 1: our question is weather size matters. It's a topic that

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Speaker 1: has been requested by many listeners so many times. It's

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Speaker 1: an age old question that you very often see. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you're reading a Lady Meg, if you're reading a

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Speaker 1: men's magazine, they're going to talk about the size of

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Speaker 1: a man's penis. So I have a little story to

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Speaker 1: share with you guys about um, something that happened to

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Speaker 1: me this week related to penis size. But it's pg rat.

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Speaker 1: So I made sure you guys, I've made sure Molly

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Speaker 1: wasn't gonna silt up this podcast. So I've been taking

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Speaker 1: this exercise class ten people to guys, eight girls basically,

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Speaker 1: and if we're doing this exercise where it just strengthen

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Speaker 1: your abdominal muscles and you lay on your back and

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Speaker 1: because that, you know, requires you to draw on your

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Speaker 1: be very hard. If your abdominal muses aren't that good,

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Speaker 1: some pressure off your abs. So we've been doing this

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Speaker 1: exercise a few times and finally this guy looks up

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Speaker 1: and he's like, it's really funny to see what you

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Speaker 1: girls think six inches looks like. Because I don't know

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Speaker 1: And he was not trying to imply that, you know,

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Speaker 1: He was just making He was just implying that if

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Speaker 1: then he felt that we must think that guys are

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Speaker 1: is huge that you girls are thinking of. And uh,

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Speaker 1: because six inches is the average size of the male penis.

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Speaker 1: I think that as anecdote proves that even when exercising,

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Speaker 1: men are worried about the size of their penis. According

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Speaker 1: to our research, that is absolutely correct and it makes

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Speaker 1: total sense. You know that he these men were able

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Speaker 1: to exactly gauge six inches, which, as we'll go into

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Speaker 1: in more detail, is roughly the size of the average

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Speaker 1: you are so concerned about penile size, whereas women, yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't seem to care. Yeah, and so let's get into

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Speaker 1: some myths. It's get into some measurements because apparently at

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Speaker 1: So I think, onbably, the best place for us to

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Speaker 1: start is with this study that we found from the

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Speaker 1: British Journal of Eurology entitled Peniles, Eyes and the quote

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Speaker 1: unquote small penis Syndrome. And guys, before we get all

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Speaker 1: freaked out about small pen penis syndrome, just bear with

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Speaker 1: us because the study actually busts a lot of common

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Speaker 1: mms about male genitals. Right, this is great, it's great news.

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Speaker 1: But they do start with a historic look at why

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Speaker 1: beginning of time, Uh, penises have been equated with masculinity. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: like the Topinama of Brazil, the men would encourage poisonous

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Speaker 1: not least, the average size of the penis all right,

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Speaker 1: more myths? Smilling, Here's a myth that's always intrigued me, Kristen,

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing that was most fascinating to me

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Speaker 1: about all of these penile studies, Molly. It's a fact

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Speaker 1: interesting question, Jen Kristen, one that slate dot com dived

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