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Saturday, April 23, 2005

Hilarious Journal Articles Part 5

An occasional series. To recap:If anyone has the journal reference for this, I'd appreciate it. From MSNBC and Reuters:

Penis Size among Different Nationalities

Chinese men have no reason to feel inferior about the size of their penises, according to a Hong Kong study which showed local men measured up to others elsewhere in the world below the belt. "Our conclusion is that Hong Kong people are no smaller than western men, where their penises are concerned,”" said Chan Lung-wai, director of the Urology Center at the Union Hospital, who headed the study...

A group of scientists in Hong Kong spent five months from October last year measuring 148 ethnic Chinese volunteers aged between 23 and 93. The average length of their flaccid penises was 8.46 centimeters (3.4 inches), which compared favorably with similar studies on other men overseas.

Germans have average lengths of about 8.6 centimeters, Israelis 8.3, Turks 7.8 and Filipinos 7.35. Italians were the longest at 9 centimeters and Americans averaged 8.8...

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