ust read this news item, it amazes and amuses me on several levels.

The obsession of men with penis size.

The gullibility of people to pay good money for obvious bullshit (and not just to fertilize their garden).

The fact that people actually read spam ads over the Internet.

Now first of all, everyone knows there's no such thing as a penis-enlarging pill.  I mean good lord, can there be a man alive who really thinks taking a pill will increase the size of anything on their body, other than perhaps their gut if it was an appetite stimulant? It's just a ridiculous concept.  You see this sort of thing and laugh, sure no one is actually wasting money on it.

So where the hell did they get $30 dollars in assets, much less $30,000,000?  It must be a typo.

Among the items seized were luxury cars, including a Lamborghini, Rolls Royce, Ferrari and Bentley, $20 million in bank accounts, $3 million in cash and a bounty of luxury jewelry, according to a list of the items.

The initial cost of the pills was $59.99, plus shipping and handling for a month's supply and $39.99 a month thereafter. Records showed the pills cost $2.50 per bottle to manufacture.

So they're selling M&Ms for $40 a month, with their only real costs being advertising.  They even charge for shipping and handling, which is another scam.  I'm just astounded at the amount of income they made though.  It's literally mind-boggling to me; the sort of crap people will believe and spend money on.  I can see some guys who are very small (or think they are) and will try anything.  They probably know there's no way some pill will do anything for their size, but just in case, they'll give it a try.  But the people who were selling that crap had literally tens of millions just lying around!  That must be tip of the iceberg, and they've got houses around the country or world, foreign bank accounts, stocks, mutual funds, etc.

I have a natural inclination to distrust everything and everyone, especially if it involves spending any money, probably since I never have any.  But even if I did, I wouldn't want to waste it on crap like this. The penis pills are such an obvious scam and rip off, I just can't believe any adult would waste money on it.  It just goes to show you how desperate men are about this sort of thing.

Should they be?  Do women really care?

Well yes.  Yes they do.

Of the women I've known well enough to talk about such things with honestly, either girlfriends or just friends, all but one have freely admitted that size is important to them. It's not that they can't become aroused or achieve satisfaction with a man who is small, but they all prefer a larger cock.  Now how large is "large" varies a lot, and most of them don't really have any actual estimate in inches or centimeters or water displacement; they just prefer larger if possible.

The average erect penis is just under six inches, and something like 90% of all men are between 5-7 inches.  So really, in poor light, it would be damn hard to tell average from +/- an inch.

Besides those facts, size is of utmost importance to most men (hence the $30m in penis pill sales) and the vast majority of women prefer larger also.

In addition to women I've talked to about it, I often make a joke about it at work, and almost unanimously the verdict is that size does matter.  The situation is that I'll be selling cotton candy, and quite often a group of girls, or women with their boyfriends, will buy one or more than one.  Quite often one will demand, more or less innocently, a bigger one than the first one I pick to give to them.  I'll usually say (depending on their age, who else is in ear shot, etc) something like, "Now now, you know size doesn't matter."

The reply to this has come to be very familiar, since the woman or women almost always reply, immediately, "Oh yes it does!".  I don't mean they laugh and mumble that, or sometimes one will say it as a joke.  I have this conversation 2 or 3x a night, and I could not tell you the last time the women didn't instantly shout that it did matter.  Even when they are like 14 and you'd think they wouldn't know or care or have the nerve to comment one way or the other; they always take it as a penis-size reference (which is up to them, it could easily be taken as a neutral comment if they weren't thinking about cock-size already) and always leap all over my joke to deny what I'm saying.

Now I'm sure that some of that is joking from them also, and if this happened once in a while I wouldn't mention it, but the reply is always the same, and always immediate.  It's as if I had shouted "USA sucks!" at a VFW meeting; the reply is so fast and almost Pavlovian.

Anyway, my take from this is that women really do prefer a larger penis.  I have talked to women who have admitted to being interested in a guy, seeing or feeling that he was small, and breaking off any relationship.  Straight dumping the zero, to get with a big-dicked hero.  Sad but true.  Women like a bigger one for the same reason they like a handsome man, or a tall man, or a muscular man; psychologically it's more satisfying or attractive.  But they also prefer the actual physical sensation during intercourse.

Of course too big is a problem also, it can hurt bumping into the cervix, you're rather unlikely to get any anal sex, women performing orally tend to get tired jaws and feel like they're choking, etc.  But you might get laid a lot more to begin with, if it looked better to them.

However I think the biggest factor for men is psychological.  You can get very Freudian on the whole thing, with the concept that a boy becomes aware of penis size early on, and sees his father or adult men naked, and they are of course far larger than he is.  This image sticks in his mind all his life, subconsciously at least, so he always feels like he's smaller.  It's also reinforced by porno, since the guys in that are 99% freakishly-large, usually 8" or more, which is 90th percentile, plus they tend to have their pubic hair trimmed or shaved way back, which makes them look even bigger.  And of course they're usually doing some relatively hot chick, and fully-erect, so they seem quite manly.

How much of that Freudian stuff matters, and how much it's just a common insecurity isn't clear.  I'd think an interesting survey would be if gay men were as hung up about it.  In theory they are seeing other guy's cocks a lot more often than straight men, and seeing the same cock both hard and soft, so they'd have a more realistic appraisal of average size, and how they fit into the hierarchy.

In any event, the biggest benefit of a big dick for a man is probably psychological.  Adding an inch or two to a small or average dick must be something like going from balding to a full head of hair; a confident man can do fine with any of the above, but an average, insecure person will get a big confidence boost from the improvement.

I suppose I should say just how I measure up, after all this discussion, but I think that's probably more than almost everyone reading this wants to know, and I could just be lying anyway.  You can draw your own conclusions by the fact that I've always been able and eager to talk to women about penis size without worries?  Or perhaps I'm microscopic, so they take pity on me and can discuss penis size objectively, since I'm so laughably tiny...

No, I'm being too modest, I'm actually hung like a pachyderm.