Mautz suggests that the preference for bigger packages is 'consistent with a mate-choice perspective.'Īs an amateur scientist, I've been extolling the merits of big penises my whole adult life. Yet this latest news does have the same sort of no duh resonance as that 2012 study that revealed men like bigger breasts. But suffice to say the report could also have been called 'Why Ryan Lochte Can Have Any Straight Woman on the Planet.' This, as a friend of mine was swift to dub it, will be called the Jon Hamm Effect.Ī very small sampling of apparently heterosexual women gazing at artificially created images of men in their flaccid glory is not exactly a flawless case for what Spinal Tap once referred to as 'armadillos in our trousers.' And the study found that other factors, such as height and shoulder-to-hip ratio, also figure prominently in a man's appeal. Brian Mautz, the study's lead author, told NBC this week that when the women rated the men on their sexual allure, 'As you increase penis size, the amount of attractiveness scores gets bigger.'Īnd, the study noted, not only did the women rate the better-endowed men more sexually attractive, they spent more time gazing – no doubt fondly - at their pictures. This earth-shattering revelation comes to us via a study from the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), in which a team at Australian National University showed 105 women a variety of computer-generated images of nude male figures.

Or, as an NBC News headline put it this week, 'Women like men with bigger penises.' Because SCIENCE. This just in – it's not the motion of the ocean.

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