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The size of a man's manhood affects intelligence
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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Australian researchers have shared the results of a rather unusual, but very interesting study. The specialists have compiled an international rating of the size of erect penises from data obtained from all over the world.
The fact that the size of the genital organ is an eternally pressing issue for males is hardly a unique discovery. It is enough to read the works of at least somewhat authoritative psychologists and psychoanalysts to understand that the attitude of the stronger sex towards their dignity is very reverent. Much more reverent than that of women, most of whom are, to put it mildly, neutral towards their genitals. It is enough to show some macho a picture of a threat to the male groin - and he will immediately demonstrate a number of symptoms indicating his special emotional and even physiological state. The connection of the male consciousness with the lower body, first of all, instinctively, and also for a number of other reasons (for example, cultural) - is the strongest and completely special. The male "I" is directly associated with the organ below. So the size of the penis has worried, worries, and, most likely, will continue to worry the stronger sex for a long time.
But what did scientists from Australia manage to find out?
Perhaps, someone will not believe it. Will doubt the reliability of the data obtained. But one way or another, neither Europeans nor Asians made it into the top five. The undisputed leaders in this sense were residents of Africa and South America. Thus, men from the African Congo came out on top in the "golden five" with an indicator of 17.93 cm (keep in mind: the rating is made up of, so to speak, average indicators). Second and third places were taken by men living in Ecuador and Ghana, and fourth and fifth - in Columbia and Venezuela: their indicators vary within 17 "plus or minus".
Galloping through Europe
Did you know that paprika helps to strengthen the mucous membranes and enhance male potency, so much so that it excites even the laziest representatives of the stronger sex in a sexual sense? Perhaps this is why Hungarian men turned out to be the leaders among European nations in this rating, because paprika, or simply sweet pepper (as well as spice from it) is one of the most respected products in the local cuisine. The average penis size of Hungarians is quite an impressive figure - 16.1 cm.
Next on the list are the French, Danes and Italians. Germans, Turks and Scandinavians are in the third group: from 13.48 to 14.88. Russian men with their 13.21 cm occupy an honorable place in the fourth group - after Belarusians (14.63) and Ukrainians (13.97), next to Americans and Australians.
Faraway Asia!
Penises measured in Asians were at the bottom of the ranking. The record in this group belongs to residents of South Korea and the DPRK - men from these countries have to be content with members averaging 9.66 cm in length. Of course, one can be ironic about this topic, but let's be honest: who is stopped by this?
If such indicators do affect the ability to conceive, then only in the strongest sense, which is quite easy to verify. And judging by the fact that the level of depression among residents of the Asian region is exemplary low, these centimeters do not make anyone suffer unnecessarily.
[ Long penis - short mind
Having analyzed the "picture of the world", experts came to the paradoxical conclusion that the impressive size of the male member, oddly enough, can be a sign of... low mental abilities. Having compared the size of the penis with the coefficient of intellectual development, scientists found out that the highest IQ level - from 97 to 108 - can boast of those representatives of the stronger sex who in this rating took, it would seem, unenviable positions - the Chinese, Americans and Australians.
As for Ukrainians, our compatriots found themselves in the second group with very good indicators between 88 and 97. But residents of African countries turned into outsiders, perhaps thus proving that the size of the genitals is compensated by a reduced level of mental development.