No longer content with their "peaceful rise," it seems that the Chinese are coming up / they want the world to know / they've got to let it show:
HONG KONG (Reuters) - 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.
"There has always been the myth that westerners have bigger penises and their (sexual) ability is better."
I don't know where they're telling that story, but it sounds like it's time to move and take advantage of some great PR! But seriously, I've heard all the baseless smears on this particular subject, and I must say that they are unconscionable, wicked, vile things!
That's why this breakthrough study must come as a relief to Chinese men -- and rhinoceroses and tigers everywhere -- who now have nothing to suspect or fear about the size of their units. This is all thanks to:
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 3.33 inches, which compared favorably with similar studies on other men overseas.
Germans have average lengths of about 3.4 inches, Israelis 3.27 inches, Turks 3.07 inches and Filippinos 2.89 inches. Italians were the longest at 3.54 inches, and Americans averaged 3.46 inches.
The study did not measure the penises when they were erect.
So there, you see, the-- d'oh!
Let's revist that last sentence again, shall we?
The study did not measure the penises when they were erect.
uh...yeah. *ookay.*
Now, I'm no scientist, but it seems to me that if you were going to conduct an exhaustive study to help educate the world and dispell ignorance about the size of Chinese penises, that you would measure the penis in both flaccid and erect states. It's really quite elementary: in the biology we don't measure the size and morphology of catepillars and exclude data on post-chrysalis butterflies, do we? It's this kind of shoddy science that would lead somebody to think that these Chinese researches are, in fact, hiding something!
Besides the completely self-contained set-up and cheap shot that is this essence of this article, there is some other value to it. It seems that Ian Hemet was right when he blogged:
Furthermore, one aspect of Chinese culture you don't read much about is a nationwide inferiority complex. I don't know what else to call it. There's overcompensation everywhere, from the constant proclomations of how great China and the Chinese people are, to the flogging of this or that achievement--
It's as if th-- (heh-heh, he said "flogging," - ed.)
What the fu-- when did I get an editor?
Where was I?
(such as the first Chinese man in space a few years ago), to how big the population is, to... well, everything. Many of the people protest way too much about how great and wonderful and important China is, and it makes you suspect that they're afraid it's not true.
No shit. Makes you wonder who the genius was that came up with the acronym PRC.
Man, I gotta tell ya, all those numbers on GDP growth are looking awfully shady right about now.
I almost went here. It seems that with pissing on your nuts, you have to rely on the brain, solely. Hence martial arts, crouching tiger, hidden penis, flying something something something. I keep having this image of an african tribe with their biggest innovation. The spear. That's bad.
Posted by: Leo | Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 07:35 PM