c/nottheonion · by FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca · 156d

US man issues challenge to disprove his claim of having world’s smallest penis to raise micropenis awareness

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/28/north-carolina-micropenis-challenge

North Carolina’s Michael Phillips revealed that he had a 0.38in member in bid to reduce stigma of the condition

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captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 149 pts · 156d (17 replies)

Damn, that's impressively small. Also bro's got some confidence, respect.

Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 156d (2 replies)

Aint got much dick, but dude has balls.

PixeIOrange@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 156d

O'O

MrShankles@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 156d

By way of metaphor and ratio! Dude's packing confidence and balls

orbitz@lemmy.ca · 40 pts · 156d (8 replies)

Yeah if he is correct I wouldn't want to shout that out myself but congrats on him for bringing awareness to an issue that I'm sure many men's lives have been worse for. Not like we can control the size of any body part but it would make for difficult relationships. Yes I know size isn't everything but that's a bit different category of issue is all.

NKBTN@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 156d (7 replies)

I think the full phrase is "size isn't everything, its how you use it" but bro has nothing to use. As disabilities go, its one of the easier ones to have - able bodied and normal-looking with all five senses. It sucks that he misses out on sexual relationships, but so do loads of people with much worse conditions.

IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 156d (1 reply)

I'm not sure he misses out on sexual relationships at all though. Strap ons are a thing, and can be very effective (ask a lesbian, or a trans man!) and there are LOTS of ways to have sex that don't involve the traditional act people tend to reduce it down to.

Also, disabled people also have sex. The idea that they don't is ableist AF.

NKBTN@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 155d

Of course many do, but many also don't/can't - I can declare that as an objective fact. Ableism indeed.

DreadPirateSnuggles@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 156d (1 reply)

The worst part is probably all the small dick jokes. I know that would fuck with me.

NKBTN@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 155d

Yeah the jokes are universal too, there's no getting away from it. Feminism has stood up against body shaming (with limited success) but even amongst many feminists there's still small dick jokes

orbitz@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 155d

Also when you get older sometimes even as a guy you may not be able to perform, it happens. So as long as you have an understanding partner you can get around those times. Mean I'm unsure on actual performance issues but really penis in vagina, while most common (I think?) is only a bit of what couples can do for fun in that area. Hell I think there's so much more besides that but not for this topic.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 154d

He said he was in a good relationship recently

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 154d

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Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 156d (3 replies)

Ironic big dick energy.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 156d (1 reply)

Dick size horseshoe theory

Fedizen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 155d

I think this is probably alarmingly accurate

damnedfurry@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 156d

Unironic major example of how "[size] dick energy" is a really stupid, and inherently body-shaming, expression in the first place.

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 155d

Yeah that took balls.

celeste@kbin.earth · 98 pts · 156d (6 replies)

I read a blog post years ago by a trans dude about how seeing how little the winner of a smallest penis contest gave a shit helped him not give a shit about his own dick situation.

so, i guess it's nice for insecure people to see stuff like this?

hanrahan@piefed.social · 72 pts · 156d (5 replies)

I read a blog post years ago by a trans dude about how seeing how little the winner of a smallest penis contest gave a shit helped him not give a shit about his own dick situation.

I'm convinced body dysmorphia is linked to a lack of some public nudity at beaches etc where you can see fat, short, flabby etc all on display and realize you're kinda normal, our only interaction with nudity is the body types seen in porn.

Anivia@feddit.org · 20 pts · 156d (1 reply)

I live in an area of Germany where nudist beaches (FKK in Germany) are very popular, and it doesn't seem to help body dismorphia at all

HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 155d

Get nuder.

NKBTN@feddit.uk · 18 pts · 156d (1 reply)

You do occasionally see flaccid cocks in media and IRL, but only from guys confident enough to show it in the first place, which skews public perception a fair bit.

I went to school with a girl who'd only ever seen erections drawn. To her first boyfriend, she said "is that it?" the first time she saw a boner. It was a perfectly average cock, but she'd been expecting something the size of a cucumber

Cethin@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 155d

You do, but sometimes those aren't real. I remember watching some behind the scenes stuff for Spartacus, which has a lot of flacid cocks on screen, and some of the actors wore prosthetic cocks instead of showing their own. I assume that larger men were more likely to show their own, and smaller men were more likely to have a prosthetic (though I have no evidence for this), so it still skews things.

cows_are_underrated@feddit.org · 3 pts · 155d

Its not specific to nudity at beaches, but more of a general thing. Expectations about what a body should look like and the extreme focus on a binary gender is incredibly harmful for everyone, since it creates boxes were everyone tries to fit into. When we AS society collectively work on demolishing these boxes it remives a lot of stress for everyone who previously had been excluded by these boxes. Realizing, that bodies are different and that it is no shame to look different from some arbitrary beauty standard, that's unreachable for most people, is one of the best things that can happen to you.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 156d

"It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it works out for him."

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 65 pts · 156d (29 replies)

Seeing the insane amount of giant pickup trucks Americans drive, this guy is just a waterdrop in a giant ocean.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 155d (28 replies)

They say in the article 0.6% of men. That sounds like a small number, but if you have around the usual 300 Facebook friends, then you know someone.

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 154d (3 replies)

I never had to give my size to anyone. How do they know everyone's size to come to the 0.6%? That's only the known cases. The penis-size-compensation trucks say otherwise.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 154d (2 replies)

As with all things, you can arrive at trustworthy estimates for things by surveying a sampling of people and then applying statistics. You don’t have to ask every person on earth. This is called the law of large numbers.

Also, they are defining micropenis as 2.6 inches so there are probably even more people who don’t meet this definition but would like more size.

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 154d (1 reply)

But in general, people with a small penis add a few centimeters when asked about their size. Some also add a few inches but no one knows what that ancient system works like. So when I hear a penis size in inches it already sounds small.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 153d

Yeah. We’re on a different topic now from “how do they know - no one asked me.”

I would hope they made this very anonymous to reduce any incentive to lie. But I am sure dudes even lie to themselves, so it is probably difficult to get good numbers. Maybe someone has studied how much people lie about this and they used that to adjust the estimates?

Canconda@lemmy.ca · -6 pts · 154d (23 replies)

Probability is bullshit. If you have 23 people in a room the chances of 2 of them having the same birthday are mathematically 50%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

edit: I keep forgetting you can't make jokes without explaining them to redditors.

I even italicized "mathematic" out of reverence.

No saving y'all.

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 154d (19 replies)

Can you explain the math?

Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 154d (6 replies)

Adding one more person adds more than one comparison. Assuming birthdays are evenly distributed (they aren't), 2 people have a 1/365.25 chance of sharing a birthday. But adding a third person adds 2 more chances. Adding that 23rd person adds 22 more chances than adding the 22nd person. 1+2+3...+22=253 separate checks, of which only one needs to match.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 154d (5 replies)

So does this apply to the problem: 0.6% of people have micropenis. How many friends do you need to have before you’ll know someone?

It doesn’t seem to, because there isn’t any element of comparing them between each other. It’s just a straight percentage chance.

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 154d (2 replies)

Maybe is you ask the question like this:

If a person with a micropenis is in a room, how many men are needed in that room to have a 50% chance of someone else in there also with a micropenis? And how many women in that room are needed for a 50% chance a woman has a bigger clitoris than that person's micropenis?

Or:

How many men in a room are needed to have a 50% chance someone else has the same penis size?

scarabic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 153d

Yeah that would turn it into more of a birthday problem.

It would also make it downright weird.

Canconda@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 154d (1 reply)

No I was making a joke and everyone decided they were gonna do a full autism about it

TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 154d

Ok boomer, maybe it's time for a little nap. What's wrong with my autism?

BigDiction@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 154d (10 replies)

Wiki Birthday Problem

scarabic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 154d (9 replies)

I think the point is not how quickly can someone Google it but can he actually explain it, because he brought it up in a situation where it doesn’t apply, meaning he doesn’t actually understand it (ie can’t explain it).

BigDiction@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 154d (2 replies)

Canconda’s original comment did not have the wiki link which is why I replied. Honestly, dropping 23 possible birthday pairs to reach >50% probability is still not intuitive to me.

Of my OG friend group of ~12 there are two matching birthday pairs. One coincidental and one pair of twins which don’t count.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 154d

To grasp it intuitively, I think of it like this.

With the first person, you have 1/365 chance the birthday will be on any given day.

Each person you add to that adds not just another person but also another day that can be a match.

After two people, you still don’t have a match but now you have two days. The third person can match either of those. That’s a lower bar than person #2 had to meet.

By the time the 15th person walks in, the question is: “what are the odds that you share any of these 15 days as your birthday.” And remember, it’s not that that person’s odds are 50%. It’s everything from the original 1/365 chance on up to that fifteenth person, cumulatively, that has a 50% change of a hit.

See how this already sounds a little more likely than just narrowing in on the final final result of two people having the same birthday? The way the problem is phrased makes it sounds like more of a bullseye than it truly is.

So I think part of it is just difficult to grasp intuitively, but it’s also phrased deliberately to throw off your intuition.

Canconda@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 154d (5 replies)

I can't because probability is bullshit lol.

Damn you guys have no sense of humour.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 154d

If that was your idea of a joke, I’m afraid you have no idea what’s funny. More likely you are just attempting to laugh off your embarrassment.

Canconda@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 154d

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

Very easy to google ngl.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 154d (2 replies)

Hello - the birthday problem is interesting but it has no bearing on a simple percentage probability. The reason the odds of two people having the same birthday don’t rise linearly with the number of people is that every time you add someone to the set you also add a new possible birthday to match. You get to compare them to every other member of the group for a chance to match. You’re not just adding 1/365 each time, trying over and over to hit one date. You’re adding new dates to hit as you go.

This doesn’t apply in a simple probability like “0.6% of people have a micropenis so if you know 300 people, odds are you know one.” You really are just adding 0.6 every time you consider one more person in the set.

So… your comment is bullshit.

Canconda@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 154d (1 reply)

Damn must suck to be born without a sense of sarcasm.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 154d

Oh I was born with one of those. Also a bullshit detector, which is going off at your “I was joking” defense.

RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org · 47 pts · 156d (4 replies)

This dude was interviewed on British TV a while back. It was amazing how open about the whole thing he was.

He wanted to raise awareness because if he had sought medical help when he was young, the likelihood of medical intervention being successful is greatly increased.
He wants other people to go get help if they need it.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 155d (3 replies)

It was amazing how open about the whole thing he was.

Influencers gonna influence. My man found his niche and he's cashing in on it.

Avicenna@programming.dev · 7 pts · 155d (2 replies)

Well at least his influence is probably gonna help some people mentally and physically without dispersing any toxicity. So if some influencers are gonna cash, happy for it to be him rather than toxic fucks like Tate fuck for brains or the creepy smile mr beast

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 154d