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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

General rule amongst those groups: "If you can't be good, be loud."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In primates small testicle size is correlated with how many males a female typically mates with. More males mating with the same female means the male that produces the most sperm has an advantage. So gorillas have tiny balls because every troop only has one silverback male, and chimps have horrifically huge nuts because there’s a lot of competition for mates from other males in the troop.

Interestingly, humans fall roughly in the middle of the scale in terms of ball size!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yet the head of a human penis is shaped for removing competing semen from a woman's vagina

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You don't wanna know what your ancestors got up to

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't even wanna know what my grandma got up to

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Good meme, but we really ought to end small-penis hatred.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Testicle size and reproductive potency are entirely unrelated to penis size, for all the men out there. And if you only ever have one partner at a time that you want to make babies with, you don’t really need to be a super stud in the testicle department. You just need regular sexual contact with your lady half.

But this shows that even if you do want all the ladies, large testicles don’t matter.

(Aside; people with breeder fetishes who impregnate multiple women are fucking gross and weird. Musk is one such and just.. eew.)

[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 week ago (14 children)

It's not the small penis we hate, it's the loud car.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

this (the study) is about the crystal balls, not the magic wand.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

It’s the compatibility with a partner imo, the match is everything - the technical details are mostly irrelevant once events take place

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Gives new meaning to 'speak softly and carry a big stick'.

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