{"id":26245,"date":"2009-03-29T19:20:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T19:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/29\/can-shoe-size-predict-penile-l\/"},"modified":"2009-03-29T19:20:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T19:20:40","slug":"can-shoe-size-predict-penile-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/29\/can-shoe-size-predict-penile-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Can shoe size predict penis size?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-9607914cf59d1b0660771364d2925078-penile_length.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-9607914cf59d1b0660771364d2925078-penile_length.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OBJECTIVE: To establish if the &#8216;myth&#8217; about whether the size of a man&#8217;s penis can be estimated from his shoe size has any basis, in fact. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Two urologists measured the stretched penile length of 104 men in a prospective study and related this to their shoe size. RESULTS: The median stretched penile length for the sampled population was 13 cm and the median UK shoe size was 9 (European 43). There was no statistically significant correlation between shoe size and stretched penile length. CONCLUSION: The supposed association of penile length and shoe size has no scientific basis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/12230622?ordinalpos=1&#038;itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&#038;linkpos=1&#038;log$=relatedarticles&#038;logdbfrom=pubmed\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their methodology obviously &#8230;  oh, never mind.  It does not end here. The original cite has &#8220;Related Articles&#8221; that get even farther from reality.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose we should be fortunate that they are not asking this question the other way &#8217;round.  For the benefit of shoe sales departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OBJECTIVE: To establish if the &#8216;myth&#8217; about whether the size of a man&#8217;s penis can be estimated from his shoe size has any basis, in fact. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Two urologists measured the stretched penile length of 104 men in a prospective study and related this to their shoe size. RESULTS: The median stretched penile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/29\/can-shoe-size-predict-penile-l\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can shoe size predict penis size?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Pj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}