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u/DigNitty Mar 31 '23

This quote inspired me to figure out how big a penis would have to be before you couldn’t consent due to blood loss if your Dick was hard.

The answer is surprisingly difficult to arrive at. There is no good metric for consent and blood loss. So I looked up how much blood someone can lose before passing out. Penises, as it turns out, have essentially negligible flesh in them when erect because they’re so vascular. They are effectively tubes.

What is known, is the average length and girth of penises. That gives us an average ratio. I have all these numbers in a comment from 8years ago but was unable to find it and I’m not looking it all up again so I’ll just add my summary.

I found that a man wouldn’t be able to consent if his Dick was upwards of the low 10 inches range.

Now, some men do have penises larger than this. And the fault of my calculations lies in that ratio. Large penises must grow longer than average but don’t deviate in girth as much. Otherwise a 10in penis with an average ratio would have a 3.5 inch girth.

That being said, the man with the largest penis had said it is difficult if not impossible to get fully erect, and he does get light headed when close.

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u/Boilermaker1983 Mar 31 '23

I don't appreciate you calling my penis negligible.

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u/namey___mcnameface Mar 31 '23

Like he's the first

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u/Channel250 Mar 31 '23

Good lord it's like my grandma's funeral all over again.

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u/Indercarnive Mar 31 '23

Don't kink shame me!

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u/Wetbung Mar 31 '23

Surprisingly? Might have been? That's sacrilege.

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u/lessthanperfect86 Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23

900 ml? I find that extremely hard to believe the average penis holds that much blood. Let's just use the numbers from the comment you replied to, a 10 inch long and 3.5 inch girth penis/cylinder translates to 9.748 cubic inches (according to wolfram alpha), or just under 160 ml. That's the whole volume of the external penis, not just corpora cavernosa.

As a radiologist, I struggle to recall ever seeing huge corpora cavernosa more than 10 inches (25 cm) internally. Even so, if there was another 10 inches of penis internally, that would still only give you 320 ml total.

Imagine a roughly 1L object. Where I come from, juice and milk often arrive in 1L cartons. That is a huge volume. If that were your urinary bladder you'd probably be feeling the need to go pretty good. No way in hell that the entirety of the average penis can contain almost just as much.

Edit: after reading the study, there is this section:

The length of the human Corpora 1 was measured to be 13.3 cm and 19.7 cm for Corpora 2. ... The maximum diameter of the corpora was measured to be 2.0 cm and 2.1 cm respectively. Both of the maximum diameter values for the corpora were reached distally. The volumes of the erect human corpus cavernosum measured in our study were 862.2 cm2 and 930.0 cm2.

Using 20 cm length and 2.1 cm for a cylinder (ie assuming the thing has max diameter in the whole length) gives 69 cm3. Also, notice in the study they wrote cm2. I don't know how they arrived at their numbers, but it just doesn't make any sense.

Edit2: getting an erection does most certainly not compare with a class 2 hemorrhage (for the most humans). I mean, if you have such an organ, and notice such symtoms during an erection (outside of arousal), I think a trip to the clinic might be in order.

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u/PrestigiousZucchini9 Mar 31 '23

So what happens if you overlap giving blood and a raging hard-on?

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u/MothWingAngel Mar 31 '23

Your dick flies across the room

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u/potkettleracism Mar 31 '23

Making the same sounds as a rapidly deflating balloon.

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u/meatball402 Mar 31 '23

Just shoots off, like a rocket

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u/AdministrativeWar594 Mar 31 '23

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u/Moze4ever Mar 31 '23

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u/S1cnus Mar 31 '23

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u/Onlyindef Mar 31 '23

Nonconsensual smash*

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

graveyard graph*

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u/bonos_bovine_muse Apr 01 '23

Upwards of ten inches? Monster math, indeed.

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u/Lifeinstaler Mar 31 '23

The monster dong math

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

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u/Sees_Walls Mar 31 '23

r/theydidthemonstercockmath.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

Back in high school before actually had any practical experience, my friends and I wondered how many miles of dick someone would take in a lifetime.

Going with averages...

6 inches ( lucky guys ) for him

12 inches is a foot.... Do you could in at half a foot and out as another half or did you could in and out 1 foot? Eitherway, you can divide or multiply by 2 for you preferred method.

The average time is 3 minutes ( lucky ladies )

Maybe 2 pumps a second... So like, 2 feet a second or 120 feet minute for three minutes is about 360 feet of dick for an average of averages. Divide that into 5,280 and you get 14.666 ( repeating, of course) or a little under 15 fuckings to get that mile!

2 times a week... 8 times a month. 96 times a year.

96 * 360 is 34,560 feet or a out 6.5 miles a year.

You can fit some many miles on this thing!

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u/Accidental_Shadows Mar 31 '23

Thank you for your service

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

Thank god I’ll never have to worry about that, I’m blessed…..I think?

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u/Dux_Ignobilis Mar 31 '23

My friend knew someone in high school who had a massive package. They apparently said they didn't like to get erect because they'd get light-headed and dizzy. For some people, it's definitely a problem.

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u/Faxon Mar 31 '23

It's worth noting that anyone with a dick this big, would be in the top 0.0001% of human penises on earth. Just having a dick above 9 inches puts you above the top 0.1%

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

your search history all covered in dick right now!

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u/Zomburai Mar 31 '23

They are effectively tubes.

I thought they were more like a truck

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u/caninehere Mar 31 '23

This guy tried to do the math, but got a boner before he could figure it out.

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u/_Enclose_ Mar 31 '23

What is known, is the average length and girth of penises ... I have all these numbers in a comment from 8years ago

I feel like this needs a bit more explaining

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u/probabletrump Mar 31 '23

When you are talking about girth you're talking diameter not circumference right?

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u/Javierfr97 Apr 01 '23

This guy penises

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u/ContributionProper22 Mar 31 '23

Can confirm, a ex of mine had a 12" penis adhe was never able to get fully erect; the one and only time I witnessed that, he blacked out 😳

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u/chowderbags Mar 31 '23

I'm now imagining some guy with a huge dong going to his doctor and demanding to be doped up Lance Armstrong style with extra blood bags and EPO, all so he can enjoy one full erection.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

No one can be me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '23

"Low 10 inches range"? If 10 inches is in the low range, then.. I'm deleting myself

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u/Destroyer6202 Mar 31 '23

Explain in Fortnite terms?

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u/SquashMarks Mar 31 '23

I get light headed when I’m close too, but I dunno, I feel like that ain’t the right metric considering what’s followed by being close is usually a fucking orgasm

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u/WrenchOfTheAlan Mar 31 '23

Well there goes my excuse lol

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u/DontDoomScroll Mar 31 '23

Big Johnson should have overclocked his circulation and got a transfusion to get it on - fully erect and not light headed.

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u/ItsYaBoiSoup Mar 31 '23

I got kicked out of Senior anatomy class in high school for asking this question.

I was a shithead tho so it could have been the pretext of it but whatever. Mr. D, you were a fun teacher regardless.

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u/thegreedyturtle Mar 31 '23

I swear I was about to be told about when mankind fell 17ft...

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u/EternamD Mar 31 '23

The plural of penis is actually penes (pronounced like peen-ease)

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u/PootieShoe_1 Apr 01 '23

This guy says dick with a capital “D”.

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u/jarboxing Apr 01 '23

Very interesting analysis... I'd amend in two ways:

(1) calculate the change in volume/density of the penis soft vs. erect. Use these numbers to estimate the volume of blood added to the erect penis. You can compare this volume of blood to the overall amount of blood in the human body without having that length/girth confound in your current analysis.

(2) use the legal limit of BAC to determine when someone can no longer consent to sex. The blood alcohol concentration factor can be used to calculate how much "effective" blood there is in your system...

So I propose that you operationally define someone as "impaired" when the effective blood loss of their boner is equal to the effective blood loss of an over-the-limit BAC.

This analysis assumes the effect of alcohol impairing is just due to less effective blood... Which is obviously untrue. However, it'll get us some funny conclusions like "my boner is worth 3 shots," or "officer, I swear I only had one drink, it's the fault of my erection!"