interesting article at yahoo news
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061208/od_afp/healthindiacondoms_061208113212.
some quote from the article
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Indian men's penises do not match international sizes and most condoms on sale in the country are too big, according to a medical study.
The Indian Council of Medical Research, the country's top health research institute, found 60 percent of men in Mumbai had penises at least 2.4 centimeters (one inch) shorter than international condom sizes, The Times of India newspaper said Friday.
For 30 percent, the gap was five centimeters (two inches), said a researcher quoted in the article headlined "Indian men don't measure up".
this had me thinking if indian men have relatively smaller penis than the rest of the world. i checked the WTO website and wikipedia to try to find the median height of indian men, but no really good data were found. i had thought maybe if the average height is smaller, it would make sense that their penis' are smaller, too.
and then i ran into an interesting data at fao.org. Here they distinguish indian population by privileged and regular. Indeed, average height of regular population, which would be the target population of health bureaus' condom distribution, is notably lower than the priviledged population, or that of other asian nations.
either way, it doesn't make sense to say indian men's penis is smaller than international standards. afterall, population of india and china conbined would account for more than a third of world population. so it would seem like whatever the average penis size of indian men should be the 'international standard size'.
or not. ask your indian friend for clear answers.
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