Slog tipper Greg points us to this story:

Men whose index fingers are shorter than their ring fingers may have longer penises, according to a South Korean study published in the Asian Journal of Andrology.

“According to our data … the shorter index (second) finger than ring (fourth) finger you have, the longer stretched penile length you have,” wrote Tae Beom Kim at the urology department of Gachon University Gil Hospital in Incheon, South Korea, in reply to questions from Reuters.

Discuss.

43 replies on “Poppycock?”

  1. index finger to ring finger length is an indicator of intrauterine testosterone levels, if I remember correctly. So it seems at least plausible that the ratio could correlate to penis size.

  2. How do you properly measure finger length? Is it from the tip to the bottommost knuckle, or the terminus of the palm, or the bottom of that little valley between fingers, or what?

    someone plz answer fast this is rly important

  5. Medical-ethics question: does measuring the stretched-penis length under anesthesia require informed consent? (‘Cuz I’m visualizing clamps and ratchets here.) Apparently the “non-invasive” digit-length ratio does not.

  6. There’s a good inch between the length of my fingers, but my cock is average length. Sure, it’s thicker than normal, but size queens don’t go for girth. 🙁

  8. How much of science is just, “Hey, let’s see if our dicks are longer than this body part. Now what about that body part? Now what about yours?” The fucking money wasted on these “studies” is a travesty.

  10. Stretched penile length? Sounds painful.
    More to the point: how come anyone still thinks size matters?

  11. hehehe at the mental of every guy closely examining their fingers after reading this…. EVERY. ONE.

    I’m big and I checked anyway

  12. @10 because as much as people want to make themselves feel better, it still does. sure, he has to know what to do with it too. but some women just don’t get off on being penetrated by something little.

  15. @8 Carollani that was kind of a moronic statement. Do you know the context of this study? Do you know how it relates to the rest of the literature on digit length ratios and testosterone? Do you know why those studies are viewed as important? Sounds like you probably don’t.

  17. @2: Measure the index finger from the second knuckle, and measure the ring finger from an inch below the wrist. That’s how I’m doing it.

  20. People with shorter index fingers are able to get a better mechanical advantage when stretching out their penises. Obviously.

  22. Does this now invalidate the “big hands” casual measurement technique for estimating penis size? Or does it actually confirm it?

    Also, that “article” was crap for useful details. Give us some functional numbers for this “digit ratio”! 1:1.618?!? How much longer “may” these penises actually be? Longer than average? Longer than your finger? What? What?

    Stupid useless “news”.

  23. Uh, Dominic? You do know that the word “poppycock” is from Dutch (pappekak), and it means “soft shit,” right? So yeah, I get that you’re trying to joke about cock length and all, but… ew.

  24. Cracking the knuckle on just that one finger concentrates your hormones – do it three times a day for a year and your dick will stretch across any two-lane road, sometimes when you’re not looking.

  26. So much wrong with this… a) the index finger is the FIRST finger (not second), the ring finger is the THIRD finger (not fourth) and my index finger is shorter than my ring finger and I have an “average” penis length.
    I don’t what they’re smoking in Korea, but what are they referring to? Longer than what?

  30. @26

    It took me a second to figure it out, but I think they’re counting the thumb as the first finger, so second and fourth would be correct.

  31. @8 and @27,

    That’s exactly the kind of logic that led Sarah Palin to deride public funding for research on fruit flies as useless. (Hint: a lot of what we know about genetics comes from studying fruit flies.)

    “Important” scientific discoveries don’t happen in isolation – they come about as a result of a lot of fooling around, and a lot of seemingly trivial discoveries by people who are curious about the world. The Sarah Palins of the world who think non-applied scientific research is a waste of money are a symptom of our society’s sad state of ignorance about how science actually works. (Plus, I can’t help but feel that these people just lack imagination.)

    @19,
    AAAAAAAAAAAUGH

  32. I think this theory requires a lot more follow-up research. A LOT. I hereby volunteer to conduct such studies at any university campus. I’ll measure very carefully. I will. I promise. Unzip, boys!

  36. “Men whose index fingers are shorter than their ring fingers may have longer penises”

    just to get a little nit-picky with your wording here:

    “All” men have a shorter index finger. It’s the ratio that’s important in this example.

    Also, gay or bisexual women, and some autistic women (and I forget who else, but maybe trans-men) may also often display this hand characteristic. It’s very interesting, isn’t it?

  42. @36: I don’t. My index finger is my longest finger. Which I think is more common in gays, according to some earlier study I remember about these ratios.

  43. I saw something about this on PBS a few weeks ago. They said that women who had this trait were better at math and science than women without it, particularly if it was present or prominent on the right hand (left brain, right side, and all). My left index finger is proportionally shorter than my left ring finger compared to my right side (though both indexes are shorter than the rings). I’m not AFRAID of a math challenge, which is many women’s hiccup, but I don’t know if I’m BETTER at it than the average woman who chooses to undertake a math-heavy field. I’m certainly down with the scientific method, but not very good at actual science (not bad, but I’m no Albert Einstein). Probably more logical than the average person…man or woman, though I have had my share of irrational fears that have required some CBT to overcome (which, in the theory I heard, would make my right brain more “feminine” and belie the fact that I have this trait more prominently on the left side/right brain). Certainly not gay, bi, or autistic as 36 suggests. Who knows…correlation is NOT causation, blah, blah, blah.

    And while I’ve been accused of having huge balls before, I’ve never been told I have a long stretched dick. Maybe that’s my new nerdy joke. 🙂

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