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Can shoe size predict penile length?
1Department of Urology, St. Mary's Hospital, London, UK. jyoti.shah@ic.ac.uk
Objective:
To establish if the 'myth' about whether the size of a man'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.
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