North Carolina’s Michael Phillips revealed that he had a 0.38in member in bid to reduce stigma of the condition

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    He also said using the bathroom can be difficult because “it goes everywhere and stuff like that”.

    Just sit down, dude

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    Oh my fucking god raise taxes on the rich and end rent seeking. Peace be with my lil pp gang. The guardian what are you doing bb

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    TBF if I may: trans men have been doing lord’s work on this issue for a while now

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    You just have to “Git Gud” at oral. They ladies won’t really care if you can do that.

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        Enthusiastic women have been having sex without a penis involved for all of human history my friend. If your pp no help, use hand and mouth.

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          I know that. My question, more clearly stated, is: what is the definition of ‘git gud’?

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            Git is a software versioning system, originally created by Linus Torvalds, the inventor of Linux. If you ‘git gud’, you have mastered git. If you did not master it and your software stack became a mess as a consequence, you better ‘git out’.

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            Learn where the clitoris is. A good chunk of women, perhaps the majority, do not orgasm from penetration alone. Clitoral stimulation is what you are looking for.

            The other part is communication. “Do you like that/does that feel good?” Start with circular motions. Some don’t like direct stimulation on the clit more in the area around. Everyone’s body is different, and something that drives one person wild might be uncomfortable and annoying for someone else.

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            Get good needs a definition? Learn -> (hypothesize -> practice -> look at results/ask for feedback -> improve hypothesis), repeat?

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    This dude was interviewed on British TV a while back. It was amazing how open about the whole thing he was.

    He wanted to raise awareness because if he had sought medical help when he was young, the likelihood of medical intervention being successful is greatly increased.
    He wants other people to go get help if they need it.

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      It was amazing how open about the whole thing he was.

      Influencers gonna influence. My man found his niche and he’s cashing in on it.

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        Well at least his influence is probably gonna help some people mentally and physically without dispersing any toxicity. So if some influencers are gonna cash, happy for it to be him rather than toxic fucks like Tate fuck for brains or the creepy smile mr beast

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          Idk. If he’s just going to be the Colmes to Tate’s Hannity…

          Any time I see a UK or US publisher run its “Look at these weirdos” segment, its typically as a prelude to do something incredibly gross. Like the time Tucker Carlson tried to convince a bunch of young men to take testosterone and sun their assholes.

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    Seeing the insane amount of giant pickup trucks Americans drive, this guy is just a waterdrop in a giant ocean.

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      They say in the article 0.6% of men. That sounds like a small number, but if you have around the usual 300 Facebook friends, then you know someone.

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        I never had to give my size to anyone. How do they know everyone’s size to come to the 0.6%? That’s only the known cases. The penis-size-compensation trucks say otherwise.

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          As with all things, you can arrive at trustworthy estimates for things by surveying a sampling of people and then applying statistics. You don’t have to ask every person on earth. This is called the law of large numbers.

          Also, they are defining micropenis as 2.6 inches so there are probably even more people who don’t meet this definition but would like more size.

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          Hello - the birthday problem is interesting but it has no bearing on a simple percentage probability. The reason the odds of two people having the same birthday don’t rise linearly with the number of people is that every time you add someone to the set you also add a new possible birthday to match. You get to compare them to every other member of the group for a chance to match. You’re not just adding 1/365 each time, trying over and over to hit one date. You’re adding new dates to hit as you go.

          This doesn’t apply in a simple probability like “0.6% of people have a micropenis so if you know 300 people, odds are you know one.” You really are just adding 0.6 every time you consider one more person in the set.

          So… your comment is bullshit.

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              Oh I was born with one of those. Also a bullshit detector, which is going off at your “I was joking” defense.

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            Adding one more person adds more than one comparison. Assuming birthdays are evenly distributed (they aren’t), 2 people have a 1/365.25 chance of sharing a birthday. But adding a third person adds 2 more chances. Adding that 23rd person adds 22 more chances than adding the 22nd person. 1+2+3…+22=253 separate checks, of which only one needs to match.

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              So does this apply to the problem: 0.6% of people have micropenis. How many friends do you need to have before you’ll know someone?

              It doesn’t seem to, because there isn’t any element of comparing them between each other. It’s just a straight percentage chance.

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                No I was making a joke and everyone decided they were gonna do a full autism about it

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              I think the point is not how quickly can someone Google it but can he actually explain it, because he brought it up in a situation where it doesn’t apply, meaning he doesn’t actually understand it (ie can’t explain it).

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                I can’t because probability is bullshit lol.

                Damn you guys have no sense of humour.

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                  If that was your idea of a joke, I’m afraid you have no idea what’s funny. More likely you are just attempting to laugh off your embarrassment.

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      Yeah if he is correct I wouldn’t want to shout that out myself but congrats on him for bringing awareness to an issue that I’m sure many men’s lives have been worse for. Not like we can control the size of any body part but it would make for difficult relationships. Yes I know size isn’t everything but that’s a bit different category of issue is all.

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        I think the full phrase is “size isn’t everything, its how you use it” but bro has nothing to use. As disabilities go, its one of the easier ones to have - able bodied and normal-looking with all five senses. It sucks that he misses out on sexual relationships, but so do loads of people with much worse conditions.

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          I’m not sure he misses out on sexual relationships at all though. Strap ons are a thing, and can be very effective (ask a lesbian, or a trans man!) and there are LOTS of ways to have sex that don’t involve the traditional act people tend to reduce it down to.

          Also, disabled people also have sex. The idea that they don’t is ableist AF.

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            Of course many do, but many also don’t/can’t - I can declare that as an objective fact. Ableism indeed.

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          Also when you get older sometimes even as a guy you may not be able to perform, it happens. So as long as you have an understanding partner you can get around those times. Mean I’m unsure on actual performance issues but really penis in vagina, while most common (I think?) is only a bit of what couples can do for fun in that area. Hell I think there’s so much more besides that but not for this topic.

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            Yeah the jokes are universal too, there’s no getting away from it. Feminism has stood up against body shaming (with limited success) but even amongst many feminists there’s still small dick jokes

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    Reduce stigma of the condition

    When you consider your own penis size as a “condition” I don’t know if you’re doing a good job of reducing the stigma.

    He’s doing the best with what he’s got I suppose.

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      Having a micro penis is a medical condition, it’s not a joke, and having medical solutions for it is something doctors have worked on for at least a century, this isn’t just someone has a below average penis size or wishes they had a very above average size, it’s a penis that’s medically significant in reduced size far enough away from average it requires a solution so the individual can function in a typical way.

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      having a disproportionately small/large organ of any size can be a medical issue that can lead to diminished life quality or expectancy without management or care.

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    I read a blog post years ago by a trans dude about how seeing how little the winner of a smallest penis contest gave a shit helped him not give a shit about his own dick situation.

    so, i guess it’s nice for insecure people to see stuff like this?

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      I read a blog post years ago by a trans dude about how seeing how little the winner of a smallest penis contest gave a shit helped him not give a shit about his own dick situation.

      I’m convinced body dysmorphia is linked to a lack of some public nudity at beaches etc where you can see fat, short, flabby etc all on display and realize you’re kinda normal, our only interaction with nudity is the body types seen in porn.

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        Its not specific to nudity at beaches, but more of a general thing. Expectations about what a body should look like and the extreme focus on a binary gender is incredibly harmful for everyone, since it creates boxes were everyone tries to fit into. When we AS society collectively work on demolishing these boxes it remives a lot of stress for everyone who previously had been excluded by these boxes. Realizing, that bodies are different and that it is no shame to look different from some arbitrary beauty standard, that’s unreachable for most people, is one of the best things that can happen to you.

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        You do occasionally see flaccid cocks in media and IRL, but only from guys confident enough to show it in the first place, which skews public perception a fair bit.

        I went to school with a girl who’d only ever seen erections drawn. To her first boyfriend, she said “is that it?” the first time she saw a boner. It was a perfectly average cock, but she’d been expecting something the size of a cucumber

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          You do, but sometimes those aren’t real. I remember watching some behind the scenes stuff for Spartacus, which has a lot of flacid cocks on screen, and some of the actors wore prosthetic cocks instead of showing their own. I assume that larger men were more likely to show their own, and smaller men were more likely to have a prosthetic (though I have no evidence for this), so it still skews things.

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        I live in an area of Germany where nudist beaches (FKK in Germany) are very popular, and it doesn’t seem to help body dismorphia at all