Dicks, bollocks and cunts

[mistermack]

It's an interesting fact that humans have the biggest penis of any ape, and have no penis bone.
Chimpanzees have a smaller penis, but huge bollocks, twice the size of human ones.
Gorillas have a tiny penis, only just over an inch long, and their bollocks are only half the size of ours.

The evolutionary reasons for this have been argued over for years, post your suggestions here.

Personally, I think the explanation for the gorillas equipment is fairly well understood.
A male gorilla competes by size and strength. The silverback establishes a harem, and it's rare for any other male to get a look in. So his sperm doesn't need to compete with the sperm of other males. Hence the smaller bollocks, and short penis. ( About 1.25 inches )

The chimpanzees females have more say in which male mates with them. They are fairly promiscuous, so the male chimp that produces the most sperm has a chance of flushing out the sperm of a rival, and becoming a dad. Hence the big bollocks and longer penis. ( About 3 inches )

With humans, why do we have such a different penis? About twice the size of a chimps, but our bollocks are half the size. This seems to indicate that it's not sperm competition that causes the difference. Otherwise we would have bigger bollocks. And human females are less promiscuous than chimpanzees. When a female chimpanzee is on heat, they often mate with many males, although some males try to monopolise her. Humans have this inclination to pair off as couples.
Not to the exclusion of infidelity, but the trend is there. So sperm competition is less of a factor.

That explains the smaller bollocks, but why the bigger penis?
My theory is that human women have bigger fannies. After all, a human baby has a gigantic head compared to a baby chimp. Childbirth involves MUCH more stress and stretching, and effort, than for a chimp. So the geography up there must be radically different in humans, than other apes.

What do you think? Any other theories?

[pErvinalia]

I don't know, but I know why you've got such a tiny cock..... :razz:

[Brian Peacock]

I produce enough sperms in a single issue to fertilize all the fecund females in Western Europe - and I'm nothing special. I've heard it said that the shape of the glands facilitates a pumping out of sloppy firsts, thus raising the chances of insemination and conception in a stoneage orgy type scenario. I have no research, either academic or personal, to back this up though, so it might just be something my grandpa told me when I was sitting on his knee.

[mistermack]

I don't know, but I know why you've got such a tiny cock..... :razz:

Mines average. But I've heard you are a bit of a gorilla.

[Tero]

Is it anything to do with rear entry anatomy? Never have seen female gorilla bits close by.

[mistermack]

Is it anything to do with rear entry anatomy? Never have seen female gorilla bits close by.

It could be. But Chimpanzees, and particularly Bonobos, are often seen mating face-to-face with their three inch willies. As are many humans. And apparently, a good time is had by all.

Some people claim that it's down to females finding a bigger dick more attractive.
Maybe they do, but humans would be unique, if that was the reason for the big dong.

Most animals that have a whopper normally hide it from view, except when mating. Like horses or elephants.
It's a liability otherwise, because predators would target it in an attack, or it could get damaged by a rival male in a fight.

With humans not suffering much in the way of predation, maybe that wasn't needed, so I suppose that the factors that operate against a big dick were lessened by our use of weapons for defence.
If you can defend your dick with a spear, you are freed to evolve a bigger one.

[Scott1328]

Simple answer: size matters. To males and females.

[pErvinalia]

Could be to do with pelvis etc differences due to us being bipedal.

[Brian Peacock]

A kind of bipedalphillia I guess.

[Rum]

This seems to me to be a very human-centric thread. I'm sure chimps laugh their arses off at out tiny balls and gorillas think we are too gross for words with our big sticky out pointy cocks!

[Xamonas Chegwé]

This seems to me to be a very human-centric thread. I'm sure chimps laugh their arses off at out tiny balls and gorillas think we are too gross for words with our big sticky out pointy cocks!

That might be what they say. But them lady gorillas are just gagging for a bit of human.

[Rum]

You would know.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

You would know.

You might think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

[jamest]

It's probably not advisable to have a long dick when you're swinging through the undergrowth.

Until further thought, that's the best theory I have.

[Rum]

Bollocks I say!