Although these pages are an homage to colossal cock, we at Flesh 4 Men understand that this tubular obsession can be disheartening if your genetic coding produced a 5-to-6 incher. But, in reality that is what most men have statically, so why be upset? When all is said and done, a penis has one main function: to be a conduit out of the body for piss and cum. It is plumbing, plain and simple. A small or regular-size cock can do that job same as a big one.

But, you say, a big cock is more for the other person to enjoy and crave. Big cocks are more pleasing. Well, maybe, but perhaps comedian Margaret Cho bottom lines it best. She compares cock size to going to Subway Sandwiches. She says she knows full well she can order the 12-inch sub, but the 6-inch is often all she really needs to be satisfied.

Because Ms. Cho is not a gay man bombarded with the constant mantra: “Bigger dick is better dick” you may doubt her authority on the matter.

For a source closer to the shaft, we cracked open How To Get Laid: The Gay Man's Essential Guide to Hot Sex by Jonathan Bass, available through Alyson Books. We expect, or assume, Bass, which is the pen name of Parker Ray, executive editor at Instinct magazine, has had at least as much if not more an extensive variety of dick in him than him than Cho.

After all, he is presenting himself as an expert. Under the heading “What To Do When He Has Very Small Equipment” Bass/Ray writes:

I would never insist that size doesn't matter. Clearly, it matters to plenty of people, or the question wouldn't even come up. If it truly didn't matter, certain spammers and herbal enhancement” merchants would all go broke. But our insecurities about our equipment (all men, gay and straight) keep them in business.

There's a vast population of size queen and huge-worshippers out there. The worlds of porn and the Internet have conspired to satisfy those who pray at the alter of the colossal cock, and they've simultaneously made many of us insecure when it comes to the size of our own equipment.

Using standards derived from gay porn, combined with the impression you'll get from cruising online, you might reasonably guess that average endowment is roughly eight inches. Medical science has a slightly different take on the size of the average dick. The average dick, fully erect, is somewhere between five and six inches. That's still plenty of dick, by the way. Some dicks are smaller than average too. While size matters to many - speci fically the aforementioned size queens and other big-dick worshipers - it doesn't matter that much to everyone. While your new partner might not be hung like a horse, smaller dicks can still be plenty of fun.

“Big-dicked guys sometimes don't get hard all the way,” says Andrew, 42, a landscape architect in Dallas, explaining his fondness for guys with small cocks. He has even joined an online club where guys with similar interests can swap pictures and meet. In fact, there are dozens of such Web sites and dating groups available for interested men.

Even though many men assume that having a big dick makes someone a top, that's not necessarily the case. Men with small endowments aren't always bottoms, either. And there's no correlation between masculinity and the size of your bulge.