CARNAL NATION

It's the eternal question that never seems to go away. Unimpressed by that old motion-of-the-ocean bromide, many men just want to know if that thing they've got in dry dock between their legs is really a dinghy or a luxury yacht. And they want to keep verifying it in the unlikely event that the numbers will change. Well, our friends at the Canadian website Canoe have crunched the numbers again to give us the long and the short of mankind's most enduring obsession. In what must have been some very interesting hands-on research, those statisticians from north of the border have calculated the average erect penis size among a variety of the world's nationalities and ethnicities. So how do you measure up? Lest you swell up from pride or feel deflated by the findings, please note that the figures below are given in centimeters. If you'd like to figure out what those mean measures are in inches, just mutiply by .39 (for those obsessed with exactitude, multiply by 0.3937008). We kind of like the double-digit ranking that the metric system gives us even though it doesn't really change anything in absolute terms. After all, dick size is really all about how you look at it (Ok, that and where you place the measuring tape).

Korea......................... 9.6

India........................... 10.2

Japan......................... 13.0

South Africa............... 17.6

Venezuela.................. 12.7

Colombia.................... 13.9

Brazil.......................... 14.5

Mexico........................ 14.9

Saudi Arabia............... 14.0

Greece........................ 13.88

Spain........................... 13.58

Germany...................... 14.48

France......................... 16.0

Italy.............................. 15.0

Canada........................ 12.7

United States............... 12.9

Satisfied? Or are you now in the process of making some travel plans for a little research of your own? Exchange rates aside, it looks like there's some good bang for your buck to be had almost anywhere you want to go.