It's Always More Complicated

Today's entry in the weekly column in Guardian Weekend on 'My Life in Sex' isfrom a man who finds that being very well-endowed is by no means all it's cracked up to be when it comes to actually having enjoyable sex with a partner.

Plausible.

But the Below the Line is full of weak jokes and blokes saying they wish they had that problem, and the impression one gets rather confirms the belief that it is all about intra-male competition and display, though why should that be so (especially since it is not a universal 'throughout the whole of history' phenomenon, cf the Ancient Greeks)?

And one wonders how much even the average male organ measures up to the average internal clitoral body - though maybe it's just massively denser with nerve endings? - we observe that Helen O'Connell, who did that work - and credits the influence of the US feminist self-help health movement for providing an important stimulus - seems an all-round good egg who was dubious about those synthetic mesh implants when everyone else was doing them.