Describing penis size

[mav1971]

This is a pet peeve of mine. People need to know the difference between diameter and circumference. Diameter is across or the width. Circumference is around. Example someone saying a guy had a thick cock that was 4 inches around. When they really mean across. Unless it's a fantasy story then 4 inches wide is ridiculous.

While I am on the subject of size. "Realistic" stories where someone takes a huge cock in their ass with spit or no lube. It's a little painful but they soon enjoy it. I call bullshit on that.

 

[TadOverdon]

I do the Big Dick trope - it's hard (move along) to avoid, writing in the genre that I do - but citing measurements is something I almost never do.

Because, why? I know there are situations where the subject might come up (move along), such as a boastful guy or an uncertain young fellow who's insecure about it, but generally we don't go to the tale of the tape when we have sex. Do we?

I can't tell you the measurements of anyone I've been with.

So, "big," "long," "thick," "large girth," "unnerving," you know? Or comparative - "It looked like a soda can." But not "She guessed he was ten inches long and maybe six inches in circumference."

 

[stickygirl]

Her pianist hands could stretch a full octave but his bassoon left her short by a quaver and hoping he'd go lento legato or she'd end up screaming A sharp major. I guess the flip side would be his piccolo wouldn't have her whistling Dixie any time soon.

 

[LAHomedog]

Speaking of pet peeves, I dislike stories (or video porn) where everything is oversized. The guys in my stories always have nice packages but human size like 6'-1/2" -- 7".

I never get into diameter or circumference. TMI as far as I'm concerned. When used, I say thick. or give a finger width. That's it.

The thing that bugs me is when an author gets into describing a guy's package -- and it doesn't matter to me if they do or not. Both can work -- is how a lot of writers simply forget that a guy has balls. Why describe his package and skip his family jewels? My PP.

 

[yukonnights]

I figure that one person's like is another person's dislike when it comes to too much detail about bodies. Personally, I like small breasts. However, if some of the many stories here are accurate (especially those likely written by a male) , every guy loves only double D's. So, instant turn-off for me, and probably a lot of others.

I try to keep it more about the character's reaction to what they see and feel, which is more universal. ' Her perfect breasts seem like magnets to my hands … her hard nipples draw my lips like a magnet captures iron.' <- or some such inspired wonderment.

The short version; No measurements please.

 

[JuanaSalsa]

I don't usually describe measurements. However, I recently wrote a small penis story (not humiliating) and my male beta reader indicated that my male readers would like to have an estimate of size more than just "fully covered within her hand" and so I had my character estimate a length "no more than 3 inches long". It may be silly, but I actually measured my palm to check if 3" would fit fully within it.

 

[yukonnights]

I don't usually describe measurements. However, I recently wrote a small penis story (not humiliating) and my male beta reader indicated that my male readers would like to have an estimate of size more than just "fully covered within her hand" and so I had my character estimate a length "no more than 3 inches long". It may be silly, but I actually measured my palm to check if 3" would fit fully within it.

I think something where a main theme of the story is focused on size could be an exception to the rule that less detail is best.

 

[HectorBidon]

Her pianist hands could stretch a full octave but his bassoon left her short by a quaver and hoping he'd go lento legato or she'd end up screaming A sharp major. I guess the flip side would be his piccolo wouldn't have her whistling Dixie any time soon.

Bravo!

There were copper bottom timpani in horse platoons,
Thundering, thundering, all along the way.
Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons,
Each bassoon having its big fat say.​

 

[PoisonPen33]

I usually do comparison to the girl or her experience level. (Never been with someone that large before, hand barely closed around it, it fit comfortably in her hand, it wasn't the biggest dick she'd had, but it felt the best, etc )

I follow the same guidelines. I feel it sets a better image in the reader's head because it's "their" hand or bigger than what "they've had."

And it helps avoid the "every guy in erotica is hung like a draft horse" cliche.

 

[NotWise]

My favorite dick description was from Frank Zappa's movie, "200 Motels." It think it was "It ain't long, but it's as big around as a tuna can."

 

[AlinaX]

Most major concertos require the pianist to play her instrument with two hands...

My latest story, the guy has an App that lets him adjust his length and girth, specified in millimetres. (I accidentally left chest size in inches, though, oops.)

 

[Lady2020]

The way my hand(s) settle around a cock is enough.

 

[Handley_Page]

I figure that one person's like is another person's dislike when it comes to too much detail about bodies. Personally, I like small breasts. However, if some of the many stories here are accurate (especially those likely written by a male) , every guy loves only double D's. So, instant turn-off for me, and probably a lot of others.

I try to keep it more about the character's reaction to what they see and feel, which is more universal. ' Her perfect breasts seem like magnets to my hands … her hard nipples draw my lips like a magnet captures iron.' <- or some such inspired wonderment.

The short version; No measurements please.

I quite agree.
Big enough to be comfortable or a handfull is quite sufficient, IMO

 

[Trionyx]

I figure that one person's like is another person's dislike when it comes to too much detail about bodies. Personally, I like small breasts. However, if some of the many stories here are accurate (especially those likely written by a male) , every guy loves only double D's. So, instant turn-off for me, and probably a lot of others.

I try to keep it more about the character's reaction to what they see and feel, which is more universal. ' Her perfect breasts seem like magnets to my hands … her hard nipples draw my lips like a magnet captures iron.' <- or some such inspired wonderment.

The short version; No measurements please.

Remember, more than a mouthful is superfluous.

 

[Dingo_Triplesix]

I wrote this in one of my "humor/satire" storys:

***

"Oh, you have a dick like a meerkat!", I exclaim delightedly when I see his erection.

"Like a meerkat?" He blinks in irritation.

"Yeah, they grow to be about twelve inches long, too," I nod eagerly. I learned that in biography once. A solid school education is simply priceless.

***

This is meant totally over the top. Other than that I avoid measurements mostly. But this thread has ispired me to a story where a couple gets into discussion about size during sex. They take a folding ruler and similar equipment and start to take lenght and depth... LOL

 

[DanCastle]

This is why I never use exact measurements, vague descriptions, “bigger/smaller than average” ect. I find it more readable that way too. The average person isn’t going to know the exact measurements of an object just by looking at it and I think injecting numbers like that into a story suddenly feels like you’re reading a textbook.

 

[Trionyx]

This is why I never use exact measurements, vague descriptions, “bigger/smaller than average” ect. I find it more readable that way too. The average person isn’t going to know the exact measurements of an object just by looking at it and I think injecting numbers like that into a story suddenly feels like you’re reading a textbook.

The same goes for cup sizes. The fastest way to get me to click off a story is to have a male character see an unknown female across a room and describe her bra size. So many writers haven’t a clue as to what the numbers mean.

Sorry to have stolen the thread on penis sizes to rant about breast sizes. I’ll go back to my room now.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

What makes me click back quicker that lightning is measurements of anatomy.

"He had a 14 inch cock and it felt good."

Horseshit, first of all he would only be able to get about 8 inches in before rupturing her vagina. Click back.

"She had 44DDDD tits."

Was she laying face down on the floor? Click back.

Men have average or above average cocks.

Women had a nice handful. Either breasts or ass.

There is an old saying, the average size of a male member is 6 inches. The average depth of a vagina is 8 inches. That leaves an average of 2 x (number of women in the world) = The number of unused inches of vagina.

 

[JuanaSalsa]

There is an old saying, the average size of a male member is 6 inches. The average depth of a vagina is 8 inches. That leaves an average of 2 x (number of women in the world) = The number of unused inches of vagina.

Average vagina depth is 3 inches unaroused and 4.5 inches aroused, which actually leaves 2 unused inches of cock. Probably more, actually, since bottoming out is often not the most pleasant approach.

https://www.webmd.com/women/features/vagina-size

 

[oggbashan]

I wrote a story about a man with the largest local penis, but never mentioned inches, circumference, diameter or length - just the biggest:

https://www.literotica.com/s/pride-3

 

[SimonDoom]

I should add that although I generally think it's better to avoid precise measurements, I'm working on a story the working title of which is "10-Inch Penis." It's about an otherwise ordinary young man who has a penis that is 10 inches long, and an unusual erotic experience he has, the focus of which is his unusual length.

For me, personally, one of the fun things about erotica is the ability to take a convention or a rule, and then just wreck it.

 

[Dingo_Triplesix]

Average vagina depth is 3 inches unaroused and 4.5 inches aroused, which actually leaves 2 unused inches of cock. Probably more, actually, since bottoming out is often not the most pleasant approach.

According to my knowledge and experience the posterior dome (posterior vagina fornix) is quite flexibel and able to stretch during intercourse, if there is not too much body tension in general. My piece is 6.5 inches, but only once I met a woman I couldn´t enter completely after some time.

 

[Dingo_Triplesix]

What makes me click back quicker that lightning is measurements of anatomy.

"He had a 14 inch cock and it felt good."

Horseshit, first of all he would only be able to get about 8 inches in before rupturing her vagina. Click back.

That reminds me: I wrote a story some years back, where the cock of the man grew up to 3 foot during sex, and also the vagina of his partner. Of course this was a fantasy setting. In the end he could see his glans through her open mouth going up and down inside her throat, and during cumming all the juices were oozing out her mouth... lol!

 

[lovecraft68]

Sizable.

Breasts are ample.

Keep it simple and let the reader picture what those words mean to them.

 

[Comshaw]

Describing cock size? Sometimes I do, if I find it necessary to the story. I've done it both ways when I did do it, by actual measurement X" long by X" through. I've also used circumference in a story or two. That particular measurement seems to confuse some of the readers though because they think diameter when circumference was specifically indicated.

I've also used an analogy to specify size: "It was the size of two beer cans one stacked on top of the other." or something similar.

Actually I think the best and most entertaining description came from my wife and it didn't really specify a size, it prompted the readers imagination and allowed them to make it what they would. She referred to it as "square bored". In case you're not a motor head, that term is in reference to an internal combustion engine where the stroke and bore of the engine are the same, so the length and circumference of a cock would be the same, such as 5 1/2 by 5 1/2 or 6 x 6.

While entertaining, it also took a lot of explanation setup so that the reader didn't have to have a background in automotive terms to understand it.

All that said, I go with what ever I feel the story needs to work.

Comshaw