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  • 2016-03-04 (xsd:date)
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  • Does Hand Size Actually Correlate to Penis Size? (en)
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  • The Republican debate on 3 March 2016 took a turn for the raucous early in the evening, when Donald Trump responded to a jab Marco Rubio had made a few days earlier about the size of his hands: I have to say this, said Trump during the debate. He hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. Trump went on: Trump was referring to a comment Marco Rubio had made about his hands the previous Sunday in Virginia: He's always calling me 'Little Marco'. And I'll admit, he's taller than me, said Rubio: But, despite what the two presidential candidates were arguing over (hand size correlating to penile length) studies have shown that despite a mountain of anecdotal evidence, there appears to be no correlation between hand or foot size and penis size: As hand size does strongly correlate to foot size, it follows that neither hand nor foot is a reliable way to infer the length, width, or any other dimension of the penis. However, there is another relationship between hands and putative penis size, which relates to the length of the fingers — specifically, the index and ring fingers. A 2011 study published in the Asian Journal of Andrology used the same gentle stretching technique on a group of 144 men, this time comparing their penis length (and, one would assume, stretchiness) to the ratio of their ring and index fingers: Previous studies have indicated a relationship between the ratio of the ring and index fingers (2D:4D) and the amount of testosterone exposure a fetus receives in the womb — the longer the ring finger, the more testosterone exposure before birth. (However, studies also show that the finger ratio has little to no bearing on adult hormone levels.) So in order to get an idea of whether or not Trump is being bombastic about this particular personal detail, all you need to do is look at his 2D:4D ratios: Trump has endured comments about the size of his hands (and fingers) for years. Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair and co-founder of Spy magazine, wrote a piece in 2015 gleefully recalling his decades-long trolling of the Republican candidate over his finger length: It's worth noting that penis size has also been linked to body-image issues among men who worry that theirs is too small, and that a small penis is the worst thing that could happen to them (despite penis size having very little effect on overall sexual satisfaction, either your own or your partner's). As we observed in a previous article: (en)
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