Tricks in perspective

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  1. Grossenschwamm

    Grossenschwamm Well-Known Member

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    I'm sure most of you are familiar with porn, and how perspective in each scene can factor heavily into what you think you're seeing.

    The following image isn't porn, but is porn-related due to the information I'm giving beneath it.
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    The pipe in this photo is 6.25 inches long. The woman holding it is, by her own admission, 5'5".

    I was aware of the tricks used in porn before, but this image actually spelled it out for me - in giant, floppy letters. We've even talked about it here - how the models in the scene are shorter than average, while the men tend to have larger than average members while also being shorter.

    Any person in this forum who's watched an adult movie and thought "How the hell do they find these actors with massive junk?" can quite easily reconcile that with the newly realized sense of scale present in this image. And maybe it was just me - I'm willing to accept that I was the only one present who was consistently baffled when looking at porn.

    In my defense, however, it's easy enough to be confused when there's no mention of scale. A shorter actor (let's say he's 5'8") can claim he's packing 12", and he easily matches the length of his partner's fore-arm. But if his partner is 4'11", her forearm may only be 9 inches long (just going by proportions). Yes, it's still big, and it looks huge on his frame. However, it's a full quarter smaller than he says, being a product of perspective and a bit of exaggeration.

    But if I'm not the only one, I'd hope I made any male forumer who was embarrassed of themselves over their bodies less so.
    Apparently, the key to a bigger penis was never something as dangerous as weights or confusing as herbal supplements. It's sleeping with tiny women.

    edit: Fractions, man. How the fuck do they work?
     
  2. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    I always kinda assumed that there are 7 billion people on this planet and that a subset of these 7 billion with really big dongs became porn actors. Tiny women and smoke and mirrors seems plausible though.

    EDIT: This is kinda related: http://9gag.com/gag/amXeLEd
     
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    Jojobobo Well-Known Member

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    Sounds like someone's watching too much midget porn.
     
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    I think when you start to find yourself at full mast at the merest glimpse of someone under 5 ft, it's time to say enough is enough.

    In all seriousness, I've never really got the small penis size = inadequacy thing. It seems like, unless you do actually have a tiny tiny penis or on the flip-side a monolithic dong known to cause the occasional solar eclipse, penis size wouldn't have too much of a bearing on sexual performance and satisfying your partner - which is surely what counts? Besides a dick as long as your arm seems impractical, it would probably get caught in car doors and such.
     
  6. Grossenschwamm

    Grossenschwamm Well-Known Member

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    All of those points are accurate, Jojo.

    It can take a bit of convincing before a man already embarrassed of his equipment is convinced of this, however.

    I ended up reading about a study that showed women were generally more pleased with their partner if their size wasn't huge or tiny, as there was a correlation between the size of a man's penis and how hard he was willing to work to get things done - both in the financial sense and the bedroom sense. Now, with a supremely small member (micropenis size range), the effort won't be as effective considering the anatomy of the vagina - but the guy is going to try so goddamn hard to compensate for his size he's likely to be financially successful.
    On the opposite end, a man with a huge penis tends to rely on his size to get things done, which can be a good thing for a number of recipients, but is painful or boring to many more. This mentality may extend to his ambition in the work place, leaving him someone who really doesn't care about his position simply because he knows how big his penis is.

    This study was confirmed by interviews with women that I watched where they were asked questions about size - and when anecdotal information is shared that meshes with a published study, I think it's safe to take things seriously.

    Now, I had my own embarrassment about size due to porn - I hadn't really seen other naked men aside from on the internet while they were banging (sometimes pretty rough looking) women. I actually thought "all men have the same size balls," even though I had no real evidence to suggest that. Apparently, if the set is big enough, it makes the one part you really think about look small.
    I'm curious how common that specific idea is - balls aren't really focused on at all in pornography. At least what I'd watch. Something as simple as the size of a person's gonads could throw a wrench into how big (or small) they think they are.
     
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    If your size troubles you too much, one solution is to exclusively date gorilla women.
     
  8. Grossenschwamm

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    That's an option, I suppose. Though if you jump over the hurdle of "being aroused by female gorillas," how would you find one and convince it to bang you?

    Zoos aside, you'd have to fight a silverback, and win.

    EDIT: Thought of a cynical followup -

    If the payoff for beating a Silverback gorilla in a fight is the opportunity to have sex with a female gorilla, I'll pass.

    However, if you can defeat a patriarch in single combat, it'll probably bode well for the amount of sex you plan to have with humans.
     
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    I don't have any adequacy issues with my member. I'm sure its average length would more than satisfy any reasonable woman. No, my self-doubt has more to do with my ability to even get to the point of engaging its services. I haven't managed to score a date in a long long time. Today saw the latest in a laughably long string of shoot-downs. I feel like I could just about write a book on dealing with rejection.

    Maybe it's time to lower my standards and go for the low-hanging fruit.
     
  10. Grossenschwamm

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    It can! But the idea that it can't affects many men. Even with evidence to the contrary, a man with enough self loathing won't accept that there's nothing wrong with him.

    The way I see it, people have standards for a reason - and unless you're picky to the point of unattainability, there's not a reason to change what type of person you're asking out. Then again, going for the low hanging fruit could give you the confidence you need to go out there and be picky. If you're the type for casual encounters, that is.

    Do you happen to know how you come across to women? Knowing that, and being able to minimize or eliminate any negatives you could present is a huge advantage.
     
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    That seems like a quite specific thing to focus on though, maybe it points to how common watching porn really is. I'd imagine that most men with low self-esteem would just have general feelings of worthlessness rather than concentrating that specifically on their junk.
     
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    1. Women wear high heels to bed.

    2. Men are always rock-hard and ready to go.

    3. When going down on a woman, 10 seconds is more than satisfactory.

    4. If a woman gets busted masturbating by a strange man, she will not
    scream with embarrassment, but rather insist he have sex with her.

    5. Women smile appreciatively when men splat them in the face with sperm.

    6. Women enjoy having sex with ugly, middle-aged men.

    7. Women moan uncontrollably when giving a blowjob.

    8. Women always orgasm when men do.

    9. A blowjob will always get a woman off a speeding ticket.

    10. All women are noisy lays.

    11. People in the 70's couldn't shag unless there was a wild guitar solo in the background.

    12. Those tits are real.

    13. A common and enjoyable sexual practice for a man is to take his half-erect penis and slap it repeatedly on a woman's butt.

    14. Men always groan "OH YEAH!" when they cum.

    15. If there are two of them they will high-five each other (and the girl isn't disgusted!)

    16. Double penetration makes women smile.

    17. Asian men don't exist.

    18. If you come across a guy and his girlfriend having sex in the bushes, the boyfriend won't have even the slightest problem with you jamming your dick in his girlfriend's mouth.

    19. There's a plot.

    20. When taking a woman from behind, a man can really excite a woman by giving her a gentle slap on the butt.

    21. Nurses suck patient's dicks regardless of why they're in the hospital.

    22. Men always pull out.

    23. When your girlfriend busts you getting head from her best friend, she'll only be momentarily pissed off before screwing the both of you.

    24. Women never have headaches... or periods.

    25. When a woman is sucking a man's dick, it's important for him to remind her to suck it.

    26. Assholes are always clean.

    27. A man ejaculating on a woman's butt is a satisfying result for all parties concerned.

    28. Women always look pleasantly surprised when they open a man's trousers and find a dick inside.

    29. Men don't have to beg.

    30. When standing during a blowjob, a man will always place one hand firmly on the back of the kneeling woman's head and the other proudly on his hip.

    31. Every guy has a penis as big as Peter North's.

    32. All women are completely bald.

    33. Women really don't mind being picked up off the street and then banged by two guys in a moving van.

    34. Any girl with pigtails is a teen.

    35. Any other girl is a MILF.

    36. 19-year-old virgins somehow know, and can perform, *every* trick in the book.

    37. When a guy takes his pants off, keys will never fall out of his pocket.

    38. Lesbians do nothing in the afternoon because they don't have jobs.

    39. All women look like Vogue models, even if they deliver pizza for a living.

    40. All women have beautiful girlfriends who are into 3-ways and only visit in small groups.
     
  13. Grossenschwamm

    Grossenschwamm Well-Known Member

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    Well, that was fantastic.


    I wasn't trying to imply that, though I guess I also couldn't rule out that there are men who hate their lives because of their equipment.
    I was trying to say that people with low self esteem can have a hard time (hehe) seeing the value of their own abilities, even when they're validated by others. Given the context however, it does make sense to read it all in relation to penis.

    I do happen to think that the amount of people who watch porn is higher than one might guess. And with the amount I know about the field, i think its market is people who like porn, and people who don't think they have a choice other than porn, with some overlap, and of course there's a mix of men and women in each category.

    Of those groups, there could be any number of people not sure whether they measure up. Though most of them would have to be around average size. And those men will buy any number of gimmicks or gadgets either through desperation, or curiosity, to see what might make a difference. Even so, their penis was never the problem.

    The odd thing is I don't see any mention of how vaginas vary among women, so not only is there an implied message of "you're not big enough," there's the idea that only men have the potential to worry about how their equipment compares to other peoples'.
     
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