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  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    40·
    1 year ago

    I’m reminded of a joke I heard a long time ago (copy/pasted from elsewhere online)

    The American Government funded a study to see why the head of a man’s Penis was larger than the shaft. After 1 year, and $180,000, they concluded that the reason that the head was larger than the shaft was to give the man more pleasure during sex.

    After the US published the study, the French decided to do their own study. After $250,000 and 3 years of research, they concluded that the reason the head was larger than the shaft was to give the woman more pleasure during sex.

    The Irish, unsatisfied with those findings, conducted their own study. After 2 weeks, a cost of around $75.34, and many pints of beer, they concluded that it was to keep a man’s hand from flying off and hitting himself in the face.

  • jeffw@lemmy.world
    358·
    1 year ago

    It makes me feel uncomfortable that someone would actually believe something so fuckin stupid

      • BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
        276·
        1 year ago

        lmao, this is a theory, and this study hasn’t only not been peer-reviewed, it doesn’t seem to have gained much of any traction in the academic community in the last 20 years.

        if I paid 600 college students to fuck each other, yeah, I’m going to find that one penis is going to squish out the cum from the last penis, but that doesn’t prove that it evolved specifically for that purpose. isn’t simple displacement, and a task that could be as easily performed by a dildo or fist or anything else that you shoved into the jizz-filled cavity.

        don’t believe everything you find on google.

        • TauZero@mander.xyz
          71·
          1 year ago

          Your comment hasn’t been peer reviewed, so I’m gonna take your advice and not believe you.

        • throwing_handles@lemmy.world
          74·
          1 year ago

          this study hasn’t only not been peer-reviewed

          https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/EVP

          1. Open Access

          Evolutionary Psychology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Each article accepted by peer review is made freely available online immediately upon publication, is published under a Creative Commons license and will be hosted online in perpetuity

          […]

          4.1 Peer review policy

          Following a preliminary triage to eliminate submissions unsuitable for Evolutionary Psychology all papers are sent out for review.

        • lol3droflxp@kbin.social
          42·
          1 year ago

          A theory is the most solid thing science can produce. What you’re wanting to say is hypothesis. Also, OP should provide the relevant section of the original review by Baker and Bellis 1995

          • BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
            22·
            1 year ago

            What you’re wanting…

            it always amuses me when random strangers on the internet believe that they can read my mind and know what I want.

            i said “theory” because that’s what I meant, and it has more that the one definition you gave.

  • APassenger@lemmy.one
    71·
    1 year ago

    ITT: a lot of “either/or”

    I’m not sure that evolution cares one wit about any of our theories. If it means I’m the dad and I’m the dad more often… then it will be favored.

    If I enjoy it more, she enjoys it more or it means that my sperm have increased likelihood of winning… that’s all that matters.

    And when I say “or” above, it can include any of those things. It need not be exclusive.