Jan 26
What's Getting Bigger and Better All the Time?
READ TIME: 4 MIN.
What's getting bigger all the time?
The penis, it turns out. And by the end of the century, it may have plenty of biomedical enhancements.
Last year "a meta-analysis by Stanford University researchers found the average erect penis jumped 25 percent in length from 1992 to 2021 – from 4.8 to 6 inches," the Daily Mail reported.
"In fact, based on current rates of growth, the average penis length could push past 8.5 inches before the end of the century," the Daily Mail writes in an updated report published this weekend.
According to the Stanford University study, men's penises on average have grown at an 'alarming rate' in the space of just 30 years. referring to data from 55,761 men, the researchers found the average erect penis jumped 25 per cent in length from 1992 to 2021 – from 4.8 to 6 inches.
At this rate, the average length could push past 8.5 inches before end of the century.
'If we're seeing this fast of a change, it means that something powerful is happening to our bodies,' said the study's lead author Dr Michael Eisenberg.
Turning the focus on what they say has long been a "taboo" subject, the DM predicts other changes to the organ. These, though, aren't due to nature.
"Already, a whole global community of sci-fi-inspired 'biohackers' are making tweaks to the body using technology such as implants. And experts predict that the biohacked penis of the future – dubbed 'penis 2.0' – will have some sizable changes in store," writes the DM.
Simon Underdown, professor of biological anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, tells the tabloid that any substantial changes to penis size and shape in the next few thousand years will likely be due to self-made alterations.
Such enhancements include how well sperm moves ('motility') or even its shape to make it better at penetrating the cell membrane of the egg.
'"f there is enough demand, driven by fashion or societal trends, for tweaking bits of the body then we're probably not that far away from being able to genetically do that," Professor Underdown told MailOnline.
"That's what makes humans really interesting – we're close to the point at which we can mess about with biological processes because we want to rather than there being a strong biological selective pressure."
