Motorists are a well-measured group. There are studies on the relationship between antisocial behavior and propensity to commit traffic violations: a property crime, double the risk of an accident; two property crimes, four times the risk of an accident. There are surveys about who thinks they are the best valet drivers (Audi drivers) and who thinks they obey the speed limits the best (BMW drivers). Of course, the much-discussed SUVs are also in the focus of research: According to their own statements, the owners of the very largest models have significantly more points in Flensburg than average car owners.
So far, however, psychologists have avoided one, well, delicate but highly interesting question. Is it true what the vernacular murmurs? That there is an inversely proportional causal connection between the size, i.e. rather small, of a man’s reproductive organ and the horsepower of his car?
Is the widespread cliche true?
Ironically, Greta Thunberg now justifies the exploration of this dark field. A man named Andrew Tate, who is currently in custody in Romania because the public prosecutor’s office there accuses him of rape and human trafficking, told the climate activist about his hobby on Twitter some time ago without being asked: he had 33 cars, including a Bugatti and two Ferraris; he would like to provide her with a complete list, including the enormous exhaust emissions. He garnished it with a photo in which he puts a tank nozzle in his Bugatti with a strained look. The Swede’s answer was clearly understandable, also for Mr. Tate, because it was also at schoolboy level. He would like to email her, she tweeted back to “[email protected]”. small dick, small penis, of course that was a joke. But presented by such a celebrity against the background of the fight against climate change, a veritable working basis for the academic world suddenly emerged.
In any case, a group led by David Richardson at the Department of Experimental Psychology at University College London asked themselves whether the widespread penis-car cliché is true. They solved the biggest problem – the always wrong self-assessment of the size of the genitals – by pretending to the 200 subjects that the average dimensions were either too high or too low – 13 centimeters would be correct in England. And to mask the interest in the research, the question of whether you want a sports car was hidden amidst other questions about shopping behavior.
There is now a need for further research
The result of the study, which has not yet been reviewed? Those who had been led to believe that the average English member was four inches long thought that buying a fast car was rather unnecessary. On the other hand, there was a tendency for more sports cars in the group that had been told something about 18 centimeters, so they were more likely to have the feeling that they had been neglected – especially those who were older than 30 years old.
An explanation for this behavior could be the man’s traditional courtship behavior or the increase in self-esteem, according to the authors, even if “the manufacturers of luxury cars do not want to accept this connection”. In any case, there is now a need for further research.