Doctors alarmed by changes to men’s penises around the world

Some things are too good to be true

Just two years ago the average size for a man's piece in the UK was 5.17 inches, but since then, blokes across the UK have seen a meteoric rise in penis proportions.

As of 2024, the average now sites at 5.63 inches, while erect, a whopping 8.9% growth over two, placing our humble isles eighth in the global ranking for penis growth and 60th in the world for size.

For the time being Venezuela are still the country to beat at a colossal 6.67 inches.

However, for all the puns and seemingly good news, doctors are in fact alarmed by what appears to be a worldwide trend, affecting men globally.

A study from last year found the average penis length has increased over the past 30 years, with experts saying the discovery is “concerning”.

“Any overall change in development is concerning because our reproductive system is one of the most important pieces of human biology,” Dr Michael Eisenberg, the study’s author, told Stanford Medicine’s blog Scope.

“If we’re seeing this fast of a change, it means that something powerful is happening to our bodies.”

The Stanford University study, published in the World Journal of Men’s Health, analysed data from 75 studies, with over 55,000 men from 1992 to 2021, focusing on the length of an erect penis.

Researchers discovered the average penis size had increased 24 per cent.

Dr. Eisenberg said: “Erect penile length is getting longer, from an average of 4.8 inches to 6 inches, over the past 29 years."

While further studies are needed to confirm the development and determine the cause, experts are surprised.

Dr Eisenberg had expected to see sizes decreasing.

“Given the trends we’d seen in other measures of men’s reproductive health, we thought there could be a decline in penile length due to the same environmental exposures,” he said.

“What we found was quite different from trends in other areas of male fertility and health,” he added.

Chemical exposure from pesticides or hygiene products, he continued, could be one of the various factors fuelling penis growth, as they can disrupt the endocrine system, which regulates hormones.

Past studies have claimed pollution is shrinking the penis, the New York Post noted.

Meanwhile, Covid was also thought to have shrunk penises.