And as we wait for the SC verdict, what better way to divert ourselves than this fascinating study on which US states are the largest... on a parameter of some interest for these lists.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/03/which-state-is-the-biggest/ I know one Indian gay guy who was in North Dakota - possibly the only Indian gay guy ever in North Dakota - who was desperate to leave the place. Either he didn't know about this, or the survey is a lie, or he just wasn't into this particular statistic. This also reminds me of this piece I had done for TimeOut ages back. Does this fit with the experience of people on these lists? : Queer I – Statistics Ally Gator, Mumbai, 18/12/2006 I don’t know why the Indian Council of Medical Research didn’t ask the gay community before they undertook their study which has just established that the average Indian penis is too small for the average available condom size. My friend D could have told them that years ago. From travels across the country, and the range available in cosmopolitan Mumbai, he’s become an expert observer (and then rather more) of the Indian penis, and not just national averages but regional variations as well. D tells me that Kashmiri men come largest, which could be another reason why nationalists won’t let the state go, for fear of further reducing the national average. Next, he tells me, come the Punjabis and Haryanvis, and after that it tends to diminishes the further East and South you travel, though there are sudden peaks in pockets like Kerala. Could this be the reason behind the party name proudly chosen by the Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran)? D is not the only penis surveyor that I’ve known in the gay community. J, a British friend who was posted here some years back, undertook photographic documentation in what he called The Great Indian Dick Project. He’d go up to men at random, explain his anthropological aims and ask if they would participate in the project. He made it clear that only the penis, no other feature of the subject, would be photographed and perhaps because of this close focus, perhaps out of instinctive deference to the British, perhaps from a genuine urge to aid scientific enquiry, a surprising number of the men readily agreed, with no pressure or payment, to drop their pants. The only problem was afterwards when, despite his initial explanation, many seemed to expect further attentions from J. Unfortunately for them his only interest really was documentation, and it was interesting, even rather endearing, to watch all his pictures spread out. No matter how limp the initial enthusiasm of the subject, facing the camera would stiffen their spirits (unfortunately the camera was too fast for them, so the results tended to evoke a set of views of the Leaning Tower of Pisa). A few did stand out - I remember one exceptional engineer from Nashik - but really all seemed quite serviceable. And that, I think, is the view that most guys would take, the odd size queen like D notwithstanding. Despite stereotypes I think most gay men are pragmatic enough to go for the whole package, rather than just one element. After all, despite these global size surveys that routinely put China and India at the bottom, both top in population so functionality is hardly the issue. And gay men can also reflect happily on another survey, from the Kinsey Institute in the US, which after extensive research has concluded that (modest pause) gay men do tend to be larger. Let’s just avoid the question of whether its abuse of statistics if some guys like D use this to conclude that size indicates opportunity... ends
