What Animal Vagina Is The Closest To A Human Vagina

We are obsessed with penis and testicle size. Nevertheless, we tin barely say "vagina" and when we do we're usually talking about the vulva.

Everyone's come across some article somewhere on-line that is thrilled to share how big homo penises really are, for primates, and to explain why they evolved to exist so big. It's non really the length, simply the girth. Alan Dixson is your go-to on this. He'southward bourgeois in his assessment of the literature on penis size and even he concedes that human penis "circumference is unusual when compared to the penes of other hominoids (apes)" (p. 65 in Sexual Selection and the Origins of Human Mating Systems).

A favorite explanation for the large phallus is female person mate selection, that females selectively make babies with males who have larger and, presumably, more pleasurable semen delivery devices. This is backed up by studies. When life size projections of naked men are shown to female subjects, they say they find the ones with bigger ones to be more than attractive. [This is exactly how mate choice works where I live, how almost you lot?]

Other explanations include male competition. If you can deliver your package to the front one thousand merely the other guy can deliver to the front door, his is more likely to be carried inside the business firm beginning. Or, if he can steal abroad what you lot just delivered, then, over again, his package has yours beat out. Thanks to his big penis he'south more than likely to pass on his winning penis genes than you are to laissez passer on your loser penis genes. Loser.

All this is just terribly fun to write almost and I'm not even going nuts (gah) like they do. And they exercise. They really practise. And all over the Internet they do: "Evolution of human penis" gets 53,000 hits just on scholar.google lone, and well-nigh 832,000 on Google.

Only doesn't information technology brand sense that for a penis to exist somewhat useful information technology has to exist somewhat correlated to vagina size?

I'1000 talking well-nigh all penises in the universe and all vaginas too. Certain there'south variation, but a penis can't be besides wide. It helps to be long, probably, but it tin can't exist likewise long.

And then neither pleasure nor psychology need matter at all, but function associated with some sort of fit. Pleasure and psychology are never invoked to explain penis morphology in other animals. If anything, it'southward the cornucopia of horrifying, non pleasing, animal penises that begs for evolutionary explanations.

Wouldn't you explain the size and shape of the primal by the size and shape of the lock? So wouldn't it exist a fiddling more scientifically sound to hypothesize that the human penis is sized and shaped similar that considering it fits well into the homo vagina?

Sure, information technology gets chicken-and-eggy or turtles-all-the-way-downy, just c'mon. Isn't it a bit obvious that the privates that fit inside the other privates are probably correlated? Y'all'd retrieve that even the people who have never had intercourse would default to this explanation for the evolution of the human penis.

Effigy two.Examples of genital covariation in waterfowl.

(A) Harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) and (B) African goose (Anser cygnoides), two species with a curt phallus and no forced copulations, in which females have unproblematic vaginas every bit in Fig 1a. (C) Long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis), and (D) MallardAnas platyrhynchos 2 species with a long phallus and high levels of forced copulations, in which females take very elaborate vaginas (size bars = ii cm). ] = Phallus, * = Testis, ★ = Muscular base of the male phallus, ▹ = upper and lower limits of the vagina.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000418.g002

But we're rarely, if always, told that human penises are relatively girthy because human vaginas are. It's always about male contest or female person preference.

Sure, nosotros may be a trivial weird compared to our close relatives for not having a baculum (penis bone), and maybe that's the sort of thing you want to explain for whatever reason, simply does human penis size and shape need a uniquely human story?

Assuming it's correlated to the vagina like it probably is in many other species,* then no it doesn't... unless the size and shape of the human being vagina has an exceptional story.

Does it? We wouldn't know. There are cypher (look!) manufactures titled "Why is the man vagina so big?"

Until correct at present.

Here nosotros become. If we were going to answer it the same way we've long explained the human penis, and other creature penis shapes, then we've got a few ideas...

Because walking upright made the vagina conspicuous and males thought a bigger vagina was ameliorate. Because large vaginas outcompete small ones at catching sperm. Because of male pleasure from coitus with a big vagina. Because of oestrus dissipation or thermoregulation. Because of a tradeoff with brain size.

And of course, we'd demand to demonstrate that the human vagina is in fact larger, relative to body size, than the vaginas of other primates. Regardless, a audio answer to the question of vagina size and shape focuses on childbirth, wouldn't you lot say? She's got to exist big enough to push button out a baby and, for humans, it's a great big baby.

And so if in that location'due south an exceptionally human story for the corking large human penis, that exceptional story originates not in a woman'southward orgasms, non in her pornographic thoughts or her lustful eyes, but in her incomparably unsexy "nascence canal."

And I dug upwardly a nice piffling note to explain this to u.s. all written past Dr. Bowman, a gynecologist, back in 2008 for the Archives of Sexual Beliefs

That note is magnificent. It starts out giving the merely vagina-size-based, non to mention childbirth-based, explanation for homo penises that I can find in the literature (which is thankfully cited by Dixson in his book mentioned to a higher place). But it nevertheless manages to bring the explanation beyond the vagina and onto another proud triumph: "In sum, human being's larger penis is a result of his larger brain."

After you lot clean up the coffee y'all just spat onto your calculator screen, yous can read it all for yourself upwardly there in the figure.

Guess who didn't read it? That report in PNAS, mentioned above, that showed women naked penises, got a high attractive score for the big ones, and thinks that's evidence for mate choice now, today, let alone dorsum when (I'one thousand going to speculate that) women had a tiny bit less of it.

Point is, the literature rages on with the special explanations for the big penis with nary a big vagina in sight.

But you heard it here, at least.

Childbirth is why the human being vagina is then big and, consequently, why the male penis is so big. It'southward pretty straightforward. Yet nosotros're nonetheless left scratching our heads as to why the penis question endures.

Is evolutionary science averse to big vaginas?

Does nobody love a big vagina?

Because that'due south only ridiculous. Everybody came from one.

*Unfortunately a few scholar.google searches led me to find no cantankerous-species comparisons of mammalian vagina lengths or any vaginal measures. It may exist out there, simply I oasis' t found it. I establish some measures for bitches... DOGS! And some heifers... COWS! So I've got to compile some data if I'1000 to exercise this properly. Infant size might exist a mode to do this.

**UPDATE. p. 73 in Dixson has Figure iv.3 with nine primate species' penile and vaginal lengths plotted. Thanks Patrick C for reminding me where I'd seen something like this and where to point readers!

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