Study Reveals Link Between Small Penis Size and Sports Car Preference

If you have been active socially or are on the internet, you would have come across the phrase “small dick energy.”

It is an idea that believes that men who are attracted to glitzy, shiny sports cars are jealous and insecure and are overcompensating for their small members.

Who believes member size would affect one’s desire for expensive automobiles? Well, studies have emerged proving that men with a smaller-than-average penises are likelier to want to own a high-end sports car.

A study was carried out by psychologists from the University College London, who measured 200 men and then instructed them to rate their desire for luxurious items like flashy sports cars.

The study wanted to explore if there was indeed fact in the “cliché that a man driving a costly sports car is compensating for his male inadequacy.”

There's a proven link between small penis size and sports cars, scientists claim: https://t.co/R2xH8V1aKw

The study aimed to investigate if there was "any truth to the cliche that a man driving an expensive sports car is compensating for his male inadequacy," per the team. pic.twitter.com/lkPmQWb5b2

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During this study, researchers told a group that the average penis size worldwide is 7 inches. While they told another group that the average penis size is 4 inches. Meanwhile, the actual average is about 5.5 inches.

Results showed that the men who believed their manhood was not up to standard wanted fancy cars more.

“Perhaps there is something specific that links cars and penises in the male mind,” the study states. “[That] would explain the existence of the phallic car trope in jokes, advertisements, and academic discourse.”

Interestingly, the desire for exotic cars was also the same. As observed by the researchers, men over 29 displayed a stronger yearning for these exotic cars.

“We found that males, especially over 30, rated sports cars as more worthwhile when they were compelled to feel that they had a small penis,” said one of the researchers.

Research results on sports cars and self-esteem correlation

Subsequently, the researchers theorized that the desire to own an expensive ride was down to low self-esteem.

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The study’s author wrote, “Under this hypothesis, feeling that one has a small penis is a type of low self-esteem, and purchasing a sports car might ameliorate that.”

During the study, there was an influence on the self-esteem of various participants in other ways. One such method was providing them with false information about their finance and the health of other men.

But ultimately, only those deceived about their penis size showed a greater desire to own a sports car.

According to the scientist, “The connection between driving a fast sports car and having a small penis is a common cultural trope.”

The expert said that Academics from Freudian analysts discussed it to the evolutionary theorists. “We have proved for the first time that it came from a psychological truth,” the scientist concluded.

Based on this outcome, many have had mixed reactions about the nature of the experiment. In addition, some are labeling it sadistic and cruel. 

They believe that in an attempt to show that the cliché of buying flashy sports cars to overcompensate for having a small penis is “grounded in psychological truth,” they ended up playing into the same negative stereotypes.

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