Research about Big Peppermill Dick Peter
By Sara Twogood, MD
We’re scooting through the sexual health content goldmine Sex and the City to Season 1: Episode 3: Bay of Married Pigs
Carrie’s research topic this episode: Is there a secret cold war between married and singles?
But really, the best part of this episode isn’t about being single or being married. The best part is about seeing a friend’s husband’s penis.
Carrie is staying at at a friend’s house in the Hamptons when the husband greets Carrie in the morning wearing only a t-shirt. No underwear, full frontal. Penis out for her viewing. It’s not erect, it’s not sexual, it’s just there.
She discloses this to her friend: “I ran into Peter in the hallway without his underwear on. And P.S. … congratulations.”
Next scene: Carrie (of course) tells her girlfriends, and when asked how big the penis was she refers to the peppermill being offered for their salads.
And later, when Samantha - drunk and being Samantha - meets Peter, she shrieks: “oh I’ve heard of you – big peppermill dick. Bahahaha”
Obviously a peppermill is big. And a penis being compared to a peppermill is classic. But is it accurate?
A standard Peugeot peppermill looks pretty close to the one in the show – dimensions coming in at a solid 12” tall.
How much bigger that average is this? What is an average penis size – especially of the flaccid sort that Carrie saw?
As always, we look to the medical literature to answer our question and you guessed it - there are studies that answer the age-old question of “what is the average penis size?”
I can’t say I did extensive research on this – our standard Google AI Overview gives us a pretty helpful overview to answer our question in addition to some reassurances:
“Smaller flaccid penises tend to lengthen more than larger ones when erect” and
“Most men have a penis size that’s adequate for sexual functioning. There’s no need to worry about the size of your penis, because all sizes are normal”
But here’s what this helpful piece of literature tells us:
For all these percentiles, let me remind you that 50th percentile is average.
40th percentile is a little small than average, 60th percentile a little larger than average.
There is a lot of common variation, as we know.
But, in general, <10th percentile is considered uncommonly small and >90th percentile is considered uncommonly big.
So with those numbers in mind, let’s take a look at the data.
Average penis length:
Flaccid penis:
50th percentile (average): 3.6 inches ( 9.2 cm)
<10th percentile: 2.8 inches (7.1 cm)
>90th percentile: 4.4 inches (11.2 cm)
Erect penis:
(The stretched and erect penis graphs are so so close that I’m including the erect penis measurements here only.)
50th percentile (average): 5.2 inches (13.1 cm)
<10th percentile: 4.3 inches (11 cm)
>90th percentile: 6 inches (15.25 cm)
Average penis girth (circumference):
Flaccid penis:
50th percentile (average): 3.64 inches (9.25 cm)
<10th percentile: 3.22 inches (8.2 cm)
>90th percentile: 4.13 inches (10.15 cm)
Erect penis:
50th percentile (average): 4.56 inches (11.6 cm)
<10th percentile: 4.01 inches (10.2 cm)
>90th percentile: 5.16 inches (13.1 cm)
One of the questions reviewed in this study: is there a correlation between foot size and penis length? According to one study the stretched length of penis is weakly correlated with foot size. Another study found no correlation at all. Jury is still out.
At the end of the day, if we’re looking at the research on Big Peppermill Dick Peter – coming in at an estimated 12 inches / 30 cm in the flaccid state … well, it is literally off the chart. Big congrats.