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The Myth of Size in Sexual Intercourse Ayomipo Akorede email: korede4ril@gmail.com
The society generally has a way of idealizing the tangibility or intangibility of everyday issues. Worse off, these idealizations are often mythical and world apart with realities. Maybe that explains why little Johnny runs after every elephant mosquito he sees around the house because he’s heard (that) they cause elephantiasis or why a guy would shy away from loving a ‘minimally’ endowed woman (in both or either region) just because he would not be proud enough to show her off to everyone around him. English, an offline dictionary, defines myth, in relation to this discourse, as a commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality. The concept of myth can be ‘traced back to 4th century BC Greece, when the world of tradition, linked in one way or another to the orality, definitively gave way to the rationalistic-oriented writing culture, so that hardened in inevitably indurated texts, the mythoi appear to the new reading audience as only odd and incomprehensible stories’ (Journal of Studies in Social Sciences, page 39, Volume 6, Number 1, 2014) . Today, myth is such that it magnifies the ‘projection of our internal desires and conflicts into the outer world’ (The Concept of Myth by D. H Monro, Page 115, 1950). During my undergraduate days, on a fateful day, I was involved in a hot discussion that was chiefly driven by two plus size ladies who insisted vehemently that the size of the penis mattered a lot in sexual intercourse.
While one couldn’t really say why she held on to that assertion, the other was able to cite a personal experience she had with an ex who was rich but couldn’t dig her deep down. First of all, who chooses to be born the way they are born, the way they look, where they are born and to the parents they are given? Who chooses to have a broken marriage, be poor, childless or die in their prime? Who chooses to fail, be disappointed or even live in Nigeria? Loool!!! If we all had the privilege of choices over the aforementioned, wouldn’t we make better choices? This belief (of ‘minimally’ endowed guys not capable of satisfying their women) is widespread. Some women even believe it could make conception impossible for them. Hmmmmm...are you wondering like I am? Now, if sex was all about size, why then do these endowed men suffer weak erection and quick ejaculation? If sex was all about size, why do TIL Magazine 26
