It is well known that the importance of penis size is a matter of considerable public interest. We also know that penis size matters to men a great deal. Unfortunately, much less is known about how important women judge penis size to be. There is a lack of solid research data regarding this issue. Information on how important penis size is to sexually active women could be useful for all men with normal or big penises to know and for smalldicks it could be a necessary information as they usually only hear comforting lies when they ask about the importance of size.

The data presented below were collected in the “Sexual Styles of Urban Women in Croatia” study, which was carried out in the five biggest Croatian cities in 1998. (Stulhofer, 1999). The sample consisted of 556 women aged 19–49 years. A list of randomly chosen addresses was used as the basis for participant selection. Women without coital experience were excluded from the study. Respondents were surveyed in their home by trained female interviewers. The questionnaire consisted of 82 variables, including 3 questions regarding the importance of partner’s penis size (length and girth), as well as its overall esthetic appeal, for the respondent’s sexual pleasure. Respondents used a 3-item scale (unimportant, somewhat important, and very important) for recording answers.

As expected, girth was found to be more important than length. A fifth of respondents (21.8%) reported that they found both girth and length unimportant, while 12.8% judged both qualities very important.

It was hypothesized that sexual experience (as measured by number of lifetime sexual partners) would have an effect on penis size evaluation.  As expected, the differences between the groups were significant, with more experienced women judging penis size more important, both in the case of penis length.

In addition to questions regarding penis size, the women were asked how important they found the overall esthetic quality (appearance) of their partner’s penis. The majority of respondents judged it to be somewhat important (44.9%) while the rest were almost equally divided between it being unimportant (28.2%) and being very important for their satisfaction (26.9%).