History Main / BigPrickBigProblems

* Played for drama in VisualNovel/{{Nukitashi}}. When Junnosuke was younger and still living in Seiran Island, some of the classes were about seeing each other's naked bodies. He got bullied and ostracized over his unusually large size and it left him with psychological trauma. To this day, he detests his thing and the idea of showing it to anyone.

* ''Literature/TheScumVillainsSelfSavingSystemRenZhaFanpaiZijiuXitong'': Whereas in the original version of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Proud Immortal Demon Way]]'' played BiggerIsBetterInBed straight, Shen Yuan mocked the author for his "elementary school-level" understanding of sex. When Shen Yuan as Shen Qingqiu has sex with Luo Binghe, the latter's large size and inexperience make the experience very painful and unpleasant. This is part of the greater SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome that a man with a large penis and no sexual experience might not be automatically good at sex.

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* ''WebOriginal/VirginVsChad'': Both [[TheAce Chad]] and his even better counterpart, Thad, are portrayed with sizable bulges, Thad's being even bigger, as one of the ways they're manlier and cooler than the TeenyWeenie [[ButtMonkey Virgin]]. However, Lad, being an exaggeration of Chad to the point of being grotesque, has an unnaturally and inhuman-sized bulge. This typically prevents him from even having sex and is so heavy he's sometimes depicted needing to carry it with a wheelbarrow, and along with [[MuscleAngst unwieldy muscles]] it's one of the ways he's depicted worse than the Virgin despite being further on the Chad scale.
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SubTrope of GagPenis and SpearCounterpart to DCupDistress. The opposite of BiggerIsBetterInBed, when a large package is preferable. Contrast TeenyWeenie, when the lack of size is problematic.

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* GenderFlipped in ''Manga/BootyRoyaleNeverGoDownWithoutAFight'': Misora spends a full chapter worrying that her clitoris is too big. She gets over the issue but it's still brought up every once in a while: she once brings it up to commiserate with Miya Nekomiya, a pre-op trans woman, after the latter has a WardrobeMalfunction during a pay-per-view shoot.

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* ''Literature/TheGodfather'': Subverted by Sonny Corleone who finds a DistaffCounterpart in Lucy Mancini, a woman whose vagina is also overly large. When Sonny's wife finds out he's cheating on her, she's actually relieved that she doesn't have to have as much sex with him anymore. This plot is AdaptedOut of the movie except for a brief ContinuityNod that shows Sonny's wife visually describing to some friends the size of his equipment.

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* In ''Series/{{Brockmire}}'', Matt Hardesty would regularly boast about the size of his penis, and would occasionally show it off. Later when [[spoiler: he's dying of cancer,]] he confides in Jim that he's never fully been inside a woman. Many like to try, but he just can't fit it in there.
* A patient of the week in ''[[{{Series/NipTuck}} Nip/Tuck]]'' (played by Misha Collins) is a yoga instructor that wants a penis reduction surgery because he's addicted to fellating himself. He's lost jobs, couldn't maintain relationships and tried every other option he could think of, but could never suppress the urge. He wants it small enough that he can't reach his own mouth anymore.

* In the series ''Series/{{Testees}}'', two slackers make money by testing new drugs for a pharma company. The pilot episode sees one of them take a pill that causes him to massively enhance his penis size... to the point that he needs a blood transfusion to get an erection.

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* ''WebComic/{{Oglaf}}'': A rather absurd example in "The Yoke" when a proposed "cock tax" causes all the well-endowed people to rebel and demand an end to their oppression, which includes "pleasuring size queens" and cock puppet shows, which are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ''WebComic/SomethingPositive'': Jason is stated to be well-endowed enough that some of his past girlfriends refused to have sex with him. Fortunately, his eventual wife Aubrey has no problem with it.

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[[folder: Western Animation]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'''s "[[Recap/InsideJobS2E7ProjectReboot Project Reboot]]", Andre discovers an alternate timeline in which he gets to have a horse penis. He then discovers that having a penis oversized for human orifaces makes it, ironically, impossible for him to have sex.

# [[BlessedWithSuck Truly extraordinary size can make it difficult or even impossible to sustain an erection due to blood-flow complications]] making [[TheLoinsSleepTonight any degree of performance]] [[ExaggeratedTrope impossible]]. partners can be unsettled by the mere sight of it, making sex unappealing and intimidating.

# While size can matter to women, girth benefits them more than length, and both take a back seat to technique because female genitals can accept a reasonable range of 'inputs'. One size does indeed fit all, so long as the "all" knows what they are doing. Remember, Size and skill are not the same things. Just because the erection is big, it doesn't mean you know what you're doing.

# [[BlessedWithSuck Truly extraordinary size can make it difficult or even impossible to sustain an erection due to blood-flow complications]] making [[TheLoinsSleepTonight any degree of performance]] [[ExaggeratedTrope impossible]].
# While size can matter to women, girth benefits them more than length, and both take a back seat to technique because female genitals can accept a reasonable range of 'inputs'. One size does indeed fit all, so long as the "all" knows what they are doing.

# Size and skill are not the same things. Just because the erection is big, it doesn't mean you know what you're doing. Privacy will be forfeit since men will gawk at you and partners will either be overexcited or unsettled by the mere sight of it.

# The male enhancement pills that are advertised online are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and so the side-effects of taking them aren't made clear. Since they aren't FDA approved, taking those kinds of pills '''is incredibly risky and will do more damage than you think'''.

# The male enhancement pills that are advertised online are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and so the side-effects of taking them aren't made clear. Since they aren't FDA approved, taking those kinds of pills '''are way too risky and they will do more damage than you think'''.

# It assumes that intercourse is all there is to sex, thereby demonstrating certain failures of knowledge and imagination. Some women are unable to climax solely from vaginal stimulation and excessive length may prevent them from receiving the additional vulval and clitoral stimulation they need.

When it comes to the size of a man's private parts, it's often thought that "bigger is better", [[BiggerIsBetterInBed especially in the bedroom]]. Often the same is said [[BuxomIsBetter about women and breasts]]. However sometimes, [[DCupDistress just as with breasts]], having a larger package can prove problematic. The reason is usually at least one of the following.

* ''ComicBook/TheInternship'': Emery and Andy's first attempt at sex is aborted when Emery's largeness proves too painful for Andy. As a result, they resolve to start over [[spoiler: with Emery on the receiving end]].
* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
** Played for horror in ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'': During "The Naked Kill" arc, Frank ends up investigating and hunting down a group of HumanTraffickers making {{Snuff Film}}s. The "star" is Eleventhree, who gets that name from his length ''while flaccid''. When erect, he's so big that he literally rapes women to death.

* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'', the Ice Age travelogue ''cum'' RomanceNovel, uses this to characterize the male LoveInterest. He learned early that his size could prove uncomfortable to his partner, and he has spent his life having to hold back. Part of the justification for Ayla being his OneTrueLove is her UniqueProtagonistAsset of having sufficient, err, ''capacity'' to receive him fully.
* Subverted in the book ''Literature/TheGodfather'' by Sonny Corleone, who finds a DistaffCounterpart in Lucy Mancini, a woman whose vagina is also overly large. When Sonny's wife finds out he's cheating on her, she's actually relieved that she doesn't have to have as much sex with him anymore. This plot is AdaptedOut of the movie except for a brief ContinuityNod that shows Sonny's wife visually describing to some friends the size of his equipment.

* ''Literature/TheScumVillainsSelfSavingSystemRenZhaFanpaiZijiuXitong'': whereas in the original version of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Proud Immortal Demon Way]]'' played BiggerIsBetterInBed straight, Shen Yuan mocked the author for his "elementary school-level" understanding of sex. When Shen Yuan as Shen Qingqiu has sex with Luo Binghe, the latter's large size and inexperience make the experience very painful and unpleasant. This is part of the greater SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome that a man with a large penis and no sexual experience might not be automatically good at sex.
* ''Literature/TheseWordsAreTrueAndFaithful'': Not only has Ernie often been denied sex precisely because he is so well-hung but also, as a secondary character points out, his large penis does nothing for his emotional maturity.

* In ''Literature/SpaceBeasts'', this is one of the reasons that most [[InterspeciesRomance interspecies couples]] are human boy/[[UpliftedAnimal humanimal]] girl. Bill, for example, is a little nervous about having sex because of a particularly bad BedmateReveal he suffered in his past ([[WhatDidIDoLastNight he got drunk]] and [[OutWithABang accidentally killed his partner]]). Kate also reminisces about a very well-endowed Shetland Pony Humanimal and the troubles she had with him, which makes Ichabod (who remembers Marzipan making an offhand comment about Ichabod's penis size) rather alarmed. Bill tells him not to worry.
* ''WebOriginal/VirginVsChad'': Both [[TheAce Chad]] and his even better counterpart, Thad, are portrayed with sizable bulges, Thad's being even bigger, as one of the ways they're manlier and cooler than the TeenyWeenie [[ButtMonkey Virgin]]. However, Lad, being an exaggeration of Chad to the point of being grotesque, has an unnaturally and inhuman-sized bulge. This typically prevents him from even having sex and is so heavy he's sometimes depicted needing to carry it with a wheelbarrow, and along with [[MuscleAngst unwieldy muscles]] it's one of the ways he's depicted worse than the Virgin despite being further on the Chad scale.
* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': An in-universe [[PowerPerversionPotential sex manual for superhumans]] mentions that, due to the wish-fulfillment aspects of the [[HeroicBuild Exemplar powerset]], some individuals develop to a GagPenis size, which together with ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex issues can lead to risks of harming their partner.

* ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'': The sadistic supercomputer AM turns the vain Benny [[BalefulPolymorph into a hideous ape-like creature]] to mock him. One of the additions was giving him an enormous member, as part of making him primeval. While Ellen doesn't seem to mind, as AM [[SituationalSexuality forcibly changed him from being a gay man]] this is yet another sadistic mind game.

# Hiding [[RagingStiffie unwanted erections]] and bulges will be difficult as it will be embarrassing if the public sees an erection that you can't hide. In other cases, a bulge can be so big that it's difficult to [[OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe hide under your clothes]] and people may [[AccidentalPervert make some wrong assumptions about you]]. The OverreactingAirportSecurity will also go for a pat-down because the millimeter wave scanner detected an anomaly down there.
# Buying clothes will also be problematic since you can only buy a certain size, fit, or brand so it doesn't cause any pain, show bulges, or be uncomfortable for the wearer. Wearing speedos, briefs, and shorts will be impossible if your private parts are too big to fit inside, remember, the SquareCubeLaw can come into full effect if your underwear is too small or tight to contain your erections.
# Size and skill are not the same things, just because the erection is big don't mean you know what you're doing. Privacy will be forfeit since men will gawk at you and partners will either be overexcited or unsettled by the mere sight of it.

** Played for horror in ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'': During "The Naked Kill" arc, Frank ends up investigating and hunting down a group of HumanTraffickers making {{Snuff Film}}s. The "star" is Eleventhree, who gets that name from his length ''while flaccid''. When erect he's so big that he literally rapes women to death.

* ''Film/Bedazzled2000'': {{Defied|Trope}} when Elliot makes his fourth wish with a JackassGenie. Because his third wish gave him a TeenyWeenie as a side effect, he takes care to specify that he become well-endowed, but ''reasonably'' so. He still doesn't end up with the object of his desire, because the fourth desire is a reality where he is gay.

* In-universe example; ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' has a Vietnamese hooker not wanting to have sex with a [[BlackIsBiggerInBed black Marine]] because she's worried it's too big for her. He demonstrates it isn't.

* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'', the Ice Age travelogue ''cum'' RomanceNovel, uses this to characterize the male LoveInterest. He learned early that his size could prove uncomfortable to his partner, and has spent his life having to hold back. Part of the justification for Ayla being his OneTrueLove is her UniqueProtagonistAsset of having sufficient, err, ''capacity'' to receive him fully.

** Also played straight in the book in that Sonny's excessive size negatively affects every other sexual relationship he has other than Lucy. As noted above, his wife is actually ''relieved'' that he's cheating on her since that means she won't have to have sex with him as much...though she does start to complain after he's neglected her too much and too long in favor of Lucy, so the sex can't be ''that'' bad. It even mentions that when he visited "houses of ill fame" in his youth, even "the most hardened and fearless putain" would demand double payment. As for Lucy, her "overly large vagina" isn't simply a size variance, but the result of a weakened pelvic floor, which prevents her from enjoying sex with any man who ''isn't'' as well-endowed as Sonny, and which needs surgical correction lest it lead to even more serious medical problems in the future.

* In the classic Russian erotic poem ''Luka Mudischev'' by Creator/IvanBarkov, the title character is a sexually-frustrated ImpoverishedPatrician whose 14 inch-long penis denies him any kind of romantic liaison, at least, until an equally frustrated merchant widow takes an interest in him. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, Luka's tool immediately proves too much even for her, leading to both of them suffering rather ignoble [[OutWithABang deaths]].]]
* ''Literature/NjalsSaga'': At Hrút's departure from Norway, his (now ex-)lover Gunhild curses him to "never be able to enjoy the love of that woman in Iceland on whom [his] heart is set". Back in Iceland, Hrút marries his fiancé Unn, but finds that whenever he is in bed with her he gets an erection so large he cannot have intercourse with her. Unn finally divorces him because of their inability to consummate the marriage. Hrút has no troubles of this kind in his second marriage.

* ''Literature/TheseWordsAreTrueAndFaithful'': Not only has Ernie often been denied sex precisely because he is so well hung, but also, as a secondary character points out, his large penis does nothing for his emotional maturity.

* ''Podcast/KakosIndustries'': In early episodes, Kakos Industries' C.E.O. Corin Deeth III updates his shareholders on the Adult Entertainment Branch's work on a penis enlargement cream. The cream is ''extremely'' effective, with Corin noting that it becomes too large for any orafice, prevents anything but sweat pants from fitting, and also requires more blood than a human man is capable of providing in order to stiffen in the first place. Despite this, Corin at one point reports that multiple men were in line for a second treatment. The whole thing comes to an end in episode 12, "Peter Wood", when a man falls into the vat of the penis enlargement cream. The fiasco causes the Adult Entertainment Branch to be shut down and the penis enlargement cream discontinued.

* ''WebComic/SomethingPositive'': Jason is stated to be well endowed enough that some of his past girlfriends refused to have sex with him. Fortunately, his eventual wife Aubrey has no problem with it.

# Regardless of personal preferences, someone's nethers can only stretch and fit so much; if a guy's penis is too big for his partner's orifices then intercourse will be awkward, physically painful, [[CantHaveSexEver or even outright impossible.]]

# While size can matter to women, girth benefits them more than length, and both take a back seat to technique because female genitals can accept a reasonable range of "inputs." One size does indeed fit all, so long as the "all" knows what they are doing.

# Medically making your penis bigger may seem like a dream come true but the problems outweigh the benefits, as the surgeries will only make it ''look'' bigger, not actually make it bigger. The surgeries and injections will only make the penis look bigger at the cost of being functional, as well as looking unhealthy and undesirable [[note]]Briefly summarized, these surgeries can involve cutting the ligament to the pubic bone (which will prevent erections from being upright and pointing up), using skin tissue from a ''cadaver'', injections usually involve injecting fat or filler that will leave the penis looking bumpy and lumpy, and so on. Other methods have resulted in serious injuries and risks to personal health. And even if it ''does'' somehow work out fine, you have to wait for the penis to heal from/adjust to the alterations, which can take ''months''[[/note]].

Sub-trope of GagPenis and SpearCounterpart to DCupDistress. The opposite of BiggerIsBetterInBed, when a large package is preferable. Contrast TeenyWeenie, when the lack of size is problematic.

# Buying clothes will also be problematic since you can only buy a certain size, fit, or brand so it doesn't cause any pain, show bulges, or be uncomfortable for the wearer. Wearing speedos, briefs, and shorts will be impossible if your private parts are too big to fit inside.
# Size and skill are not the same things, just because the erection is big doesn't mean you know what you're doing. Privacy will be forfeit since men will gawk at you and partners will either be overexcited or unsettled by the mere sight of it.

* ''Manga/LadySnowblood'': Genjiro's entire motivation for his criminal schemes is so he can buy a boat ticket to Europe where white prostitutes won't be scared away by his size (or so he hopes).

* Played for horror in ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'': During "The Naked Kill" arc, Frank ends up investigating and hunting down a group of HumanTraffickers making {{Snuff Film}}s. The "star" is Eleventhree, who gets that name from his length ''while flaccid''. When erect he's so big that he literally rapes women to death.

* ''Literature/NjalsSaga'': At Hrút's departure from Norway, his (now ex-)lover Gunhild curses him to "never be able to enjoy the love of that woman in Iceland on whom [his] heart is set". Back in Iceland, Hrút marries his fiancé Unn, but finds that whenever he is in bed with her he gets an erection so large he cannot have intercourse with her. Unn finally divorces him because of their inability to consummate the marriage. Hrút has no troubles of this kind in his second marriage.
* ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'': The sadistic supercomputer AM turns the vain Benny [[BalefulPolymorph into a hideous ape-like creature]] to mock him. One of the additions was giving him an enormous member, as part of making him primeval. While Ellen doesn't seem to mind, as AM [[SituationalSexuality forcibly changed him from being a gay man]] this is yet another sadistic mind game.

* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'', the Ice Age travelogue ''cum'' RomanceNovel, uses this to characterize the male LoveInterest. He learned early that his size could prove uncomfortable to his partner, and has spent his life having to hold back. Part of the justification for Ayla being his OneTrueLove is her UniqueProtagonistAsset of having sufficient, err, ''capacity'' to receive him fully.

* In ''Series/{{Brockmire}}'', Matt Hardesty would regularly boast about the size of his penis, and would occasionally show it off. Later when [[spoiler: he's dying of cancer,]] he confides in Jim that he's never fully been inside a woman. Many like to try, but he just can't fit it in there.
* A patient of the week in ''[[{{Series/NipTuck}} Nip/Tuck]]'' (played by Misha Collins) is a yoga instructor that wants a penis reduction surgery because he's addicted to fellating himself. He's lost jobs, couldn't maintain relationships and tried every other option he could think of, but could never suppress the urge. He wants it small enough that he can't reach his own mouth anymore.

* ''WebComic/{{Oglaf}}'': A rather absurd example in "The Yoke" when a proposed "cock tax" causes all the well-endowed people to rebel and demand an end to their oppression, which includes "pleasuring size queens" and cock puppet shows, which are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ''WebComic/SomethingPositive'': Jason is stated to be well endowed enough that some of his past girlfriends refused to have sex with him. Fortunately, his eventual wife Aubrey has no problem with it.

* Zig-zagged in the good-natured NSFW webcomic ''Cheer'' by Forview. Two girls are having sex with a boy who, if hand measurements are anything to go by, is packing something like 8-10 inches. At first, [[GoodBadGirl the more experienced girl]] is very impressed by it, expressing surprise that [[BlackIsBiggerInBed a white boy could have one so big]]. But when she tries to actually ride it, she's brought to tears by the discomfort. Then they find a way to compensate for the extra length, and she declares the experience "my new favorite thing". The other girl, [[StatuesqueStunner who is bigger]], doesn't need as much help, but still needs the boy to be "super gentle" with "the last inch". As the strip goes on, they don't bring it up as much, possibly because they've figured out what does and doesn't work. However, the more experienced girl does mention that, although she [[TooKinkyToTorture does like it a bit rough and doesn't mind getting a bit sore]], she's encountered boys too big for her before, and her response has been to [[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland "endure it, then put them on the BJ-only list"]]. Overall, the boy's large penis is treated as a complication to work around, not [[BiggerIsBetterInBed a source of extra pleasure]].

* Literature/WhateleyUniverse: An in-universe [[PowerPerversionPotential sex manual for superhumans]] mentions that, due to the wish-fulfillment aspects of the [[HeroicBuild Exemplar powerset]], some individuals develop to a GagPenis size, which together with ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex issues can lead to risks of harming their partner.

* ''Literature/NjalsSaga'': At Hrút's departure from Norway, his (now ex-)lover Queen Gunhild curses him to "never be able to enjoy the love of that woman in Iceland on whom [his] heart is set". Back in Iceland, Hrút marries his fiancé Unn, but finds that whenever he is in bed with her he gets an erection so large he cannot have intercourse with her. Unn finally divorces him because of their inability to consummate the marriage. Hrút has no troubles of this kind in his second marriage.

* In ''[[Literature/NjalsSaga Burnt-Njal's Saga]]'', the longest of Literature/TheIcelandicSagas, the plot begins with a man being cursed by an angry ex to have an erection so large that he can no longer comfortably have sex with his wife. (The curse is not in effect with any other woman.)

* A patient of the week in ''{{Series/NipTuck}}'' (played by Misha Collins) is a yoga instructor that wants a penis reduction surgery because he's addicted to fellating himself. He's lost jobs, couldn't maintain relationships and tried every other option he could think of, but could never suppress the urge. He wants it small enough that he can't reach his own mouth anymore.