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-->'''Sean Connery:''' I’ve got to ask you about "The Penis Mightier".\\

* In a sketch of the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' episode hosted by Susan Dey, she plays a judge in a courtroom scene where the defendant is supposedly well-endowed. Since this fact was important to the case, he is required to expose himself to the judge and jury. With the camera trained on Dey, the lawyers, and the jury box, there is the sound of the defendant's fly being unzipped followed by the sound of his member hitting the table with a loud thump.

* Vilga from ''Webcomic/TheCummoner'' appreciates a well-endowed male. She hasn't found anyone who's ''too'' big--yet.

SuperTrope to BlackIsBiggerInBed, which is the erroneous assumption that black men are "gifted" with bigger penises than men of other ethnicities. When a large penis has comedic value instead of (or in addition to) sexual value, see GagPenis. Contrast with TeenyWeenie, which is a penis which is smaller than the average, and often leads to mockery of the guy who has it because of this trope, and with BigPrickBigProblems, when a large penis is shown to cause problems for its owner. The female equivalent to this trope is BuxomBeautyStandard. Often related to IKEAErotica and RagingStiffie. When taken to extremes can become a case of AnatomicallyImpossibleSex, or alternately of WritersCannotDoMath.

* "Smilin' Bob" of Enzyte. Though the pill in question purports to be for erectile dysfunction rather than size, it's implied that "Bob" is rather well-endowed... presumably as a result of the pill in question. This actually got the company into legal trouble, as ''every'' implication in the ad ([[SideEffectsInclude as they couldn't expressly say what it was for]]) pointed to this trope, running afoul of false advertising laws.

* Averted in the one shot [[{{Hentai}} h-manga]] ''No Virgins Allowed''. The story revolves around Kitao, who is able to frequent onsens by himself since his parents work well paying jobs and he has no friends, much less a girlfriend. However, one evening he bumps into, [[AlphaBitch Hiromi, the leader]] of their class' [[GirlPosse popular clique]], [[NerdsAreSexy Riko, the gyaru otaku]], and [[GorgeousGaijin Anna, the exotic]] [[ForeignExchangeStudent foreign exchange student]], when they were running away from some creepy looking guys, and they said he was their boyfriend. The girls explain that Hiromi was the first lose her virginity when she hired herself to a middle aged John, and Riko did so sometime later when they hooked with the first guy and his friend. When Anna wanted lose her virginity, the guys brought them to the onsen where they planed to hire them out to at least a half dozen creeps and film the encounter, which is when the girls ran away and bumped into Kitao [[note]] [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Although it's not explicitly mentioned]], it's possible that the creeps left the onsen when the management investigated the ruckus, and the guys didn't want to get found out, and the onsen didn't want any bad publicity [[/note]]. In his room, Riko and Anna still intend to have sex, and when they open Kitao's yukata, they mention how [[TeenyWeenie "cute" his "package"]] is, embarrassing him. However, when Riko imitates things, she states that he feels much better then the other guy she had sex with, who only had his size going for him. When Anna gets involved, she too gets pleasured by Kitao, and Hiromi also remembers the other guys she had sex with were simply big and had no finesse, leading to her feeling pain instead of pleasure, and a bit of jealousy when Anna and Riko leave Kitao too tired to go service her.

** Exaggerated, parodied and deconstructed: Inspector Maccaroni sports ''a 40 cm thing''. He's shown having a first time with a rentboy, who thinks he cannot handle it despite his profession. Maccaroni claims that "''they all whine like that in the beginning, but in the end, they all love it''". However, Maccaroni is unhappy because he feels that his lovers only love his penis and think they tend to forget that "''there's a person hanging from it''".

* ''Titi Fricoteur'': The titular character is a pre-teen KidAnova in Late 19th/Early 20th century France that was noticeably hung from birth and is basically grade-school gigolo sleeping with numerous girls and [[LikesOlderWomen women old enough to even be his]] ''[[SilverFox grandmother]]'' "studying" under a CoolOldGuy with the same endowment and reputation around town.

* Many authors with a favorite male character are likely to give them a large penis in adult fanfiction, with the characters the author dislike tending towards the opposite TeenyWeenie trope.

* ''Manga/{{Evangelion 303}}'': Subverted. According Asuka, Shinji's size is pretty average. TheirFirstTime went a pretty awkward deal because they had no idea what they were doing, and they started off with intercourse straightaway. Nonetheless, their lovemaking improved after a bit of "practice" and their sex life became very fulfilling.

* Inverted in ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', where a Vietnamese hooker doesn't want to have sex with a [[BlackIsBiggerInBed black Marine]], because she thinks that his penis is too big. He demonstrates that it isn't.

* ''Burglar'' (1987). Creator/WhoopiGoldberg's character has to hide in the closet while burglarizing an apartment, because TheCasanova who owns it has come home unexpectedly with a woman [[TheImmodestOrgasm whom he makes enthusiastic love to]]. Afterwards, he opens the closet while stark-naked. He doesn't see Whoopi who, judging by her JawDrop, is impressed by what she sees.

* ''Film/{{Shame}}'' opens with the protagonist Brandon walking around his apartment fully nude, showcasing an impressive penis. Throughout the film, viewers see countless women (and [[AmbiguouslyBi at least one man]]) thoroughly enjoy sex with Brandon. While the film is a tragic study of sex addiction and excellently well-made, many viewers watched the movie mostly to see Michael Fassbender naked.

* [[AccidentalPun Played with]] in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice''. At the beginning of the novel, his sister tells Jerin to make himself trousers with a codpiece to let potential wives know "what they're buying". However, no woman who actually gets to see him naked, and might be sexually interested in him, makes any comments on his size. They all seem to be much more interested in his pretty face and, in once instance, [[SterilityPlague sperm quality.]][[spoiler: Also, his primary talent is in using his mouth and hands, which Ren describes as "magiclike".]]

* Mario Puzo takes a rather large detour from describing the Corleone family saga in ''Film/TheGodfather'' to describe Sonny's large penis. The moment makes it into the movie as well if you're looking for it during the wedding scene - watch his wife's hand gestures carefully. However, this is one of the few realistic examples: His wife complains how painful sex is, and Sonny's mistress Lucy has an enlarged vagina. Lucy needs vaginal reduction surgery later on, in order to have good sex with lesser men than Sonny.

* In one of Pu Songling's fairy tales, the protagonist is too well endowed for any (human) woman to handle safely. So then a [[AsianFoxSpirit Kitsune]] tries to seduce him, he is overjoyed. Alas, he proves too big even for the shapeshifting fox, and the narrator quips about how chasing away werefoxes [[WhoYouGonnaCall could become his profession]].

** In “Neutron Solstice”, the seven-foot tall Baron Tourment has a dick so big he allegedly ties it to his leg, and enjoys painfully forcing himself on the women in his barony.

** Mentioned in ''Literature/MenAtArms'', about dwarfs. It's never confirmed whether it's true or not and the only (nonhuman) dwarf that asks about it keeps mistaking it for being well endowed with money.

** PlayedForLaughs with Ublala Pung. [[AllAmazonsWantHercules All the amazonian women]] want Ublala for his physical assets, but poor Ublala just can't deal with them not giving him any emotional support in return, so he runs away.

* ''Literature/TheGoldenAss'' has two notable examples: first [[InvokedTrope invoked case]] is the period when Lucius, [[ForcedTransformation transformed into a donkey by witchcraft]], is serving a gang of [[CampGay extremely effeminate acolytes]] of the Goddess Syria/Cybele: one evening they invite to dinner a handsome boy who's described as being well endowed, and as soon as they're done with the appetizers they have pushed the boy in the middle of the room and dogpiled him for oral sex, much to Lucius' disgust (plenty of ValuesDissonance on how Romans had little respect for passive homosexual adults and how in the classic world a large penis was considered gross). Much later in the story a noblewoman becomes [[BestialityIsDepraved enamored with Lucius]] and pays a hefty sum to spend the night with him as if he was a human paramour. Lucius himself fears that his huge phallus could hurt her and is surprised to see that she shows no discomfort.

** In the third episode a scene cuts to Monica telling the guys a theory she's heard. While nobody ever says exactly what they're talking about, judging by the guy's reactions it's meant to be how to tell how well endowed a man is.

* Rose from the ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' was taught that the difference between boys and girls by her mother showing her a bull on the farm, which gave her a false impression about men and a surprise on her wedding night.
-->'''Rose:''' Boy that bull would have been jealous.
* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': The Parks Department's resident ButtMonkey Jerry is stated to have one, according to the recurring character [[DrJerk Dr. Harris]], who even proclaims Jerry's member is the biggest he's ever seen in all his years of practicing. It can certainly explain how he got his [[UglyGuyHotWife stunningly gorgeous wife Gayle]] (who is played by Christie Brinkley). While [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan personality]] really does go a long way (Jerry is a very kindhearted, wholesome and sweet man with no mean bone in his body), one gets the sense that Jerry's... blessing... also helps (and apparently he [[IWasQuiteALooker was much more handsome in his younger days]]).

** As a whole, the series plays this trope very realistically: Ted, Barney, and Marshall are the ones worried about size more than any other aspect, having an inhumanly large dick is often among Barney's lies; although Marshall is mentioned to be above average, Ted and Barney are implied to be average. Lily and Robin, though, are far more interested in other aspects such as strength, technique, traction, speed, duration and so on, to the point that Robin does not care about size, having even dated a guy with an admittedly small dick, and they only broke up because he was not up to do something weird she liked -- which even Barney and Ted admitted feeling uncomfortable with. On Lily's side, Marshall's big size is not enough for her, as she states he is lacking in other aspects, such as not being very adventurous and having no traction. SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: women do tend to think about other aspects; a big dick alone does not mean a guy is good in bed or is able to satisfy her if he does not know which spots to hit or does not have a good technique.

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEP9aU-ynm0 this newscast]], Wendy Rieger unwittingly reveals that she's a size queen and that 10 inches is her ideal penis size when she asks meteorologist Chuck Bell what 17 inches of snowfall looks like. (Notice how she measures 17 inches at the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEP9aU-ynm0#t=0m38s 40 second mark]].):

* ''Series/TigerKing'' has a moment where the openly gay Joe Exotic claims that straight men preferring to see well-endowed people in pornos is a proof of not being that much heterosexual.

Get it up, get it up, I can't wait any more

** [[FaunsandSatyrs Satyrs]] were often portrayed as having large penises. The "better" part is debatable, though. In early Greek art they were usually rather ugly, but handsome satyrs would show up later. Still they were almost always drunken, impulsive rapists.

* Perhaps the most sexually-explicit verse in Literature/TheBible is [[Literature/BookOfEzekiel Ezekiel 23:20]], which describes the prostitute Oholibah's bedroom antics (God's analogy for the spiritual adultery of the kingdom of Judah):

* Val Venis always bragged about his penis and his skills in bed, which seemed to be true given the amount of semi-naked women that he usually hanged out with. There was also the fact that his [[WrestlingDoesntPay in-ring character]] was supposed to be a porn star.

* Averted in two ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' where it's pointed out that it's really more of a male ego thing. One strip has a man use a genie to wish that the human penis is a muscle that can be increased with working out instead of just being a genetic lottery. The result? Birth rates plummet as men become obsessed with increasing their size and sexual intercourse becomes physically impossible. [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-04-18 The second]] has a breakthrough in genetic engineering lead to men requesting that their sons be given increasingly large penises. This leads to a kind of genital arms race, as women demand that their daughters get bigger vaginas, to keep themselves from getting torn open. Eventually, mankind hits a genital Singularity where all humans are literally just walking genitals. However, due to lacking the means to operate the genetic engineering equipment, that generation's children revert back to normal humans.

* Rory from ''Webcomic/{{Teahouse}}'', the youngest, shortest and most expensive of the courtesans because of his virginity, turns out to have an enormous penis, which persuades Lord Reed to become his exclusive client, despite the cost.

* ''WebComic/SuperRivals:'' The resident SupermanSubstitute isn't called "Astonishing Man" just because of his superpowers. His [[GagPenis equipment]] is large enough to, well, ''astonish'' even the [[ReallyGetsAround very]] sexual experienced Thunder Bunny when she first lays eyes on it.

** In the Gen 2 stories, Nick Brennan, Jr., a second-generation [[BeastMan Horse Ani-Man]] who is also a mutant, gets some immediate attention the first time he visits the pool, in particular from one of the members in Venus, Inc. (the school's modeling club). She was so impressed by his equine proportions (even through a swimsuit) that she immediately lures him into a rendezvous. Apparently, she was quite please with the outcome, as the first thing she did after they parted was to post a glowing review of him on a hidden 'girls only' page of the school intranet.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'': Since the show parodies real life attitudes towards sex, most of the characters believe this trope, with much TeenyWeenie angst abound, while the show itself has the message that sexual compatibility and chemistry is more important. None of the sexually active characters are implied to be bigger than average, and one relationship outright averts it; Nick's mother Diane mentions having dated some very well-endowed men before she met Elliot, and it was more uncomfortable than enjoyable. Despite being fairly small, Elliot was a much better match for her. The only characters shown to have a GagPenis are the Gogurt Burglar (who's around 14), and Santa Claus (in what was probably a non-canon episode).

* ''WesternAnimation/DownTown'': In one episode, Jen regales a sleep-deprived Alex with a story about her ReallyGetsAround roommate Leah, including an ancedote about the various sizes of her lovers, who she insisted on telling Jen about. One guy was apparently so big he had to special order is condoms, while another [[TeenyWeenie was about the size of an unscrewed lipstick]].

--> '''Brian''': Oh, come ''ON!!''

--> '''Joseph''': Ah. Little guy.

--> '''Peter''': ''*sing-song*: 'Cause Trent can't fit in a glory hole and that's why we all like Trent!''

"The bigger the penis, the better the sex".

"The bigger the penis, the better the sex."

* In the ''ComicBook/LoveAndRockets'' "Palomar" stories, Gato, who has been married to both Pipo and Guadalupe, has a huge one. Pipo has apparently become accustomed to it and doesn't think much of average-sized men. She dates Igor, of comparable size (Gato and Igor actually compare in a bathroom), and later has several sexual encounters with an unnamed, sleazy-looking character who dwarfs even Gato and Igor. She has no problem with his size in any opening. But then there's Fritzi, who has a fulfilling sex life with mostly average-sized men - ironically including Pipo's son Sergio - and is twice married to the "love of her life," Scott the Hog. He's described as having a barely functioning "choad."

* ''Film/ShowdownInLittleTokyo''. According to Murata, Kenner has "the biggest dick I've ever seen," said with a complimentary tone. Unsurprisingly, he's portrayed as a sexual dynamo.

* Discussed while the titular witches in ''Film/TheWitchesOfEastwick'' are planning their "perfect man." One says he should be "huge," while another disagrees because her ex was well-endowed and nearly ripped her in half. The result: a [[KavorkaMan portly, middle-aged Jack Nicholson]].

“Now that’s impressive,” a voice came. Fatma glanced back at the figure hovering just over her shoulder... He jutted a shaved round chin at the dead djinn’s naked penis: a midnight-blue thing that hung near to the knee. “I’ve seen full-grown cobras that were smaller. A man can’t help but feel jealous, with that staring him in the face.”

* On ''Series/{{Bones}}'', in the Season 2 episode "Man in the Mansion," Brennan sleeps with Sully for the first time and comes to work the next day looking VERY happy. It turns out that [[IronicNickname Sully's nickname 'Peanut' is in the grand tradition of nicknames like calling the big man Tiny...]] to the point where Sully doesn't even SHOWER with the other guys, presumably not to embarrass them.

--> “Now, I don't care if you're a Pisces or a Taurus\\

A man like Jack with a big beanstalk...”

** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Male!Hawke can, after sleeping with Fenris, quip that "it can be a lot to take in."

* Averted in ''Webcomic/GrrlPower''. Main character Sydney (who's fairly small) dates alien WolfMan Frix and finds his "equipment" far too big to be comfortable. Fortunately for her, resident [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]] Dabbler is able to help out with a potion of "accomodation," which she says she made for Sydey the moment she realized that Sydey and Frix were dating.

* Jason from ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' may be both a use and subversion of this trope. On one hand, he was extremely popular with the ladies prior to his marriage, but, on the other hand, the only woman we've actually seen reacting to it onscreen responded with an expression of terror and the words "Uh, Jason? Could you please put that big...thing back in your pants? It hurts my pelvis to look at it." [[TakeOurWordForIt We don't see the appendage in question, so you have to use your imagination.]]

** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E14WeLoveYouConrad We Love You, Conrad]]", when Brian's ex-girlfriend returns with her new fiancee Derek, he quickly proves himself to be Brians superior in every single way, smarter, more handsome, kinder and richer. At one point, Brian resorts to following him into the bathroom to see if he has any "shortcomings". Judging by his response, he does ''not''.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' Rick is shown to be quite well-endowed based on the censors when he is naked in "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez". Co-creator and voice actor Justin Roiland says Rick's penis is the size of a three-year-old's arm.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Invoked by Lestat de Lioncourt in the fifth episode, who apparently is well-endowed, when he lets his boyfriend Louis de Pointe du Lac know that if his "considerable appendage" is being wasted at home, he'll use it on Antoinette Brown, his mistress.

* ''Film/AliGIndahouse'': In his fantasies, Ali G has a bulletproof cock the size of a small leg. In reality, not so much.

** After her first session with a new love interest (actually a previous love interest [[GenderBender who'd been a woman when the main character was a man]]), the heroine of ''Literature/SteelBeach'' specifically references this trope when she bitches at length about the tendency of first time Female-to-Male {{gender bender}}s to check off the "HUNG" option even though they'd just been girls themselves and really ought to know better.
** Also averted in Varley's ''[[Literature/GaeaTrilogy Titan]]'' series, when a woman from a monogender LadyLand informs her first male lover in all seriousness that she's very happy his penis isn't too big -- she was raised to believe men constantly rape women (often to death) with enormous penises. The first time she sees one, she actually giggles, because she can't believe ''that's'' what she's been warned about. He takes it as a compliment anyway.
*** She also discovers early on that the Titanides' rear penises do match the horror stories (think horse) but intimate relationships between humans and Titanides do happen because the [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaur-like]] Titanides are an artificial species deliberately engineered to also have [[MaleToFemaleUniversalAdaptor human-scale genitals]] between their front legs.

* In the 1001 Arabian Nights, Shahryar's wife is unfaithful because she's completely addicted to her slave who has a huge member.

* WebComic/SuperRivals: The resident SupermanSubstitute isn't called "Astonishing Man" just because of his superpowers. His [[GagPenis equipment]] is large enough to, well, ''astonish'' even the [[ReallyGetsAround very]] sexual experienced Thunder Bunny when she first lays eyes on it.

* Averted in two ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' where it's pointed out that it's really more of a male ego thing. One strip has a man use a genie to wish that the human penis is a muscle that can be increased with working out instead of just being a genetic lottery. The result? Birth rates plummet as men become obsessed with increasing their size and sexual intercourse becomes physically impossible. The second has a breakthrough in genetic engineering lead to men requesting that their sons be given increasingly large penises. This leads to a kind of genital arms race, as women demand that their daughters get bigger vaginas, to keep themselves from getting torn open. Eventually, mankind hits a genital Singularity where all humans are literally just walking genitals. However, due to lacking the means to operate the genetic engineering equipment, that generation's children revert back to normal humans.

SuperTrope to BlackIsBiggerInBed, which is the erroneous assumption that black men are "gifted" with bigger penises than men of other ethnicities. When a large penis has comedic value instead of (or in addition to) sexual value, see GagPenis. Contrast with TeenyWeenie, which is a penis which is smaller than the average, and often leads to mockery of the guy who has it because of this trope, and with BigPrickBigProblems, when a large penis is shown to cause problems for its owner. The female equivalent to this trope is BuxomIsBetter. Often related to IKEAErotica and RagingStiffie. When taken to extremes can become a case of AnatomicallyImpossibleSex, or alternately of WritersCannotDoMath.

* ''Film/BuffaloSixtySix'': In the beginning sequence, when Billy (writer-director and star Vincent Gallo) is desperately trying to find a bathroom, a man looks over from the stall beside him and reacts with awe at the size of Billy's member. Gallo actually showed it off in his next film, ''Film/TheBrownBunny''.

This assumption is a staple of modern fiction when it comes to SexTropes. The basic (mistaken) rationale seems to be that a woman's erogenous zones are located solely in the deepest, darkest, unexplored reaches of her nethers, where only equipment of sufficient size (ie. length) is capable of reaching. Anything less may as well not be there at all.

** Mentioned in ''Literature/MenAtArms'', about dwarves. It's never confirmed whether it's true or not and the only (nonhuman) dwarf that asks about it keeps mistaking it for being well endowed with money.

* Mentioned in ''Literature/MenAtArms'', about dwarves. It's never confirmed whether it's true or not and the only (nonhuman) dwarf that asks about it keeps mistaking it for being well endowed with money.

* Perhaps the most sexually-explicit verse in Literature/TheBible is Ezekiel 23:20, which describes the prostitute Oholibah's bedroom antics (God's analogy for the spiritual adultery of the kingdom of Judah):

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Invoked by Lestat de Lioncourt, who apparently is well-endowed, when he lets his boyfriend Louis de Pointe du Lac know that if his "considerable appendage" is being wasted at home, he'll use it on Antoinette Brown, his mistress.

* Parodied in [[DoubleEntendre a mostly PG-13-rated way]] in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' with [[HornyDevils Evelynn]], who has some very choice words if the player purchases [[MagicStaff a Void Staff]], which ''does'' have [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/1/14/Void_Staff_item_HD.png/revision/latest?cb=20201116190757 a fairly large stub at the end of it]]. Even worse, it's an item that specializes in [[ArmorPiercingAttack "magic penetration"]].

* Averted in ''Webcomic/GrrlPower''. Main character Sydney (who's fairly small) dates alien WolfMan Frix and finds his "equipment" far too big to be comfortable. Fortunately for her, resident [[HornyDevil succubus]] Dabbler is able to help out with a potion of "accomodation," which she says she made for Sydey the moment she realized that Sydey and Frix were dating.