A North Carolina man has challenged anyone on Earth to disprove his claim of having the world’s smallest penis as he advocates against body shaming and aims to raise awareness about the medical condition known as micropenis.
Michael Phillips, 38, on Friday threw down the gauntlet in an interview posted on TMZ’s YouTube channel, in which he purported that his penis was 0.97cm when fully erect — and, holding up the fingernail on his right pinky to illustrate that length, added that “when it’s flaccid, it’s smaller than that.”
He said that “research [he had] done online” led him to believe he was endowed with the globe’s smallest member, but, he added that “I welcome anybody to [go] out there and beat me,” during a 10-minute conversation.
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Phillips told to TMZ that he had been diagnosed with having a micropenis last year.
He evidently agreed to the interview with the gossip outlet to reduce stigma about the condition, saying that “it’s not just some slang term that people use on the Internet.”
Furthermore, Phillips said having a micropenis is no laughing matter and wanted to encourage prompt medical intervention for anyone who — like him — had endured intimacy struggles while grappling with the realities of the condition.
Information from the Cleveland Clinic shows anyone with a stretched penile length of less than 6.8cm is considered to have a micropenis.
The condition is rare, affecting about 0.6 percent of people worldwide, the clinic says.
Phillips recounted how “several occasions of being in a position where I could have sex, and trying and not being successful ... led to me wanting to go see if there was anything I could do to increase the size” of his penis.
Using the bathroom can also be difficult, because “it goes everywhere and stuff like that,” he said.
Phillips said the medical providers who diagnosed his condition “didn’t give any ... advice on how to increase it,” but advised “there’s minor things that can be done.”
Phillips said that he now grasps he cannot get intimate in the “traditional sense” — meaning “penetrative sex” — and instead relies on oral stimulation and other forms of “fooling around” in his romantic pursuits.
He said he was recently in a satisfying relationship that really only ended because it was long distance.
Yet, it still all “affects me as far as, like, confidence and wanting to approach new people, especially females,” he said.
Phillips said that he had researched whether there was a Guinness World Records category for which he could submit, given what he was working with.
That organization does not keep records pertaining to human sexual organs, he said.
Phillips stands apart from other men who have sought to lay claim to the unofficial title of wielding the world’s largest penis, including Jonah Falcon and Roberto Esquivel Cabrera.
He said he went in the opposite direction in part to speak out against the often-invoked notion that people who have road rage, park incorrectly or drive “jacked-up trucks” do so because they are overcompensating for having micropenises.
“In reality, I believe that has nothing to do with it,” he added.
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