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The Secretive World of Penile Enlargement

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Re: The Secretive World of Penile Enlargement

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Back when I was a regular listener to talk radio, the ads for PE snake oil were absolutely ubiquitous. They aired more than any other product I can remember (except maybe Bose Wave radio). I never knew how to feel for this target audience. It sucks people are vulnerable to obvious snake oil ads. It also sucks that PE is a thing that's important to people. Male body shaming is weird and oogy.

Bose Wave radio adverts on the radio. Damn.

Re: The Secretive World of Penile Enlargement

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What is this small group of people you refer to?

I mean I’m not tracking and classifying users by their neuroses. I get the sense it is mostly male Asian immigrants living in CA unable to get any dates in a competitive, underpopulated, mostly white female dating market.

Re: The Secretive World of Penile Enlargement

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I don’t know what you think a life coach does. But one that solves their own problems and is happy is probably a good one.

I think one thing we have leaned over time is it is not always possible to change how one thinks.

For example. Some men like women, and do not find other men attractive at all. No amount of conditioning may change this. Or even something as simple as eating, an urge so strong that reasoning about it id nearly impossible.

What if this man had the same feeling about penis size as other men about desiring women?

Of. Note. I have never desired a larger penis, but worried it was smaller than desired by the opposite sex. When thinking about it, I prefer the size I am, as a the large floppy ones look like they get the way of normal day to day interactions.

Re: The Secretive World of Penile Enlargement

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Back when I was a regular listener to talk radio, the ads for PE snake oil were absolutely ubiquitous. They aired more than any other product I can remember (except maybe Bose Wave radio). I never knew how to feel for this target audience. It sucks people are vulnerable to obvious snake oil ads. It also sucks that PE is a thing that's important to people. Male body shaming is weird and oogy.

One of the funniest things is Reddit “evolving” to lock threads or downvote comments about people’s appearances on popular threads, but simultaneously embracing comments that associate a man with perceived negative qualities as having a small penis. And it will almost always be the top comment.

Re: The Secretive World of Penile Enlargement

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is this small group of people you refer to?

I mean I’m not tracking and classifying users by their neuroses. I get the sense it is mostly male Asian immigrants living in CA unable to get any dates in a competitive, underpopulated, mostly white female dating market.

I agree that this is a thing and one that I have witnessed but not on HN. And yeah, there are studies indicating white women as having the largest (or maybe second, black women were up there) racial ingroup bias in dating [0]

[0]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/okcupid-race_n_5811840

Re: The Secretive World of Penile Enlargement

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Back when I was a regular listener to talk radio, the ads for PE snake oil were absolutely ubiquitous. They aired more than any other product I can remember (except maybe Bose Wave radio). I never knew how to feel for this target audience. It sucks people are vulnerable to obvious snake oil ads. It also sucks that PE is a thing that's important to people. Male body shaming is weird and oogy.

One of the funniest things is Reddit “evolving” to lock threads or downvote comments about people’s appearances on popular threads, but simultaneously embracing comments that associate a man with perceived negative qualities as having a small penis. And it will almost always be the top comment.

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