When they pay so much attention to it, it drives me crazy. 'I don't like the idea that it makes other guys jealous, black or white. 'It's like I'm some kind of walking cliché,' Simon tells him. Yet Simon considers his appendage more of a burden than a birthright. One of the author's friends, identified as Simon, is described as a heterosexual, athletic, Ivy League graduate who's pretty well endowed. But not all black men regard a big member as a personal trophy. Size apparently matters to both straight and gay men, both black and white, and from Bryant's well-written and thought-provoking book we learn that many men have no problem admitting that they check each other out in locker rooms and bathroom stalls. Later, when they were included, the average length was reported to be closer to 6.1 or 6.2 inches. But he points out that those early surveys didn't include black men.
Poulson-Bryant decides to check with the experts: are black men's penises bigger than white men's? He cites early versions of the Kinsey Report, which state that the average length of the erect adult penis is roughly 5.9 inches.
