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First times: "we ended up kissing"

First time lesbian experience: "we ended up kissing"“I had always been attracted to women, but I never thought I was a lesbian,” says Avni.

At school she had always thought being a lesbian meant “having short hair, wearing oversized boyish clothes, being unusually enthusiastic about the English Premier League and generally being a social outcast”. Part four in our first times series.


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Long ring finger, big penis

2D:4D ratio: long ring finger, big penisThe longer a man’s ring finger is compared to his index finger, the longer his penis is likely to be, a recent South Korean study found.

It’s a myth that if you have a larger shoe size or bigger hands it means you have a larger penis. But men’s hands may still say more about their owners than we thought.


Small penis, big problem?

Small penis, big problem?26-year-old Leena Birla recently had a big problem with a small penis. The guy she was dating was nice, but what drove Leena away was his penis size.

But sexologist Dr Prakash Kothari thinks Leena might have got it wrong. He says, “Bigger the better is a Godzilla logic! Sexual pleasure has little to do with the size of a man’s penis.”


Small penis: it's all in the mind

Body dysmorphic disorder and penis size - small penis: it's all in the mindPenis too small? A problem with penis size is more likely to be in your head than between your legs, says Egyptian sexology professor Hussein Ghanem.

Most men with penis paranoia turn out to have average-sized organs, he says. They have body dysmorphic disorder: a skewed view of their body compared to what’s normal.


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