“Is my penis big enough?” It’s a question every man asks himself at some point.

Recent research sounds like bad news for smaller guys – it found that women like their men tall, manly and well endowed. So what should we believe? Technique is more important? Girth trumps length? Personality is what matters? One thing is clear: men care about the whole penis size thing more than women do.

The penis is a miraculous memory stick … Guys gets deleted faster – yet remain in surplus in certain regions … Loneliness kills – but there might be some quick fixes …

These news flashes and more in the 23 May 2013 edition of ‘Sex in the Press’, which doesn’t avoid the negative while latching onto the affirmative.

Some of the silly things males do with their penises: injecting with olive oil, grilling with mushrooms, humping ambulances... No wonder there are regular outbreaks of ‘penis panic’.

These news flashes and more in the 28 February 2013 edition of ‘Sex in the Press’, which dips deep so you can fly high.

Q: Do I need to wash my penis with soap every time I masturbate or have a wet dream? Badri, Chennai

Auntyji says... Badri beta, good going ji. Few boys realize the importance of cleanliness and hygiene of your penis. It is such a sensitive part of the body is also used with others, so it makes sense to keep it as clean as possible. No?

Q: Will exercise or medicines enlarge my penis?

I’ve seen websites that say you can increase your penis size with medicines or "ancient" techniques to strengthen and lengthen it through exercises. These sites claim that since the penis is a muscle, it can be conditioned and exercised for greater and permanent length and girth. Is this possible? And are the medicines safe to take? Sudhir, Ahemdabad

Q: The foreskin of my penis is intact. How painful will it be when I have sex the first time? Abhi, Agra

Auntyji says... Abhi betaji kya haal chaal? Worry not puttar. Now, your foreskin should most certainly be ‘intact’. It should also be able to slide back and forth easily. A man’s first time sex should be all pleasure and no pain. So you are right to be concerned.

Penises come in all kinds of different shapes and sizes: straight, curved, long, thin, thick, circumcised, uncircumcised... But what's normal?

And can you really tell the length of a man's penis by looking at his nose? Do all men have spontaneous erections? And what exactly is an ejaculation? Find out in the first edition of our Top Five Facts series.

Most men who think their penis is too small actually don’t have anything to worry about, say international experts in a recent article.

Yet more and more guys around the world are heading for the doctor, begging for a penis enlargement. Some simply don’t know the real average size of a penis. But for others, a more serious body dysmorphic disorder might be the cause of their worries.

The 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.

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.”