small-penis syndrome

A form of small penis syndrome — An anxious belief that one's own penis size may be smaller than average.

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nounsmall-penis syndrome (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of small penis syndrome.

    Small-penis syndrome tends to emerge during secondary school, along with puberty and greater scrutiny of one’s own and others’ bodies.

    2018 August 31, Scott Melzer, “Seeking Growth: The Penis Health Club”, in Manhood Impossible: Men’s Struggles to Control and Transform Their Bodies and Work, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, part I (The Body Dilemma), page 88
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    I sometimes also wonder whether the small-penis syndrome has anything to do with why we are not popular, whereas black men are popular for the reverse stereotype?

    1999, Kent Chuang, “Using Chopsticks to Eat Steak”, in Peter A[nthony] Jackson, Gerard Sullivan, editors, Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives, Binghamton, N.Y.: Harrington Park Press, →ISBN, page 37

    Greeks in general don’t like or respect the police. They either see them as fascist pigs, or lazy good-for-nothing guys with small-penis syndrome.

    2013 January 14, Cristos Samaras, “Party Greek”, in D!rty Greek: Everyday Slang from “What’s Up?” to “F*%# Off!” (Dirty Languages), Berkeley, Calif.: Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 59

    Carrie Stevens, Miss June 1997 and owner of Centerfold Chefs, tried her spatula on MasterChef. We’ll let her have the last word on judge Gordon Ramsay: “Happy, healthy, well-adjusted people don’t make careers out of bullying,” Carrie says. “Не clearly has small-penis syndrome.”

    2013 May, “Kitchen Confidential”, in Hugh M[arston] Hefner, editor, Playboy, volume 60, number 4, Beverly Hills, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, Playmate News section, page 140
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