I don’t know whether men blessed with enormous manhoods are more likely to make effective leaders; social scientists probably lack the necessary data to draw any correlations between length and girth, and things like GDP per capita or the underlying rate of inflation. A few newspaper articles recently suggested that Hitler had a micropenis, but for all we know he may have been an outlier. Based on my own prejudices, I would imagine that men with quite authoritarian, right-wing political views aren’t especially blessed in that department, nor do they probably make the most satisfactory lovers, but that’s just one of thousands of possibly irrational beliefs I hold.
Size does seem to have become a huge issue between Marco Rubio and Donald Trump, after the Florida senator implied that The Donald was less than well-endowed in this department. The billionaire has since ‘defended the size of his penis’, as the CNN headline put it. Do

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