A trivial insight here but not entirely. Go to any museum and at look at the size of suits of armor that were worn 500-600 years ago. These were worn by the roughest, toughest dudes of their day and even the average sized wimp of today would be too large for them. Every generation is taller and heavier than their parents. Chances are you are bigger than your parents and your children are (or will be) bigger than you.

This size change is not evolutionary (is it Flint?). It is due to improvements in nutrition and in selective breeding (tall people tend to marry tall people).

Where will this trend end? I see its social implications as negative. Even as the world's population booms, the size of its citizens grows too. An increasing population of increasingly large people is a double burden on limited resources.

We are getting close to the point where our homes, cars, furniture, buildings will have to be rebuilt to accomodate a population that has physically outgrown them. The looming potential for easy access to human growth hormone may exacerbate the trend. There is a distinct social advantage to being tall (up to a point). "Heightism" is subtle but very real. In Presidential contests, if there is a height difference of more than 4", the taller candidate has always won. (That may be the most important reason why the Dems should have nominated Bradley).

This trend is worldwide. Traditionally small people of Asia are getting larger. Women are getting larger. Pygmies are getting larger (?).

Randy Newman, we need a song that disparages "Big People".

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), April 26, 2001

Answers

Hmmm ... yes and no. Ask most very tall women and they'll usually tell you that they had a hard time with boys in school; for some reason, males are frightened of women who are just as big (or even bigger) than they are. :)

Elle MacPherson, Brooke Shields, and most models, for example, are very tall, and most of them tell the same story. Once they became famous, a lot of guys who knew them in school kicked themselves for having nothing to do with them at the time. :)

-- Stephen M. Poole (smpoole7@bellsouth.net), April 26, 2001.

Gee that's funny

I always see tall guys with short girls

-- (cin@cin.cin), April 26, 2001.

Tall guys have short dicks.

-- (short guys h@ve. big dicks), April 26, 2001.

Short guys have big Napoleon complexes.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), April 26, 2001.

Stephen, I remember the interviews with the models about their height. But I think that's changing. Boys these days find attractive girls no matter what their height. A neighbor girl is almost 6 foot; she has no trouble finding dates. I asked her about it; she told me she's popular and loves the attention she gets. The times are changing.

-- Maria (anon@ymous.com), April 26, 2001.

*Tall guys have short dicks.*

Say it ain't so

-- (say@it.sayit), April 26, 2001.

Poole:

males are frightened of women who are just as big (or even bigger) than they are. :)

When I was in school, I played middle linebacker in the 5/3 and down guard in the 6/2. I would have been scared as hell of a woman bigger than I was. *<))) I actually never met one so this is a guess.

Best Wishes,,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), April 26, 2001.

This guy is tall.

This guy is short short.

-- (proof@for.you), April 26, 2001.

*Tall guys have short dicks.*

Say it ain't so

-- (say@it.sayit), April 26, 2001.

It ain't so.

I'm a tall guy and I have a....hmmmm, maybe you should define *short* first.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), April 26, 2001.

Thank You!

-- (whew@whew.whew), April 26, 2001.

This place is hopeless. I raise a semi-serious issue and it immediately morphs to dick jokes.

Hey, I hadn't thought of that--if the average human being is becoming larger, I suppose that the average dick is becoming larger too. Any statistics?

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), April 26, 2001.

I'll try and be serious for you, Lars. I'm not as tall as Cin, but I'm 5'8" plus something. My mom was 5' at her tallest, and my dad about 6'. I intentionally married and reproduced with a man of 5'10" because I didn't want to have tall daughters. It was hard to be tall when I was growing up, and I saw girls my age hump themselves over to appear shorter. [Some girls do strange things in adolescence that may affect their future growth.] Little did I know that those straight teeth of his were the result of braces.

I reproduced one daughter about 5'4", and another about my height. My son has outgrown them, but I doubt he'll exceed 6'.

There was a man I worked with when I was about 17. He was REALLY tall. He married a German woman who was even taller than Cin. He had a boy. He stood at the window and watched his 3-year old play with 6-year olds, thinking that his son was retarded. They were all the same size, afterall.

I don't think nutrition is at the root of larger children, although it may have played a role in generations past. My guess is that the genes of the past play a large role in current generations.

We've already discussed this on another thread, but SO came from a "mixed" family. His father looks white, and his mother looks black. Genetically speaking, neither of them are what they appear to be. SO's brother married a woman from Guatemala. One wouldn't think that a Guatemalan would carry a gene for blue eyes. One wouldn't think that a man who looks [to the casual observer] like a black man would carry a gene for blue eyes either, but this guy and his wife had a daughter with blonde hair and blue eyes, both recessive genes, requiring one from each parent.

My daughter once had a friend who was shorter than Patricia. She yearned to be tall. Heh. She even asked me one day if she'd grow taller if she played basketball.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), April 26, 2001.

Lars,

We will continue to get larger just like lizards started off small then evolved into huge dinosaurs. Just when our cocks are getting to be the size of Mt. Rushmore, another damn chunk of space rock will clobber us.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), April 26, 2001.

Anita--

So you are saying that physical growth (on the average) from one generation to the next is part of evolution?

Isn't it true that Asians tend to acquire Western physiques (and diseases) once they practice Western diets? Is it still true that there are no fat Chinese?

Flint--

Maybe some lizards have evolved smaller bodies and smaller cocks.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), April 26, 2001.

Lars: I guess what I'm saying is that genetics is a roll of the dice. I've observed several generations wherein ONE child was short [downright stumpy], while siblings may have been tall and lean. One gets what one gets. Evolution doesn't enter into the picture until a particular trait has been resolved.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), April 26, 2001.

I agree. I'm only saying that, for whatever reason, people are getting big. I think it might be a problem if it continues at this rate.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), April 27, 2001.

Yes, the children of Asian immigrants tend to be taller and bigger than their parents. The reason why there are no fat Chinese people is that there's not much food in China. It's the same reason why there are no fat North Koreans either.

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), April 27, 2001.

Tarzan, I was referring to dietary changes in Chinese-Americans that has lead to some obesity not seen in China.

I don't know what they eat in China besides rice and dogs.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), April 27, 2001.

Nice stereotype, Lars.

People in China eat quite a variety of food. Rice is a big part of their diet. The food is much more meat based than in Japan or Vietnam, although an incredibly variety of seafood is available along the coast, and in places like Hong Kong and Taiwan.

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), April 27, 2001.

McDonalds's cultural imperialism will not succeed here. In China we eat the running dogs of Capitalism.

-- (ChairmanMao@GreatLeap.Backward), April 27, 2001.

I agree. I'm only saying that, for whatever reason, people are getting big. I think it might be a problem if it continues at this rate.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com

Um, glad you are speaking for yourself, for alot of women, large is no problem, um their men that is ;-0

hey whadya expect with a title like that anyhoot? Here in the wild wild west, pleaaaseee :-)

-- sumer (shh@aol.con), April 27, 2001.

One problem with people becoming progressively taller and larger is that as babies they are born with increasingly larger heads.

My daughter came in at 8lbs 6ozs and I have a friend whose son came in at nine pounds two. Getting the head around the corner and down the chute is, of course, vital. The bigger we get the bigger we get. Gonna get too big to get out?

={(Oak)-

-- LiveOak (oneliveoak@yahoo.com), April 27, 2001.

Fat men have teeny-weeny peckers. Here we see Rush Limbaugh trying to score with Miss Universe contestants by pulling down his zipper. The girls in the front who could see it laughed hysterically while the ones in back asked for binoculars.

-- (bubba limbaugh @ big mouth. small dick), April 28, 2001.

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-- Cherri (jessam5@home.com), April 28, 2001.

Cherri: Shame on you :-)

All I can do is say "woooowwwwww". Um nice thingy you have there Mr. Wolf, comeon and let gramma play with you awhile.

NOT!!!! ha ha ha.......nice pics, gotta run be4 hubby catches me dazing at the screen :-)

-- sumer (shh@aol.con), April 28, 2001.

Cherri, those are gayboy dicks, stretched out long and skinny to go way up into the anal canal. Most women prefer girth over length, unless of course you have a very unusual pussy. Let's have a look at that snatch of yours.

-- Dr. Gyney (spread legs @ feet. in stirrups please), April 28, 2001.

-- (science goes to @ great. lengths), April 28, 2001.

There is a good looking dude on the beach with many girls around him. Then there is a scrawny looking fellow with no one around him. He goes up to the good looking guy and says, "How can I get girls to notice me?" The good looking guy looks at him and says, "Well, maybe if you put a potato in your swim trunks that might help." The next day the scrawny man comes back and says to the good looking guy, "I did what you told me and all people are doing is laughing at me." And the good looking guy says... "You are supposed to put the potato in the front."

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), April 28, 2001.

So Rush Limbaugh is a fat black guy? Who knew?

-- (Paracelsus@Pb.Au), April 29, 2001.

Lars: Evolutionary changes are something we'd not notice in our lifetimes. In fact, there are a few instances wherein the human brain grew larger for many centuries and then a species with a smaller brain showed up. SOME Asians are growing larger than their parents. Beyond these oddities, the far majority of Asians are still smaller.

Heh. I have a good friend who is quite small and slight. She visited Japan a few years back and folks were amazed at her size. I have another "slight" friend who accepted a Chinese anthropologist into her home last summer. She wondered if he needed jeans in the small or extra small category. Extra small seemed to fit the bill. She and her husband will be visiting China this summer. I've already met her husband's daughter from a previous marriage, and she looks more like him in stature, although better looking. He's a REALLY big guy, and one would think that any attempt to accommodate a union between them would break her little pelvic bones to pieces. Fortunately, they're beyond the stage where reproduction is desirable or even possible.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), April 29, 2001.