Seriously. What is the deal with this anxiety? I don't obsess about whether my significant other is going to leave me for a woman with bigger tits. So, why does this seem to be such an issue with guys?

Not that I'm Mark Ashley or anything ;-)

And Julie's right. Even if guys tend to have problems with obsessing over this.

BUT...

Julie, dick size and breast size are different things. Everyone knows your (general) breast size before they get into a relationship with you. If you're not in their target zone, they don't date you. But women don't find out about us fellas until we're in the sack.

And some combinations of male size and female sensitivity are incompatible- a female friend of mine is totally vaginal and her (ex-)husband is the size of her index finger. No, she shouldn't have married him, but she definitely didn't find this out until they were in the sack.

and breast size doesn't play as big a role in sex as penis size (neither plays as big a role as attitude, though).

I guess I don't understand why the dick is such a source of insecurity for some guys. When, really, it is only one thing on a list of considerations when a woman thinks about whether she is sexually satisfied.

If you're that concerned about it, learn what she likes and it will not be that much of a problem anyway.

I probably wouldn't care about his slightly smaller than average dick ... why does this seem to be such an issue with guys?

Well, some women I've been with would have cared about his smaller than average dick, in my experience. Thankfully, I'm firmly on the other side of that particular bell curve, but I feel for any guys who may have encountered them.

Ridiculous as it is, anxiety about size shouldn't be a mystery.  Size is a simple, easy gaged characteristic that competitive men can use to differentiate themselves and belittle their competition, making it a naturally popular proxy for sexual prowess.  Simmer for a few millenia, stir in the modern teenage existence and media culture, and voila!  Holy Grail.

That Holy Grail isn't confined to the far right tip of the bell curve, though.  It's almost the entire right side.  When locker room conversations (on both sides of the gym) categorize everyone as "bigger than most" or "not that big," it's pretty much guaranteed to induce obsessive anxiety in at least a few.

Unless you like getting a hoagie shack.

one of my ex's wasn't so lucky as to have your advice in time.

So, yeah, some of us do care about dick size, but not nearly as much as we care about a guy not being severely self-obsessed and generally annoying. My favorite thing about both the column and the podcast is that Dan has developed a pretty keen ability to judge character and read between the lines based on the little bit of info that people give him. It's hilarious. This was a great example.

Doesn't Lustlab have a specific entry for "Size Matters"?

LIMP should calm down and trust his girlfriend. But it's not unreasonable for a guy with a small crank to wonder (at first) if he's sufficient. As I said earlier, some women will dump a guy for having a small one.

Confidence is #1. Size is primarily thickness, not so much length. Altho, if you're GGG and turn her on, she sure wouldn't mind if you had both size and girth - but not too much, that does hurt ... at least for some women.

Again, guys obsess over this way too much and the resulting lack of confidence is what keeps women away, not normally the actual dimensions.