[DWarrior]

From this article: Thousands of tax dollars funded a study on penis size in the gay community | Mail Online

It has not been ascertained how much of the $900,000 grant went to he 2009 report, called The Association Between Penis Size and Sexual Health Among Men Who Have Sex with Men, but the coalition release stated that at least $9.4 million went to a ten-year study that included the penis-size research.

None of the stories I've found on this link to this "coalition release" or gave any more detail about either the 2009 NIS grant breakdown or the 10-year study.

I found the original paper: The Association between Penis Size and Sexual Health among Men Who Have Sex with Men

Method:
A cross-sectional, street-intercept method (Miller, Wilder, Stillman, & Becker, 1997) was adapted to survey 1,065 gay and bisexual men at a series of gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) community events in New York City in the fall of 2006 through the Sex and Love Study, version 5.0.

So it basically sounds like they did a survey to get some random statistics on gays. Then a postdoc, Christian Grov, crunched some numbers to get a paper out of it, as I'm sure the other team members have done.

I glanced through the study to see anything of note, but I don't really care about GLBT issues, so it wasn't very interesting to me. I'm sure it won't be interesting to gays either, since research papers are not intended for the general public.

So based on this study and the reluctance of newspapers to release more detailed breakdowns of the grants, I have made two conclusions:
a.) there's good reason to believe this "penis study" was only a small fraction of the 2009 grant (one of many papers the postdoc has to publish to justify being there, for a whopping $40,000/yr salary)
b.) there's good reason to believe it was a very small part of the 10-year study, whatever that is.

Anyway, direct your hatemail to:

Christian Grov, PhD, MPH
David S. Bimbi, PhD
Jeffrey T. Parsons, PhD
To whom correspondence should be addressed at Department of Psychology, Hunter College, CUNY, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY. 10065. Email: jeffrey.parsons (at) hunter.cuny.edu. 212-206-7919x226; 212-206-7994 (Fax)


The authors acknowledge the contributions of other members of the Sex and Love v5.0 Research Team: Michael R. Adams, Virginia Andersen, Anthony Bamonte, Jessica Colon, Armando Fuentes, Catherine Holder, James P. Kelleher, Brian C. Kelly, Juline Koken, Jose E. Nanin, Brooke E. Wells, Jaye Walker, and the DIVAS (Drag Initiative to Vanquish AIDS).

Why did I fucking write all this?

* Part of the 2010 Tax Break funded this post and the responses that follow.

As far as Hitler goes, I don't think I hate him. Even though he committed the atrocities only 60-70 years ago, it wasn't in my time and I'm too far removed from its effects to have an emotional association to him. I'm going to reserve "hate" for people who have a more local/immediate impact on my life. The Downfall parodies don't help, either.