Excerpting even a single paragraph will turn get this blog an NC-17 rating. So, let me just give the article's title: Secrets of the Phallus: Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?
It discusses certain special features of the human male sexual organ based on evolutionary psychological speculations. This is a field that's notorious for just-so stories masquerading as "scientific explanations" with questionable politics -- particularly sexual politics. [see 1 and 2 for parodies, and 3 and 4 for a more serious discussion]. So beware.
[Update: SciCurious has a discussion (with pics!) of the research by Gallup et al. whose work forms the basis of Bering's article].
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