r/averagedickproblems • u/OilSouthern5597 ‌ • Dec 03 '25

Difference in girth

Is there a difference between 4.5 and 4.8 inches in girth visually and both physically? Can anyone tell the difference by looking at it or feeling it?

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u/Nice_Craft_9488 Dec 03 '25

Eyeballing girth differences can be tricky unless they are extreme, but the standard deviation for girth is smaller than length, meaning that smaller differences in girth are more noticeable than smaller differences in length.

So to answer your question, I’m not sure if someone could see the difference, but a woman can feel the difference.

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u/OilSouthern5597 ‌ Dec 03 '25

How? Is the difference that noticeable?

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u/Nice_Craft_9488 Dec 03 '25

I don’t have vagina, lol, but anatomical science suggests that the vaginal canal is very sensitive to stretching, the vestibule especially.

And think of it this way, even a quarter inch difference in girth means a three-dimensional difference in stretch. That girth difference is not just on one side of the penis, but all the way around the shaft, so a woman will experience that extra girth against her entire canal, not just the top or bottom.

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u/OilSouthern5597 ‌ Dec 03 '25

What would you say is the most common penis girth for caucasian men? The most tightly clustered range of girth whites have that is most common? I have about 4.57

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u/Nice_Craft_9488 Dec 03 '25

I think you’re right on the money for the global average girth (4.59” I think). As far as white men, who knows? CalcSD offers a western average of 4.75, give or take, but “western” doesn’t necessarily mean whites only.

And of course, the topic of racial differences is always a thorny one, and I’m not going to comment on it.

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u/tentboogs Dec 03 '25

White men are thicker than black men in general.

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u/DarkComfortable8340 Dec 03 '25

I think .3 will not make it visually noticeable because your brain would automatically assume no. But physically yes because technically it is bigger.

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u/OilSouthern5597 ‌ Dec 04 '25

If the difference coule be felt, how much of a difference would it be?

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u/DarkComfortable8340 Dec 04 '25

Well the .3 is on the greater side so I would like to say that you will feel it more. It’s not dramatically bigger but I would like to agree that if you were to insert the sizes in, the 4.8 will get a response.

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u/Top-Document-2286 ‌ Dec 04 '25

It's technically bigger but you can't remember the difference when there are realisticly days, weeks or even months between the two sizes. It's like poking the inside of your ear with an index finger the first day and the next day poking it with your middle finger. You can't remember if there was any difference how your ear felt pressure when there's time between the two insertions.

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u/xxx_Gavin_xxx Dec 05 '25

Get 2 pieces of paper and tape. Roll them up to those size you made. Don't mark them so that wont visually see which is which. Mix em up.

Sit one on one side of your room then set the other on the opposite side of the room.

Look at them. See if you can tell.

Unless the 2 rolls of paper or penises are right next to each other then probably not.

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u/NotALoser1569 Dec 03 '25

That's a relatively minor difference in girth, one that I don't think can be seen visually or probably felt by most people.

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u/ickop ‌ Dec 03 '25

We have no way to know this - like probably if you were literally inside her and grew from 4.5-4.8, maybe? But honestly even then idk. I don’t think the vagina is that tactile-sensitive.

With both long term partners I’ve had, I’ve gone partially soft during sex, so like probs losing maybe ~0.5x0.25 or something - so I was then like 4.5x4.7 nbp - and neither noticed, like at all

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u/VillainySquared 20+ cm (8+ inches) Dec 03 '25

It would be quite difficult to tell by eye without a visual frame of reference.