What makes men sweat more than women? What is the average size of a male penis? Is it true that lightning strikes males predominantly? Well, stay tuned as in this article we will share some interesting facts about men that you probably don’t know and answer some of those bizarre questions about men!
The first to use High Heels
Men were also the first to wear high heels, as early as the 16th century, first as a matter of necessity (they helped keep their feet in the stirrups on horseback), then as a matter of status: looking taller was a sign of wealth and high lineage. Particularly after Louis XIV of France, the Sun King commissioned shoemaker Nicholas Lestage to make a pair of shoes with 10 cm heels.
Size Matters
The average male penis in erections measures 14.15 cm in length and 12.3 in circumference. Researchers from Indiana University (USA) have discovered this, measuring 1661 men from different ethnic groups. But it might be an optimistic estimate: David Veale of Kings College London Medical School and his team in February 2015 have compared 20 previous studies and found that the average size of the male penis of a sample of 15 thousand men would be slightly lower: 9.1 cm at rest and 13.13 cm in erection. Who is going to be correct, the American or the British?
Sexist lightning strikes!
Males are struck by lightning five times more than women. A study by the US National Weather Service between 2006 and 2012 found that 82% of people struck dead by lightning were male. The reason (perhaps) is simple: “Because of their behavior, men tend to underestimate the risks more and therefore are at higher risk of being struck by lightning than women,” explains John Jensenius, the expert who conducted the study.
Long live the Icelanders
Men live the longest in Iceland, where the male life expectancy is 81.2 years. Switzerland, Australia, Israel, Singapore, New Zealand and Italy follow: the life expectancy of a male in our country is 80.2 years.
Ingredients
By the way, what is in the semen fluid? To date, minute amounts of more than 30 different substances have been identified: nitrogen, fructose, lactic acid, ascorbic acid, inositol, cholesterol, glutathione, creatine, pyruvic acid, citric acid, sorbitol, urea, uric acid and vitamin B12, along with various salts and enzymes.
The origin of the word
In Archaic English, the word man did not mean man but human being and person (both masculine and feminine). The man was referred to as “were”, from which werewolves came. Also, something similar happened in Latin: the noun homo was often used as “person”. At the same time, the male characterization was entrusted to the noun vir. We have to wait for the arrival of Vulgar Latin to see the two terms converge.
Long Eye
Heterosexual men spend a year of their lives casting glances at women. A survey of 3,000 British volunteers by Kodak Lens Vision Centres says so: a man spends at least 43 minutes a day ogling women, according to the researchers. The preferred place to “ogle” is the supermarket (followed by the pub and the disco). And women? The same poll says that they dedicate “only” 20 minutes a day to contemplating male beauty.
The figure gives us pause for thought and is probably true on average. Still, it would be best to take it with a grain of salt because it is calculated based on data from a survey not published in a scientific journal.
Gallantry?
When they walk next to a woman, men slow down their pace by about 7% compared to when they walk with other men. This strategy serves to prevent women from spending more energy. Researchers at the University of Illinois (USA) say men adopt it mainly with their partners.
Males sweat about twice as much as women
Researchers from Osaka International University and Kobe University in Japan discovered this by observing a group of male and female athletes. With equal effort, the men sweated more than the women. It may depend on testosterone: in a previous study, giving athletes estrogen (female hormones) made them sweat less.
Sweating less in women could be an adaptation strategy: conserving body fluids as a survival method. While perspiring more for men could be an adaptive strategy: use fluids for greater action efficiency.
Are you already done?
A male orgasm lasts … 6 seconds (on average). Female orgasm instead lasts an average of 23 seconds. While orgasm usually lasts longer for women, on average it also takes them longer to reach orgasm. For men, it happens relatively quickly: the Urology Clinic at the University of Cologne has found that orgasm in men occurs on average after two to three minutes.
