What is a good looking penis, in Switzerland?

This study of 105 women — whom the study identifies as “relevant women” — in Switzerland probes how those women feel about photos of what the study identifies as “corrected” penises.

Here’s video of lead author Norma Katharina Ruppen-Greeff (who is also a member of the Lust and Pleasure team) presenting the research:

The study is “What is a Good Looking Penis? How Women Rate the Penile Appearance of Men with Surgically Corrected Hypospadias,” Norma Katharina Ruppen-Greeff, Daniel M. Weber, Rita Gobet, and Markus A. Landolt [pictured below], Journal of Sexual Medicine, epub 20 JUL 2015. (Thanks to Adam Olson for bringing this to our attention.) The authors report:

The aim of this study was to investigate how relevant women consider single aspects of penile appearance to be. Moreover, we studied whether women perceive hypospadias-affected surgically repaired genitals (HASRGs) to be as normal-looking as circumcised genitals and identified the most relevant predictors that influence whether a penis is perceived as normal….

Overall, women were found to consider the “position and shape of the meatus” as the least important penile aspect. These findings may stimulate reflections regarding the relevance of surgical correction of the meatus in minor forms of hypospadias. In addition, this study indicates that women perceived genitals of men with distal operated hypospadias (which represents the majority of hypospadias) to be as normal as nonaffected, circumcised genitals…

The study was approved by the ethical committee of the Canton of Zurich.

Here’s further detail

Here’s a photo of co-author Landolt:

BONUS (somewhat related): The 2012 Lust und Frust [Lust and Pleasure] annual report (in German).