The Average Male Is…

• Is 5’ 9” tall and 173 pounds.
• Is married, 1.8 years older than his wife and would marry her again.
• Has not completed college.
• Earns $28,605 per year.
• Prefers showering to taking a bath.
• Spends about 7.2 hours a week eating.
• Does not know his cholesterol count, but it’s 211.
• Watches 26 hours and 44 minutes of TV a week.
• Takes out the garbage in his household.
• Prefers white underwear to colored.
• Cries about once a month—one fourth as much as Jane Doe.
• Falls in love an average of six times during his life.
• Eats his corn on the cob in circles, not straight across, and prefers his steak medium.
• Can’t whistle by inserting his fingers in his mouth.
• Prefers that his toilet tissue unwind over, rather than under, the spool.
• Has sex 2.55 times a week.
• Daydreams mostly about sex.
• Thinks he looks okay in the nude.
• Will not stop to ask for directions when he’s in the car.

Men’s Health, quoted in Parade Magazine, 12-29-91, p. 5