Did John Holmes really have a 12-inch penis?

Did John Holmes really have a 12-inch penis?
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Most accounts say it measured around 11 inches, as many extra large adult film star Owen Williams and Dick Rambone are around that size. Claims of 12 to 14 inches are just claims and proof is lacking.
Just how endowed was he?

Despite his acting ability, what made Holmes famous was his enormous penis. Holmes' first wife, Sharon, recalled him claiming to be 10 inches (25 cm) when he first measured himself, and at the start of his cinematic career, he was widely publicized as having a penis ranging from 12.5 to 16 inches (32 - 41 cm).Some source's say he measured around 11 inches or 11 and a half.

A recent attempt to discern his length by comparing images of his penis to his hand, forearm, and the heads of female costars, the most likely measurement is (22.2cm).
How many women did he have sex with?

Penis length wasn't the only statistic that was questionable. In 1981, Holmes began to spread the rumor that he had had sex with 14,000 women. However, more realistic estimates, such as that of Luke Ford, put the figure at around 3,000. If you assume Holmes' first experience with a woman occurred at 16 as he claimed, then he would have had to have made love to 700 different women a year -- 1.9 women a day -- for the 20 years that had passed.
Holmes' Most Valuable Asset

Despite his lack of acting ability, what made Holmes famous was his exceptionally large penis. Holmes' first wife, Sharon Gebenini, recalled him claiming to be 10 inches (25 cm) when he first measured himself. However, at the start of his cinematic career, he was widely publicized as having a penis ranging from 12.5 to 16 inches (32 41 cm) long when fully erect.

Different attempts to objectively ascertain the actual length of his penis have led to varying results. An American study of video footage of Holmes' penis concluded his penis was 10 11 inches long (25 28cm), whereas another study comparing many pictures of his penis to the estimated measurements of other parts of his own body led to the conclusion of 8 3/4 inches (22cm). Holmes' longtime manager, Bill Amerson, stated in the documentary Wadd, the Life and Times of John C. Holmes that "I saw John measure himself several times, it was 12 and 5/8 inches".

Veteran porn actress Dorothiea "Seka" Patton has claimed Holmes' penis was the biggest in the industry, though not all who fornicated with him agree. In the ersatz biography of Holmes' life, Exhausted, Patton compared Holmes to a telephone pole and said that she only wished that she could enjoy more of it. It is probable the actual length of Holmes' penis will never be known accurately.

Regardless of what the actual length of Holmes' penis was, some people question whether he ever achieved full erections on movie sets. Veteran porn actress Annette Haven, for instance, recalled in the documentary Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes that "as the joke goes, if John ever became fully erect, he'd lose consciousness from lack of blood to the brain because his penis was that big. And it's true that his penis was never actually hard. It [having onscreen sex] was like doing it with a big, soft kind of luffa.".

Penis size

Despite his lack of acting ability, what made Holmes famous was his exceptionally large penis. Holmes' first wife, Sharon Gebenini, recalled him claiming to be 10 inches (25.4 cm) when he first measured himself. However, at the start of his cinematic career, he was widely publicized as having a penis ranging from 12.5 to 16 inches (32-41 cm) long when fully erect.

In 2007, it was discovered that the coroner who performed the autopsy on Holmes took "secret" measurements of Holmes' penis in a flaccid state and reported it as being approximately 8.75 inches in length. This information appeared in the form of handwritten notes (scrawled on the back of the third page of the official Holmes' autopsy report) discovered by investigative reporter John Beck who is currently working on a new book about the life of Holmes. It is reasonable to assume, therefore, that Holmes' penis-when fully enlarged-would be in the range stated in the above paragraph. The coroner also noted that the size of Holmes' gonads were approximately "the size of a pair of large hen eggs."[citation needed]. Ron Jeremy claims that Holmes was actually 11 inches and used to brag that he was 14 inches.

So celebrated was Holmes' reputed penis size that it was even used as a marketing tool for films in which he did not even appear. In the porn classic Anybody but My Husband, the promotional tag line read "Tony The Hook Perez has a dick so big that he gives even John Holmes a run for his money."[3]

Different attempts to objectively ascertain the actual length of his penis have led to varying results. An American study of video footage of Holmes' penis concluded his penis was 10-11 inches long (25-28cm), whereas another study comparing many pictures of his penis to the estimated measurements of other parts of his own body led to the conclusion of 8 3/4 inches (22cm). Holmes' longtime manager, Bill Amerson, that "I saw John measure himself several times, it was 13 and a half inches".[4] Holmes' last wife, Laurie "Misty Dawn" Rose claims that John Holmes himself claimed himself at [1], though not all who had sex with him agree.

Filmmaker Cass Paley stated in the director's soundtrack to his Holmes biodoc, Wadd that "In the early days of his career, I saw Holmes fully erect but never hard and it was scary. He was huge."

Regardless of what the actual length of Holmes' penis was, some people question whether he ever achieved full erections on movie sets. Veteran porn actress Annette Haven, for instance, recalled in the documentary Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes that "as the joke goes, if John ever became fully erect, he'd lose consciousness from lack of blood to the brain because his dick was that big. And it's true that his cock was never hard. It [having onscreen sex] was like doing it with a big, soft kind of luffa."
John Holmes (actor)

Birthdate: August 8, 1944 Birth location: Ashville, Ohio, U.S. Birth name: John Curtis Estes Date of death: March 13, 1988 (aged 43) Height: 6 ft 2 in Weight: 125 lb Eye color: Brown (wore blue-colored contact lenses) Hair color: Brown Orientation: Heterosexual (some homosexual films featuring his 14-inch (354 mm) uncircumsized penis) Ethnicity: European American Stage Name(s): John Duval, Big John Fallus, Big John Holmes, John 'Johnny Wadd' Holmes, John C. Holmes, John Curtis Holmes, Johnny Holmes, Bigg John, Big John, John Rey, Johnny Wadd, Long John Wadd

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