A South Carolina man who says he has the “world’s smallest penis” is urging anyone who believes they have a smaller one to come forward.
Michael Phillips, 38, has recently spoken publicly about living with a micropenis and the impact it has had on his everyday life and relationships.
Phillips says his penis measures 0.38 inches — which he claims is around 93 percent smaller than the average length of roughly 5.5 inches.
Appearing on ITV’s This Morning, he described how the condition shaped his teens and early adulthood, saying: “I was probably in high school, and dealing with girlfriends and stuff like that, I thought I was a late bloomer, maybe one day it would be normal size. But it never happened.
“I kept it to myself, when I was in my teens and twenties, I was always single even though I had friends.
“They wondered why I wasn’t dating and I didn’t want to go through that.
“I can’t go out and have a one night stand but it also affects my ability to use a restroom, my confidence.
“Even sitting down can be tricky with the clean up and everything. I’ve tried everything possible. You can be upfront, you can try to talk to somebody, sometimes you don’t say nothing at all.”
In a separate interview with TMZ, Phillips said he believes his could be the smallest and has invited others to challenge his claim.
“The research that I’ve done online, I welcome anybody to come out there and beat me,” said Phillips.
“I think I looked into the [Guinness Book of Records] and I’m not sure they give out records for that kind of thing, but I would.”
He also told TMZ that penetrative sex will never be possible for him, and said the condition affects his confidence when it comes to approaching women.
Phillips added that he wouldn’t start an OnlyFans account, explaining he ‘wouldn’t want to put himself out there like that’.
In a previous interview with The Sun, he recalled realising in high school that his penis was much smaller than expected after a girl he was dating laughed when she saw it.
He explained: “I have had a couple experiences of having sex and wasn’t able to get it in and everything. From there I just stopped trying to date and lost interest in it.
“I wanted to see if there was anything that could be done to make it bigger,” he added. “There are some surgeries, but they would only be able to add about an inch, inch-and-a-half.”