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You may be setting yourself up for disappointment if you pick up men based on their shoe size.

According to a Reuters Health report citing a British Journal of Urology International article, Jyoti Shah of St. Mary's Hospital in London and colleague Dr. N. Christopher of University College Hospitals found no correlation between shoe size and penis length based on a scientific study.

"This myth has now been dispelled," Jyoti Shah of St. Mary's Hospital in London told Reuters. "There is no point using shoe size to obtain indirect measurements of penile length."

The scientists measured the gently stretched penises of 104 men visiting a urologist for various reasons and recorded their shoe size.

Shah said that it is not necessary to obtain erect lengths, as there is a strong correlation between stretched penile length and an erect one. "The correlation is so strong that the results can be extrapolated to erect penises."

Despite the obsession with penis size and the shoe size theory, there had only been two studies that attempted to size up the correlation between the length of a man's penis and the size of foot.

One study showed a "weak correlation" while the other showed no correlation--but this study relied on men self-reporting their own penis length and shoe size.

Shah is currently on the search for another body part that accurately estimates the size of a man's penis.

"There are suggestions from the literature that hand span, finger lengths or nose size...may be predictive. I have some ideas that I am currently putting together as a research proposal," Shah said. "There must be some part of the body that is predictive of penile length...the search continues."