How tall are you, asked the nurse. Six two and a half, I said. Oh no, she said, you're much taller than that. No, I said, it's just that I'm the only man you've ever met who's six two and a half and doesn't lie about it.

The one-sample t-test would be t(120) = (64.5 - 64.1)/(2.6/sqrt(121)) = 1.69. This is only significant if you were conducting a 1-tailed test.

I'm guessing that male A/V stars are way about average in one body measurement ... but it isn't their height :-)

You guys amaze me how you can turn your porn-watching into something that looks like an experiment.

How about this:

Mainstream female sex stars (esp. in this age of readily available hard core and other porn addressing other fantasy needs) = fantasy trophy wife. Tallness aids in the impressing and even intimidation of other men (look what you could get and they can't), which is all good in a trophy wife.

Female porn stars = fantasy abandoned sluts, where the most important thing is how much the eager male believes she can be utterly sexually overwhelmed by the big dicked fantasy surrogate stand in. She's just or at least overwhelmingly for the bedroom or other f*ck location, and looking intimidating, as opposed to succulent and pretty easy, is not a plus. Hence height ain't a plus, whereas big and even esp. fake tits (she's trying really hard) most definitely are.

Any takers?

You guys amaze me how you can turn your porn-watching into something that looks like an experiment.

For the record, I had all images on my browser turned off when I collected the data, since otherwise it would've taken forever to keep clicking from the main list to the individual info.

Doug -- Yeah, like the post above argues, height in females is more for intimidation or broadcasting status, not for raw physical attractiveness.

I know their cinematic value is a close approximation of zero, but adult movies still use some film techniques to emphasize/de-emphasize features of the participants. (Different but related: seeing a soccer match live, the field looks much smaller than on tv.)

It's not terribly surprising to think that the distribution of attractiveness in features that aren't the legs would be distributed normally.

don't porn movies make chix wear high heels? that's what i hear.

The linked-to PDF shows "mean" heights for U.S. population. Median heights would be more useful. A single midget can lower the "mean" with respect to a lot of normal people.