would you say his penis was average size, small, or large for his age?
Average for a prepubescent boy.
I showed that scene to one of my boy friends (one of my friends that's a boy) and he said for like age 12
his penis was average but his balls were really big for his age!
Your balls and sack are the first things that grow upon entering puberty. That's kind of where the expression "your balls finally dropped" comes from. It's pretty much the first sign of the onset of puberty in boys. But the penis doesn't start growing until a bit later (stage 3 of puberty).
Also I wonder if most boys his age have public hair yet?
Nope. And if they do, it's very sparse, blonde and hard to see. The first signs of pubic hair usually occurs sometime in between a boys 12th and 13th birthday on average (some sooner, some later). Girls usually develop pubic hair slightly earlier than boys.
Also the actor Tomas didn't have pubic hair yet just like his character. And it needed to be that way for the movies plot. So what did the director do? Ask the boys auditioning if they had pubes yet? Lol
What if Tomas Fryk DID already have pubes when they cast him? Would they have had him shave them off to fit the role??
Weird question but it could have happened
Unfortunately, there is no way for us to know the answer to this question. It is possible that he merely requested a pre-pubescent actor, and asked the parents whether the boy showed any signs of puberty yet (since that was important to the story).
For more information about puberty in boys, see the below links.
http://www.epi.umn.edu/let/pubs/img/adol_ch1.pdfhttp://www.jackinworld.com/resources/reader-surveys/puberty-survey-july-98
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haileybaron
8 years ago
Thanks Jordan for my boys puberty lesson lol
I actually never knew about the phrase balls dropped. Maybe it's a guy thing.
I have a little brother that's 12 but I haven't seen him nakey obviously since he was like 7yo and I'm scared to know what's doing down there lol
I'd be horrified to know things are dropping or getting hairy. He just seems too little and young to me still.
Although he did tell us that he found armpit hair. he tried to show me but I didn't see it. But I didn't want to get too close either. Haha
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nte1igentwon
8 years ago
He's actually wrong about the phrase 'balls drop'. Since every embryo starts out in the default sex, which is female, ovaries have to transform into testes once a hormone is introduced. Ovaries obviously reside in the abdomen and so do newly formed testes until they 'drop'. Sometimes infants can be born with testicles that haven't descended and require surgery. That's also how some of the rare cases of sexual misindentfication at birth occurred. The phrase has incorrectly been associated with puberty since balls actually drop shortly before birth.
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