(Funny thing - I was told the same thing by an uncle when I reached puberty.) He recalls a night from college when he was feeling 'cooler than cool' and was approached by a white girl at a bar. Poulson-Bryant's obsession with all this began when an older cousin told him that the size of his penis went a long way to determining his status as a man. 'measure up.' ' His book poses an awkward and surprisingly complicated social and racial question: Who doesn't want to have the biggest you-know-what in the room?
Even so, he writes, 'there are still days when I go to the gym and I get out of the shower and wrap my towel close around me, because I am a black man, and for a black man I just may not. He graduated from Brown, was a founding editor of Vibe magazine and has been on 'Charlie Rose' three times. Scott Poulson-Bryant is, he tells us in 'Hung,' a black man who has never been arrested, doesn't have any out-of-wedlock children and grew up in the suburbs with parents who loved him.
