Jonah Falcon
American actor and writer
Jonah Adam Cardeli Falcon (born July 29, 1970) is an American personality who came to international attention in 1999 because of his claim that he has the largest penis in the world, which he claims is 13.5 inches (34 cm) long when erect; Falcon has not authorized or permitted independent verification of this figure. In the years since Falcon's original fame, there are other popular claimants for the unofficial title of "world's biggest penis": Matt Barr (who claims his penis is medically verified (by a never disclosed source) to be 14.4 inches (37 cm) )) and Roberto Cabrera (though the latter was shown to be largely foreskin).
Early life
Jonah Adam Julio Cardeli Falcon was born at Greenpoint Hospital in Greenpoint, Brooklyn to Cecilia Cardeli, an accountant's clerk, and Joe Falcon, a sailor who died two years after Falcon's birth. Falcon has at times claimed that his biological father was porn star John Holmes, who was famous for the size of his penis. Falcon has claimed to have documentation proving this lineage, but family members have dismissed this claim and he has failed to produce any evidence.
He recounts that when he was in fifth grade, his schoolmates saw his penis, which he says was eight inches (20 cm) long at that point, while he changed in a bathroom stall. Falcon states that he was able to perform autofellatio at the age of 10, and that at that age an older neighbor told an eighteen-year-old woman about him, and arranged for his first sexual experience with another person. At age twelve, Falcon enrolled at an East Harlem school. He reports that by the seventh grade, his penis had grown to 9.5 inches (24 cm) erect, and by age 15, it was 10.5 inches (27 cm). He later enrolled at the Bronx High School of Science, and graduated in 1988.
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