The federal government used taxpayer funds to study the size of, um, “packages” on gay men. Funding came through the National Institute of Health (NIH) and focused on whether the size of a gay man’s “endowment” has any affect on his sexual health.

Just wait until you read the detailed description of the study. That’s where things take a turn for the ugly. From The Daily Caller:

The research, titled “The Association between Penis Size and Sexual Health among Men Who Have Sex with Men,” began in 2006 and surveyed 1,065 gay men. Among its key findings: Those gay men who felt they had small or inadequate penis sizes were more likely to become “bottoms,” or anal receptive, while gay men with larger penises were more likely to identify themselves as “tops,” or anal insertive.

You’re welcome.

The taxpayer-funded research also found gay men with smaller genitals were more likely to be “psychologically troubled”.

The organization responsible for the “package” size study has received more than $15 million in taxpayer money since 2000. The group received at least $899,769 in the first year of the controversial study alone.

And there’s more!

At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, researchers are attempting to use video games to break “bias” against women and minorities in the so-called “STEMM” hard-science fields (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine).

That study received just under $2 million from the stimulus legislation. It’ll likely receive just as much every year from now until 2013.

Taxpayer money also went to study the behavior of gay men at circuit parties. Tine Korbe at Hot Air reports:

That study intends to research the percentage of homosexual men who “engage in high risk behaviors at circuit parties but do not arrive intending to do so.” In other words, the project seeks to determine why gay men use drugs and have sex at night-into-day, professionally produced, highly publicized dance parties. Apparently, it costs $300,000 to arrive at the obvious answers of availability, situational pressure, lowered inhibitions, etc., etc., etc.

Every applicant for NIH taxpayer money needs to justify his or her funding. The first justification submitted for the funding was — I kid you not — that the project would help further the researcher’s career. That led the NIH to hand over $300,000 in taxpayer funds.