Of the 500, fully 225 counted as having hypospadias. These physicians looked at a group of 500 men and found that only 55 percent could be labeled “normal,” according to medical standards. In 1995, the Journal of Urology published a stunning-and generally ignored- study out of Germany that showed that urologists have unreasonably strict expectations for penises. In fact, hypospadias might be much more common than even that, and may have always been.