There
was one time and place we know of in human history when a small, dainty
penis was considered to be the ideal. I'm speaking of Classical Athens.
You can see it in their statues and vase paintings of nude men—the
muscled torsos, the strong legs, the dear little cocks resting on sweet,
modest balls. According to Eva C. Keuls in The Reign of the Phallus, a
work of feminist scholarship, Athenians thought big sex organs were
"coarse and ugly." But even they had their share of big-dick fantasies.
Among their comic and erotic vase paintings are a horse and a bird with
long, thick penises for heads, and a wide variety of satyrs whose large
erections precede them.
Other pre-Christian cultures glorified big dicks, imagining huge ones for their fertility gods. One of the most compelling erotic images from the Roman Empire is a fresco of the fertility god, Priapus, discovered in the ruins of Pompeii. The handsome and well-built Priapus is dressed in a toga, standing at ease next to a basket of fruit. With one hand he lifts his skirt to give his very big, partly erect penis some air. In his other hand he holds a scale; the penis is resting on the scale, being weighed. It's a beautifully shaped cock, with a big head covered by a long, drooping foreskin, so you can't help staring at it and wondering what it can do—especially because its size is shocking. This image is so powerful, the guides at Pompeii tell the tourists, that little old ladies fall over backwards when they see it.
Source: The Book of the Penis by Maggie Paley
Other pre-Christian cultures glorified big dicks, imagining huge ones for their fertility gods. One of the most compelling erotic images from the Roman Empire is a fresco of the fertility god, Priapus, discovered in the ruins of Pompeii. The handsome and well-built Priapus is dressed in a toga, standing at ease next to a basket of fruit. With one hand he lifts his skirt to give his very big, partly erect penis some air. In his other hand he holds a scale; the penis is resting on the scale, being weighed. It's a beautifully shaped cock, with a big head covered by a long, drooping foreskin, so you can't help staring at it and wondering what it can do—especially because its size is shocking. This image is so powerful, the guides at Pompeii tell the tourists, that little old ladies fall over backwards when they see it.
Source: The Book of the Penis by Maggie Paley
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