Why do all old statues have such small penises?

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Ever wonder? How To Talk About Art History has the answer.

Firstly, they’re flaccid. If you compare their size to most flaccid male penises, they are actually not significantly smaller than real-life penises tend to be.

Secondly, cultural values about male beauty were completely different back then. Today, big penises are seen as valuable and manly, but back then, most evidence points to the fact that small penises were considered better than big ones
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Small? I thought those statues were average.

This is disappointing news to me.

 

women would have loved me

 

i thought this thread was by a spambot

 

I just "liked" comments about penises. I'm sorry if that was a creepy thing to do...

 

They were talking about this the other day on ESPN, I died a little inside

 

I mean if you take into account that David is over 20 feet tall, his penis isn't actually that small...only proportionally...

I'll just leave this here in case anyone needs something to bandage their fragile masculinity.

 

I Just Can't Stop Thinking About Statue Wang

 

That's actually pretty interesting. Tbh, I can't say I've never wondered this exact thing.

 

another thing I didn't know.
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AbsoluteJunk :)

 

I actually have wondered this. And I honestly thought it was because putting really small penises on art might make women think that smaller size was the average size and thus, guys would seem bigger. Apparently I was way off, and a big weirdo for really thinking that much into it

 

It's not terrible logic though.

 

Do girls know about shrinkage?

 

Came here to say "AbsolutePenises.net" but this was much more clever.

 

Now this is an article I signed up for!!

I saw a statue in Florence near the fake David one where the guy was tea bagging his buddy

 

When you were in Florence, did you get a chance to look at Perseus? He was right outside the Accademia to the right of the fake David.

 

I just googled it. I think I may have seen it. But it doesn't appear in any photos I took. And it's very cool so I would've taken pic
I'll post them below

 

Thank you for this thread. My god, I lol'd.

 

Read this as "old statuses" the first four time and couldn't, for the life of me, figure out what it was supposed to mean.

 

Love the pics. I only ask if you saw Perseus because when I was in Florence I took this picture. I dunno about you, but to me it looks like fake David is throwing some serious shade