Fammaden said:
The wikipedia entry mentions:
In ancient Greek art, it is common to see smaller male genitalia than one would expect for the size of the man.[10] Renaissance art also followed this aesthetic; note Michelangelo"s David. Sources suggest in ancient Greece an uncircumcised and small penis was culturally seen as desirable in a man, whereas a bigger or circumcised penis was viewed as comical or grotesque, usually being found on "fertility gods, half-animal critters such as satyrs, ugly old men, and barbarians."[10]
Theres also a strong arguement against this perception. Since i dont feel like entering porn into google, i"ll leave it up to the reader to discover the source for themselves, but theres some ancient egyption pornographic stories written in greek that emphasize a man having an epicly sized penis. It was an extremely popular book in that time period... greek-roman historical highs.
There is a long history that a large sized man was historically attractive. The rendering of a small penis in art was probably just as likely a sign of modesty or just blunt reality moreso than it was an attraction or desire. The only historical note i can think of where a man was critized for having a penis that was far too big was in viking poems. Theres one about a man who had a penis that was far too huge to insert into his wife, and the poem made fun of him for it. The vikings had similar poems to make fun of men with a penis that was to small, or an inability to fertilize a female. It was more to make fun of the mans inability to function naturally than it was about his penis being undesirable because of its size.
The vikings are a particularily entertaining group of people. They were very open about sexuality, yet at the same time regarded its use with some sort of mysterious awe. Having sex with a friend was considered very taboo. A man who allowed himself to be anal sexed was considered weak and a follower but not necessarily evil, but at the same time, raping someone you defeated in combat was pretty much customary. Their poems provide some interesting insight in how to apply language. Their word for a strictly gay person translates into something along the lines of "Cunt coward" in english.
Vikings also used a lot of sexual nicknames and insults, probably even further than we do now adays. They had words for sexual refrences that wed have to spend whole sentences on, and often had sexual nicknames for their friends and enemies. Theirs points in viking poems where it stops just to relate two men trying to out insult each other, then they both pull out axes and go at it.
Long tangent, some of it might be wrong, been a long time since i studied vikings in-depth. They were truely the badasses of Europe though.
