In the olden days, before the invention of the dildo, the cock from male statues frequently went missing. The reason was that many frustrated women were yanking them off and taking them home, so they could stuff them up their fannies later. This caused a great deal of irritation to the sculptors of the statues, who had spent much time carving out their cocks. It was decided, sometime around the middle of the second millennium, that they only way to prevent this from happening was to make the cocks on the statues so small, it would remove the temptation for women to use the phalluses for carnal purposes. Problemo solviati
I assume the artists didn't want people staring at the penises more than the artwork itself. And obviously they were mistaken...
Hahaha, Boog, I've always wondered the same thing. It's like you live in my brain. In the temporal lobe sector!
Legend has it that the penis on Michelangelo's David was originally supposed to be larger, but after an accidental slip of the chisel chopped it off, Michelangelo had to fashion a new organ from the remaining marble. While this is an amusing story, it has no historical basis. Michelangelo, like many Renaissance artists, sculpted in the classical style, which mimicked ancient Greco-Roman sculpture. Since the ancient Greeks viewed large genitals as comical and bestial, they typically depicted heroic figures with very small equipment. Many Roman sculptors followed this tradition, and Michelangelo followed the examples set by the Greeks and Romans. Here is a quote from sexual theorist Camille Paglia on the subject: "Most of the world has probably always esteemed a large penis, except for Ancient Greece. I think that was an exception to the rule. In Greece, there was a period of interest in proportion -- they were working out the ideal proportions of the human body... Roman statues were in the style of Greek nudes, and nudes that survived from the Greco-Roman period always had small penises. In art, the penis has often been extremely small, imitating the Classical Greek style. " Far out!!! I have a Greco-Roman classic!!!
So... so you're saying I have the body of an art model? I could live with the teenie weenie in that case...