{"id":3598,"date":"2016-05-10T22:53:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T22:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2016-05-10T22:53:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T22:53:28","slug":"why-do-all-old-statues-have-such-small-penises-how-to-talk-about-art-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/10\/why-do-all-old-statues-have-such-small-penises-how-to-talk-about-art-history\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhy do all old statues have such small penises?\u201d | How To Talk About Art History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/howtotalkaboutarthistory.wordpress.com\/2015\/08\/30\/why-do-all-old-statues-have-such-small-penises\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/david_von_michelangelo.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Don&#8217;t try to tell me you haven&#8217;t wondered the same thing! -egg]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are two main reasons why ancient Greek statues have small penises:<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, they\u2019re flaccid. If you compare their size to most flaccid male penises, they are actually not significantly smaller than real-life penises tend to be.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, cultural values about male beauty were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penissizes.org\/penis-size-art\">completely different back then<\/a>. Today, big penises are seen as valuable and manly, but back then, most evidence points to the fact that <em>small<\/em> penises were considered better than big ones.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>All representations of large penises in ancient Greek art and literature are associated with foolish, lustful men, or the animal-like satyrs. Meanwhile, the ideal Greek man was rational, intellectual and authoritative. He may still have had a lot of sex, but this was unrelated to his penis size, and his small penis allowed him to remain coolly logical.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/howtotalkaboutarthistory.wordpress.com\/2015\/08\/30\/why-do-all-old-statues-have-such-small-penises\/\">\u201cWhy do all old statues have such small penises?\u201d | How To Talk About Art History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Don&#8217;t try to tell me you haven&#8217;t wondered the same thing! -egg] There are two main reasons why ancient Greek statues have small penises: Firstly, they\u2019re 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-W2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3600,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions\/3600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}