Here's the thing, and I've said this before (re: Magic Mike). We just don't see enough random peen. Watch a bunch of movies and cable shows and you see breasts ALL THE TIME, but phalluses still seem novel and taboo because they're never shown. In conclusion, rock out with your cock out. Thank you.
They do this kind of thing better in Amsterdam.
I work at the Natural History Museum in London and now I feel like I need to go round and check for penises in our exhibits.
Oh, memories of the days of my volunteering at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and parents whining about anatomically correct statues in the Human Origins exhibit...good times.
Wow, I have a story about penises and that very museum. I used work as an assistant to a scientist at AMNH. Once I was stuck in the staff elevator with some lecherous 70 year old guy. He was holding a long box which he felt the need to tell me contained a walrus penis bone. I said something generic like "Oh, neat," and he took the bone out, waved it around, and said "Seriously, have you EVER seen one this big?!"
That isn't even the weirdest thing that happened to me while working there.
It weirds me out that none of the wax people have pubic hair (i.e. the penis tucker).
Except for the hairy cavemen. In which case, I think they went a little overboard with the overall body hair. Evolutionarily speaking, I doubt they had that much hair.
The thing all these cultures seem to have in common is inflating the...impressive qualities...of the male body beyond what is realistic. But you can dream it you can do it right?
Not that I believe that it's the size that counts, but man those are some tiny penises.
As far as the lack of representation of circumcised guys, it's not that surprising given very few cultures practiced it. Even now, barely 20% of the male population is cut. Also, historically, Jewish men had foreskin as circumcision used to be taking "a little off the top" or a small ritual cut.
...I know entirely too much about that thanks to an ethics class.
...I know entirely too much about that thanks to an ethics class.
I find it so interesting how even the most basic seeming statues (like in slides 5, 7, and 13 I believe) have very realistic looking and anatomically correct penises. Like, they have basically sticks for arms and legs, but the balls and head and shaft are all there, looking pretty much like the real thing. I know perception of the human body has changed over the millennia, but I wonder when the focus on penises came about. Kinda like the question of when our ancestors realized sex made babies, when did they decide that penises were great?
