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@Moon @bonifartius fun historical fact, the ancient greeks (and i believe romans) saw a small penis as a masculine ideal, because they associated large cocks with a lack of sexual self-control (something that was synonymous with femininity at the time — women were generally believed to be psychologically unable to resist sexual advances by any random man, which is where much of the original humor in Lysistrata came from and probably has something to do with why classical civilizations had nothing like a modern concept of rape).

these codpieces are reminiscent of the sopiones that actors would sometimes wear in comic plays, in miniature. Lysistrata has a bit where the characters are like “see, this play is highbrow shit, we won’t just put a bunch of men with giant dicks on stage for a cheap laugh!” moments before doing exactly that

@velartrill @bonifartius I don't spend a lot of time staring at other men's dicks but I never thought the statues were _particularly_ small. There's a lot of variation I guess. I have heard that about Greek statues, though. Very interesting.

@Moon @bonifartius for reference, this is a sopio

actors’ fake cocks would go up to their chests or chins sometimes

@velartrill @bonifartius I have seen a leather one one time, it couldn't have been original but I guess that's how they were made

@Moon @bonifartius also, you may have heard of the greek politician who was once accused of/framed for vandalizing the dicks of athens' sacred statues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcibiades

it was a huge deal at the time

@velartrill @Moon @bonifartius >Lysistrata has a bit where the characters are like “see, this play is highbrow shit, we won’t just put a bunch of men with giant dicks on stage for a cheap laugh!” moments before doing exactly that

"Expectations svbverted!" (Directed by Arrian Johnstophan)

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