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Archaeologists Keep Finding Massive Shoes at an Ancient Roman Fort—and They Have No Idea Why They're So Big (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Foot size is not particularly correlated to dick size- and wouldn’t have necessarily been a boon if he were. Apparently Roman woman preferred smallish dicks. (Which is why all the Roman statues of gods were lacking by today’s standards.)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    iirc large dicks were seen as brutish and savage by everyone, as if you had no control over your primal, animalistic urges and just wanted to fuck all the time. small pp = civilized.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    The Greeks regarded big dicks as immoderate and therefore barbaric. The Romans, on the other hand, were more welcoming, though they seem to have still regarded them as comical. There are Roman statues of men with massive schwantzes. Greek sculpture depicted small winkies, unless they were showing satyrs or similar mythical monsters.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And this is also why 'black people have big dicks' is a historical stereotype. Sure they have big dicks, like horses or cattle...

    And it's a weird thing where people now think it's a 'positive' stereotype

    I remember a Man U chant about a player having a big dick - anti-racism organisations called it out and the chanters were shocked. It's a 'positive' thing, right?

    History is kinda weird and very racist

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Iirc high libido was also seen as a feminine trait

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I can see it. the underlying principle is control of oneself so anything that implies otherwise was faux pas/taboo

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It was also that men were seen as interacting intellectually and sexual desire was associated with women.

    I wouldn't be surprised if it was partly due to men not being very involved in the domestic world. Like it makes sense, so much of expectations on women even today revolves around children, so a stereotype that women are horny as fuck as well makes a certain sense to include there.

    Though I'll admit I'm thinking of Greece right now and this stereotype may have been one that didn't spread to Rome.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I dunno, anecdotal evidence favors a correlation. Saw a great many dicks showering in gym class. Also, I'm short and women are often surprised when they whip out my hog. Seems their experience jives with mine.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They lied to you. Plenty of studies show no correlation.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    I did admit my experiences were anecdotal. Just sayin'!

    None of the short guys in 8th-grade gym were sporting hog legs, but those tall guys were freaky. For that matter so were the black guys! Someone will bag on me for discussing 8th grade penile length. Let me assure the haters, it was a BIG (heh) deal to us pubescent kids. We all talked about it at great length (heh again). Perhaps more worrisome was the fear of popping a chubby in those skimpy gym shorts. How you gonna hide that?!

    Also, why have so many women been visibly surprised when they went down on my short ass? A stripper once said, "Well. That's not what I expected."

    Look, if your smear out studies across all homo sapiens, meh, probably not a big (heh) difference. And everything I'm scanning at the moment shows a correlation "with weak coefficients". Not sure what coefficients means in this context, never took stats. But I can't deny the evidence of my own eyes, even if I'm the exception to the rule. I think guys are adverse to any notion that their dick can be guessed with their clothes on.

    Maybe a better correlation? Friend who had the biggest dick I've even heard of was 6'8". He showed us this trick, and it seems to fit:

    Spread your thumb and forefinger out as far as they go. That's your length. I'm a perfect match. I know. Anecdotes. Again. But again, real-life experience bears it out.

    Friend and I were having a threesome with his fiancee. He's taller than me, and way better built. I got the longer dick, easily. We did the hand trick, perfect match. Whatever. Try it yourself!

    Now I'm going to post the finger trick and see what people self-report. Unscientific, but may be interesting!

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