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many visual Greek depictions feature small penises. But they also feature large ones too (McNiven 10). Context is relevant: in an erotic context, penises are obviously erect and generally larger, so the Greek artistic depictions leave the possibility that Greek men had tastefully moderate sized penis in public, but were still gloriously masculine in private (10). The Greeks were greatly concerned with the difference between public and private conduct, and Greek men may very well have been quite prudish (Garland 112). However, the symbol of the erect penis represented masculinity and power, and was depicted often in public spaces (4). The Greeks were very concerned with moderation in sex, and this actually extended to their views on penis size, where too big a penis was not moderate and was therefore morally "bad", hence the depiction of the large penis on Satyrs and the like (McNiven 14). Due to the relationship between moderation and penis size in art, large penises were associated with hubris, a criminal sort of violence, and drunkenness (McNiven 14). So from what I've read, it might be not so much that all Greeks had small penises as that they viewed a flaccid, non-aggressive penis as a more appropriate public ideal, moderate and "civilised"
Small flaccid dick and large erect dicks were. Basically they considered growers superior to showers.
To them small flaccid dick symbolized as civilized while large erect penis as uncivilized and barbaric. And growers symbolizes as someone who is capable of being civilized as well as barbaric depending on the situation.
If they had given public statues big dicks, women would have seldom used those statues as dildos.
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