Has penis length always been an issue or is it a modern issue?

by flimspringfield
Dolcester

The answer will be yes :)

In Athens: the most desirable penis should be small (in a plays by Aristophanes, diminutives such as posthion, "small phallus" are compliments) The Athenians would not understand contemporary jokes on men well mounted.

In ancient Rome: The Romans, saw things a little differently than modern man: they had a predilection for big phallus - it happened to Roman generals to raise men in rank solely on the basis of their generous genital additives. "When in the bathroom means crackle of applause, wrote the inventor of the Martial epigram, it is likely that the huge phallus of Maron was the cause.

And, like modern man, the Romans did not hesitate to ridicule anyone who stood flagrantly below average, as did the poet Catullus about a Roman fellow "whose small dagger dangling more mollassonne than the tender beet never stood up in the middle of his tunic "

In Ancient Egypt: Min is an Ancient Egyptian god , He was represented in many different forms, but was often represented in male human form, shown with a disproportionately erect penis which he holds in his left hand and an upheld right arm holding a flail and he was shown as having black skin. For ancient egyptian big phallus was associated with greater fertility

If you want some good books I can sugest you this two book below they both got a good review from the british magazine The economist

Sources:

God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis, Tom Hickman

The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens, Eva C Keuls

theultimateplu

A small penis was actually more desirable in Ancient Greek culture. The perception that someone had a large penis actually made them less desirable.

To quote directly from my source: 'Most nude male figures in Athenian vase paintings are standard types [...] with few exceptions, the penis is small. That this was associated with the ideal in Athens is clear from Aristophanes Clouds (1.104)'

Source: Timothy J. McNiven, Notes in the History of Art Vol. 15, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE "OTHER" IN ATHENIAN ART, c. 510-400 B.C. (Fall 1995), pp. 10-16