Priapus: Ancient Roman God of Big Dick Energy
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This episode discusses the ancient Roman god Priapus and the cultural significance of masculinity and sexuality in ancient Rome.
To access extended episodes of Historical Homos, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos * THE ANCIENT ROMANS HAD A GOD OF BIG DICK ENERGY AND WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT. GIRLS AND BOYS, MEET PRIAPUS. 🍆 Remember when the internet decided Pete Davidson had a giant schlong? Well, turns out people have been fantasizing about hung humans since the Ancient Romans. Everyone always complains that the marble statues of antiquity seem to have surprisingly small penises – was everyone micro back then? What did the size queens do? But the truth is – the ancient world was full of dicks, big and small. There were dicks on houses, at intersections, in art, and of course, in milady's bedside table. AND – dicks were actually sacred to the ancients! From the phallic Herms that warded off evil to Priapus' fertility-granting member, Big Dick Energy was everywhere. Because dicks were a symbol of agricultural power, magical protection, and prosperity. 2,000 years ago, Cock was King. But it wasn’t all rainbows and dildos. In Greece, big dicks were a joke, a sign of an oversexed – and therefore unrestrained – man. Meanwhile, the Romans…
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