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'...the genitals of small boys'

Posted by Pharmakon on 2018-June-16 23:39:39, Saturday

From "The Penis Unsheathed," a transcript of Camille Pagilia's 1994 London television program reproduced in her essay collection Vamps & Tramps:

PAGLIA: The Greeks gave their statues the genitals of small boys. We have only recently found out what the reasons for this might be. It is that the classical Athenians regarded the large penis as a symbol of animality, of one's bestial instinct having primacy over the mind. Therefore, it was an exact reversal of modern days, where a large penis is prized.... Perhaps the best example in Michelangelo of the disparity between the little boy's private parts and the bulky brawniness of the adult body would the the ignudi of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the nude youths, where you have such a contrast between the beefiness of the torso and these tiny little genitals that have always reminded me of my grandmother's gnocchi, tiny little pasta pieces made out of potatoes. (Mandolin music. Cut to bowl of fat, white gnocchi, which dissolve into an ignudo's penis.)


hugzu ;-p


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