Members lookin Posted August 30, 2007 Members Posted August 30, 2007 Priapus, the God of the phallus and male sexuality, weighs his prodigious member. This is from a painted wall at the House of the Vettii, in Pompeii. (The culture of Pompeii was abruptly ended in 79 A.D. by an eruption of mount Vesuvius.) He must have been very popular. I wonder if he ever escorted. He would have been a top, surely, and may have charged by the pound. Quote
AdamSmith Posted August 30, 2007 Posted August 30, 2007 Good lord. ("Lords," I guess, given the Roman pantheon.) I am having to suppress all manner of tasteless jokes about Vesuvian eruptions. Quote
Members lookin Posted August 31, 2007 Author Members Posted August 31, 2007 According to Wikipedia, statues of Priapus, in full rampant splendor, were used in Roman gardens to promote an abundant crop, and to guard against thieves. Epigrams were included, so that would-be robbers didn’t miss the point: "I warn you, my lad, you will be sodomised; you, my girl, I shall futter; for the thief who is bearded, a third punishment remains." "... If I do seize you . . . you shall be so stretched that you will think your anus never had any wrinkles." And to think I've been getting by with just a sundial! Quote
Members TampaYankee Posted September 2, 2007 Members Posted September 2, 2007 Oz, has gone to the New World version. Quote
