as small as a world and as large as alone

12:43am August 16, 2014

just-another-nerd37:

tsukishimake1:

my favorite tidbit about rome is that in the mid-1800s one of the popes didnt like the statues in rome having dicks so he ordered them knocked off. fast forward to the last decade or so and art historians in conjunction with the vatican are trying to erm. restore. the statues. but the dicks were just. kept in a box. so art historians are going around rome, with a box of dicks, trying to match them up to their owner.

i feel like this should be a game show.

Inserting cut for discussion of possibly NSFW stuff.

Rome had enough penises hanging everywhere anyway, unattached to statues, as a fertility and protectiong thing.  Stuffy historians have rarely been happy about it, but there used to be a room where only ‘gentlemen’ could pay to be taken back there and look at all the penises and erotic art (including a rather famous one of Pan fucking a donkey, and looking remarkably tender about the whole thing).

But as for the game show…

“FIND THAT PENIS!”

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