I was reminded of something dick-pic critic Madeleine Holden said in an interview with VICE in May: "I've come to the conclusion that men face similar (although less intense) pressures to look a certain way, but are afforded fewer outlets to discuss how it affects them. While conversations about the everyday humiliations of embodiment in present-day North America are common among my female friends, the only men I've ever really talked to at length (heh) about their junk have been boyfriends or lovers. It's an enormous amount of unnecessary pressure, and it seems to me that if you tell a man he has a "small dick," the message is more or less the same thing as saying, "You're fat" to a woman: You are sexually undesirable and not good at being your gender. I know what it is to consciously or unconsciously size up my body or parts of my body, noting the sizes of others', comparing, keeping track. For an organ that changes size upward of 11 times a day (and even more frequently at night), the size thing really gets to people. We know the hierarchy: big = good, small = bad. They are masculinity's synecdoche, and rather an odd choice.įor a start, #notallpenises get to be representative of strong, manly qualities. In truth, my fascination is less about penises themselves and more about the disjunct between what they are-dangling, fleshy, easily agitated protuberances-and what they are asked to represent: authority, virility, power.
There's something fascinating about penises. Photos courtesy of Nick Gilronan and Jonah Falcon The smallest penis in Brooklyn and the (alleged) largest penis in the world.
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