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[–] Quik@infosec.pub 88 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don’t know how serious this was meant, but I just wanted to inform you that especially the Ancient Greek had another beauty standard thinking men with small penises were superior to larger ones as they thought of people with big ones as barbaric, dull and impulsive.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world -4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Prolly reminded them of little boys as well.

[–] cheddar@programming.dev 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You, you are the one who brought little boys into this conversation.

[–] Quik@infosec.pub 18 points 2 months ago

I understand the downvotes as the comment seems kind of inappropriate, but - as others pointed out - pederasty was really wide spread in Ancient Greece and people thought of boys not in puberty as "good-looking" in a romantic/sexual way, as fucking creepy and weird as we think that is today, so the comment is not entirely wrong: this is the same beauty standard that thought of boys as sexually attractive.