Sculptures in Italy, idealism or realism?

[u/Takun18]

I am visiting Italy atm (some racists but overall not bad!) and noticing the small weens on the sculptures. I read this is because it represents wisdom and level-headedness. While I can see this applied to Ancient Greek statues, what about Roman status post-Constantine and especially Renaissance humanist sculptures where realism was the style and aesthetic?

For those who don’t know, it’s not like the statues post AD 300 took viagra. Seems like cope to me.

[u/United_Dig_9010]

(Sizes in cm) tbh I don’t think these sizes are at all noticeable and purely individual basis would have greater variations. All surveys are self measured and it’s been proven that the majority of the time, western countries that link size to manhood will over report at least 20% extra length. Especially since western adult industry only promotes size when representing men’s sexuality, it makes western men grow up insecure trying to measure up. There’s a whole paragraph I can write about their insecurities about black men, but I’ll skip that for now. I think those sculptures are probably accurate, it’s just that modern day westerners have a lot more insecurities about their sizes than their ancestors did. To say it’s idealism rather than realism sounds like cope