Small Penises

The ancient Greek statues of heroes all have small penises. It is not because the men actually had small packages. It is because the Greeks didn’t value sex much. Rather, they valued the qualities of the mind more. It is interesting to note that the Greeks endowed their enemies and other villainous or foolish characters with large appendages.

One study says that “having a smaller package was considered a sign of virtue, of civility, or self-control or discipline” in Greece. The perspective has changed significantly today. If small penises and big brains was the old perspective, the reverse is today’s.

I remembered the small organs of the Greek heroes when I read this morning a Deccan Herald report titled Surprise school bag checks yield condoms, cigarettes in Bengaluru. The checks were carried out in classes 8 to 10. It is quite disturbing to read that contraceptive pills were found in the bags of class 8 girls.

After the protracted Covid lockdown with its online classes, my experience as a teacher has been so distressing that I am thinking of quitting the job altogether. The behaviour of quite many of my students has changed drastically compared with the pre-Covid days. Now most of my students have little interest in matters of the brain. I don’t want to articulate here their visible interests.

I would love to take my students back to the ancient Greece which placed the brain above the prick. Instead, they seem to be moving in the direction of ancient India’s Kamasutra.