In Greek and Roman mythology, Satyrs/Fauns were associated the the happy-fun-times god Dionysus/Bacchus. They're also connected to male sex-drive in art, and often (but not here) are depicted with raging boners.
Aradraugfea said: They had different concepts of male beauty back then, just like you'll notice the girls tend to be a bit more plump than we like them today.
Says you. Perfectly healthy women are supposed to be buxom and curvatious.
There is something seriously wrong with the world when skinny, malnurished, frail twigs are seen as attractive.
In every nude roman painting I ever saw, the men always have very miniscule, tiny penises. Why?
Mortals were shown with small penises, and the gods had large penises. If a sculpter made a mortal man's statue with a penis bigger than the god's, then he might incur divine wrath.
