What’s up with that strange looking wart on Adam’s upper thigh on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling? Is that weird little flap supposed to be Adam’s penis? Okay, it’s flaccid, obviously. But isn’t it a little misshapen?
I mean, fine, the penis supposed to be laying on its side. But Adam’s heavily muscled right leg is straight out and his left leg is bent at the knee. Adam’s resting on his naked ass, so by that perspective, the penis should be tucked between the two legs, and hidden away like in a PG-13 movie. But no, his wang is peeking out, up and over the right leg. Wouldn’t it slide off? What’s holding it there? Scotch tape?
I admit, my experience with the resting pose of a male penis is somewhat scant, but that picture always seemed wrong to me. It’s like Michelangelo was saying, “Well if you can’t see his dong, he’s not really naked.”
Doesn’t look to me much different from, say, some of these reclining male nudes in other artistic works.
I don’t understand the question about the penis “sliding off”. The flaccid (and uncircumcised, which is what’s giving the tip that conical shape) penis is resting on the thigh muscle which is between it and the scrotum. In other words, the balls are sort of “caught” behind the thigh.
You think that’s bad? Have a look at God’s left arm and index finger. It’s tentacular! No wonder the woman and child are trying to sneak away while his head is turned!
It just seems to me that the penis is stretched up and over the right leg. Flaccid, it would tend to roll downward, wouldn’t it? Unless its stuck there with glue or something.
Adam is leaning to his right and resting on his right hip; a line drawn through his hips would be somewhere between 30 and 45 degrees off the horizontal. What’s holding the penis in that position is gravity.
eta: why did I never notice that Adam is painted with a navel. Isn’t that completely wrong? Or was he created with a navel so that he wouldn’t stand out as weird from his male offspring?
I am happy for you. But, I did read the small penis thing was considered a good thing back then. Ain’t it weird how men like to brag how big they are nowadays? How things have changed. Go figure.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto Me: where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast the understanding. Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it? Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
And, yea/naw that belly button ain’t right.