Priapus Weighing his Penis

Priapus, the God of the phallus and male sexuality, weighs his prodigous member. This is from a painted wall at the House of the Vettii, in Pompeii. (The culture of Pompeii was abruptly ended in 79 A.D. by an eruption of mount Vesuvius.)

This sculpture of Pan copulating with a Goat is from Herculaneum, carved from Greek marble in the 1st century B.C.



A Soldier titillating a young boy, by the Brygos Painter, 500-475 B.C., Greece.


Statue of Gaul erected by Attalos 1 of Pergamon in the third century B.C. after his triumph over the Galations of Asia Minor.