Cultural Aspects
- Aesthetic, e.g., Body modification
- In humor, considered indecent or completely taboo in various cultures
- Religious veneration, see St. Priapus Church
- In symbology, e.g., Phallus
- In architecture and sculpture, Phallic architecture
Read more about this topic: Human Penis
Famous quotes containing the words cultural and/or aspects:
“To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today’s story is that fatherhood is superfluous. The moral of the new story must be that fatherhood is essential.”
—David Blankenhorn (20th century)
“All the aspects of this desert are beautiful, whether you behold it in fair weather or foul, or when the sun is just breaking out after a storm, and shining on its moist surface in the distance, it is so white, and pure, and level, and each slight inequality and track is so distinctly revealed; and when your eyes slide off this, they fall on the ocean.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)