I just realized something that I totally forgot before...but there's a LOT of phallic things out there that were intentionally modeled after...that part. Not everything obviously, even things that should have been obvious to the makers.
razz But a lot of things, particularly from ancient history are recognized as phallic and likely influenced their shape. Spears, for example, are seen as ..well..masculine. I don't know much about Roman society, but I seem to recall the spear representing that part and all the other meanings behind it. It may not have been made to represent the phallus, but people intentionally placed those meanings upon it and it very likely influenced how they saw the spear. (And how to design the spear, likely modeling it more after that particular part of the body.)
As far as depictions and meanings behind the spear, it was probably more modest than just having statues hold a giant phallus anyway... which very likely could have existed. We don't know since so much artwork up until the late medieval period was destroyed.
Anyway, it's not just man made things either... Avocados were I think originally named after the native word for...uhh...what they resemble when you have two hanging together.
This isn't even getting into the female parts either, which is...hm...somewhat hard for me to talk about. As far as I'm aware, the largest expansion of this mode of thinking, to me, seems to have come about more recently than in the past. I could be wrong though.
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