The image of fertility god Priapus weighing his penis is located near the entrance to the house (© Silvia Vacca; all images courtesy of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii) Visitors to Pompeii can ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. But Priapus was not meant as a titillating image, in spite of the fact that his name now means the most famous side effect of ...

In Greek mythology, Priapus was a rustic fertility god whose anatomy was marked by a colossal penis. In ancient Greece, primitive statues of him were erected in vegetable plots to simultaneously ...