If the one thing (most) men have in common is that they have a penis – but something else that most men share in that category is drawing penises. Whether it’s on your passed-out friend’s face, the margins of your school books or grafting on the train, forms of dictation are so apparent its uncanny. I mean, on Friday night I got my friend to draw their own versions of dicks which I then made into a book for my friend.

Enter Drawing Dicks on the Herald Sun, a page created by Jeremy Bassett and Dylan Merritt, inspired by the inner artist of the average teenage boy. It features a range of elaborately-drawn dicks on photographs of their local tabloid, and have since garnered more than 400 000 likes on Facebook. Next step in the art world? They will be exhibited on the walls of Melbourne’s ArtBoy Gallery at the end of this month.

Featuring “the finest dick art ever drawn on newspaper” the collection, which began in 2012 as a competition between workmates, also features work from followers.

It’s at the point now that we’re going lose the page if we keep posting stuff that offends people. But if we find a way around it, that’s not just defacing and that’s actually artwork we might actually be able to keep the page alive, and get it back to its original state.

Seriously, though, they really are works of art:

But what is it with men and dicks? Ask a psychoanalysts and the obvious answer is Freud. Thanks Dr. Vanessa Sinclair:

In psychoanalytic terms, castration is a core fear that everyone experiences, if not the core fear. The classical example taken from Freud is that the little boy sees that his mother does not have a penis and this traumatizes him. He then fears that the same thing can happen to him—that not only could he lose his penis, but that he could be exposed and everyone will see that he does not have one. It makes him feel vulnerable. He does not have the phallus—perhaps he never did—and now everyone knows.

When you think of the phallus in a metaphorical sense, and not as a literal penis, it’s more about who has the power, who has the answer, who has what everyone is looking for. The reality of course is that no one has it. No one has the answer or the power, ultimately. They only do when others believe they do. As long as you are not fully exposed, you can keep people thinking that you have it. But there is a limit to that. So, essentially, the people who are drawing penises over and over again are trying to assert that they have the power. That they have the phallus and do not lack. That they’re not vulnerable. It’s the same classic example of older men who buy a sports car or motorcycle when their physical health and strength begins to decline.”

Case in point? Hitler and his micro-dick.

[source: mashable&broadly]