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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gen V (2023-present), the recent iteration of the wildly successful superhero satire The Boys<\/a> (2019), thrives on scenes of bodily outrage. One such episode concerns a young woman who is able to shrink \u2013 an ability triggered by self-induced vomiting.<\/p>\n

Her boyfriend persuades her to use her powers during sex and we see her touching his penis, which is now taller than she is. We also understand why the boyfriend is so insistent about her transformation: relatively speaking, he has a small penis.<\/p>\n

In Companion<\/a> (2025), a film about a young man who has an abusive sexual relationship with a self-conscious robot, a small penis is also mocked. When the robot gains autonomy, and has an intelligence boost, she confronts and shames the abusive man, claiming that he is motivated in his violent and controlling behaviour by \u201ca below average-sized penis\u201d.<\/p>\n

What interests me about these works, as a researcher of sexuality and film, is that they are otherwise committed to questioning reductive ideas about the body. Yes, in the universe of The Boys there is undoubted glee at all the exploding heads and superpowered, murderous buttocks, but the keynote is pathos.<\/p>\n

The girl who changes her shape through vomiting is arguably representing bulimic experience and there are characters whose superpowers can be understood to negotiate, for example, self-harm and dysmorphia. But when it comes to a man with a small penis, it\u2019s a different story. His body is understood to directly influence both his actions and sense of morality.<\/p>\n

Likewise, in Companion, which is in so many senses a meditation on the fraught relationship between mind and body, the small penis of the young man is understood to be the obvious source of his repressive actions.<\/p>\n

In both cases, the audience is expected to laugh at the abuser because of his small penis. The small penis is framed as both a signifier and cause of abusiveness.<\/p>\n

\u2018We are still so medieval about penis size\u2019<\/h2>\n

It could be argued that in Companion and Gen V, the small penis itself is not what is being mocked. The men involved in both are young, white and heterosexual. The idea is, perhaps, that mocking those with small penises is acceptable, because in this the creators are really questioning white, heterosexual and male power structures, and that the inadequacy of that power, its mythic nature, is exposed.<\/p>\n

One difficulty in this is that as only power held by men with small penises is mocked, the power of the well endowed, regardless of racial or sexual identity, is naturalised.<\/p>\n

Equally, those people of colour or queer people who have small penises might implicitly be included in the mockery, with the implication that they are somehow the beneficiaries of power structures, misuse this power, and have obvious, biologically rooted motivations in so doing.[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mmkLMXN_lpI”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Gen V qualifies the laughter \u2013 the girl , talking later to a friend, makes clear that there is nothing wrong in having a small penis, just \u201cdon\u2019t be a dick about it\u201d. But the only small-penised character we see is, of course, being \u201ca dick\u201d.<\/p>\n

There have been a number of television shows that focus on penis size, but each explores the pathos of having a large penis: Hung (2009), The Hard Times of RJ Berger (2010), Sex Education (2019). Imagine an equivalent concerning a character with a small \u2013 or even simply not large \u2013 penis. <\/p>\n

As journalist Caitlin Moran wrote<\/a> in a 2023 Guardian article introducing her book, What About Men: <\/p>\n

\n

We are still so medieval about penis size that we see male genitalia as being inimical to a man\u2019s soul. Remember when Stormy Daniels told the world that Donald Trump\u2019s penis was \u2018smaller than average \u2013 a dick like the mushroom character in Mario Kart\u2019. And we were all like: \u2018Yes, it makes sense the horrible man has a small, weird mushroom penis.\u2019 The whole world joined in on that one. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Let us instead question the relationship between biology and destiny. And let this action be taken not to frame heterosexual white men as a disadvantaged group, but for the good of us all. Our bodies are ours to negotiate, with ourselves, and with our significant others, as well as those others that find in them indifference, or more troubling affects. <\/p>\n

As Gen V and Companion suggest, in recent science fiction stories that otherwise reimagine the body, the small penis can only be imagined as shameful. It is taken to be an obvious motivation for abusive behaviour. Such an understanding helps no one. As the science fiction genre is especially well placed to question common-sense ideas about the human and its form, it would be a good place to begin.\"The<\/p>\n

Neil Cocks<\/a>, Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature, University of Reading<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

This article is republished from The Conversation<\/a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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