Ahem. Have you ever wandered around an art gallery and noticed that certain paintings of naked men are far from... generous when it comes to the depictions of the subjects’ appendages?

Well, it turns out there is in fact a reason why penises in paintings pre-19th century are so small.

A study into the size of human penis size in paintings (yes, we’re seriously curious about how one comes up with this as a research idea, too) looked at paintings which depict naked men from the past seven centuries.

Using paintings of nude men found on art websites, the research team organised them chronologically to see when things started getting bigger.

Paintings with erect penises were scrapped from the research pool – no one likes a show off after all.

The team found........

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