Since ancient times, the idea that the size of the nose is related to that of the penis has existed in the popular imagination. Big noses like Julius Caesar’s have been associated with unbridled sexualities . Even in modern times, Freud, for example, spoke of the cure of neuroses of sexual origin by cauterizing the nose. Although today science does not endorse any of these ideas, the belief survives.
The truth is that various studies have shown that the nose directly influences people’s sexuality, from the choice of a partner to the ability to detect emotions ; even to the point that the sense of smell can determine the number of sexual encounters. Research published in the journal Biological Psychology suggests that men with a poorer sense of smell also have fewer carnal encounters. According to the psychologists of the University of Dresden authors of the study, it is because their bad nose makes them feel insecure when it comes to detecting erotic signals. People who “are born without a sense of smell, what is called congenital anosmia, reflect greater insecurity,” the researchers detail.
Certainly the ancient Romans were impressed by men with large penises . However, there is no such correlation between nose and virile member . In the Renaissance, Catherine de Medici’s physician Laurent Joubert (1529-1582) wrote the book Popular Errors where he refuted the lies and false clichés about health and the human body. Among other things he said: “Are all men the same size or the same caliber in all their dimensions? Surely not. The proportion of the members is not observed in all men. Some have an amazing trunk for nose, but they are flat elsewhere; and several that have flat noses are very well endowed on the main limb. “
But the most serious attempt to relate the nose to sexuality does not date back to ancient times, but to the first half of the 20th century, when rationalism generally prevailed over superstition and society had chosen science and technology as guides to it. future. In a histology book a man was quoted as being assaulted by violent sneezes every time he was in the presence of a beautiful woman. And areas of the lining of the nostrils were described with many thin-walled blood vessels that are microscopically identical to the erectile tissue of the corpora cavernosa of the penis.
