Reminds me of an incident here in my little town on Cape Cod some years ago. There was a commuity art show at the local museum, curated by a town resident who happened to be gay/HIV positive. Needless to say, much of the show's content consisted of images of men and men together, none of which aroused any controversy (big gay community here), EXCEPT one big photograph, almost life-sized, of a young man with a significantly-bigger-than-average erection. This in a museum with numerous images of nude women and men, mind you, though none with obvious hard-ons. The little-old-lady contingent went berserk; demanded the image be removed, threatened to withdraw their support of the museum--a couple of board members even resigned. People complained that the image was "violent" and "aggressive" and "harmful to children"--though of course it was none of those things; it was just a picture of a naked guy with a big ol' stiffie, a perfectly normal, natural thing. The moral is that to much of the world, gay men are scary (all that SEX that the rest of us aren't having!), penises are scary, and gay men's penises are the scariest things of all.