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Lili Von Shtupp: (to Bart) Tell me, schatze, is it twue what they say about the way you people are... gifted?
[sound of zipper opening]
Oh, it's twue. It's twue. It's twue, it's TWUE!
— A conversation in the dark, Blazing Saddles

A very prevalent notion in modern society is the idea that black men are better endowed than other races. Even if penis size never explicitly comes up, one might still see references to the idea that black men are automatically good lovers. The stereotype is a very old one, likely dating back centuries. While it may initially seem like a flattering depiction, it has had some Unfortunate Implications and derives from quite a checkered past.

Since the American colonial era, there has been the idea of a well-endowed, sturdily built, and rather libidinous black man. Until the late 20th century, it was commonly accepted that black men made no effort to control their sex drives, and, in some time periods and regions, a lot of nasty stuff was done to black males on the paper-thin excuse that they had posed a sexual threat to someone, often white women. (Needless to say, very little was ever offered — or required — in proof of any of these allegations.) Even in geographical spheres where race was not necessarily more determinant than legal or socioeconomic status, such as the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Caribbean, a more sympathetic but otherwise similar stereotype came to hold the black as a natural ladies man with matching dancing skills, which would influence colourful characters as the Brazilian malandro and the classical African-Cuban musician.

The stereotype of black men as inherently oversexed is, at its root, dehumanizing. These are not rational creatures like white men, it claims; these are mere animals whose sexual functions operate mechanically and instinctively like a bull in rut. Picking up on an idea found in classical Greek culture,note  it saddled the stereotypical black man with a comically-oversized phallus, just to show everyone what's really running the show. White women were also warned that too much unsupervised contact with a black man (up to and especially including sexual intercourse) would leave them Defiled Forever; and heaven help the mother of a Chocolate Baby...

As for black women, they too were defined in terms of their sexual urges — early psychologists (who'd invented the term "drapetomania" in order to frame black slaves' desire to be free as a form of mental illness) would occasionally "justify" white overseers and plantation owners' rape of slave women with the claim that black women were "hot" and therefore needed their masters' sexual control. Also like black men, this perception extended to bodily stereotypes, with black women being depicted with oversized breasts and rears, something that particularly took off in the wake of Khoikhoi woman Sarah Baartman's popularity as a freak show attraction during the 19th century. Just as black men were perceived as hypersexual and always on the edge of rape (thus needing white supremacist violence to keep them in check), black women were, too, and in many places the law believed black women simply couldn't be raped because they always wanted it. If they tried to defend themselves to prevent it, why that was just the natural violence of black people on display.

Despite the throwback to Greek concepts, those specific ideas applied to black people are, as mentioned above, Newer Than They Think and tied to certain cultural latitudes. This means some works fall in anachronism either humorously or out of genuine confusion — for instance, depicting ancient Romans making this kind of appreciations about black slaves, in opposition to those of any other race. However, you can find them in writings from the early modern era, such as William Shakespeare's depiction of the eponymous Othello, who is described unambiguously as a black man by Iago and Roderigo and as having committed the nearly criminal act of eloping with Desdemona, which they tell her father about as a thoroughly sexual act ("an old black ram is topping your white ewe"). Your mileage may vary on how Shakespeare intended the audience to view Othello, but there's no denying that these tropes were in play, making them Older Than Steam.

To make a long story short, this trope has some extremely dubious origins, and continues to carry all manner of Unfortunate Implications with it. Human sexuality being what it is, the controversy surrounding this trope has only made it more forbidden, and thus fetishized. You Have Been Warned.

Obviously a subtrope of Bigger Is Better in Bed. Also compare Where da White Women At? and Race Fetish.


Examples

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    Advertising 
  • This banned commercial from New Zealand brings up a caulk product in a black container referred to as African Style, and it's bigger than the New Zealand one. This would be suspect on its own, but then the pitchman, whose accent makes "caulk" sound like "cock", then refers to it as "the big black caulk".

    Blog 
  • Gaijin Chronicles is the blog of a black man who teaches English in a Japanese middle school. The first post recounts his dealings with his students, whose only knowledge of America comes from television, specifically their enthusiastic assumption that he has a "bigu dikku" and desire to confirm the same.

    Comic Books 

    Comedy 
  • In the early days of his stand-up career, Jeff Foxworthy told much dirtier jokes than he later became known for. One of them played on guys using "nature's coat hook" to hang a small towel and then asking their wives if they know where said towel went. Except for black men, who would instead ask about the bedspread.
  • Russell Peters has a bit where he talks about God addressing all the races. First he tells the Indian people that they will be great with computers, be able to thrive in some of the harshest conditions imaginable, and then leave those conditions to become successful anywhere in the world. They don't care about any of that and only want to know how big their penises will be. God apologetically tells them "average". Then he takes the black people aside and tells them that they are going to be mistreated and discriminated against for centuries, so he's giving them a little extra penis size to make up for it (he took it from the Indians).
  • Jaakko Teppo tells a self-admittedly dirty joke about a racist guy in Tampere who has just met two black guys on Tammerkoski bridge and is telling his friend all about it:
    "And they go on to piss off the bridge, and this one n***r says, Aw shit, man, is the water cold today, and the other one says, And the bottom's muddy too, dammit!"
  • Subverted in a routine by Ali Wong, who tells a story about the time she dated a guy with a micropenis. In an excellent example of how widespread the stereotype is, when she reveals he was a black guy there are audible gasps of shock from the audience. She even jokes that it's like seeing a homeless Asian person, and that when she told her other black male friends about it they were very concerned about the damage this would do to their "reputation".
  • Implied in Steve Martin's "I was born a poor black child" bit (the genesis of The Jerk): he explains that when he "decided to become white," he "had [his] cock shortened, and got a job as a TV weatherman."

    Films — Live-Action 
  • This is all but a requirement for black male porn actors. Interracial themed films starring tall, muscular, well-endowed black men having sex with petite white women (though casting Asian, Latina and Arabic women is not unheard of either) especially emphasize this trope. It's a pretty popular subgenre, though one that many note can produce films just brimming with Unfortunate Implications (which in itself is a huge problem in the industry too).
  • A common, common, common trope in Blaxploitation films from the 1970s. Many movies, such as Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, star a hero known for his... measurements.

  • This is one of the racist slurs Ben Chapman throws at Jackie Robinson in 42.
  • In Absolutely Anything Neil wishes for "a penis women desire". His response is "Good. Can I have it in white?".
  • In the film Airheads, three slackers have taken a radio station hostage in order to get their song played. When talking to one of the DJ's to get him to play the song, the (black) man snaps, "Would you step back, please? You're standing on my dick."
  • In the film Black Dynamite, a modern Affectionate Parody of the genre, the protagonist manages to have sex with three women simultaneously, and please all of them equally. And to take the gag to extremes, it is revealed that three or four more women were asleep next to the bed at the time, already having been pleasured. The villain's dastardly plot is also to take this away from black gentlemen through drugged booze.
  • Blazing Saddles.
    • Lili is seducing the new, black, sheriff. We hear this in the dark:
      Lili Von Shtupp: Tell me, schatze, is it twue what they say about the way you people are... gifted?
      [sound of zipper opening]
      Lili Von Shtupp: Oh, it's twue. It's twue. It's twue, it's twue!
      In the original script, this was followed by Sheriff Bart saying, "I hate to disappoint you miss, but you're sucking on my elbow."
    • In another scene:
      Charlie: They said you was hung.
      Bart: And they was right.
  • Justified Trope in Cat Run. It's thanks to a Swedish penis pump.
  • Sometimes this trope refers not so much to any specific part of the anatomy as to sexual prowess in general. In Enter the Dragon for instance, the black bruiser Williams is among the martial arts contestants offered some feminine "company" for the evening from Han's Paid Harem. He picks out four of them, and then apologizes to the rest of the girls that, um, he's "a little tired" this evening.
  • In Full Metal Jacket, a South Vietnamese Army officer brings in a prostitute to service the Marines during a lull in the battle of Hue. Eight Ball, a large black Marine, says he wants to go first, but the prostitute refuses to sleep with black servicemen because they're too "beaucoup." When Eight Ball angrily demands an explanation, Cowboy clarifies that "you black boys pack too much meat". Eight Ball than demonstrates that his "Alabama black snake" may be big, but it's not too big, and she agrees to sleep with him.
  • The Full Monty:
    • Horse is rather concerned when he learns of the plan to strip completely, because he thinks everyone will expect him to be well-endowed where he's merely ordinary. Guy, a white guy, is the one who proves to be particularly well-endowed instead.
    Gaz (upon seeing Guy's "assets" at the tryouts): Gentlemen, the lunchbox has landed.
    • Also subverts it, in that Dave asks his wife whether, were anything to happen to him, she might take up with a black feller. She answers that she "might do, yeah." He immediately goes into a funk, because everyone knows they have "great bodies and that." However, he actually is talking about their entire physiques in general and not merely their equipment, because he's very insecure about his own appearance.
  • In Get Out (2017), when Rose, a white woman, and Chris, her black boyfriend, meet one of the former's family friends, the friend asks if it's true black men are better in bed, much to the couple's discomfort. The scene is made even more awkward due to the fact that the woman's husband is sitting nearby. It's later revealed the woman and her sick husband were planning on transplanting his brain into Chris' body. Furthermore, part of the reason for the plot is because the old white people want the "physical advantages" of being young and black, which presumably include this.
  • Referenced in Gutterballs, when a character is looking over the brands offered by a condom machine.
    How about Black Knight? 'For the Big One?' That's for big black cock, that's gonna fall off me for sure.
  • Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle: Harold gets locked up in jail with a philosophical black man, who is resigned to his fate.
    Harold: I don't understand how you can be so calm about all this.
    Tarik: Look at me. I'm fat, black, can't dance, and I have two gay fathers. People have been messin' with me my whole life. I learned a long time ago that there's no sense gettin' all riled up every time a bunch of idiots give you a hard time. In the end, the universe tends to unfold as it should. Plus, I have a really large penis. That keeps me happy.
  • Horns: A female patient waiting to see the doctor along with Ig is the first person to blurt out any dirty secret reveals she's sleeping with her black golf trainer and adds gleefully that he's well-endowed. He briefly sees her memory of her going at it with him very pleasurably.
  • How To Make Love To A Negro Without Getting Tired is the actual title of a French language (though surprisingly not French, but Canadian) film from 1989. The poster for the film featured a black man lying in bed under a sheet, with the sheet covering what appears to be an upright telephone pole. Unsurprisingly, several American newspapers refused to carry it.
  • The Kentucky Fried Movie has BIG JIM SLADE! He puts other black guys to shame.
  • The Last Seduction: Bridget brilliantly invokes this to her husband's private investigator Harlan (a black man) to distract him while she's driving the car they're in. She brings it up and laughingly asks him to "show her his". When he sensibly refuses, she implies the reason he won't is because the opposite is true in his case. He eventually lets his male ego get the better of him and gives in, taking off his seatbelt to do so. This results in his death when she intentionally crashes the car.
  • In Liberty Heights, a teenager tells his friend that somebody saw the new black kid in the shower and he was huge. However, it's unknown if that is true or just gossip.
  • This one joke forms the basis of an entire sketch in Movie 43.
  • Nymphomaniac: Zigzagged. Joe goes so far as finding an interpreter so she can have sex with an African immigrant who doesn't speak a word of English. However, she doesn't do this because of the man's alleged penis size but because she finds the thought of not being able to communicate with her sex partner enticing. However, both he and his brother are well hung, which we see in detail since Joe has a threeway with them.
  • Samurai Cop. The infamous "Horny Nurse" scene involves a nurse coming onto the manly hero for no apparent reason, but then rejecting him because he's apparently not big enough for her. His black partner then chimes in that he might be big enough.
  • The very title of Shaft is a pun on this trope, drawing attention directly to its eponymous protagonist's, uh, shaft and using it to establish him as a cool blaxploitation hero. The taglines for the films are loaded with puns on this; the original film's tagline was "the mob wanted Harlem[, and] they got Shaft... up to here", Shaft in Africa said that "Shaft is stickin' it... all the way", and the 2019 sequel promised "More Shaft Than You Can Handle".
  • Tales from the Hood 2: Alluded to in "The Medium", as the robbers try pointing out that they did Cliff a favor by killing him, as he now inhabits the body of a rich white guy. His counterargument is that it doesn't outweigh the loss of his bigger dick.
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7: Discussed - Bernadine, who answers calls for William Kunstler and the other lawyers defending the seven, gets a phone call after Fred Hampton is murdered by the police:
    Bernadine: Conspiracy Office, how can I help you? (Beat) No sir, I am a white woman. (Beat) Yeah, I've slept with several in my life so far, and on balance, I'd have to say yes, it is better, and to tell you the truth, I think that's a big part of what's got you worked up.
    Weinglass: Hang up the phone.
    Bernadine: It's not even so much that it's bigger, it's just better, you know what I mean?
    Weinglass: Hang up the phone. [after she hangs up the phone]. Was that a parting gift for Bobby.
    Bernadine: No. That was just for me.
  • The Watermelon Woman: Tamara, who works at a video store, surreptitiously uses a customer's account so that she can rent a porn film, Big Bald Black Ballbusters, from her workplace without suspicion. Her boss, a black guy, meets the actual customer and assumes this means the guest is flirting with him, despite her having actually not rented the film.

    Jokes 
  • A man goes in to get a penis transplant. The doctor opens up a drawer of four-inch penises, and the man asks if there is anything bigger. The doctor opens up a drawer of six-inch penises, and again the man asks if there is anything bigger. The doctor opens up a drawer of eight-inch penises, and the man shyly asks if there is anything bigger. The doctor responds "Not in white, sir."
  • What's 12 inches long and white? Nothing!
  • A man is dating a woman named Wendy, and as a "romantic" gesture, he gets her name tattooed on his penis, but when he's flaccid, only the first W and final Y are visible. One day, while he and his girlfriend are on holiday in Jamaica, he is standing at a urinal, when a black Jamaican man walks up next to him. The man glances down and sees a W and a Y tattooed on the black man's penis. So the man says to him, "Your girlfriend's name must be Wendy, too. I see we have the same tattoo." The response comes, "No, I'm a tour guide. Mine says, 'Welcome to Jamaica. Have a nice day.'"
    • In some variants, the man tattoos his own name (Wally). In others where his name is Henry, Harry or Harvey, the inscription on the black penis is, "Hello, welcome to..." etc.
  • What's a black man's definition of "something?" When a white guy can grab his penis in both hands and still see the head. Now you tell me, ain't that something?
  • The "Five Black Guys" meme. The original image is a porn promo pic where a petite white girl (adult actress Piper Perri) is on a couch surrounded by five strapping black men and one can guess what happens next. In the most popular version of this meme, the girl is labelled "Me" and the men have labels like "Bills", "Student Loans", "Rent", etc.
  • A man tries the Surefire Penis Enlargement Therapy, which requires a) a penis, b) a string, c) a 1 kg weight, d) masochistic tendencies. After a week a friend asks him: "Does it work?". And he replies: "Half. It's turning black already."
  • As god is creating the different races, one race asks what their penis size is going to be, and god tells them "average." God then takes Africans aside, explains that they're going to have to go through a lot, so he snuck some extra penis length for them off the other race by way of compensation.

    Literature 
  • Deconstructed in the novel Eaters of the Dead, in which every culture apparently has this myth about one ethnic group or another. The Nordic women encountered by the Arabic narrator assume he'll be massively endowed; being well-traveled, he remarks that he's heard identical rumors in most countries, usually about a population that lives far away from whoever is spreading the rumor.
  • The protagonist of The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader ponders this trope while being masturbated in a movie theatre by his nymphomaniac girlfriend Yukio, all while she's staring constantly at the crotch of a black American soldier.
  • Near the end of Requiem for a Dream, Marion seeks out drugs to satisfy her addiction and encounters a black pimp, who makes out with her and forces her to perform fellatio on him. Marion's hesitation prompts this comment:
    I know it's pretty, baby, but I didn't take it out for air.
  • Played for seriously Black Comedy in Tom Sharpe's farces of South Africa in The Apartheid Era. Riotous Assembly begins with the horror evinced by Kommondant van Heerden of the Piemburg Police Force, when he realises the pillar of respectable white society, Lady Hazelstone, murdered her black cook when he refused to continue having sex with her. It becomes not only a murder case but confronts the unspeakable horror of a white woman actually ''wanting'' to have sex with a Zulu. He is further horrified when Lady Hazelstone casually confesses to both crimes - and adds that she used various drugs to enhance both the size and duration of her lover's erection, as she directly injected these into his penis, it explains his reluctance to continue the affair and her murder of him.
    • Indecent Exposure sees the Nazi-refugee Dr von Blimenstein enthusiastically assists with the therapy. In her day job as psychiatrist, she deals with the sexually repressed neuroses and paranoia of white South African women, that one day the blacks will rise and rape every white woman they can, and, well, the blecks are so big, aren't they? Her white female patients express an unhealthy obsession with the sheer size of black African penises and she uses this as the core of her shock therapy. She clinically calls this "blackcock fever". She also dealt with a case where a zookeeper with an inferiority complex chose to measure his erection against the length of a poisonous Black Mamba. This did not end well.

    Live Action TV 
  • On All in the Family, Archie asks his black neighbor George Jefferson if this is true and if a white man can increase his size. George has some fun with him by saying yes, but it comes with these terrible urges to shine shoes and carry other people's luggage.
  • The Big Bang Theory: While at a conference, Howard meets Bernadette's black ex-boyfriend Glen and immediately becomes insecure because he didn't think he'd be compared to "someone like him" and fears Bernadette will find him lacking and return to Glen (or find someone similar). Later, when Penny's had enough of the conference, Glen offers to take her home and Leonard panics at the thought. (Actual size doesn't come up, but it definitely plays into the "black men as better lovers" elements).
  • In Brain Games: On the Road, host Chuck Nice challenges Brayton and Amy to come up with two different words by filling in the missing letter. In one round, the word is "SH_FT", and Brayton writes "A" in the blank while Amy writes "I". They both get a point for uniqueness, and Chuck tells Brayton, "As a Black man, I like your choice."
  • A plot point in the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode "The Surrogate", where Richard Lewis dates a black woman, and worries that he won't be able to satisfy her because of this trope. His friend, Larry asks a biracial woman about this, who tells him that there's no difference.
  • A Different World. While arguing with several white students from a rival college, Ron taunts them about Hillman's superiority in football and other sports, "but I'll leave out that physical endowment thing, since I know how sensitive y'all are."
  • Israeli satire show Eretz Nehederet once parodied the blatant racism expressed by MK Miri Regev, who compared Sudanese refugees to cancer, in a skit predicting that she would eventually come to support them after forcefully converting them to Judaism and moving them to settle in the West Bank. When asked how she plans to convert so many of them, she answered, "With a machete."
  • Frasier: When Frasier gets into an argument with his neighbor Cam Winston (who is black) over their parking spaces, Cam calls Frasier's BMW a "substitute for masculinity" Frasier's retort about Cam's SUV:
    Frasier: If mine's a substitute for masculinity, then what is yours?
    Cam: Bigger!
  • Australian comedy series Full Frontal did a parody of a Levi's ad in which a man has to hand over his jeans to bribe a Jamaican dockworker to let him stow away on a ship. In the parody the Jamaican isn't impressed with what he sees when the white guy takes off his pants, so unzips his own in response. Cue loud thump as the implied Biggus Dickus hits the ground.
  • Of all places, The Golden Girls addresses this in an episode where Dorothy's youngest son gets engaged to an older black woman. Dorothy and co. meet up with her future in-laws and Sophia meekly asks "Is it...true what they say about black men in bed?" Before Dorothy can admonish her for it...
    Blanche: Oh yes; very true!
    [Everyone glares at Blanch]
    Blanche: ...Or, so I've heard.
    • Dorothy then admonishes her mother for believing a stereotype, to which one of the in-laws replies, "Call it what you want, honey. I'm just glad it's true."
    • Mentioned again in another episode when Sophia mentions to Rose about having an elderly black male friend, but never thought of him romantically even though she always wondered if "that particular myth" was true.
      Rose: What myth?
      Sophia: You know, about black men...in the bedroom?
      Rose: Is that a Greek myth?
  • Impractical Jokers: In Joe's presentation titled "Live Long and Die Happy", one of the slides the Jokers put was this chart indicating vitamin D levels of test groups.
  • This Candid Camera Prank from Just for Laughs: Gags.
  • Key & Peele:
    • The sketch "Sex with Black Guys" has the duo at a bar overhearing two white women talking about how black men must be better in bed, among other stereotypes. The two guys alternate between flattered by their assumptions and very appalled.
    White Woman 1: Way bigger penises, am I right?
    (Key and Peele brofist)
    White Woman 2: I guess that's because of Africa?
    (Key and Peele look miffed)
    • The trope comes up again in "Biracial Penis". Peele's character is biracial, and while he looks black he claims all the white has gone to his penis. Because of this he worries he's going to disappoint his girlfriend Amy, but Keegan assures him she won't mind because she's white and won't know the difference. As it turns out, Amy is biracial too and has a black vagina.
  • On Israeli comedy miniseries Lost in Africa there's a minor character saying he goes to Africa frequently, and mentions that considering what "those darkies are packing" one would assume the local women are, um, built to accommodate them, but they're actually normal, if not tighter.
  • Lucifer. A beautiful masseuse tells Amenadiel to get naked and lie under the handtowel she's holding.
  • MADtv: Parodied in the "Flashlight" sketch, where two white guys whose car breaks down try to get a flashlight to work that requires shaking it for a while in a very masturbatory fashion. When they're interrupted by two cops (one black, one Asian) who think they just ran into a bunch of gays trying to get their groove on, the black cop whips out an enormous flashlight that impresses the two white guys. In what can be considered the inverse ethnic stereotype, the Asian cop then presents a rechargeable penlight.
  • Saturday Night Live: In Adele's episode there was a skit where two white women promotes tourism to Africa, using many sexual innuendos.
  • Becomes a minor plot point in Sirens (UK) where Ash is coming onto the black cop Ryan. Ryan is quite upset about this stereotype. He says that yeah, while some black guys play up this angle it's still insulting, and turns Ash down.
  • Whose Line Is It Anyway?: During one "Scenes From a Hat" segment titles "Spells that Harry Potter tries when he thinks no one is watching" Wayne steps up and says "Erectus Giganticus!". He comes back a moment later and says "Erectus Blackmanicus!"

    Music 
  • A ton of rap lyrics are about the singer's penis, and most male rappers are black.
  • This is even referenced in an old jazz song, All That Meat and No Potatoes sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.
  • "Gigantic" by The Pixies, a song about "a big black mass with a hunk of love".
  • A very partially-related example: The original version of "Too Close" by Next has the men behaving in a more sexual manner in the music video (they are often shirtless, for a start) than in the music video of the cover by Blue.
  • The song "J'suis blanc" ("I'm white"), by black French rapper Kamini, tells the story of how being magically turned white by God changes his life. The lyrics reference some stereotypes about black people, and he does mention that's he's now ashamed by the size of his manhood (in the music video, he can be seen looking into his pants and starting to cry).

    Tabletop Games 
  • Referenced in Cards Against Humanity with cards like "a big, black dick" and "a bigger, blacker dick". There's even "the biggest, blackest dick" hidden in the box cover of "The Bigger, Blacker Box" pack, "A dick so big and black that it is a problematic stereotype" hidden under the middle row of the redesigned BBB, and "the even biggest, blackerest dick" in the 69-inch-long "Please do not buy this product." box.
  • Invoked and subverted in the first version of F.A.T.A.L.: There's a magical armor that turns you into a stereotypical black guy. Its very disgusting and racist effects include that "If the wearer is male, then those around him are 80% likely to believe that his manhood has increased, though it has not."

    Theatre 

    Video Games 

    Webcomics 
  • Mentioned but averted in Cheer by Forview, an NSFW webcomic. Two girls are having sex with a boy whose penis is big enough to avert Bigger Is Better in Bed (i.e., it's big enough to cause them discomfort if they aren't careful), and one of them expresses her surprise that a white boy has one so big.
  • Mentioned in The Rant of Leftover Soup; Tailsteak caught some flak for giving the black character Wallace a notably large penis, but he confessed it was because Wallace was his Marty Stu, not because of his race. Tailsteak bases characters on various aspects of his own personality (the lead characters being his Freudian Trio, for example) and Wallace is his perfected version of himself. He also provided a description of why this trope is dubious:
    The whole black-guy-with-big-dick stereotype is crude and dehumanizing, it is othering in the highest degree, especially in (ugh) mainstream porn. As with the satyrs of old, the large penis is generally presented as something bestial, something indicative of animal urges and unthinking carnal excess.
    But of course, we don't live in ancient Greece. In modern Western culture, large penises are lauded and sought-after, connoting bravery and strength. In the aforementioned porn, this leads to a strange dichotomy, in which well-hung black men are somehow simultaneously brutal savages and superior Ubermenschen.
  • Niels has a thing for black people, of all genders. At least once his boyfriend Duncan has claimed to have the bigger dick.

    Web Original 
  • Averted by Encyclopedia Dramatica, which refers to this trope as "The Great Black Dick Hoax" with all of their trademark poor taste.
  • An article on the website Your Tango (which was originally published on a porn site) addresses the racist baggage involved in this trope and expresses disgust with people who think it's OK to ask someone about their Black boyfriend's genitals.

    Websites 

    Western Animation 
  • American Dad! subverts it on at least two occasions:
    • In "Finances With Wolves", Klaus's mind has been placed in the body of a black man, and he is shown browsing condoms. He passes up the small, medium, and large sizes and grabs a garbage bag instead... which he fills with boxes of medium-sized condoms.
    • In "Virtual In-Stanity", Dick's Digital Avatar is a huge black man, and at the end of the episode he is shown buying the smallest brand of condom available, while worrying that they may be too large.
    • "Virtual In-Stanity" also contains a straight example. While introducing Phyllis (Stan's avatar) to the class, Principal Lewis asks that they give her a warm welcome, which also happens to be the name of a sexual position he invented. He begins to explain the technique, but stops himself because "y'all ain't long enough".
  • The Animated Adaptation of Black Dynamite is even worse than the film. In the pilot, BD has a censor bar hanging down to his knees. A black pornstar appearing in a later episode has a 22 inch monster that can kick up wind when he spins it around.
  • Both played straight and subverted in Brickleberry. Denzel, who is black, has a noticeably large penis, but NOT the biggest one on the show, or even the main cast. The biggest belonged to the rapist convict Meat Hammer, and the biggest on the cast is ex-porn star turned park ranger Woody Johnson.
  • The Dating Guy sort of invokes this. One episode has the gang going into the rainforest and coming across a black tribe in South America. Samantha, the girl, is to be wed to the man who has the largest penis; it's so large, it unrolls like a fire hose and the end cannot be seen. However, it never mentions whether Woody, the black guy, has a large penis or not. (He does get the most action out of the guys, though.)
  • Family Guy:
    • Played with when Peter, Joe and Quagmire are in Washington D.C and are sightseeing for a while. Quagmire later says this:
    Quagmire: Wow, those are all the monuments I read about in school! There's the Washington Monument… *camera pans to the eponymous monument* And there's the Obama Monument. *camera pans to a larger, black version of the monument positioned right next to the Washington Monument*.
    • Another time, after an abstinence-only group comes through and gets all of Meg's classmates to take a virginity pledge, they circumvent the rule by having ear-sex (don't think too hard about it). While the evening news anchors are reporting this, they claim that the old-catchphrase has been changed to, "Once you go black, you go deaf."
    • Also invoked with recurring minor character Jerome, an ex-boyfriend of Lois. In his debut episode, she makes several Freudian Slips relating to his genitalia size, and in another, while playing softball, he says he has to "adjust himself", then rubs around his ankle.
    Peter: Well, you dating Jerome, that's just a lot to take in...
    Peter: OH, COME ON, THOSE COMMENTS AREN'T HELPING!!
  • In the [adult swim] show Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, Thomas Jefferson surgically replaces his penis with that of a black man. Why? So he can woo the female slaves on his plantation.
  • Referring again to the "prowess" version: In Minoriteam, the bad guys trick black superhero Fasto into a room full of Asian hookers, sure that he'll be distracted for hours. But seconds later, he's pleasured them all into unconsciousness and is ready to resume fighting the bad guys. (He has super-speed, after all.)
  • Subverted again on The Simpsons. Marge has become wealthy and successful after opening up a women's gym, and Homer has heard from some other men there that these successful women will ditch him in favor of younger, more attractive men. Marge is talking with two other women at a business convention, and one of them suggests getting "a big black one." Homer fears the worst, but then it's revealed that they were talking about purses.
  • An episode of South Park has Stan's mom develop an interest in the Shake-Weight, an exercise tool notorious in real life for requiring the user to make motions that look suspiciously like a handjob. The episode naturally plays the Freud Was Right implications for all they're worth, including revealing that there's actually a different model of the Shake-Weight which is black instead of white, and appears to be about twice the size, with the woman holding it clearly having trouble containing her, er... enjoyment.

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