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A very prevalent notion in modern society is the idea that black men are [[BiggerIsBetterInBed better endowed than other races]]. The stereotype is [[OlderThanTheyThink a very old one, likely centuries]]. While it may initially seem like flattering depiction, it has had some UnfortunateImplications and derives from quite a checkered past.

The stereotype of black men as 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]]Unlike modern Western conceptions, the ideal Hellenic man had a ''small'' penis, to show his focus on intellect rather than sexual drives. Also unlike the modern trope about Black men, the Greeks thought this about everyone who wasn't Greek, not just Africans. The Romans, who were by their own admission a less intellectual culture than Greece, were particular targets of the "big-penis" form of Hellenic derision ("Look at Julius with his big cock! Sure, he runs the empire, but he can't ''think.''").[[/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 DefiledForever; and heaven help the mother of a ChocolateBaby...

* In the early days of his stand-up career, Creator/JeffFoxworthy 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''.

* In the film ''Film/BlackDynamite'', a modern AffectionateParody of the genre, the protagonist manages to [[GagPenis have sex with three women simultaneously, and please all of them equally.]] And [[ExaggeratedTrope 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.

* This one joke forms the basis of an entire sketch in ''{{Film/Movie 43}}''.

* ''Film/TheLastSeduction'': Bridget invokes this to her husband's (black) private investigator Harlan to distract him while she's driving the car they're in. He blows her off at first but is eventually tempted to show her, [[spoiler:taking off his seatbelt to do so.This results in his death when she intentionally crashes the car.]]

* ''Film/TheWatermelonWoman'': Tamara, who works at a video store, surreptitiously uses a customer's account so that she can rent a porn film, ''Big Bald Black Cocks'', 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.

* This is mentioned in the ''AudioPlay/DirtyPotter'' audio spoof series.

* Both played straight and subverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}''. Denzel, who is black, has a noticably 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 stereotype of black men as 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]]Unlike modern Western conceptions, the ideal Hellenic man had a ''small'' penis, to show his focus on intellect rather than sexual drives. Also unlike the modern trope about Black men, the Greeks thought this about everyone who wasn't Greek, not just Africans. The Romans, who were by their own admission a less intellectual culture than Greece, were particular targets of the "big-penis" form of Hellenic derision ("Look at Julius with his big cock! Sure, he runs the empire, but he can't ''think.''").[[/note]] it saddled the stereotypical black man with a comically-oversized phallus, just to show everyone what's ''really'' running the show. [[DistaffCounterpart 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. White women were also warned that too much unsupervised contact with a black man (up to and especially including sexual intercourse) would leave them DefiledForever; and heaven help the mother of a ChocolateBaby...

In other words, this trope has some extremely dubious origins, and continues to carry all manner of UnfortunateImplications with it. Human sexuality being what it is, the controversy surrounding this trope has only made it ''more'' [[ForbiddenFruit forbidden and thus, fetishized]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.

A very prevalent notion in modern society is the idea that black men are [[BiggerIsBetterInBed better endowed than other races]]. The stereotype is [[OlderThanTheyThink a very old one, likely centuries]]. While... ''kind of''... a flattering depiction, it has had some UnfortunateImplications and derives from quite a checkered past.

* In the film ''Film/BlackDynamite'', a modern AffectionateParody of the genre, the protagonist manages to [[GagPenis have sex with three women simultaneously, and please all of them equally.]] And to take the gag UpToEleven, 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.

* Played for ''seriously'' black humour in Creator/TomSharpe's farces of South Africa in UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra. ''Literature/RiotousAssembly'' 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 [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt 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.

* ''Series/{{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 [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything 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.

* Averted by Encyclopedia Dramatica, which refers to this trope as "The Great Black Dick Hoax" with [[VulgarHumor all of their]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice trademark poor taste]].

* DirtyOldWoman and resident {{Cloudcuckoolander}} [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior Gudrun]] from ''VideoGame/DeadInVinland'' makes it clear that she believes this, and [[AbhorrentAdmirer crudely propositions]] the African griot Cisse. He's so uncomfortable and disgusted that [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration it's treated as a]] [[StatusEffect gameplay debuff]].

* 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.

* ''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.

* This may be filed under defied exploited trope. 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?" "Half. It's black already."

-->[Everyone glares at Blanch[[note]]

-->'''Rose''': What myth?
-->'''Sophia''': You know, about black men...in the bedroom?
-->'''[[TheDitz Rose]]''': Is that a Greek myth?

In case you really want to know, [[http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/333932 a not-particularly-scientific survey]] found that "[t]he average for the African continent as a whole is a whopping 6.3 inches." This is around 14% bigger than average (the average being approximately 5.5 inches). A noticeable difference, but not an extreme one.

In case you really want to know, [[http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/333932 a not-particularly-scientific survey]] found that "[t]he average for the African continent as a whole [[SoOkayItsAverage is a whopping 6.3 inches]]." This is bigger than average (the average being approximately 5.5 inches), a quite noticeable 14% bigger.

* At one point in the Vietnam epic ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', a hooker initially refuses to sleep with an African-American man because of his so-called "Alabama blacksnake". {{Subverted}}, as the soldier in question whips out the snake in question to prove that "it ain't too God-damn beaucoup!"

* In ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', 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 'soul brothers' pack too much heat," 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 very title of ''Film/{{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 [[Film/Shaft2019 2019 sequel]] likewise references it in its {{tagline}}, which promises "More Shaft Than You Can Handle".

In case you really want to know, [[http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/333932 a not-particularly-scientific survey]] found that "[t]he average for the African continent as a whole [[SoOkayItsAverage is a whopping 6.3 inches]]." This is slightly bigger than average[[note]]the average being approximately 5.5 inches[[/note]], but not by much.

A very prevalent notion in modern society is the idea that black men are [[BiggerIsBetterInBed better endowed than other races]]. The stereotype is [[OlderThanTheyThink a very old one, likely centuries]]. While... ''kind of''... an example of the FlawlessToken, it has had some negative consequences, and derives from quite a checkered past.

A very prevalent notion in modern society is the idea that black men are [[BiggerIsBetterInBed better endowed than other races]]. The stereotype is [[OlderThanTheyThink a very old one, likely centuries]]. While... ''kind of''... an example of PositiveDiscrimination, it has had some negative consequences, and derives from quite a checkered past.

* Both played straight and subverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}''. BlackBestFriend Denzel has a noticably 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.

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': When Frasier gets into an argument with his neighbor Came Winston (who is black) over their parking spaces, Cam calls Frasier's BMW a "[[CompensatingForSomething substitute for masculinity]]" Frasier's retort about Cam's SUV:

'''Frasier:''' If mine's a substitute for masculinity, then what is yours? \\

In other words, this trope has some extremely dubious origins, and continues to carry all manner of UnfortunateImplications with it. Human sexuality being what it is, the controversy surrounding this trope has only made it ''more'' [[ForbiddenFruit forbidden and thus, fetishized]].

In other words, this trope has some extremely dubious origins, and continues to carry all manner of UnfortunateImplications with it. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.