History Main / BlackIsBiggerInBed

-->'''Tarik:''' Look at me. I'm fat, black, can't dance, and I [[HasTwoMommies 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.

* 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, "[[MathematiciansAnswer With a]] [[CircumcisionAngst machete.]]"

* ''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.]]

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

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* Played for [[BlackComedy ''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.

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

* Subverted twice in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':

Since the 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, [[TheDeepSouth 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.)

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* In ''ComicBook/TheBoys'', [[ReallyGetsAround Queen Maeve]] insults [[ThoseWackyNazis Stormfront]] with this when he berates her for having a ChocolateBaby while they were together.
* In ''ComicBook/LesInnommables'', a black guy is refused entry into an Asian brothel because the girls are afraid he's far too large for them.

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* ''[[Blog/GaijinSmash 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.
* A Brazilian satirical Website/{{Tumblr}} [[SubvertedKidsShow seeing perverted content]] on local comic ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' makes these jokes on the TokenBlack, Jeremiah. And of course the creator of the tumblr and the readers laughed a lot at [[http://porramauricio.tumblr.com/post/539352114/porra-mau-porra-pfss-jere-nao-consigo this]]...

* ''Webcomic/{{Niels}}'' has a thing for black people, of both genders. At least once his boyfriend Duncan has claimed to have the bigger dick.

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->'''White She-Devil:''' Once you've had Undercover Brother, there is no other.\\
'''Conspiracy Brother:''' Naw. It's "once you go black, you don't go back."
-->-- ''Film/UndercoverBrother''

* In ''Film/LibertyHeights'', 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.
* ''Film/TheFullMonty'':
** 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.

* JustifiedTrope in ''Film/CatRun''. It's thanks to a Swedish penis pump.

* Near the end of ''Literature/RequiemForADream'', 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''.

* ''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/HowToMakeLoveToANegroWithoutGettingTired'' 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.
* ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' has BIG JIM SLADE! He puts ''other'' black guys to shame.
* 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 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.

* ''Film/SamuraiCop''. 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 [[BiggerIsBetterInBed not big enough for her]]. His black partner then chimes in that ''he'' might be big enough.
* ''Film/{{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 [[BiggerIsBetterInBed he's well-endowed]]. He briefly sees her memory of [[TheImmodestOrgasm her going at it with him very pleasurably]].

* In the film ''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."

* This is one of the racist slurs Ben Chapman throws at UsefulNotes/JackieRobinson in ''Film/FortyTwo''.

* In ''Film/AbsolutelyAnything'' Neil wishes for "a penis women desire". His response is "Good. Can I have it in white?".

* Creator/RussellPeters 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. [[AllMenArePerverts 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).
* [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness 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''.

* Referenced in ''TabletopGame/CardsAgainstHumanity'' with cards like "a big, black dick" and "a bigger, blacker dick". [[spoiler:There's even "[[RuleOfThree 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 "[[SerialEscalation the even biggest, blackerest dick]]" in the 69-inch-long "Please do not buy this product." box.]]

* ''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.

* ''Film/{{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 friend ''are'' well hung, which we [[MaleFrontalNudity see in detail]] since Joe has [[AThreesomeIsHot a threeway with them]].

* ''Film/{{Nymphomaniac}}'': Teased with but in the end {{averted|Trope}}. 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 supposed penis size but because she finds the thought of not being able to communicate with her sex partner enticing.

* 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 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.

* In ''ComicBook/LesInnommables'', a black guy is refused entry into an Asian brothel because the girls are afraid he's far too large for them.

* ''The Ninja'' by Eric Van Lustbader. The protagonist 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.

* Becomes a minor plot point in ''Series/SirensUK'' 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.

* A plot point in the ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'' 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.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E88FE8q30E This]] CandidCameraPrank from ''Just for Laughs Gags''.
* ''Series/ADifferentWorld''. 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."
* Australian comedy series ''Series/FullFrontal'' 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 [[BiggerIsBetterInBed Biggus Dickus]] hits the ground.
* 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.
* 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, "[[MathematiciansAnswer With a]] [[CircumcisionAngst machete.]]"

* On ''Series/AllInTheFamily'', Archie asks his black neighbor [[Series/TheJeffersons 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.
* ''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.

* ''Series/{{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 "[[CompensatingForSomething substitute for masculinity]]" Frasier's retort about Cam's SUV:
-->'''Frasier:''' If mine's a substitute for masculinity, then what is yours? \\
'''Cam:''' Bigger!

* In ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', the New Kid is abducted by aliens and is about to be [[AnalProbing probed]]. The first probe is white and the New Kid manages to break pretty easily. The aliens then send a larger probe that's black and proves to be more difficult to break out of.

* In the Creator/AdultSwim show ''WesternAnimation/MaryShelleysFrankenhole'', UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson [[RefugeInAudacity surgically replaces his penis with that of a black man]]. Why? So he can woo the female slaves on his plantation.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheDatingGuy'' 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.)

* Subverted again on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. 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.

* The AnimatedAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BlackDynamite'' 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 ''WesternAnimation/{{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.

[[DistaffCounterpart As for]] [[BlackJezebelStereotype 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 sterotypes, 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.

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]]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...

[[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. Also like black men, this perception extended to bodily sterotypes, 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.

* 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 [[BiggerIsBetterInBed Biggus Dickus]] hits the ground.

Since the 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, [[TheDeepSouth 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).