The Theater of Dicks, on Instagram, consists of 107 photographs with absurdly huge penises painted in. The authors, Nick Rutherford and Beck Bennett, explain: "We're just two loveless assholes chasing a dream, who have kinda gotten misguided and found themselves making an instagram full of dicks."
You might recognize Nick Rutherford from Saturday Night Live, Dream Corps LLC, and Adam Devine's House Party.
Beck Bennett has been his comedy partner since college. They have worked together on a number of projects, including the short film "Is My Roommate Gay?" (he denies it), and Saturday Night Live. Here we see him nude in Beside Still Waters (2013).
They are both married to women, but Nick's social media is loaded down with images suggesting that he is attracted to men. Maybe as a joke.
Some of the dicks in The Theater of Dicks are merely absurdly exaggerated version of their own erect cocks.
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Sometimes Nick and Beck pretend to give each other blow jobs.
But most often the dicks are monsters, wrapping around men like a python.
Imprisoning them, beginning sexual assault while they cry out in horror.
Choking them. Depositing semen in them like an alien monster depositing eggs.
These are not objects of homoerotic desire; they depict terror and pain. Maybe they illustrate straight men's fear that gay men are sexual predators, but I think it's a fear of the penis itself. Nick and Beck perceive the very existence of other men's cocks as a threat, unmanning and destroying them. .
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