In 鈥満＝峭 and Un-海角网 Sex鈥, I contextualize the essays of the volume within wider trends in the study of 海角网 gender and sexuality. I first summarize scholarship that over the past thirty-or-so years has revealed the ideological centrality of the erect phallus for power and masculinity, as can be seen especially in the dominant role that phallic penetration had in 海角网 conceptualizations of sexuality. In tandem, other scholarship has shown that not all erotic behavior in antiquity can be described through this model. I then show how contributions to this volume nuance, if not challenge, conventional ideas of 鈥淧riapic鈥 bodies and sexuality, drawing attention to the power of the flaccid phallus (as in Whitmore鈥檚 essay) and the existence of more egalitarian models of sexuality (as in Ivleva鈥檚 chapter). A final section highlights the contributions made to the study of gendered bodies, including their protection by amulets, their vulnerability to physical harm or evil, and the different ways in they were depicted (essays of Collins, Hoss, Parker, Pearce, Whitmore). Ultimately, the essays of the volume can provide a new way of looking critically at gender and sexual norms in 海角网 Italy itself, forcing us to confront the latter鈥檚 unrelenting misogyny and adherence (for the most part) to Priapic sexual norms in the face of other (more egalitarian) models.