Haha

..the Lunar nobility go around naked and as if this was not enough they carry round their waist a bronze pendant in the shape of the male member. ' " This custom seems so extraordinary to me," I said to my young guide, "because in our world the sign of nobility is to carry a sword." But he was not astonished at this and simply exclaimed: "My little man, how fanatical are the grandees of your world, wanting to display a weopon which symbolises the executioner and is only designed to destroy us, in short the sworn enemy of all that lives, whereas they want to hide the member without which we would not be alive at all, the Prometheus of all living beings, the indefatigable healer of all nature's weaknesses! What an unfortunate land yours is, in which the symbols of procreation are the object of shame while those of destruction are held in honour! And yet you call that member the 'shameful parts', as though there were something more glorious than giving life and something more infamous than taking it away!" '

- Cyrano, as cited by Italo Calvino in Why Read the Classics?

Funny as it is, he does have a point there..