The medieval Wild Man survived into modernity as a sexualized giant

Evidence

Like other monstrous characters, the medieval Wild Man, depicted as a giant with large, exposed sexual organs, survived into modernity, yet another manifestations of the West’s “repressed corners of human desire and anxiety and fear.” — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 352

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s guiding question about the giant figure — the Wild Man as the archetype of the exposed-sexual-organ giant echoes the monstrous Muslim giant trope.