If there's fetal exposure to estrogen, that can have abnormal effects on the phallus—it could feminize the phallus.
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K., so the burrito is obviously a phallus, a human phallus—it's simultaneously taboo, like cannibalism, and yet it's something that has to enter your body.
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"Stories of Bhutan's engagement with the phallus shed light on traditions and lifestyle that make Bhutan one of the happiest places on earth," Karma Choden wrote in the 2014 book "Phallus: Crazy Wisdom from Bhutan," which was published here and claims to be the first scholarly effort to document the ubiquity of the phallus.
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The title of that show, "Being and Having," was a play on Jacques Lacan's idea that men have the phallus, while women, as the embodiment of erotic desire in art, are the phallus.
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We want to present the phallus as something silly, abject.
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Her hand clasps a phallus adorned with Ming dynasty porcelain motifs.
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Lobesa Journal LOBESA, Bhutan — For centuries, Bhutan has celebrated the phallus.
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Some things just made you laugh (a silver phallus keychain, $325).
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Leary then pointed at a phallus strapped to one of the women.
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In another, light-skinned, phallus-shaped male hunters track down female prey.
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In 2004, there was another book called The Phallus Palace by Dean Kotula.
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Then, Vidal whips out Romeo, a $22 realistic phallus with a suction cup.
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Almost too literal, the sculpture represents a phallus destroying a symbol of machismo.
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Then I saw the tiny hook, curved and pointed, like a golden phallus.
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As an orchestra plays Wagner, the women fall to worshipping a giant phallus.
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The scientific name for the plant is Amorphophallus titanum, which means misshapen giant phallus.
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When Mars is retracing its steps in the heavens, that phallus may fall flaccid.
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I thought of Robert Mapplethorpe's famous portrait of Louise Bourgeois cradling a stone phallus.
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When he gets to the bottom level—"a yearning for the absent phallus," etc.
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In short, the phallus defines the world, and for millennia it has defined sex.
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He does not have the phallus—perhaps he never did—and now everyone knows.
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Everything — a spear, a tree, an elephant tusk, the man's head — is a phallus.
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"The Divine Madman," he said, "has much more to offer than just a phallus."
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I remember Mia's breasts were swollen in the photo above an upwardly angled phallus.
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It's a miserable compromise that adds a bouncy white phallus to your otherwise sleek iPhone.
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And thus I was utterly unprepared for the golden brown phallus that I was served.
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Homo erectus seemed to value stones resembling things like a phallus and a fertile woman.
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On one level, it does feature the return of a character bearing his signature phallus mask.
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He then incorporated the starchy golden phallus into his shooting-an-arrow celebration, to thunderous applause.
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While weaving thread one afternoon, post-trauma, Jeanne is visited by a small, phallus-shaped imp.
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"The phallus, the erect penis, and the ability to 'perform' connects to being virile," he explained.
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If we want phony heroism, we have Captain America: Armageddon Phallus and its universe of sequels.
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More in your face is Spero's "Phallus Bomb" (220), an orange-hued missile-prick pointed skyward.
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Your Supreme T-shirt has an image of the Empire State Building transformed into a phallus.
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His drawings are peppered with male genitalia, but each phallus is inundated with art world decorum.
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And so help me God, if anybody gets me anything phallus shaped, I will not be happy.
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The shelves of a separate room are filled with phallus shaped toys, handcuffs, and flesh-colored molds.
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Unmani: All wounds, collective and personal, can be held in the yoni and healed with the phallus.
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The Bat-phallus was revealed in Damned #1, the first issue from DC's mature Black Label imprint.
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The maypole symbolizes the phallus, and the practice of dancing around the pole celebrates the earth's fertility.
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At one point, he feigns masturbating a giant phallus, then hoists an imaginary breast and licks it.
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Complaints about poor outcomes include suggestions that the resulting phallus isn't "realistic" or offers limited sexual performance.
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Mars is symbolized by the phallus; when Mars is retrograde, expect some flaccid phalluses in your life.
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Talking to Fast Company, the duo discussed the phallus-shaped hurdles that stood between them and their goal.
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Zap | Each condom, now resting on a metal phallus, is jolted with electricity to ensure it's hole-free.
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If you've been longing to own a Faraday cage for your phallus, this innovative startup has you covered.
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If only they had a phallus — the genital responsible for driving — the world would be a safer place.
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But, this absolutely enormous phallus will have a similar fate to that of its New York City counterpart.
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The only problem is that it looks less like a snail and more like, uh, an engorged phallus.
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It includes, among many, many other things, a giant phallus made from chicken wire, on a sand dune.
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Thanos looks like a wizened hunk of clay or, as one Twitter user pointed out, a computer-generated phallus.
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Sketched out on a map, her course almost perfectly resembled the outline of an erect phallus—balls and all.
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"In essence, the phallus represents the center of the male ego, and not a celebration of sex," she writes.
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There's a palpable sexual dynamic; hell, what is the lighthouse itself but a white phallus towering over all we see?
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The fishermen later erected a shrine and a phallus on the cliffs of the village to satisfy the virgin's spirit.
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The exhibition ranges beyond food to explore other pleasures of the flesh, as in a collection of Roman phallus pendants.
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The consensus seems to be that it means "man of ability", although a persistent minority translate it as "big phallus".
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Yes, there are a lot of penises; there are also, however, plenty of works with nary a phallus in sight.
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Wardle, who lives in the UK, recently decided to undergo a lengthy process where doctors built him a functioning phallus.
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Babe Ruth's phallus (LW: NR) Did you know that the Sultan of Swat also was the King Kong of Dong?
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The only explosions these rings produce come out of a phallus, not a garbage can, and they're entirely for pleasure.
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So it makes sense that we're seeking out masturbatory experiences that are more tailored than your average stand-in phallus.
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With multiple limbs, udder-like breasts, a phallus, and bulging masses of flesh, this wild, headless creature exhibits a carnal force.
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The building was actually completed about a month ago and managed to slip under the radar of the world's phallus-spotters.
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After having fun with foreplay, lube up the phallus properly (it can be hot to have the receiving partner do it).
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"Freud could say something about this statue, it looks so much like a phallus," one protester said in a Facebook post.
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"Here's your horror movie!" the direction screams, as the alien's tail creeps between the couple's naked legs, looking like a prehensile phallus.
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You're damn right it's exclusive: lesbians have a right to say no to the phallus, no matter how it's concealed or revealed.
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They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, but is it also the way to his flaccid phallus?
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We see extensions and bodily residue – an extra-long tongue, a fulsome drop of blue liquid, a throbbing red phallus-like object.
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Other members appear on pendants, including one from a Roman villa near Sudbrooke and a "fist and phallus" pendant carved from bone.
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Photo: Ross D. Franklin (AP)Yet again, U.S. armed forces have managed to trace the vague outline of a phallus in the clouds.
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Look at the size of it compared to the nearby beach towels and parasols—the presumed phallus is larger than a beach chair.
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And though the cleaned, dried, and stretched bovine phallus was meant to be used as an animal whip, it sparked something in him.
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In August, archaeologists also unearthed in an adjacent room of the same house a fresco of the fertility god Priapus weighing a phallus.
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This is exemplified in "Mi Vida Loca" (My Crazy Life) (10403), a large painting depicting a monumental phallus made entirely out of bricks.
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Thus, as we ascended to the divine madman's temple, we were surrounded by shops selling phallus curios of varying sizes, including standing statues.
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"For most people, the phallus represented a good luck symbol, serving an apotropaic function — warding off bad fortune," Lee told Hyperallergic over email.
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A few blocks off Vegas Strip, in the shadow of the giant gold phallus that is the Trump Hotel, sits the Erotic Heritage Museum.
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My favorite is "Tree Nob 2," in which an expressively sculpted white plaster phallus rises like a mushroom from a small chunk of wood.
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One advertorial for an erectile dysfunction supplement features the image of a human hand holding what looks like a phallus emerging from a shell.
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Upon further reflection, it becomes apparent that the strategic placement of the gauzy curtains is meant to evoke a vagina encasing the dildo/phallus.
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Yet behind him is a man grabbing his own phantom phallus while leering at us, implicating the viewer as witness to his own fantasy.
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A large, pink, phallic-shaped mikoshi is paraded through the streets during Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) on April 1 in Kawasaki, Japan.
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LH: Symbols such as the mandorla and the lingam—the phallus—allow for a more abstract' universal conversation about things that can be very personal.
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A large pink phallic-shaped mikoshi is paraded through the streets during Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) on April 1 in Kawasaki, Japan.
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On a subconscious level, the scrawled outline of a phallus is instinctively as amusing to me as it is a symbol of threateningly unchecked masculinity.
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A few hours before the first service of his Sydney pop up, the most influential chef in the world was brandishing a large green phallus.
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Like other scholars, he argues that the phallus symbol can more likely be traced to pre-Buddhist pagan rituals than to the Divine Madman's legend.
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In an interview on Andy Cohen Live, Jason Derulo confirmed the host's speculation that his significant phallus was edited out of upcoming nightmare fodder Cats.
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He collected erotic walking sticks that essentially allow their owners to caress flesh with every step — whether the smooth female figure or a single phallus.
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Click here to view original GIFCredit: Marvin AltamiaPerhaps most excitingly, for the first time, they spotted the dark, slobbery phallus dwelling inside the giant shipworm shell.
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She dutifully suggested that women's liberation came from a neurotic fixation on the phallus, as any psychology student would, but I don't think she believed it.
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Sure it's monolithic, carved out of glass and marble, the kind of phallus Ayn Rand would have loved, but that could describe half of Midtown Manhattan.
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It's a world where food must be organic and locally produced; ghost bikes proliferate; and a strap-on must never, ever, intentionally resemble a male phallus.
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In truth, it wasn't actually a phallus, but an indigenous Australian fruit, aptly named monstera deliciosa, that had to be aged in newspaper before becoming edible.
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Today, as in the before time, we dance around the phallus of the God as represented by the maypole symbolically held in a womb of Earth.
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The iron phallus she created is enshrined in Kawasaki, and many sex workers leave offerings and prayers there to protect them in their line of work.
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Like me, these out-of-towners found themselves drawn to the gaudy, sky-scraping phallus that became a somewhat unlikely locus of world power on November 9.
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Most notable was their "Dickini" top—Namilia's most recognizable piece to date—a bra in which the testicles serve as a cup and the phallus as straps.
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But, a mere matter of days after the phallus made its debut on the street, the mural was painted over at the request of the building's landlord.
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Sometimes they're a joke, like the photos snapped by a bored Subway worker in Ohio, who put his phallus on a footlong and was fired for it.
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In the corpse flower, the volatile odor is dispersed by the heat the flower generates as the phallus-like bloom emerges, attracting carrion beetles and similar connoisseurs.
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In Anna's paintings, the phallus is a tool with which cis men oppress others and ruin the environment, while the heroes of hotness are queer and loving.
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Ditto for Bruce Weber's 21965 Calvin Klein underwear ad featuring a briefs-clad Tom Hintnaus silhouetted against a white adobe structure in the shape of a phallus.
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The decision came after people complained that the People's Daily Headquarters looked like a phallus, and the design for the new Beijing airport looked like a giant vulva.
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To help you add some much-needed girth to your vocabulary, we've trawled the Internet for as many random terms for the British phallus as we could find.
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"Tube-like" is one delicate way to put it, "flying carrot" is another, but let's go ahead and call a spade a spade — and a fuselage a phallus.
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It seems to be viewed with horrified fascination in "White Nob" (2013) by Sarah Lucas, a monstrous, snowy white plaster sculpture of an erect phallus standing 43½ inches.
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So it makes sense that when the series explored male nudity, it didn't opt for the phallus of a Calvin Klein model who had a walk-on role.
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The show's first artwork puts you on alert: "Roompiercer With Tool" might be described as a phallus of two different skin tones hanging from a sharp, shiny spike.
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On Christmas Eve, artist Carolina Falkholt completed a mural of a massive phallus on the building at 20173 Broome Street, intending to stir broad discussions about gender and sexuality.
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Pilgrims trek through treacherous mountain passes to the shrine, where devotees worship a phallus-shaped ice stalagmite seen as a symbol of Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction.
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As I walked past yet another sign warning me of "potentially sensitive" material, I saw a gaggle of teenagers nonchalantly sketching an installation that prominently features a red phallus.
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This not-so-subtle phallus stops Willie cold; he's speechless and unable to sleep with Sue, despite her laying half-naked in front of him and egging him on.
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In Central India, a tribe known as the Baigas have long harvested a type of mushroom called pihiri, or Phallus rubicundus, from the forest as both food and medicine.
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The reference is to Philip Guston, specifically his satirical caricatures of Richard Nixon, in which he drew the 37th president as a phallus and his cheeks as drooping testicles.
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Lucas thrives on such potty humor; it's her capricious stage for the dismantling of our phallus-obsessed culture that still subconsciously runs on the Oedipal conjectures of Freudian psychoanalysis.
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To add a little fetishistic flavor, Dani Tull included a totem of a nine-foot phallus, while Jack Bangerter hid in the theater's plants various watercolors of people masturbating.
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Similarly, Yayoi Kusama's tentacles or Los Carpinteros's oversized copper rusted nails didn't scream "phallus!" but their slightly elongated forms and surprisingly delicate curves gave both installations an erotic whisper.
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The phallus — whose depiction in Western art has been one of the most persistent taboos since the end of the Classical era — is a ubiquitous form in her work.
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When hyenas greet each other, they do so by sniffing each other's erect penises (pseudo or not), so the pseudo-phallus could have evolved to serve a social role.
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Would he have slunk to his closet and whipped out a big ass box of vintage '87 Twinkies, expecting me to eat the radioactive, cream-filled phallus cakes whole?
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There he is, lingering with a saucy grin as he gestures towards his comically oversized phallus, then suddenly turning all serious and asking why you never return his texts.
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You don't need Jacques Lacan to tell you that the signifier is always a replacement for the potency of an absent phallus; just go anywhere in Chicago, and look upwards.
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His group Voina (War) started in 2007 and gained attention in 2010 by painting a huge phallus on a drawbridge near offices of Russia's FSB security service in St Petersburg.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Heracles is famous for his sexual prowess, but one nude statue of him in a park in France will now largely go phallus-free.
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The phallus, representing virility and fertility, was associated with deities such as Bacchus and Priapus — the latter identified by a not-so-subtle shaft — and often appeared with evil eyes.
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You have two weeks to sign it before the phallus disappears, a period within which we may probably expect to see more large-scale, sexual organs pop up around the region.
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So, like any respectable journalist, I asked the internet to come forward with their stories of workplace phallus-flogging and bean-flicking, half-expecting not a single soul to come forward.
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For some reason, the guy above didn't immediately skip me but instead started drawing a phallus on the screen with "9 inch" written next to it before he even said hello.
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Instead, her clitoris elongates out of her body, creating a pseudo-penis (also called a pseudo-phallus) that can become fully erect and is the same length as the male's penis.
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Speaking to the BBC, renowned anthropologist and author of The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris, said that by flipping the finger, you're saying "this is a phallus" and offering it to the recipient.
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In the meantime, Will Ferrell, whose family are ardent supporters of the arts, made an entrance dressed as a Heidi-esque figure accompanied by a group of teenage boys in phallus costumes.
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The temptation in postulating the idea of a female gaze is to flip that coin, to embrace its opposite by reducing men to — yes, you've guessed it — the sign of a phallus.
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According the English language publication The Local, park staff were soon alerted to the frosty phallus after a number of people found it offensive, and the authorities decided to have it removed.
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Her own son, jug-eared and decaying, is living in an inverted Oedipal nightmare: He needs his mother to die, so he can assume the long-reigning potency of the paternal phallus.
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In "Point to the Eye" (1931-53) a narrow truncheon, a stand-in for a phallus, aims its sharp end at a miniaturized head that could itself be a symbolic sex organ.
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While we did learn about safer sex — including a day we all passed around the same, dry, condom to roll over a wooden phallus — it was all in a heterosexual, cisgender context.
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Another wall carving, rendered in high relief, arrived from the Roman city walls of Lincoln at East Bight, while one from Long Bennington shows a figure mounted on a two-legged phallus.
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In Japan, photographer B.A. Van Sise captures the notorious "Festival of the Steel Phallus," and in El Salvador, Nadia Shira Cohen reports on the realities of childbirth in the small Central American nation.
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In a curious Freudian twist, the distending nose also becomes a functional phallus, enabling Pic — in the film's most stomach-turning scene — to orally rape his female master when her inquisitions become abusive.
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A Japanese billionaire who's paying Elon Musk to fly him around the Moon, assuming all goes to plan with SpaceX's giant metal phallus, has bought himself a rather different ride in the meanwhile.
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Now a museum, it's emblazoned with the name of its founder, Peggy Guggenheim, who placed outside it a statue of a horseman with a conspicuous phallus (detachable in the event of ecclesiastical visits).
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The boy angel in "Dream of Saint Joseph," aside from not being a woman as is typically portrayed in this scene, is clenching his covering cloth as if it were an extended phallus.
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Debbi Becker is tackling homelessness with her art, while Virginia Erdie's phallus-shaped sculpture Warhead depicts "masculine" territorial wars that devastate the planet, with the penis shrouded in bullet casings and painted in camouflage.
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Early April in Kawasaki, Japan, is set aside for the Kanamara Matsuri, or the festival of the steel phallus, in which a hundred thousand revelers come here to celebrate one thing: the male organ.
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A darkened, grimacing Kali-esque warrior rides atop a peacock, whose head — woven in indigo, charcoal black, and forest green — bears a resemblance to the head of a phallus at the moment of ejaculation.
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With this, she grinds a couple of garlic cloves until they go nearly clear, before adding a handful of emerald-like pistachios, crunching them up into a rough paste under that giant stone phallus.
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The work was spray painted with a swastika and a phallus on the eve of Germany's 2017 election, in which the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) made historic gains in the Bundestag.
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In fact, as historians note, the name "Merrymount" can also refer to a Latin phrase meaning "erect phallus"—quite a coincidence, given the men erected an 80-foot pole in the center of town.
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According to NBC 4 New York, neither Falkholt nor The New Allen received permission from the building's owner to plaster a giant phallus on his property, and he has ordered it to be covered up.
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After all, this is a pop star who on her last tour regularly wore a prosthetic phallus, breasts, and unicorn horn, not to mention her Dirty Hippie accessories line and collection of pot leaf bodysuits.
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Other buildings critiqued by locals include the headquarters of China's state-run People's Daily, which today looks like a futuristic rocket but while under construction closely resembled a phallus (its scaffolding formed rather unfortunate patterns).
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A scene I encountered in my research, where a monster explodes his metal phallus into cheek-piercing spikes inside of a woman's mouth, assured me that the feature film could indeed have been even more disturbing.
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I remember, at that moment, being shocked by it, because that was the moment I realized that male sexuality knows no bounds, that male sexuality is a horrible potent, possessive thing, that the phallus rules all.
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Certainly the labour is evident: Twin LED candy canes and a battery of phosphorescent gumdrops flank the cable-strewn stage, as above looms what is quite unmistakably a tumescent light-up phallus, glittering with sublimated delight.
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In an airy room painted with Neapalitan and Pompeian themes by the Italian artist Francesco Clemente, an ancient phallus sculpture hangs from the ceiling, and tables and reclining chairs create an updated triclinium, or dining room.
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Andrew was born without a phallus -- a one-in-20 MILLION birth abnormality -- and it wasn't until his 30s he discovered docs might be able to fashion him a schlong with a procedure dubbed a phalloplasty.
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There also is a dastardly drawing by the brilliant Belgian artist Félicien Joseph Victor Rops entitled "La vrille" (late 43th century), which depicts a woman completely impaled on the enormous, threaded phallus of a supine hoofed satyr.
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The towering Amorphophallus titanum (yes, basically Greek for "misshapen giant phallus" — it does have a striking resemblance to a whale penis) was discovered by the West when Italian naturalist Odoardo Beccari was exploring Sumatra, Indonesia, in 1878.
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" She went on, "When you think of the phallus in a metaphorical sense, and not as a literal penis, it's more about who has the power, who has the answer, who has what everyone is looking for.
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This year, photographer B.A. Van Sise was in attendance of the annual Festival of the Steel Phallus, a regional tradition dating back to the 17th century that today serves as a platform for the benefit of HIV research.
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First of all, the most surprising thing in this entire message is that I was so anxious about being seen as gay that I went so far as to deny myself the pleasure of getting phallus-shaped gifts.
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"I'm also interested in the ways in which imagery and understandings of the phallus are presented in non-misogynistic forms," Nithiyendran says, telling us that this is where his research into Hindu constructions of phallocentrism comes into play.
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He opened and closed the set sitting at the piano; in between he strutted and preened, carrying his microphone on a metal pole that he treated as a vaudevillian's cane, an air guitar and, of course, a phallus.
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Viewers who are cocksure of their interest in anatomy may be intrigued by Palsson's Space Needle-like tower (or is it a phallus?) rising into a sky framed by geometric forms — or is it a wide-open skirt?
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If much of modernism has been about macho male bravado, Matt Stole dismantles its ego with "Modernist Phallus" (2005), a drawing of just those words, austerely inscribed in pencil on an Art Institute of Chicago letterhead, ultimately erasable.
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The mirrored rooms, where reflections within reflections seem to forever extend the visual field, play with these themes, from an early 1965 example (recreated this year) that makes a mountain of the phallus forms to a 2016 pumpkin extravaganza.
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Her 1969 painting included in Cabinet of Horrors, "First National Dick," depicts a Nixon "three dollar bill" pasted on the Capitol Building, which is decorated with stars and stripes and topped with a vertical phallus waving an American flag.
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Indeed, the exhibition features a lot of clay genitalia, from the erect phallus wall pegs by Michel Gouéry to Elmar Trenkwalder's sexy circular daisy chain "WVZ206" and Hanna Wilke's ceramic works in forms suggestive of vaginas, "Untitled" (1974–77).
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Likewise, does Saul's misanthropic mashup of civic issues and icons that includes images of Ronald Reagan as a druggie and Martin Luther King Jr. as a giant octopus massaging the phallus of justice point toward anything other than disaffection?
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A neat arrangement of grape-purple and green fiber and hemp, the duo-chromatic sculpture peeks into male and female sexualities through the juxtaposition of a crafted phallus and vulva, morphed in the form of the serpent Hindu deity.
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On a snowy London evening in the early 1970s, when the roads were unusually hazardous, a minicab driver named Emilio D'Alessandro was the only fellow willing to transport an unusual movie prop: a cumbersome Modernist sculpture of a phallus.
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He dispatches the Roman Empire in about three pages ("Nonetheless, as in Greece, the phallus played a central role in Roman religious life") and more than 10 times that many to the various controversies leading up to gay marriage.
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Pinned and spread-eagled in a wedding dress against an Audi's shiny black hood by Stephen Dillane as Man, it's clear that Ms. Blanchett's Woman still has the upper hand or even, as things turn out, the upper phallus.
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Titled Manhattan Penis Drawings for Ken Hicks, it's more or less what it sounds like: a collection of roughly sketched penises, phallus-ified depictions of Manhattan landmarks, abstract fields of penises flying across the page, and a few phallic self-portraits.
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Legend has it that Caligula, the mad emperor of Rome, even had his subjects kiss his middle finger (which he waggled in a suggestive manner) instead of his hand, which, again, reinforces the notion of the finger as a phallus.
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Home to the Kanayama Jinja Shrine, Kawasaki, southwest of Tokyo, has been closely tied to the male anatomy for centuries, due to a persistent local legend, so its famed Shinto shrine to the relic of a steel phallus was, well, erected.
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Finally a third, more determined suitor, a blacksmith, created an iron phallus that broke the demon's teeth; the man won over the beautiful woman while the demon presumably returned back to the ether to receive quite the lecture from his orthodontist.
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And so ... all of a sudden you come across, like, a ... Mircea Eliade paper about light and seed and you start thinking, "Oh yeah, like the phallus, and the light shooting out of it ... " — whatever, you know what I'm saying.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Gothenburg-born artist Carolina Falkholt raised eyebrows and garnered media attention last Christmas, when she installed a mural of a massive phallus on the building at 303 Broome Street on New York's Lower East Side.
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Although it resembles a giant phallus, and this masculine claim to conception seems willfully sexist, Guston posits the act of creating something out of nothing as grotesque but also magic; the monumental scale implies the exaggerated magnitude of this act.
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Noted Standing near an ice sculpture of a phallus encased in a condom, Charlie Sheen took the stage at an event on Monday evening in Manhattan to help introduce a prophylactic called HEX from a Swedish luxury sex-toy brand.
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"It's interesting as representations of erect penises are perhaps the most highly legislated image in our cultural economies, yet it [phallus worship] is at the centre of so many things," he explains, citing patriarchal Western societies and Christian ideologies as examples.
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In fact, the naked mole rat shares more than just its looks with a penis: Where you might say the penis is nature's key to creating life, this ugly phallus of a creature could be mankind's key to eternal life.
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Whitman's homosexuality became unmistakable in his impassioned "Calamus" poems of "adhesiveness," named for a plant with phallus-shaped "pink-tinged roots," but, even before then, his sensuality, regarding women as well as men, was earthy enough to rattle the genteel.
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Originally from the village of Braceby, the faint and roughly cut relief shows an erect phallus aimed at a round object above it, which the museum's curator of archaeology, Antony Lee, has identified as either a vagina or an evil eye.
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Neither was it clear to me that Valentino's detachable, remote-controlled, snake-meets-earthworm-meets-Chestbuster phallus, which passes between dimensions to bite Tish, was a force of good and not a reference to the countless paintings of Cleopatra's death by snake.
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Last May at the ribbon-cutting of the Salesforce Tower, the 203-floor phallus that now dominates the San Francisco skyline, tech billionaire Marc Benioff implored the politicians, journalists, and citizens in attendance to stop blaming the technology industry for the city's issues.
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" Many people supporting Igarashi since her first arrest have noted that while depictions of vaginas in Japan are usually deemed obscene, those of penises are openly paraded — such as during the country's annual "Kanamara Matsuri," or, the "Festival of the Steel Phallus.
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But the small town on Serbia's border with Romania is now trending on social media for a different reason: a protest over a statue aiming to brand it as the city of owls which many say resembles a phallus rather than an owl.
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Sometimes they hang out as if they were on a talk show, their chatter intercut with all that "Mandingo" mess, Mandingo's black phallus looming in the minds of the white people who constructed their dream of an antebellum South on black backs.
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One valley west of Phobjikha is the city of Punakha, famous for a temple dedicated to the worship of a Buddhist leader known as the Divine Madman, or Lama Drupka Kunley, who had a magic phallus he used to fight off evil spirits.
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A gift, after all, is a gesture of extension, a concept Browning plays with through Barbara's "digital" communiqués, whether text, email or erotic "hand dance," as well as ideas of surrogacy and prostheses — a violin bow, a silicone leg, a rubber phallus.
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Walter Robinson's painting "Baron Sinister" (1986) places a heavy-breathing pulp-fiction cover on a demure field of white Rymanesque brushwork, and Peter Cain's hyper-real "Z" (1989) reduces a gleaming ad-ready image of a car to a phallus on wheels.
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When the phallus becomes just another dribbling blob, when man begins to fornicate with a pile of his own shit in stop-animation ("Ol'Factory," 2014), it's difficult not to pity Madani's subjects, currently on display in First Light at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
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Of all Vibratex's variations on that theme—the Turtle with its piston-like neck; the Kangaroo with fluttering paws and tongue—none grabbed attention quite like the pearlescent pink phallus that infamously kept Sex and the City's Charlotte tangled in her sheets for days.
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A Yayoi Kusama necklace has soft wool shafts, mirroring the phallus-like appendages that blanket so many of her sculptures; a Damien Hirst bracelet dangles sinister pills rather than charms, and a Louise Bourgeois collar with a rhinestone leash echoes her explorations of female servitude.
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It comes from the collection of Mony Vibescu, a name that sprung at me like the satyr's twisted phallus: Prince Mony Vibescu is the fictional character of Guillaume Apollinaire's 1907 pornographic novel Les Onze Mille Verges (published in English as The Amorous Adventures of Prince Mony Vibescu).
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"Interesting is the iconography of objects and amulets, which invoke fortune, fertility, and protection against bad luck, and the numerous pendants in the shape of a small phallus, or the ear, the closed fist, the skull, the figure of Harpocrates, the scarabs," Osanna said in his statement.
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I visited Mount Rushmore in the summer of 2015, and it's nothing like Abe Lincoln squatting on his (recently vandalized) throne or George Washington's phallus towering over everything in DC. Instead, Rushmore is a testament to the human ability to conquer nature in our own image.
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Ren plays on notions of appetite by sometimes incorporating food into his portraits, although these at times push his work toward kitsch — see, for instance, the image of a man eating noodles off a pelvis, or another of a fork poking a phallus on a plate.
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In a single-image cut-paper work like "Consume" (1998), with its young boy sucking the tip of a banana that's part of a skirt worn by another Baker-inspired character, we are left questioning whether it's a banana, a misplaced breast, or a hermaphroditic phallus.
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A plaster leg (which itself appears as a sculpture elsewhere in the gallery) is laid out beside her bent leg, and lined up along her straight leg is a long gourd, placed as though it were her own massive phallus; it too is reflected in the mirror.
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Four paintings within the painting depict unabashed sensual revelry: a child fucking a goat while a smiling grown-up watches; a satyr fondling a woman; a masked man thrusting his phallus forward; and a Jesus-like degenerate holding a cup as if proposing a lascivious toast.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A carving of a phallus in a rock would probably seem like the handiwork of a bored youth today, but such imagery was especially common in ancient Greece and Rome as a symbol of good luck rather than a sexual reference.
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" Johnson and Masters biographer, Thomas Maier, recreated the Ulysses maiden voyage in his book, Masters of Sex (the primary text for the Showtime series): "No one had ever photographed the inside of a woman during coitus, documenting the female reaction to the entry and penetration of the phallus.
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They still cheered when Raid "came" all over Jassy with a Silly String-shooting "cock," but they started to boo Jassy when she ripped that figurative phallus right out of Raid's dominant set of hands, knocking her opponent to the ground and miming shoving the can up Raid's ass.
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The humor in the first season not only came from its crude subject matter (you learn more than you ever wanted to know about how to elegantly draw a phallus), but from the fact that Sam and Peter approach their vérité work like they are the Maysles brothers.
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Now, thanks to the Navy Times, which obtained a copy of the Navy's probe into the phallus using a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, we have a record of the absurdly ill-advised discussion between two prankster pilots—perhaps a gift even greater than the penis drawing itself.
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After each encounter, he would create an artwork in response, culminating in the final episode with a 2.2-foot-tall glazed ceramic phallus in the image of the City of London's bankers featuring photographic transfers of bank notes and stencils of the face of George Osborne, the chancellor of the Exchequer.
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The only real difference between San Francisco Pride and every other gratingly packed, overly expensive, heavily corporatized street festival I've ever attended, in fact, was the presence of a young, single, nude man in the middle of the crowds, his flaccid phallus swinging in the breeze, gawked at by no one.
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McEwan is a master of the domestic quarrel, which, in his works, is regularly intensified by the introduction of a third party: a precocious child in " Atonement ," a stalker with de Clérambault's syndrome in " Enduring Love ," or, in this case, an artificial man with Kantian morals and a fully functional phallus.
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Phalloplasty, pioneered by a Russian doctor using rib cartilage in 1936, often involves stretching out the remaining urethra and using nerves, skin, blood vessels, and muscle from a person's arm or thigh to create a new phallus, often adding in an internal pump structure to allow them to artificially create erections.
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The surgery requires a series of stages, Schechter says, in which a skin graft is taken from the forearm or thigh and used to construct a phallus; at the same time, patients may opt for a vaginectomy and scrotoplasty, in which a surgeon constructs testicles that can be filled out with implants.
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Since the City of New York fined him for holding campaign events in the atrium of Trump Tower—his gaudy attempt at shoving a gilded, metaphorical phallus into the very sky itself—Trump has announced that he will be holding his so-called, ahem, "victory" party at the New York Hilton Midtown.
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By the time the ashram was reopened to the public in 2015, part of a campaign to draw tourists to the area, most of the buildings had been vandalized by young lovers, who had hobbled over broken security walls to scrawl sweet nothings, and the occasional phallus, on the mildewed walls of remaining structures.
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And while I wasn't intending to be anywhere near as fanatical, I felt as if I could still understand this pilgrimage's arc, with Supreme as the conceptual McGuffin standing in for what one wants but can't fully have: a coolness, an offhandedness, an ease with the body — in sum, the imagined perfection of the symbolic phallus.
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The focus on the phallus as a more "natural" form of female pleasure is why dildos that mimic the male anatomy were such a central focus of the sex toy industry for so long, despite the fact that many other types of toys — like those for clitoral stimulation — were found to be more satisfying to more women.
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Lots of people are scared of flying, and it's not lost on the rest of us that to fly is to be trapped in a steel phallus traveling hundreds of miles an hour at 35,000 feet, left to the mercy of pilots we don't know and a vehicle that's always introduced to us along with emergency escape plans.
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Image: AP Photo/Richard DrewMidtown Manhattan—with its noise, traffic, slow-moving tourists, and overpriced everything—is the one place most New Yorkers avoid at all costs (if they can help it.) It's also home to Trump Tower, a gargantuan gold-plated phallus jabbed straight into the city skyline where the President-elect is planning on spending weekends during his term in office.
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If we look back at advertising from the post-war generation on, it is clear how much of the message was about managing female sexuality rather than about simple consumerism, although these two agendas were ultimately tied together in trying to convince women that what they lacked (the phallus, according to Lacan) could be compensated simply by buying the right consumer objects.
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Read More: These Surreal Ancient Alchemy Manuscripts Are Terrifyingly Cool "This can be demonstrated for instance with the headless man on the shaft of Pillar 43, interpreted as symbol of death and mass extinction in the paper—however silently omitting the emphasised phallus in the same depiction which somehow contradicts the lifeless notion and implies a much more complex narrative behind these reliefs," Notroff said.
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"I've Got A Small Penis But I'll Go Down On You" If "Dick in a Box" and various other Lonely Island offerings are the Anderson Silvas or Georges St. Pierres of hilarious phallus-based musical comedy on Saturday Night Live, this rap in which two well-endowed guys brag about their gargantuan wieners and their Napoleonic friend continuously offers to go down on women instead is the Kimbo Slice.
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Things we witnessed include, but aren't limited to: a roaming gang of teens yelling in the faces of anyone sitting down whilst stroking a lengthy green balloon phallus; people taking selfies with a guy who was slumped over projectile vomiting on the sidewalk; girls in impeccable makeup openly doing whipits; someone dancing on a used condom (see below); and, oh yeah, more vomit—just wet, sloshy, rain-diluted vomit, everywhere.
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The result is a politically incorrect fever dream that involves dwarf sidekicks, Ms. Kodar in "redface" as a Native American woman, at least one orgy, a drive-in theater, '70s-era views of women (disposable) and inclusion (nonexistent), the mutilation of a doll, a car crash, mannequins, an ice cube, lanterns, rifles and a giant phallus built with chicken wire and perched on a sand dune, among other imagery.
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" Penis trees flourished throughout Europe, according to his research: A 14th century French manuscript contains two images of nuns harvesting penises from trees and tucking them into their robes; a wood carving from the early 15th century currently kept at a museum in Germany depicts a woman casually plucking penises while her lover peruses a vulva tree; and a decorative badge found in the Netherlands "shows a couple making love under a phallus tree, possibly being watched by a voyeur.
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