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Chapter Five: Penises

9/29/2020

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It sort of had a head on it, like a mushroom, and its color was reddish purple. It looked blunt and stupid, compared, say, to fingers and toes with their intelligent expressiveness, or even an elbow or a knee.
Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women

1972: First International Trip in High School


​Michelangelo's David in the Accademia Gallery, Florence, Italy. The first penis I ever saw. 
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1976: If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium


​Carolyn and I were both surprised by the diminutive size of the Mannekin Pis in Brussels.
We came upon him in his birthday suit, despite his large wardrobe.
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2002 and 2015: National Archaeological Museum
​Athens, Greece


Zeus of Artemision
The Greek God of lightning, thunder, and the sky with his appropriately small penis. 
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​Lustful, depraved satyrs brandished
the largest phalluses. 

​Notice the akroposthion, or ancient cock sock,
used to tie up the glans of the penis in a show
​ of modesty. ​
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​Most of the statues were sans penis.
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2010-2017: Student Tours of Washington, D.C.

Eighth grade student boys think it's funny to get a picture of the Washington Monument
​ from a different perspective.  I guess some men get the same thrill. 
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2011: Hanoi, Vietnam
​Vietnam Museum of Ethnology

Tomb houses of the Girai People
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2013: Trip to Italy
​Pompeii


​It was like a scavenger hunt as I went looking for carved penises ​in search of the brothels of Pompeii.
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​​Mosaic of a satyr and a nymph in the House of the Faun. 
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2015: Khajuraho
India


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Lakshmana Temple at Khajuraho ​with erotic sculptures on its facade
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2017: Taormina, Sicily

The phalluses on the Moorish heads stumped our guide. 
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Fascinus, the god of power
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We didn't know about Bar Turrisi, or the Penis Cafe, when we were in Taormina.
Now it's on my bucket list. 
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2017: Chobe National Park
Zimbabwe



​The prehensile elephant's penis
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    CONTENTS

    Preface
    Chapter 1: Flying Foibles
    Chapter 2: Heights and
    ​     Enclosed Spaces

    Chapter 3: Falling
    Chapter 4: Men
    Chapter 5: Penises
    Chapter 6: Women
    Chapter 7: Lost
    Chapter 8: Pickpockets
    Chapter 9: Phantom
         Killers

    Chapter 10: Calamities
    Chapter 11: Crossing the
         Street

    Chapter 12: Illness
    Chapter 13: Toilets
    Chapter 14: Food
    Chapter 15: A Diagnosis
    Afterword
    ​The Tour Directors
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