Authors: Tom Hickman
considered unmanly 140
detrimental effects 141–5
and the Duchess of Argyll 7
female 182
and first experience of orgasm 175
as male only 182, 183
and oral sex 183–6
religious views on 140
solitary 182
speed to ejaculation 181
women masturbating men 183
measurement
by the medical profession 36
methods of 37
and overweight men 37
reality versus rumour concerning celebrities 38–43
and research on gay men 36–7
self-measurement 34–5
of testicles 47–9
Mediterranean 166
Men: An Investigation Into the Emotional Male
(Hodson) 59
Mencken, Henry Louis 217
The Merchant of Venice
(Shakespeare) 163
Mesopotamia 65–6, 184
Michaelangelo Buonarroti 50, 162
Middle Ages 10–11, 12, 69, 78, 79, 81, 84, 92, 100, 125, 129, 130, 139–41, 148–9, 154, 187, 190
Middle East 12, 67, 69, 108, 116, 166
Miles, Rosalind 25, 46, 139
Miller, Arthur 183
Miller, Henry 56, 77, 171, 181
Miller, Sienna 41
Milward, Richard 213
Minnesota University 111
Mogul Empire 121
Mondale, Walter 25
Monroe, Marilyn 39, 183
Montaigne, Michel de 63
Moody, Rick 48, 51, 186, 190
Morris, Desmond 84–5, 97, 99, 100
Mortimer, John 179
Mountbatten, Lady Edwina 131
Mountbatten, Lord Louis 131
A Moveable Feast
(Hemingway) 30
‘Mr Torpedo’ 30
Muller, Hermann 202
Muslims 117, 130, 162
Mussolini, Benito 205
Mustique 173
My Secret History
(Theroux) 217
My Secret Life
(‘Walter’) 135, 179–80, 203
Myra Breckinridge
(Vidal) 20
Mystery
Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality
(Margulis & Sagan) 47
Nabokov, Vladimir 33
The Naked and the Dead
(Mailer) 191
Napoleon Bonaparte 31, 40–1, 116
National Health Service 165
Nature
magazine 48
Nelson, Horatio 195
Nepal 124
New Guinea 213
The New Male Sexuality
(Zilbergeld) 26
New Scientist
125
Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia 100
No More Mister Nice Guy
(Jacobson) 208
nocturnal emissions 139–40, 141
Normans 116
North Africa 108
Novak, Kim 39
Novarro, Ramon 39
nudity
adult flaunting of 88–91
Ancient Greek admiration for 87
in art and advertising 104
covering and uncovering 91–103
on the Internet 103–4
and persecution of the circumcised 162–3
small boys and 87–8
on stage and film 103
walking and sitting in public 104–5
Oceanic peoples 91
Odysseus 9
Onion
magazine 40
orang-utans 45, 46
orgasm 74, 75, 136, 137, 180–1, 193–6, 206, 207, 214–15
Origen of Alexandria 124
Orlando, Vittorio Emanuele 106
Orton, Joe 2
Osiris 66
Ottoman Empire 121, 122, 129
Ovid 135
Oz, Amos 212
Paley, Maggie 55
Palmerston, Lord 161
Papua New Guinea 92
Paracelsus 71
‘The Pardoner’s Tale’ (Chaucer) 93–4
Paré, Ambroise 63, 171
Parker, Alan 213
penile implants 159–60
penis
accessorising 108
accidents and injuries to 113–15
aesthetics of 50–6
boys’ angst concerning 22–3
curbing its activities 139–45
curses aimed at 166
and dealing with a micropenis 125
erections 170–5, 181, 197, 211
feelings of inadequacy over 29–32
as fertility symbol 167–8
flaunting 87–105
fondled in greeting 68–9, 106
human compared with animal 45–7
infinite variety of 8–9
insults related to 166–7
likened to a face 9–10
magical properties of 71, 106
male competition (or envy) concerning 24–7, 32–3
male feelings toward 52, 59
in mythology 65–8
naming of 10–13, 75
and oath-taking 68–9
and penis captivus 130–1
possible fate of 218
purpose-made protection for 115
racial variations 17–22
regarded as trophies after battle 115–16
removal of 115–20, 121–2
ridiculing 41–3, 53
schizophrenia concerning 2
shrinking hysteria 127–8
size and shape 13–17, 22–33, 34–44, 70, 108, 210
supremacy of 64–9
thinking with 1–2
transplants 163, 168
unpredictability and limitations of 135–9
and urination 106–7
and VD 131–5
vulnerability of 112–15
ways of enlarging 27–9, 108
women’s attitude towards 2–3, 43–4, 51–9
worship of 76–86
Pentimento
(Hellman) 57
Pepys, Samuel 38, 176, 182
The Perfumed Garden
130
Perón, Eva 39
Persians 188
Peru, Peruvians 18
Phalles (Roman god) 67
phallic symbolism 83–6
phallic worship
and carved penises 79–80
Christian imagery and beliefs 77, 78–9, 80–3
and Christ’s foreskin 80–1
and damaging of male genitalia by women 77–8
feasts and festivals 79–83, 107
in India 76–7
Phoenicians 66
The Pillow Book
(film, 1996) 17
The Pillow Book
(Sei Sh
ō
nagon) 61
The Pirate
(Robbins) 136, 185
Plastercasters 40, 104
Plath, Sylvia 51, 176
Plato 202
Playboy Foundation 184
Playboy
magazine 27
Pliny the Elder 71, 139, 155
Points of View
(TV programme) 98
Political Warfare Executive (PWE) 167
Polyphemus 9
Popplewell, Mr Justice 98–9
pornography 27, 31, 103–4, 167, 183, 186
Portnoy’s Complaint
(Roth) 23, 175, 181
‘Portrait of a Former Penis Bigot’ (Roberts) 9
Poseidon 9, 83
Potemkin, Prince Grigori Alexsandrovich 89
The Prehistory of Sex
(Taylor) 45–6
Prescott, John 43
priapism 158–9
Priapus 66
Principles of Nurturing Life
142
Private Parts
(Stern) 31
Profumo, John 7
Proust, Marcel 211
Puppetry of the Penis
(play) 103
Purple America
(Moody) 48, 51, 186, 189
Puzo, Mario 57
Rabbit
quartet (Updike) 9, 20
Rabelais, François 96, 115, 171, 174, 199
‘Race Difference in Sexual Behavior: Testing an Evolutionary Hypothesis’ (Rushton & Bogaert) 19
Race, Evolution and Behavior
(Rushton) 21
Rasputin, Grigori 89, 107–8
The Real Life of Anthony Burgess
(Biswell) 101
Recueil periodique d’observations de médecine et de chirurgie
(1753) 168
Redwald, King 78–9
Reed, Oliver 25, 88
Reformation 81, 84, 112, 118
Regency England 96–7
The Reign of the Phallus
(Keuls) 24, 111
Religio Medici
(Browne) 64
Remembrance of Things Past
(Proust) 211
Renaissance 50, 63, 69, 73, 81, 92–4, 154, 165
Renoir, Pierre Auguste 104
Republic
(Plato) 202
Restoration 84, 163, 203
Rhyming Life and Dean
(Oz) 212
The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny
(Gathorne-Hardy) 174
The Rites of Man: Love, Sex and Death in the Making of the Male
(Miles) 25
Robbins, Harold 136
Roberts, Bonnie 9
Roberts, Gregory David 212
Rochester, Earl of 85, 152, 153
Rockefeller, Nelson 161
Roman period 11, 12, 24, 66–7, 69, 70, 79, 117, 123, 124, 139, 140, 155, 165, 166, 184, 188, 190
Romeo and Juliet
(Shakespeare) 52
Ronaldinho 207
Roth, Philip 23, 175
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 182
Royal Commission on Monuments 79
Royal Society 82
Rubirosa, Porfirio 39
Rudgley, Richard 86
Runcie, Lord, Archbishop of Canterbury 179
Rushton, John Philippe 19, 21
Russia, Russians 207
Russian museum of erotica (St Petersburg) 108
Russian Orthodox Church 124
Rwanda 213
sadhus 124
Sadler, John 75
Sagan, Dorion 47
San people 210
San Quentin prison 168
Sandys, Duncan 8
‘A Satire on Charles II’ (Wilmot) 38–9
Saturnalia 79–80
Saudi Arabia 192
Scathloe, Alice 148–9
Scathloe, John 148–9
scrotum 199
The Second Sex
(de Beauvoir) 3, 53, 130–1
Second World War 167
Secret Instructions Concerning the Jade Chamber
142
Seek My Face
(Updike) 211
semen and sperm
and conception 72, 74–5, 164, 213–14
decrease in 200–1
as defective 201–2
and donor insemination 214
as fertiliser 70
healthy 200
influence on female health and psychology 203–4
lifespan 200
limited supply of 139, 141
magical properties of 71
and masturbation (or spermatorrhoea) 140, 141–5
nocturnal emission 139–40
as precious substance 70
production of 48, 72–4, 199
and return of the buffalo 71
and sperm banks 202–3
Semitic peoples 66, 68
Sens (northern France) 80
Sévigné, Madame de 134
Sex in America survey (1994) 136
Sex in History
(Taylor) 141
Sex for One
(Dodson) 51, 138
Sex Symbolism in Religion
(Hannay) 83
Sexual Behavior in the Human
Male (Kinsey) 15, 55
sexual drive 208–9
sexual encounters
benefits of intercourse 197–8
and birth of twins or triplets 164
brain activity and erotic thoughts 176–9, 181
clitoris vs penis 137–8
and coitus interruptus 141, 194
and cravings for sex 179–80
curious 181
and death in the saddle 161, 168
and ejaculatory intercourse 142–3
fictional depictions 211–13
forbidding of 141
and foreplay 135
as fun 217
intercourse terminology 189–91, 210–11
and male angst concerning performance 138–9
male finishing times 135–6
and the male roving eye 177–8
missionary position versus woman on top 187–9
numbers of 205–7, 214–15
and orgasm 136, 137
and paternity issues 164
penances for transgressions 141
post-coital effects 195–7
and use of vibrators 138
and women moving during intercourse 165
Sexual Life Between Blacks and Whites
(Day) 17
Sexual Life in England
(Bloch) 96–7
Shakespeare, William 11, 12, 25, 52, 60, 80, 134, 182, 187, 191
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí
(Gibson) 31
Shantaram
(G.D. Roberts) 212
The Shape of Her
(Somerville) 211
Shinto Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Penis) 164
Shiva 66, 76
Simenon, Georges 205
Sinatra, Frank 39
Sinclair, Sir Clive 207
Singapore, Singaporeans 127, 207
Sistine Chapel (Vatican) 50, 124
Skinner, Frank 42
Skoptzis sect 124
Slater, Lorraine 55
Slaves of New York
(Janowitz) 51
Soames, Lord 43
Solomon, King 68
Somerville, Rowan 211
Sophocles 2
South Africa 162
South America 91
South Asia 163
South East Asia 20, 29, 108, 127–8, 130
South Korea 210
South Sea Islanders 209
The Spell
(Hollinghurst) 26
spermatorrhoea
see
masturbation Sprenger, Jacob 126–7
State University of New York 204
Stern, Howard 31
Sterne, Laurence 73
Sting 192
Stockholm University 107
Stopes, Marie 203
Strait, Jennifer 102
Styler, Trudie 192
The Sucker’s Kiss
(Parker) 213
Sudan 121, 127
Sumerians 12, 72
The Summer of a Dormouse
(Mortimer) 179
Sun
newspaper 43
Sutor, Jacob 17–18
Sweden, Swedes 106–7, 207
Talese, Gay 111–12, 179
Taming of the Shrew
(Shakespeare) 25
Taoism 140
Taylor, G. Rattray 141
Taylor, Timothy 45–6
Tel Aviv University 201
The Ten O’Clock Horses
(Graham) 106
Ten Storey Love Song
(Milward) 213
Tenggu 10
Tertullian 140
testicles
and ejaculation 48
feel of 200
and manufacture of sperm 48, 199
measurement of 47–9
racial variation 48
removal of 118, 120–5
transplants 168
unequal in size 50–1
and (un)faithfulness 49
vulnerability of 113
Tewasheh (Sudan) 121
Thailand 28–9, 106, 118–19
Theroux, Paul 217
Theseus 83
The Thief’s Journal
(Genet) 173
Thomson, David 177
Thy Neighbour’s Wife
(Talese) 111–12
Tibet, Tibetans 13
Tillot, Jean-Baptiste du 80
Timebends
(A.Miller) 183
The Times
114
Tiresias 137
To Love, Honour and Betray
(Lette) 213
Too Rich: The Family Secrets of Doris Duke
(J.Thomas & P.Duke) 39
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri 40
Tristram Shandy
(L.Sterne) 113
Trobrianders 188, 213
Tropic of Cancer
(Miller) 56, 171
Trousers and the Most Precious Ornament
(Gill) 101
True at First Light
(Hemingway) 152–3
Tucker, Forrest 39
Turkey, Turks 116, 121, 190
twins and triplets 164
Uganda 124
Ulysses
(Joyce) 52, 56
Under the Volcano
(Lowry) 33
University of California 23, 42
University College London 92
University of Western Ontario 21
Unspeakable Confessions
(Dalí) 31
Untrael, Donna 5
Updike, John 9, 20, 56, 59, 185, 211
US National Center for Health Statistics 206
vagina 128–31, 210
Valentino, Rudolf 39, 40
Vanity Fair
magazine 91
Vatican 81
Vatsyayana 13–14
Velvet Goldmine
(film) 91
venereal disease