The TGIF Sex Blog [A (Brief) HIStory of the Penis]

¡Hola! Everybody...
Every year, I resolve to be better at this Christmas/ holiday thingee, and every year I don’t... LOL

Today… the story of my cock…

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-=[ Penile Pensees ]=-

Dearest, what you hold in your hand right now is the story of my cock…

LMAO!

I always wanted to write something like that! Well, actually, you would not be “holding” anything -- least of all my cock. More likely, you’re gazing at a bunch of symbols on a screen, so I should amend the above to something more appropriate, but I won’t.

A few years ago, I happened to read an engaging cultural history of the penis, and while it was at times humorous, it was also edifying. After all, my cock, whether friend or foe, demon or god, the source of all pleasure, or root of all evil, has forced humanity to wrestle with universal mysteries.

Surely, I can hold my cock in my hand, but who is gripping whom? Is my cock the best in me -- or the beast? How am I supposed to use it? More importantly, perhaps, when does that use become abuse? Of all my bodily organs, only my cock forces me to confront certain contradictions. My cock is a tool that creates but also destroys. And for those who don’t have a cock, just try imagining your G-spot swingin’ large between your legs and you might get a notion of how a cock can be both a part of and apart from ones body.

It is a scientific fact that I have a cock. How I think about it, feel about it, and use it, is not. My cock is more than a body part, it is also an idea. Throughout history, the ways Western society constructed my cock has evolved and with those changes came different ways of constructing, or conceptualizing, my cock. With those changes in ideas, came changes of the use of my cock.

My cock was worshiped by ancient cultures and demonized by the early Roman church. Later, renaissance artists such as da Vinci and Michelangelo removed my cock from the rule of the church and began to try to understand it in scientific terms. After being studied and “measured,” my cock was then used to oppress some races while elevating others, and eventually psychoanalyzed by Sigmund Freud and his followers. As a result, my cock assumed an important place in psychology -- having been used to define the human psyche by whether or not one had a cock like mine.

Feminists politicized my cock and it has been exploited in countless ways by pop culture. Today, my cock has been medicalized and with the arrival of the multi-million-dollar erection industry, with the onset of Viagra and other such drugs, my cock is more than a health of business story. The erection industry is the latest (and perhaps the last?) chapter in one of the longest sagas in human history: the story of my relationship with my cock.

Love,

Eddie