Word: phallus
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Occasionally he prances out, wearing a funny hat. What he is validates what he does: he has so long been saddled (not unwillingly) with the task of being the vitality-image or phallus of the West that every sketch, painting or dish tends to be greeted with the same ritually stupefied reverence. Hence la légende Picasso, which has been energetically prodded along by writers like Hélène Parmelin and photographers like David Douglas Duncan and Gjon Mili. From their breathless accounts a satyr rises, mythic, Gargantuan, and fatally easy to parody. The Maestro...
...American Medical Association to publish what may be the last word on the subject. In "The Foreskin Saga," Harnes puts the "debate" into perspective in a strikingly successful spoof of the ponderous,reports that usually appear in medical publications (among earlier titles of serious articles: "The Rape of the Phallus," "Penile Plunder"). Believing that the circumcision controversy is ludicrous and the sensual argument unprovable, Harnes merely concocted some insights and phony research...
...probably like Flesh. It's a supermarketful of genitalia, mostly male, which makes it a peculiar supermarket indeed. Who can resist Joe D'Alasandro, his phallus wrapped up in a St. Laurent scarf like an obscene Christmas present for Isadora Duncan? Who can pass up Candy Darling, a transvestite with rubykeeler red lips and a feather boa, reading '40's Hollywood pulp sags aloud to prove she couldn't care less about Joe's ongoing blow job? Who could miss a Warhol lampoon of Blow-Up, with Joe cast as Verushka...
...enigma of orgasm," as he puts it, to "the orgasm as the mirror of one's existence." As a result, he will not give credence to laboratory evidence presented by Kate Millett (collected from Drs. Masters and Johnson and Dr. Mary Jane Sherfey) that an artificial phallus could induce, in an hour's time, twenty to fifty orgasms in some guinea-pig of a woman lying on an operating table. For "what value," he wants to know, "would be attached to the mirror of the sexual moment when orgasms could be measured by periodicity and count...
...link the characters and stories of the Bible to the orgiastic, often outlawed mushroom cults of the Near East. For example, the Greek word for "stumbling block," which is used to describe the crucified Christ in Corinthians I, once meant "bolt," which leads Allegro to connect it with the phallus-shaped "bolt-plant" mushroom; thus he concludes that "stumbling block" is, in fact, a cryptic reference to getting high on mushrooms...