Fountain by John Coulthart (2011).  via

Lovely

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Erotic furniture of Catherine the Great

Flying Penis ~ Good Morning!

The Dick Show: What’s the Big Deal about Penises?

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Woman carrying an oversized caricature of a phallus (c. 470 BC) [1][2][3] is a column krater attributed to the Pan Painter. It was found in Etruria and currently resides in the Antikensammlung Berlin (Inventar-Nr. 3206).

• Pan Painter
• Greek erotica
• Grotesque genitalia
• Phallophoria[4]

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David’s penis (above) is a very small penis. I’ve been researching big penises in Greek art and came up with a few examples: A Satyr Masturbating and to a lesser extent the Delos phallus and Woman carrying an oversized caricature of a phallus prove that big phalli are also present in Ancient Greek art.

While researching, I stumbled upon a text by Denis Diderot on pubic hair in art. In the passage quelques questions que je me suis faites sur la sculpture, Diderot asks five rhetorical questions on sculpture. The second of these questions is “Pourquoi la sculpture , tant ancienne que moderne , a dépouillé les femmes de ce voile que la pudeur de la nature et l’âge de puberté jettent sur les parties sexuelles, et l’a laissé aux hommes?”

“Why has sculpture, both ancient and modern, depilated women of the veil of modesty which nature and the age of puberty have thrown on the sexual parts, and left it there for men?”

The answer, says Diderot, as translated in the essay “Diderot, Hogarth, and the Aesthetics of Depilation” by Johannes Endres, is that an “infinitely agreeable line would have its course cut through an interposed hair-tuft; that this isolated tuft is connected to nothing and serves as a blemish for the woman, while for the man this sort of natural clothing, casting a heavy enough shadow around the nipples, actually becomes lighter on the flanks and sides of the stomach but is still there, although sparsely, moving without interruption to encounter itself more dense, more raised, more full around the natural parts; it wishes to show you that depilated, these natural parts of the man will look like a small intestine, an unpleasantly formed worm.”

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From Erotische Grotesken by the pseudonymous Pipifax.

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Votive phallus[3] from the Handbuch der Sexualwissenschaften by Albert Moll.

From that same book: 19th century penis pump [1] and Mooning gargoyle of the Freiburg Cathedral [2].

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See previous post.

Image via The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus[1]

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I acquired Erotic Images and Alphabets yesterday at the fine store Nuit de Chine in Brussels.

One of the images (above) clearly references a tinted version informally named The Lizard Phallus[1].

The book does not say so (there is no reference to an artist whatsoever), but I strongly suspect that the engravings from pages 33 to 63 are by my personal favorite erotomaniac Eugène le Poitevin.

The work is an example of metamorphic genitalia.

shoot ~ Alain Le Saux.  via

Coming April 1st, 2012

Big Pink on parade ~ via

The Shinto Kanamara Matsuri (かなまら祭り “Festival of the Steel Phallus”^?) is held each spring at the Kanayama shrine (金山神社)in Kawasaki, Japan. The exact dates vary: the main festivities fall on the first Sunday in April. The penis, as the central theme of the event—is reflected in illustrations, candy, carved vegetables, decorations, and a mikoshi parade.

The Kanamara Matsuri is centered around a local penis-venerating shrine once popular among prostitutes who wished to pray for protection from sexually transmitted diseases. It is said that there are also divine protections for business prosperity and for the clan’s prosperity; and for easy delivery, marriage, and married-couple harmony. There is also a legend of a sharp-toothed demon (vagina dentata) that hid inside the vagina of a young woman and castrated two young men on their wedding nights. As a result, the young woman sought help from a blacksmith, who fashioned an iron phallus to break the demon’s teeth, which lead to the enshrinement of the item.

Today, the festival has become something of a tourist attraction and is used to raise money for HIV research.  via

Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) ~ Wakamiya-hachimangu Shrine, Kawasaki Ward, City of Kawasaki  A popular festival for fertility.  via

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