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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 Shōnagon) 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
gonorrhoea (or clap) 131, 133, 135
syphilis (or great pox) 131–3
treatments for 132–4
and use of condoms 134–5
Viagra 152, 154, 157, 160
Victoria & Albert Museum 162
Victoria, Queen 108, 144, 162
Victorian period 14, 76–7, 112, 125, 140, 141, 145, 176, 180, 190
Vidal, Gore 20
Vilar, Esther 51, 54–5, 56
Virag, Ronald 156–7
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de 129, 182
Voronoff, Serge 156
Walbiri of central Australia 106
Washington State University 102
Watton (Yorkshire) 118
Waugh, Alexander 22
The Way, The Supreme Path Of Nature 75
Webb, Geoffrey 79
Weissmuller, Johnny ‘Tarzan’ 90
West, Mae 207
What Men Want (Gerstman, Pizzo, Seldes) 185, 194
White, Charles 18
Whitman, Walt 85, 182
Whythorne, Thomas 130
William of Poitiers 116
Williams, Esther 90
Williams, Robin 108
Wilmot, John, 2nd Earl of Rochester 38
witches 126–7
Wogan, Terry 98
women
and aesthetics of the penis 51–2
ambivalent attitude 2–3
benefits of intercourse 197–8
benefits of sperm 203–4
blamed for venereal disease 132, 133
conception and menstruation 71–2, 74–5
and curiosity concerning what an erection feels like 56
and damaging of male genitalia 77–8
and first encounters 55, 86
as the gateway of the devil 1
40–1
gender-change 63
inferior status of 64
and knowledge of paternity 164
knowledge of their anatomy 64–5
libido and infidelity 217
and male bridal-night fears 128–9
and male expectations of awe 54
and male fear of the vagina 128–31
and male marital duties 214–15
mismatch with male sexuality 135–9
mockery of the penis 43–4, 53
moving during intercourse 165
in mythology 65–6
and oral sex 183–6
and orgasm 195, 196
and penis envy 69
and physical emasculation of men 118–20
repulsion felt by 55–6
and sex with castrati 123
and sexual positions 187–9
sexual superiority of 137–8
size and look of the penis 56–9
Women in Love (film) 25
The Women’s History of the World (Miles) 46
Woolf, Virginia 175
World Health Organisation 207
Worsley, T.C. 175
Xhosa 162
yakuza 108
Yapese tribe (island in the Carolines) 213
The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Caro) 90
Yeats, William Butler 155, 174–5
Yiddish proverb 2
yin-yang 107
Zelig (film) 26
Zeus 83, 137
Zilbergeld, Dr Bernie 26
Zola, Emile 119
Zulu 162
Zuni tribe (New Mexico) 71
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