“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a penis will do some of his thinking with it,” says Tom Hickman, author of God’s Doodle: The Life And Times of the Penis. I somehow missed the book’s release in December, but luckily it was recently nominated for the annual Diagram Prize for the year’s oddest book title. That honor has previously gone to such great titles as Cooking With Poo, The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories, The Joy of Chickens and (my personal favorite) The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution.
So what does God’s Doodle actually have to tell us about our favorite appendage? It emphasizes how each man’s poleaxe is like its own special snowflake, according to the review in Canada’s Globe and Mail. Which is pretty true, in my experience. And those jokesters at The Economist even call the book seminal.
The book is quite thorough, tackling phallomancy (the art of telling fortunes by studying dicks) and filling in some historical tidbits you might not know already. (Salvador Dali: not so hung, it turns out.) There’s a section on size, of course (the average adult Asian male’s balls are allegedly the same weight as a twelve-year old black or white boy’s), and there’s also a really squirmy section on famous castrations throughout history, but let’s not think about that right now.
Let’s investigate some special snowflakes instead, courtesy of one of my favorite other books, the Book Ov Pleasure.
– Lawrence
Wow, Im impressed!!! You did a riff on the opening lines from a Jane Austen novel… 🙂