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  The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: The Broken Phallus of Harvard Yard
Since the phallus is a symbol of peace in both cases, the violence of the phallus-breakers is especially ironic.
A man with an erect phallus was a common portrayal of the ancient Egyptian god Min, showing that the Greeks were not alone in their positive associations with the tumescent male appendage.
The phallus might be threatening as a reminder of the subjugation of women by the hard-hearted, monolithic patriarchy.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=272617   (490 words)

  
  The Phallus of Bhutan - Keys to Bhutan
This explanation coincides with the Hindu belief that Shivalingam (representation of Lord Shiva’s phallus) denotes the primeval energy of the creator and that the lingam is also a representation of the infinite cosmic column of fire, whose origins, Vishnu (sustainer) and Bhrama (creator) were unable to trace.
For example the phallus hung from the eaves have a dagger tied to the phallus representing two opposite impulses.
The use of the phallus by the saint to subdue and tame malevolent spirits is linked to the popular Bhutanese belief that phallic symbols ward-off evil spirits.
www.keystobhutan.com /bhutan/bhutan_art_phallus.php   (1680 words)

  
  Phallus as a Reflection of the Hierarchy
The importance of the phallus is also confirmed by observations of apes, and by historical sources that claim that the phallus was always not only the sign of sexual potency, but also the sign of power and strength.
As far as the conception itself is concerned, the phallus as the means of penetration is not necessary at all, since the spermatozoids are capable of travelling the whole distance to the ovule even from the external surface of the sexual organs, to say nothing when there is minimal penetration.
In other words, the big phallus is attractive to such women not because of its mechanical possibilities to excite sensitive zones, but because of its ethological influence on instinctive templates of female behaviour, which count a bearer of a bigger phallus to be a higher ranked male in average.
www.geocities.com /protopop_1999/phalluse.html   (4085 words)

  
  Phallus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hohle phallus, a 28,000-year-old siltstone phallus discovered in the Hohle Fels cave and first assembled in 2005, is among the oldest phallic representations known.
The symbolic version of the phallus, a phallic symbol is meant to represent male generative powers.
The symbolic phallus is the concept of being the ultimate man, and having this is compared to having the divine gift of God.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phallus   (992 words)

  
 The Reign of the Phallus
The phallus was pictured everywhere in ancient Athens: painted on vases, sculpted in marble, held aloft in gigantic form in public processions, and shown in stage comedies.
This obsession with the phallus dominated almost every aspect of public life, influencing law, myth, and customs, affecting family life, the status of women, even foreign policy.
This is the first book to draw together all the elements that made up the "reign of the phallus"--men's blatant claim to general dominance, the myths of rape and conquest of women, and the reduction of sex to a game of dominance and submission, both of women by men and of men by men.
www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/6021.html   (485 words)

  
 California Fungi: Phallus hadriani
Phallus hadriani is recognized by a phallic-shaped fruiting body, the fertile head coated with malodorous olive-grey slime, a pallid, spongy, textured stipe, and a membranous, lilac/pinkish colored, saccate volva.
Phallus hadriani is uncommon in California, restricted largely to disturbed habitats.
Like most stinkhorns, the life span of the fruiting body is short, only a day or two, just long enough for flies to carry away the slime in which its spores are embedded.
www.mykoweb.com /CAF/species/Phallus_hadriani.html   (269 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: phallus
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His sports car was his phallus, and women flocked to it.
The man's phallus was crooked because he tried to fuck a goat sideways.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=phallus   (235 words)

  
 phallus
The Poca Post announces the release of a new stamp recognizing the official mushroom of the Poca River.
The mushroom is commonly known as a "stinkhorn" (genus Phallus, var.
The fungus is very closely related to the more common Phallus ravenelii which is often found in sawdust piles and old lumber yards east of the Mississippi River.
sun.soci.niu.edu /~benm/stamps/phallus.html   (229 words)

  
 Phallus
The phallus is used in psychoanalysis either as a symbol of ultimate male power or the female lack.
Lacan saw the phallus as the symbolic function, the bearer of the 'Law of the father'.
This becomes particularly significant during gender discovery and the Oedipus Complex, where the boy may re-present himself to his mother as 'having the phallus' and the girl as 'being the phallus', both on the assumption that the mother desire the phallus.
changingminds.org /disciplines/psychoanalysis/concepts/phallus.htm   (191 words)

  
 Phallus impudicus and P. hadriani: The Common Stinkhorn (MushroomExpert.Com)
Phallus impudicus, a common and widely distributed stinkhorn, was named by a French mycological pioneer with a French sense of humor.
At any rate, like the other stinkhorns, Phallus impudicus covers its tip with a foul smelling and spore-laden slime; flies are attracted to it, and carry the spores away as they continue on their little fly adventures.
Phallus impudicus and Phallus hadriani differ only in the color of the volva (white in the former, purplish in the latter); both are described and illustrated here.
www.mushroomexpert.com /phallus_impudicus.html   (446 words)

  
 Hōnen Matsuri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hōnen festival and ceremony celebrate the blessings of a bountiful harvest and all manner of prosperity and fertility.
The wooden phallus is carried from a shrine called Shinmei Sha on a large hill, to another shrine called Tagata Jinja.
When the procession makes its way down to Tagata Jinja the phallus in its mikoshi is spun furiously before it is set down and more prayers are said.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hounen_Matsuri   (303 words)

  
 Duck Reproductive System   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The phallus is the single intermittent organ of the Duck, and is similar to the penis of other taxa and the hemipenes of the Copperhead snake.
The phallus is known as the “true penis,” and is only found in the domestic birds such as the duck, chicken, turkey, and geese.
The phallus is responsible for directing sperm into the urodaeum of the female from the cloacal region of the male (Chiasson 1959).
campus.murraystate.edu /academic/faculty/terry.derting/cva_atlases/canduck/reproduck.htm   (349 words)

  
 The Woman's Phallus
Farnell argues that the phallus is one of the objects to which the power of the god adheres: it is in a sense the divinity itself.
A phallus of the size we are discussing isn't sensual, it's powerful in a very raw sense of the word.
The woman with the phallus, then, claims the power the god confers on his worshippers, particularly his female worshippers: to step beyond the boundaries of their societally prescribed roles, to control their own sexuality and the power of sexuality in general, and to move in and through a period of intoxication.
www.speakeasy.org /~bwilliam/dion.html   (1248 words)

  
 STUDIO 925 The Sacred Phallus phallic symbolism cultural customs phallus worship ceremonies magic power beliefs rites ...
Some consider the worship of the phallus to be at the origin of every religion, based upon belief that the phallus is the image of the creator in mankind.
Contempt, degradation, or debasement of this sacred symbol is thought to provoke the anger of the gods, for the one who scorns the very symbol of life is abandoning the human race to extinction.
A stone phallus is worshipped in every household, and large wooden ones are carried in holy processions.
www.studio925.com /phallus.htm   (423 words)

  
 CBC Radio | Ideas | Features | Phallus in Wonderland
From Eva C. Keuls, The Reign of the Phallus.
Greek men believed the phallus carried magical, protective powers that guarded a house or public institution.
The Reign of the Phallus, Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens by Eva C. Keuls, University of California Press, 1985.
www.cbc.ca /ideas/features/phallus-wonderland/index.html   (522 words)

  
 Phallus Fossil - Crystalinks
A sculpted and polished phallus found in a German cave is among the earliest representations of male sexuality ever uncovered, researchers say.
The Tubingen team working Hohle Fels already had 13 fractured parts of the phallus in storage, but it was only with the discovery of a 14th fragment last year that the team was able finally to put the "jigsaw" together.
The different stone sections were all recovered from a well-dated ash layer in the cave complex associated with the activities of modern humans (not their pre-historic "cousins", the Neanderthals).
www.crystalinks.com /fossilphallus.html   (431 words)

  
 PHALLUS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Latin name for the stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus) means literally "the phallus without shame".
Phallus impudicus is a member of the Basidiomycota and is remarkable because of its mode of spore dispersal.
This fungus grows on buried wood beneath leaf litter in humus-rich soils, where it is attached to the wood by a thick mycelial cord.
helios.bto.ed.ac.uk /bto/FungalBiology/phallus.htm   (346 words)

  
 Lolita's Phallus
Since the fantasies in question make clear that the boy has acknowledged the phallus as the differentializing entity and "successfully overcame the castration anxiety" (363), it follows that the conventional resolution of the Oedipus complex qua subject's enlightenment as to the signification/meaning of the phallus leaves the latter's function a puzzle.
Instead of the vagina good-enough to accommodate every phallus, the phallus is frozen in uniqueness which it cannot tolerate [27].
Confronted with indistinguishable doors/vaginas the phallus is bound to shrink, is doomed to an ultimate aphanistic disappearance.
noel.pd.org /topos/perforations/perf13/lolita/lolphall.html   (6981 words)

  
 GENDER AND THE PHALLUS IN DIONYSIAN RELIGION
The bull is a widespread and unequivocal symbol of male strength, potency and virility, particularly in the cultures of India, the near east, and the Mediterranean.
The potency of the phallus and the fertility of the plant kingdom are connected, and their conjunction can be seen in a common Dionysian symbol.
The thyrsus in art can also stand in for the unseen phallus of the god, such as in the fresco at the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii; Dionysos is reclining with his bride Ariadne and the thyrsus is strategically located in the vicinity of his loins, tilted at an appropriate angle.
home.earthlink.net /~delia5/pagan/dio/tp99s-dnys-donnr.htm   (4510 words)

  
 Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick | Phallus
The phallus most often refers to the physical male genitalia, although in some cases it can refer to the clitoris, or the labia majora and labia minora of a female during fetal development, or to the male and female genitalia conjoined, or to the organ before sexual differentiation is evident.
The shape of the figure I suggests the Phallus; this chapter is therefore called the Sabbath of the Goat, the Witches' Sabbath, in which the Phallus is adored.
In a little portable temple brought from the Rohilla country during the late war, and now in the British Museum, this composition appears mounted on a pedestal, in the midst of a square area, sunk in a block of white alabaster.
www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Phallus   (950 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient phallus unearthed in cave
A sculpted and polished phallus found in a German cave is among the earliest representations of male sexuality ever uncovered, researchers say.
The Tübingen team working Hohle Fels already had 13 fractured parts of the phallus in storage, but it was only with the discovery of a 14th fragment last year that the team was able finally to put the "jigsaw" together.
The different stone sections were all recovered from a well-dated ash layer in the cave complex associated with the activities of modern humans (not their pre-historic "cousins", the Neanderthals).
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/4713323.stm   (476 words)

  
 Primeval humans practiced cult of phallus 28,000 years ago - Pravda.Ru
A group of specialists of the Tuebingen University, with Nicholas Conard at the head, noticed that the phallus was adorned with a pattern of lines carved on the sides and on the top of the stone.
Scientists uncovered a 19,2-centimeter phallus made of 14 fragments in 2004 too: the finding was referred to the ice age epoch.
The figurines are a thousand years older than the stone phallus and can thus be described as most ancient pieces of sculpture work that have ever been found in the history of the human civilization.
english.pravda.ru /science/19/94/377/15880_phallus.html   (665 words)

  
 Kuenselonline   (Site not responding. Last check: )
“The phallus is nothing but an artistic folk device by which human beings confront the issue of male ego,” he said.
“The idea of a phallus as a symbol is an elemental driving force in a society,” he said.
According to some sources, some French churches had a withered phallus that had turned red with the libations of wine which pious women had poured on it.
www.kuenselonline.com /article.php?sid=2473   (1896 words)

  
 Lolita's Phallus
Since the fantasies in question make clear that the boy has acknowledged the phallus as the differentializing entity and "successfully overcame the castration anxiety" (363), it follows that the conventional resolution of the Oedipus complex qua subject's enlightenment as to the signification/meaning of the phallus leaves the latter's function a puzzle.
And this is precisely why the primal scene fantasy becomes the ultimate resolution of Oedipus: the purification of both parties performing coitus is accomplished only thanks to the idealizing identification at a distance, the latter acting as the bar which splits the onlooker from virginity, placing him on the post-lapsarian post-oedipal stage.
Instead of the vagina good-enough to accommodate every phallus, the phallus is frozen in uniqueness which it cannot tolerate [27].
www.pd.org /topos/perforations/perf13/lolita/lolphall.html   (6981 words)

  
 Phallus - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
The phallus most often refers to the physical male gentalia, although in some cases it can refer to the clitoris, labia majora and labia minora of a female during fetal development, or the term may refer to the organ before sexual differentiation is evident.
It is often represented as an erect penis, although other possible symbols are the cross, the winged globe, the Sun, and the wand.
The shape of the figure I suggests the Phallus; this chapter is therefore called the Sabbath of the Goat, the Witches' Sabbath, in which the Phallus is adored.
www.egnu.org /thelema/Phallus   (625 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transsexuals: Books: Dean Kotula   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Phallus Palace is a bold approach to the subject of female to male transexuals (FTMs).
Dean Kotula, in his book, Phallus Palace, argues that "what is common to all transsexuals and what distinguishes them from other sexual minorities is an aversion toward or awkwardness with one's genitals and a desire for sex-assignment surgery" (xx).
Phallus Palace is certainly a book that could not only introduce the possibility of (surgical) transition to FTMs, but also fortify the conviction of those considering undergoing surgery.
www.amazon.com /Phallus-Palace-Female-Male-Transsexuals/dp/1555836542   (1666 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/phallusdei
With the collaboration of John Walker as guest vocalist, a long cherished wish of Phallus Dei is fulfilled.
Phallus Dei were commissioned to write the entire soundtrack of the movie, based on their album “Orpheus and Eurydice” (Paragoric, 1996).
Hi Phallus Dei, just a quick hello from the Jazz Pistols - hope you are doing fine and the first few weeks of 2007 have been great so far.
www.myspace.com /phallusdei   (1179 words)

  
 Masquing the phallus: genital ambiguity in Mary Renault's historical novels Twentieth Century Literature - Find Articles
Through her choice of subject, Renault was donning a male mask in order to trespass on particularly "male" turf; knowledge of the classical world had long served to define the British ruling class and to justify its position of cultural privilege.
In the process, Renault's use of masks suggests that gender is itself more masquerade than biological essence and that the phallus, crucial indicator in Western culture of sexual difference, may not be as clear a gender marker as it seems.
As a post-Freudian woman and as a lesbian, Renault was deeply concerned with the relationship between phallus and power, between bodily taxonomy and personal identity.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0403/is_n2_v42/ai_19259726/pg_1   (890 words)

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