Tag: Penis

  • Assorted News and Random Links

    by Jason Stotts 1. Last year I blogged about how mohels fellating recently mutilated babies is disgusting, immoral, and led to a number of deaths.  Now these evil bastards are at it again: Herpes Strikes Two More Infants After Ritual Circumcision.  It is time to legally ban genital mutilation of children for non-medical reasons. At the…

  • The Truth about Penis Size and Enhancement

    by Jason Stotts It’s hard to be on the internet anymore without seeing ads for “penis enhancement” or techniques for making your penis bigger.  This, of course, is advertisement at its most effective: playing to insecurities about sex.  From watching porn, all men know that the average penis size is 8-9″ and so when they…

  • What We Didn’t Know About the Penis

    by Jason Stotts Did you ever wonder how what is essentially a balloon full of blood becomes erect and hard enough to penetrate tight spaces and resist lots of pressure?  Now you can find out in this fascinating TED talk.

  • Sex Facts #1: All Men Start as Women

    by Jason Stotts Not everyone knows this, but all fetuses start out as more or less female until it is about 7 weeks old or so.  At that point, sex hormones cause the proto-female sex organs to close and begin to build the penis. In the picture below, A and B are before sex differentiation.…

  • Sexual Etymology: Penis and Vagina

    by Jason Stotts In this week’s edition of Sexual Etymology, we’re going to look at the origins of the words “penis” and “vagina.” I think you might be somewhat surprised at what we find. Vagina: (n.) passage from the uterus to the vulva.  1682, New Latin, from Latin vagina (sheath, scabbard) perhaps cognate with Lithuanian vozti…