JEFFREY TOBIN is an associate professor in Occidental College's department of critical theory and social justice. MY 15 MINUTES of fame can be measured by Googling “phallus” and “phallologocentrism” ...

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July 28, 2005 — -- It might be small and older than old but there's little doubt about what the stone object represents. The not-quite-8-inch polished stone sculpture, found in a cave in ...

A carving of a phallus in a rock would probably seem like the handiwork of a bored youth today, but such imagery was especially common in ancient Greece and Rome as a symbol of good luck rather than a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Avery Nelson/TMD. The penis, perhaps, in its most potent, primal state, might be one of the ...

The dry expanses of south-eastern Türkiye, home to some of humanity's most ancient sites, have yielded fresh discoveries in the form of a stone phallus and a coloured boar. A 2.3 metre statue has been ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Archaeologists in Turkey have found evidence that an 11,000-year-old prehistoric site was used ...

An ancient Roman wooden phallus found buried in a ditch was likely used for sexual purposes and is now on display at a museum in England. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Urban legendry includes many tales of risqué images slipped into children's cartoons by prankish animators or others involved in the production process. While a few such tales are genuine, most of ...

Size matters at the Shinto Kanamara Matsuri, where groups of locals parade three heavy phalluses around the city - the biggest was as tall as a full-grown man. Japanese revellers carried giant ...

Bhutanese director Tashi Gyeltshen's debut 'The Red Phallus' charts the anguish of a high-school student as she's caught between her sculptor father, her married boyfriend and her own confusion about ...