Cover of Book of the Penis

Book 2000

Book of the Penis

10 readers

Publisher
Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Language
English
Published
2000
  • Penis
  • Social aspects
  • History
  • Fiction, general
  • Health

Novelist, playwright, and journalist Maggie Paley immersed herself in the obsessive world of this most forthright of organs, looking for answers high and low. She pored over scholarly volumes, anthropology texts, and sex-shop glossies; interviewed sex workers, transsexuals, and phallus connoisseurs of all stripes; attended male strip shows and a Hindu lingam ceremony; visited web sites where men share masturbation techniques; and even searched out the current location of Napoleon's penis. And, yes, she objectively addresses the big question: "Does size matter?"