Free Manhood: The Rise and Fall of the Penis by Mels van Driel Page A

for example, there is complete paralysis of the lower body as a result of a spinal fracture, an erection may still be produced through manual stimulation, a so-called reflex erection. As soon as the stimulation stops, the erection disappears. Coitus is not possible.
    Is the penis actually eatable as a blood sausage? Yes: Midas Dekkers writes about this in his book on bestiality, Dearest Pet . The recipe comes from the humble Jewish Yemeni culinary tradition: blanch and clean a goat’s penis. Boil for ten minutes and cut into slices. Sauté onions, garlic and coriander in oil. Add the penis and fry. Mix chopped tomatoes, pepper, cumin, saffron and salt and pour the mixture over the penis. Cover the pan and braise slowly for two hours until cooked.
    Experts have found the taste disappointing.
    The vagina dentata
    Some men are incapable of giving themselves sexually. They act tough, but really they’re wimps: their penis goes limp when they try to man -
    oeuvre it into the vagina. This is not true impotence, but is caused by the deep-seated fear of losing their beloved organ, fear of the vagina dentata , the sharp-toothed vagina, with which a man’s penis can be bitten off. The vagina dentata plays an important part in an old African legend: beautiful girls descend to earth from heaven and repeatedly steal a hunter’s bag. When a man keeping guard catches them, he 51
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    shoots one of them, but pays for his attempt to rape her with his member: her vagina contains extremely sharp teeth, with which she bites off his penis.
    An age-old Siberian fairy tale also tells of the vagina dentata, though this story has a fairly happy ending for the man. On one of his journeys a hunter meets a one-eyed cave-dweller. She claims him as her husband, but he hesitates. Though he finds her big breasts appealing, her strange face deters him. There is also a sound emanating from her body that is like the gnashing of teeth. When she has fallen asleep, he investigates where the noise is coming from. Between her legs he discovers two rows of teeth. The hunter then devises a trick. He looks for an oblong stone and when the woman wakes up and wants sex with him he puts the stone between his legs and her secret teeth grind and break on the rock-hard material until her vagina becomes like that of any other woman. Eventually the man takes her home with him as his slave.
    The vagina dentata is also found in modern feminist literature. Ela, the heroine of the novel F/32 , the debut of the Greek writer Eurydice Kamvisseli, has an amazingly tight and greedy sex organ, which is inexhaustibly described. She has a fan club of hundreds of ex-lovers, who wear a coloured ribbon round their penis, marking their place in the strict hierarchy of sexual feats. The book contains unforgettably amusing, instructive and enchanting passages. This is one from the prologue:
    Ela presents her cunt to men with great abandon, as if it were John the Baptist’s silver-tongued head on a platter, gives them license to do anything to it, to try their luck and not spare it . . .
    ‘Don’t mistake my cunt for the kudos ,’ Ela warns men at times, hoping to tip the scales . . . ‘Enter it at your own risk.’ They break into a cocky laugh.
    Not long afterwards her cunt devours them whole . . . If you didn’t know, it must be clear by now. The fear of the vagina dentata and the accompanying premature loss of erection before entering, are as old as mankind. The only thing that helps is to talk about it.
    Men obviously sometimes have weird ideas about female genitalia: not only that there are teeth set in them, but also that women have two vaginas rather than one. This is an age-old theme described by the Italian Poggio Bracciolini in his fifteenth-century Liber facetiarum (Book of Humour): a completely idiotic farmer, who hasn’t a clue about sex, gets married. In bed he thrusts his ‘spear’ into his wife’s backside.
    Delighted at his successful attempt he asks