[discussing use of the word 'penis' in an article on human reproduction]
If it's just a 'completly ordinary part of the human body,' why is it forbidden by both social taboo and criminal law to display it in public? We call them the 'dirty parts' for a reason - they are kept out of sight because this allows them to be kept out of mind, not filling people's thoughts with lust and sin or damaging children.
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"If it's just a 'completely ordinary part of the human body,' why is it forbidden by both social taboo and criminal law to display it in public?"
*calmly, and quite seriously* Why, indeed?
"We call them the 'dirty parts' for a reason "
That reason being you dipshit fundies go ballistic if anything remotely related to desire is mentioned.
Non fundies just go about their business.
Under normal circumstances, a PENIS is required for reproduction, as is a VAGINA.
In other news, Andy Schlafly vehemently denies that he came out of his mother's body.
[Editorial] Poor guy. I would deny that as well.
When you go to the doctor's office, do they still call it a "pee pee?" Because most doctors I know call it by it's medical name, PENIS!
I know randomly capitalizing words is frowned upon, but if ever there was a word that needed capitalizing...
For some reason I immediately thought of this Monty Python bit...
Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
Dirty? I just had a bath, and I washed certain parts very carefully, thank you very much.
(I really did just get out of the bath. NAK, if y'know what I mean, Andy).
It's dirty because sublimating the sex drive into religious ecstasy is just one of the many rewarding ways that religious hucksters play mindfuck with the rest of the population.
You didn't think it was easy screwing up civilization this way, did you?
@ Amanda: the sight of a penis doesn't fill my mind with thoughts of sin either. I do find them amusing though.
You know what I find interesting. When I was about 4 years old, in daycare, a little boy pulled his pants down and started flashing his penis around. I probably would have no memory of the incident except that the teachers (or whatever they're called) FREAKED out and grabbed him and ran him out of the room, then sat us all down and talked to us about how inappropriate his behaviour was. So, the funny thing is, the sight of the penis wasn't traumatic in any way but the overreaction of the adults scarred me for life.
Sexual repression leads to over-stimulation once sexuality has been discovered. I guarantee you that if we as a Society would be more open towards sex we'd have less perverts (technically everyone's a pervert, even straight sex is a "fetish") because the stigma would be gone.
Example : Japan, largest porn industry in the world, but lowest sexual crime rate. There might not really be a relation though since Japan generally doesn't have much crime period.
"Sex itself is a low form of reproduction engaged in by animals and Democrats. It is the official position of all decent folk that God played an awful joke on us when he invented it, and someone should speak to him about it."
Some of these contributors have to be trolling.
Most of us stopped callig it, "pee-pee" or "wee-wee" when we were children. Then it became dick, prick, johnson,...
(Godbuster)
It's ironic that you should mention Japan, though. The main reason for the existence of tentacle-porn is due to the Japanese censorship laws regarding human genitals (laws which, if I recall correctly, are only nowadays being relaxed).
And, yes, I'm aware that The Dream Of The Fisherman's Wife predates all that by at least a century.
ADDENDUM:
(szaleniec)
In the immortal words of Ozzy Osbourne: "Can you say 'Mister Tinkertrain'?"
You conservatards should know that the world has moved on in the 21st century and, aside from backwards Muslim countries, most people in modern nations don't sweat the words "penis", "breast", "vagina", or "buttock" much. Most of them don't lose any sleep if they see any of those either.
Huh. I once saw the penis of a burn victim, and felt nothing but pity.
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Heh heh, heh, heh he. He said "penis".
Really Crusader, grow the hell up already.
This sort of statement is why so many fundie kids end up in therapy for 20 years, and live their whole lives without having a fulfilling sex-life, because of the bizarre repression that was forced up on them during their childhood years. New Crusader, you're a dead-set fucktard.
They may be kept out of sight, but if you think they're kept out of mind, you're out of yours.
PENIS. PENIS. PENIS. HEY! PENIS. PENIS. PENIS. HEY!
Nice conga beat, eh?
Yet I can look at penis' (penii?) all day long and it does nothing for me. It's just a part of the anatomy. Maybe it was growing up on the farm, maybe it was because I had a really down to earth uncle. Maybe it was having to do animal husbandry things like horse sheath cleaning . But I'm completely immune to the attack of the visible penis.
they are kept out of sight because this allows them to be kept out of mind
Oh yeah? Well, absence makes the heart grow fonder!
Then again, if you still don't like the word 'penis' I know an awful lot of other terms for it...
If it's just a 'completly ordinary part of the human body,' why is it forbidden by both social taboo and criminal law to display it in public? We call them the 'dirty parts' for a reason - they are kept out of sight because this allows them to be kept out of mind, not filling people's thoughts with lust and sin or damaging children.-Quote New Crusader
Hey dude you didn't say any of that shit when you ordered your new hand carved bed, you better not try to back out now, your deposit barely covers the materials. BTW it is almost complete, see the attached picture...
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You shouldn't display them in public, but calling them "dirty parts" in an actual article about how they work is not scientific.
Oh wait. Conservapedia. It's free of reality's well-documented liberal bias.
The "no-no parts" aren't "dirty"... your mind, however, *is*, if someone says "penis" in a medical context and your first thought involves sex.
So, does Conservapedia have a section on STD's? "Unmentionable afflictions of the rude bits, naughty parts and don't-go-there's brought on by poor morals?" Seriously, when my Mum was in a Catholic boarding school she told me they had to shower in their underwear to prevent them from getting corrupted by the sight of their own genitalia.
A couple of points here...
1) If they're so dirty, why haven't you cut yours off yet? The gene pool will thank you.
2) Body image issues and self loathing for the lose.
3) If god made the human body in his own image, and the human body is perfect because god made it, then isn't the penis a part of this perfect human body, and by hiding it and calling it dirty, aren't you disrespecting god's work?
Ugh, it's stupid people like you who make nudity a taboo, just because I enjoy being naked does not mean I ogle everyone naked I see, and it doesn't mean that I lust after anyone and everyone. Nudism is about being comfortable with your body, and NOT seeing a naked body as a sex object all the time. No wonder you're afraid to be naked - you're the one who can't look at the human figure without thinking about sex!
Most people call them "private parts" because they are parts of our bodies we use for private activities. There is nothing dirty about them (unless you don't wash them) and seeing the word "penis" especially in a technical article is not going to do anybody any harm.
If those words fill you "lust and sin" it's because you've been taught to associate them with "lust and sin", if we treated those words just like we treat the words "ankle" and "nose" there would be no problem.
they are kept out of sight because this allows them to be kept out of mind, not filling people's thoughts with lust and sin
So you get filled by Lust just by seeing a (non erect) penis?
"they are kept out of sight because this allows them to be kept out of mind, not filling people's thoughts with lust"
Why are you having lustful thoughts about a penis?
If it's just a 'completly ordinary part of the human body,' why is it forbidden by both social taboo and criminal law to display it in public?
Because prudish people like you insist that if a person catches so much of a glimpse of cock or pussy, they will go on a completely uncontrollable rape spree. Further, that if a child has to acknowledge that other people have a pee-pee or a bunny hole, that their fragile little psyches will be shattered to the point that the best they could hope for is to be the best crack dealer in the drop in center.
We call them the 'dirty parts' for a reason - they are kept out of sight because this allows them to be kept out of mind, not filling people's thoughts with lust and sin or damaging children.
"We call them the 'dirty parts' for a reason"
No, I believe the term you're looking for is "trouser devil ."
Yeah, because flashing and using the scientific name for human male genitalia in an article on human reproduction is totally the fucking same thing.
"Damaging children"? Wtf? Do your kids pee through a straw while wearing gloves so they don't touch their "dirty parts"? I'm getting a strong Carrie's mom vibe from you.
@Old Viking: LMAO!
Well NC I'll horrify you. I used the actual names of the body parts when telling my kid what they are called. Penis, vagina, scrotum, breast, etc. She was about 3. You'd consider that abuse, I'll bet. It hasn't damaged her because she plays some mean poker. It would fill her with lust to win your money.
I don't like the word penis either, I prefer more classy and subtle terms (if you're going to speak about it at all).
"If it's just a 'completly ordinary part of the human body,' why is it forbidden by both social taboo and criminal law to display it in public? We call them the 'dirty parts' for a reason - they are kept out of sight because this allows them to be kept out of mind, not filling people's thoughts with lust and sin"
Harry Johnson
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>:D
@Suzie
"I don't like the word penis either, I prefer more classy and subtle terms (if you're going to speak about it at all).
Like one eyed yogurt slinger."
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X3
That reminds me of one post in a forum I was a member of (*insert Gratuitous Double-Entendre of your choice here *), which referred to it as the 'Blue-veined Custard Chucker' (certainly one I'd never heard of before then).
Upon reading such, I literally spewed Pepsi out my nose and onto my keyboard (a good thing I have spare keyboards!) and nearly choked with laughter; it was all I could do to stop myself falling off my swivel chair, I could barely breathe for laughing!
Hmmm, that further reminds me...:
(*Clicks 'MP3s' folder in 'My Documents'; clicks open 'Weird Al Yankovic' folder, selects MP3 file and clicks for Winamp to play 'Pet Names for Genitalia' track *)
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