Authors: Tom Hickman
gonorrhoea (or clap) 131, 133, 135
syphilis (or great pox) 131–3
treatments for 132–4
and use of condoms 134–5
Viagra 152, 154, 157, 160
Victoria & Albert Museum 162
Victoria, Queen 108, 144, 162
Victorian period 14, 76–7, 112, 125, 140, 141, 145, 176, 180, 190
Vidal, Gore 20
Vilar, Esther 51, 54–5, 56
Virag, Ronald 156–7
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de 129, 182
Voronoff, Serge 156
Walbiri of central Australia 106
Washington State University 102
Watton (Yorkshire) 118
Waugh, Alexander 22
The Way, The Supreme Path
Of
Nature
75
Webb, Geoffrey 79
Weissmuller, Johnny ‘Tarzan’ 90
West, Mae 207
What Men Want
(Gerstman, Pizzo, Seldes) 185, 194
White, Charles 18
Whitman, Walt 85, 182
Whythorne, Thomas 130
William of Poitiers 116
Williams, Esther 90
Williams, Robin 108
Wilmot, John, 2nd Earl of Rochester 38
witches 126–7
Wogan, Terry 98
women
and aesthetics of the penis 51–2
ambivalent attitude 2–3
benefits of intercourse 197–8
benefits of sperm 203–4
blamed for venereal disease 132, 133
conception and menstruation 71–2, 74–5
and curiosity concerning what an erection feels like 56
and damaging of male genitalia 77–8
and first encounters 55, 86
as the gateway of the devil 140–1
gender-change 63
inferior status of 64
and knowledge of paternity 164
knowledge of their anatomy 64–5
libido and infidelity 217
and male bridal-night fears 128–9
and male expectations of awe 54
and male fear of the vagina 128–31
and male marital duties 214–15
mismatch with male sexuality 135–9
mockery of the penis 43–4, 53
moving during intercourse 165
in mythology 65–6
and oral sex 183–6
and orgasm 195, 196
and penis envy 69
and physical emasculation of men 118–20
repulsion felt by 55–6
and sex with castrati 123
and sexual positions 187–9
sexual superiority of 137–8
size and look of the penis 56–9
Women in Love
(film) 25
The Women’s History of the World
(Miles) 46
Woolf, Virginia 175
World Health Organisation 207
Worsley, T.C. 175
Xhosa 162
yakuza
108
Yapese tribe (island in the Carolines) 213
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
(Caro) 90
Yeats, William Butler 155, 174–5
Yiddish proverb 2
yin-yang 107
Zelig
(film) 26
Zeus 83, 137
Zilbergeld, Dr Bernie 26
Zola, Emile 119
Zulu 162
Zuni tribe (New Mexico) 71
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