Manhood: The Rise and Fall of the Penis (51 page)

The ‘noble’ parts are in my view ‘casual staff’. They must be treated properly or they inevitably down tools. Excessive alcohol consumption, smoking, anabolic steroids, intensive pursuit of sports (marathon runners almost invariably have poor seed and racing cyclists have numb genitals after a long ride), underpants that are too warm, tight jeans, frequent saunas and endless hours in a warm bath are things a man should avoid.

More and more frequently men become alarmed about imagined abnormalities in their genitals. Usually these are innocuous ailments.

Even prostate cancer can be included among these in many cases.

Worshipped in ancient religions, then demonized by the Church fathers, secularized by learned anatomists and physiologists like Leonardo da Vinci, Reinier de Graaf and Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, and then for a while subjected to psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud: the ‘noble parts’ have been through quite a lot. After being praised to the skies by psychologists, abused by feminists and shamelessly exploited in pop culture, in the twenty-first century they are in danger of becoming totally medicalized. The erection and reproductive industries 272

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are developing apace. The ‘noble’ parts must not fail, the repeated resurrection of the flesh must continue to manifest itself. In cases where the reproductive mechanism fails there is support, as if it were perfectly normal. Darwin is defied, the human race can only become weaker, with debilitating ailments, en route for the end, the apocalypse.

Human suffering, bell-ringing, testicles, sperm, testosterone and testament are woven by poet Frederik Lucien de Laere into a harmonious, apocalyptic apotheosis entitled ‘Creation’:

It has been made, the testament.

The final testicle’s produced the final seed

and testosterone has sired a bald head.

After each big bang

millions of cells were

hurled into space

(cell shock, good God!)

They fought their way

through the expansiveness

in search of Columbus’s egg.

The pure globe shapes

once housed the origin

till the gong

boomed so loud

that it all blew up

and the dust of stars

spread across the heath,

the far and wide of the woman.

Now the emission has stopped

it hangs there quietly, its peal of bells

laid down by the music of the spheres.

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