Read Manhood: The Rise and Fall of the Penis Online
Authors: Mels van Driel
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Acknowledgements
Working in a university means being prepared to collaborate with other disciplines. Sexology is very well suited to this. In it you find general practitioners, gynaecologists, urologists, psychotherapists, psychologists, biologists, social workers, historians and occasionally ‘oddballs’.
Recently I had the privilege of working with a jaw surgeon who was doing a doctorate on the ‘sleep apnoea syndrome’ and had brought sex into it.
Sexologists based in the north of the Netherlands have close ties and encourage each other wherever possible, for example by writing popular-scientific books or chapters in academic volumes. On this occasion I should like to mention Jelto Drenth and Willibrord Weijmar Schultz by name.
Without Ab Oost, a bibliophile from Deventer, I would never have been able to write my books and articles. He has been responsible to a considerable degree for my acquiring a very large collection of anti-quarian books on male impotence.
Koos Meuzelaar, a thoracic surgeon but also a very well-read clergyman’s son, lent me relevant medical-historical works, of which I have made extensive use.
Since my appointment (1983) at the Groningen University Medi cal Centre – according to an Italian journal the most beautiful hospital building in Europe – Douwe Buiter has always been prepared to provide illustrations free of charge, for which I am most grateful. He is one of the many unassuming, dedicated members of staff in our hospital.
I also want to thank the Members of the Boards of the Professor Piet Boer Foundation for Urology and the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, who made the translation of this book into English possible. Finally, my editor Peter Claessens put me on the right track. I was in danger of opting for the ‘narrow’ path, 281
ac k n ow l e d g e m e n t s
but he led me towards the ‘broad’ highway, on which the phallus and the testicle remained connected. ‘A man – not even you – should not put asunder what the Creator has joined together inextricably for all eternity’, was his judgement.
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Index
Abélard, Pierre 107, 132
Beheri, G. E. 189
adultery
Berthold, A. A. 81
and heart attacks 197
Bett, W. R. 187
and impotence 147, 161–3
Bobbitt, Lorena 170–71
ageing
Bogoras, N. A. 187
and castration 83–4
Bouncing Balls
(film) 23
and impotence 45–6, 89–91, 193–7, 271
Bracciolini, Poggio 52–3
and orgasm 76
Brindley, Giles 184
and sexual intercourse 77–8, 79
Broschi, Carlo (Farinelli) 110–11
and testicles 81–6, 89–91, 139
Brown, Louise 229
alcohol, effect of 118, 156–7
Brown-Séquard, Edouard 82
Anafranil 79–80
Broyard, Anatole,
Intoxicated by My Illness
Ancient world
68–9
aphrodisiacs 178
Buhl, Wolfgang 165, 166
castration 11, 97–9, 101–6, 110, 172
Bulgakov, Mikhail,
Heart of a Dog
84–5
circumcision 205–6
Butenlandt, Adolf 87, 88
glans considered vulgar 46
impotence 98–9
castration
masturbation 242
and ageing 83–4
penis and testicles, names for 10–12
in Ancient world 11, 97–9, 101–6, 110, 172
semen, understanding of 13
of animals 96–7
sexuality and religious observance 37–8
anxiety 97–100
undescended testicles 119
chemical 102, 115–16
aphrodisiacs 175–82
and Christianity 106–8
chocolate 181
cultural influences 100–9, 131
gingko 179–80,
180
hemicastration 135
ginseng 180–81
and high-pitched voice 109–11
mandrake 177
and legal action against impotence 111–13
mistletoe 177–8
meaning of 8
musk 179
modern-day eunuchs 115–16
rhino horn 181
and prostate 14
Spanish fly 73, 175–6
as punishment 132
testicles as 80
and tomb of Oscar Wilde 114–15,
114
yohimbine 176, 182
voluntary 96
Aristophanes,
Acharnes
37
Cats, Jacob 259
Aristotle 13, 14, 15, 37
Ceronetti, Guido 66, 69
Armstrong, Lance 136–8
Chang, Jolan,
The Tao of Love and Sex
57,
150, 249
Bardenheuer, Bernhard 221
China
Bataille, Georges 264, 265
aphrodisiacs 179
283
i n d e x
castration 100–1
frequency of 77–80
impotence 45, 148, 150
origin of term 12
sterilization 217–18,
218
in other species 19, 74–5
Christianity
pain during 134
castration 106–8
premature 78–80
Christ’s crucifixion with erect penis 177
process 75–6
eunuchs and early 107
retrograde 156
impotence 38–9, 111–13
volume 19, 76
and marriage 161–2, 163
see also
semen; sexual intercourse
masturbation 244
Eliott, Havelock,
On Penises
60–61
penis as religious symbol 38–9
Ellis, Havelock 26, 172, 244–5, 266
pope, checking masculinity of 103
Engelstein, Laura,
Castration and the
sterilization 215
Heavenly Kingdom
107
see also
Old Testament
Epstein, Jacob, Oscar Wilde’s tomb 114–15,
circumcision
114
cervical cancer and 211
eunuchs
see
castration
and foreskin restoration 210–11, 212
and haemophilia 210
Famel, Nicolas 154–5
health 211–13
Farinelli (Carlo Broschi) 110–11
and hiv 212–13
fertility problems
and hygiene 208
and artificial insemination 73, 228–31
and phimosis (foreskin contraction) 203–4,
and azoospermis 227–8, 231
208–9
diagnostic methods 224–6
ritual 38, 204–8, 209–10, 211
dna diagnosis 227
and ‘Spanish collar’ 208–9,
209
and echography 226
and venereal disease 211–12
fertility tourism 236
Claus, Hugo,
The Year of Cancer
36
freezing sperm cells 232, 240
Claus von Amsberg, Prince 67
and genetic abnormality 226–7
Cobb, Matthew,
The Egg and Sperm Race
42
icsi 229–31,
231
, 240
computer sex 265–6
ivf (in-vitro fertilization) 229
condoms
morality concerns 237–9
ribbed 48
and multiple pregnancies 230
and size of penis 55–6
Sertoli-cell only syndrome 228
contraception
sperm donorship 232–7
male hormonal 93–4
and sperm quality deterioration 222–3
voluntary childlessness 34
and testicular transplants 139–40