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1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f.32^v They haue left a voyde, and empty corner, for the subsistyng of Penis, and the Testicles.

1676 Sir T. Browne Let. 14 June in Wks. (1964) IV. 61 You may observe..the flattish heart, the Lungs,..the penis, the multiple stomack &c.

1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 224 Penis is the Yard, made up of two nervous Bodies, the Channel, Nut, Skin, and Fore-skin, &c.

1700 J. Jones Myst. Opium Reveal'd 35 It Relaxes; yet causes Rigidity, Tension, and Erection of the Penis, Priapisms, &c.

1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 541 An itching in the top of the penis.

1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 339 Becoming incorporated with the fibres of the symphysis pubis, and the suspensory ligament of the penis.

1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom vi. §120. 91 In Planaria tremellaris, the penis..is a white, contractile body, enclosed, when in a retracted state, in a small oval pouch.

1926 F. Z. Snoop Reprod. & Sexual Evol. 83 Havelock Ellis quotes other cases, even butterflies (if insects may be here included) who possess excrescences on their penes, which of necessity must cause pain, or something very like pain, during coition.

1933 R. L. Dickinson Human Sex Anat. vi. 74/2 The long penises are in general narrow and the short broad.

1965 E. W. Johnson Love & Sex in Plain Lang. ii. 8 A man's most obvious sexual organ is his penis.

1970 H. W. Levi & L. R. Levi tr. A. Kaestner Invertebr. Zool. III. v. 130 The paired penes are introduced deep into the posterior opening between the valves, reach the copulatory openings, and mating is accomplished in several minutes.

1991 N.Y. Times 10 Dec. b14/4 A disquisition on the structure of the penis and vagina, the physiology of sexual arousal and the mechanics of intercourse.

2004 Focus Feb. 17/4 The 425-million-year-old ostrocod, a water-flea, has a well-defined penis.

1901 Amer. Anthropologist 3 568/2 The oldest statues (from Negadeh, recently described by Naville) have a penis-cover like that of the Mobo in northern Togo.

1966 New Statesman 22 Apr. 589/2 Even more remarkable are the penis-covers made of narrow gourds a foot or more in length.

1992 Newsweek 10 Feb. 45/2 Perhaps the ultimate in disease protection is the unisex ‘condom garment’... Depending on which sex wears the garment, the sheath becomes either a vaginal liner or a penis cover.

1973 K. Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions xv. 147 One time Dwayne Hoover got an advertisement through the mail for a penis-extender, made out of rubber.

2000 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 5 Mar. 39 Cars are very powerful symbols in our culture. For a Freudian approach, a man's car is his penis extender.

1976 Times 31 May 7/8 Went native in 1681 living with the Cuna Indians, coated in vegetable dies [sic] and clothed only in a conical silver penis holder suspended from the waist by a thong.

1997 Lesbian Rev. Bks. (Nexis) 30 Apr. 25 A world in which..men..suffer daily indignities such as being forced to wear a ‘peho’ (penis holder) so their genitals won't dangle or droop.

1839 J. Y. Simpson in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 725/1 The repetition in the clitoris..of the penis-bone of the male.

1912 Amer. Anthropologist 14 393 From the Ojibwa of Sac Seul I have collected one small needle, made of the perforated penis bone of the martin and used in sewing garments.

1992 M. Schaffer-Fehre tr. S. Schaal & W. Ziegler Messel xv. 195 To the skeleton belongs also a penis bone (baculum) of an unusual size for primates, which allows us to conclude that this was a mature, male individual.

1920 B. Low tr. S. Freud Psychogenesis Female Homosexuality in Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 1 146 She had..developed a pronounced envy of the penis.]

1924 Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 5 58 Its relation to the ‘penis-envy’ complex is twofold.

1964 A. Borowik How Many Miles to Babylon? xv. 96 When I hear a guy talking to me about penis envy..I feel an overpowering urge to laugh.

2001 Isis 92 242/2 In her perspective, womb envy in men undoubtedly outdistances penis envy in women as a defining factor of personality development.

1928 Territory Papua Ann. Rep. 1926–7 in Geogr. Jrnl. (1929) 74 321 The men [of Papua] are not tall..; the nostrils are perforated and carry ornaments; they wear a penis-gourd.

1971 World Archaeol. 3 136 The traditional male dress is the penis gourd: a piece of the stem end of the gourd, varying in length from about three to more than twelve inches, into which the penis is inserted, leaving the scrotum exposed.

1994 New Scientist 12 Feb. 80/1 Three items had survived the blaze:..one was a penis gourd that Flannery had collected on a field trip to Papua New Guinea.

1874 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 164 140 In the anterior aspect of the vaginal tube close to its orifice opens the cavity of the ovoid portion of the generative mass, which consists of the sheath containing the penis and its contents: the cavity of the penis-sheath is of the same form as that of the sheath.

1925 C. K. Meek Northern Tribes Nigeria II. 116 Among those people who wear the penis-sheath, the sheath is usually removed before the body is laid in the grave.

1994 Independent on Sunday 6 Mar. (Review Suppl.) 53/2 To live as their ancestors did—in self-sufficiency, wearing grass skirts, and penis-sheaths, called nambas.