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Phallacy

Life Lessons from the Animal Penis

Emily Willingham

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English
Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.
21 December 2020
A wry look at what the astonishing world of animal penises can teach us about male power and dominance.

A wry look at what the astonishing world of animal penises can tell us about how we use our own.

The fallacy sold to many of us is that the penis signals dominance and power.

But this wry and penetrating book reveals that in fact nature did not shape the penis--or the human attached to it--to have the upper...hand.

Phallacy looks closely at some of nature's more remarkable examples of penises and the many lessons to learn from them. In tracing how we ended up positioning our nondescript penis as a pulsing, awe-inspiring shaft of all masculinity and human dominance, Phallacy also shows what can we do to put that penis back where it belongs.

Emphasizing our human capacities for impulse control, Phallacy ultimately challenges the toxic message that the penis makes the man and the man can't control himself. With instructive illustrations of unusual genitalia and tales of animal mating rituals that will make you particularly happy you are not a bedbug, Phallacy shows where humans fit on the continuum from fun to fatal phalli and why the human penis is an implement for intimacy, not intimidation.
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Imprint:   Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 212mm,  Width: 136mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   413g
ISBN:   9780593087176
ISBN 10:   0593087178
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Emily Willingham is a journalist and science writer who earned a PhD in biology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in urology, both after taking a bachelor's degree in English literature. She is coauthor of The Informed Parent- A Science-Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years, and her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Aeon, Undark, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other outlets. She is a regular contributor to Scientific American.

Reviews for Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis

This is a hilarious tour through a menagerie of dicks, and a ferocious guide to not being a dick yourself. --Ed Yong, New York Times Bestselling Author of I Contain Multitudes PHALLACY is both smart and smart-ass, serious and startling--and it will make you reconsider your ideas about sexual balance of power in ways both satisfying and important. --Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of The New York Times Bestselling Author of The Poison Squad PHALLACY is Dr. Emily Willingham's detailed, insightful, and funny cross-species biography of the penis. It's an entertaining romp that is as much about evolution as it is about emotion and egos. It shines a light on how we became so penis-centric and the resulting repercussions for science, society, and sex. --Jen Gunter, MD, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Vagina Bible


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