This is from Salon, a few excerpts from a new book by Terence Clarke.
The stories are a revelation to me, especially the sensitivity and humor the men have used to express their feelings.
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If the link doesn't work, I'll copy the stories to this thread.
http://salon.com/sex/feature/2003/05/13/cleopatra_1/index.html
The Penis Papers
Men talk intimately, humorously and with great honesty about their most private part.
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By Terence Clarke
May 13, 2003 | We thought it was time for a series on men and their penises. Penises are often overlooked, underdiscussed and taken for granted unless they're in use. Many men are hesitant to speak about their penises except in the crudest, or most perfunctory, ways.
Novelist and screenwriter Terence Clarke has broken through these barriers and is in the process of interviewing more than 200 men -- from a black limo driver to an underemployed Irish poet, and even a man who is becoming a woman.
The pieces running this week are selections from an upcoming book called "Cleopatra's Needle: A Report From the Heart and Soul of Men's Last Taboo." The idea for the project came about when Clarke and editor/publisher Alan Rinzler were talking about Eve Ensler's "Vagina Monologues" and realized that there was no comparable work on men. Clarke says, "Men keep quiet about their penises but underneath all that silence is an authentic universal preoccupation with precisely what is never mentioned."
All names have been changed to protect the privacy of the penises.
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