Huge by John Patrick

Author:John Patrick [Patrick, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2008-04-23T22:00:00+00:00

Afterword: “The New Penis?”

John Patrick

A frank new, unashamed male sexuality is on the rise. That’s the opinion of The Village Voice’s columnist “Ven Detta.”

“You spot one every day,” Ven claims. “Framed by well-washed jeans. Profiled through cotton sweats. Shrink-wrapped in Lycra. There’s another now on the IRT, straining against the inseam of a Brooks Brothers wool blend. Perhaps it’s pressed against your leg.”

What is it that Ven’s spotting? Why, the penis, of course. The New Penis. “It’s urgent, surprising,” Ven says. “Yet shy. And suddenly, it’s in the news.

“What is it about this insignificant flesh cylinder that’s giving fashionable people pause? Is it biology or culture that’s propelled the male member to the forefront of style?”

Ven answers these questions by quoting Jason Kanner of Boss Models, Inc., who revealed in People magazine that “men are more body-conscious these days.”

Yes, finally, it seems, the penis, is undergoing a social emergence. What was once “coyly buried in folds of Eisenhower era surge” is far more visible, but the penis for the ‘90s isn’t the chaste James Dean bulge of “Rebel Without a Cause,” or the raunchy outline of Joe Dallesandro’s hefty tool used on the cover of the Stones’ “Sticky Fingers” album.

“It’s an amalgam,” Ven insists. “Assertive, informed, utilitarian, presenting itself with Horatio Alger optimism: buoyant, modest, but all there.”

Ven credits style-setters like Bruce Weber and poet Robert Bly for bringing the penis out of the closet. Superstar examples of this New Penis are Marky Mark with his pants down and Jason Priestley in his crotch-clutching jeans, but you can see examples in everyday life. Ven tells about meeting a salesman at a Gap store who resembles a young Warren Beatty and wears his pants at fashion-able flood-level: “His balls are tucked in on either side of the rise. The penis points upward to noon. The effect is eye catching, well balanced, sprightly. ‘I always wear it this way,’ he claims”

And now to the point. Whereas this book has been about men’s obsession with size, Ven says that’s old hat. The new thinking is that “a Harry Reems thumper is as relevant today as the running board on a DeSoto. It ruins the line. The pumped-up porn penis of the demented disco decades now carries other connotations. And in the latex age, no one wants to be around when the Ultra-MAXXX goes pop “

Oh yeah?

Just ask writer Jim Shelley. He says, “This may be the New Age, but the penis is stubbornly lagging behind. There is nothing modern about the penis (you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, as they say), and men are still very attached to them.

“Does size matter?

“Size, believe me, matters (it matters tome that I’ve got a big one). ‘Size doesn’t matter’ is what men with small penises say. The point about penises is: They are never big enough. After all, anyone who says it’s fine to have a small one has small one. Anyone who admits he’s got a small one is a wounded wreck and actually has a very small one.

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