Throughout history man has revered his penis as his 'most precious ornament'.
Yet, ambivalently, his penis has always been the source of man's deepest neuroses too. Do women find it, in the erect state, inherently ridiculous? Why can't a man be certain his penis will stand and deliver when he commands? If and when it steadfastly refuses, what can he do to remedy the situation? And then, of course, there's the matter of size...
To possess a penis, Sophocles said, is to be 'chained to a madman'. God's Doodle examines the schizophrenic relationship between man and this madman - and the joint relationship this odd couple has with the female sex.
God's Doodle is the tale of the penis and the ups and downs of history - the macabre and the bloodcurdling, the funny and the sad, distilled from myth, world cultures, religion, literature, science, medicine and contemporary life - all told with mordant wit.
- ISBN10 0224095536
- ISBN13 9780224095532
- Publish Date 1 November 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 May 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Square Peg
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9780224095532