In the lavatory of the casualty department I stood beside Vaughan at the urinal stalls. I looked down at his penis, wondering if this too was scarred. The glans, propped between his index and centre fingers, carried a sharp notch, like a canal for surplus semen or vinal mucus. What part of some crashing car had marked his penis, and in what marriage of his orgasm and a chromium instrument panel? J G Ballard, Crash p91
He’s signalling to the bench with his groin. Mark Bright, football commentary
So stop looking at my breasts and start looking at my penis. The Office US s8e15: Tallahassee, Nellie, NBC 2011
Men and their cocks never cease to amaze me. Peaky Blinders s1e4, Polly, BBC 2013
Therapeutic aspiration: we’ll inject the needle into the side of the penis and draw the blood directly from the cavernosa. Ray Donovan s5e10, Bob the Builder, doctor solving Mickey’s priapism, Showtime 2017
Hucknall’s Cock Given Blue Plaque: Honour for Simply Red’s bell-end’s bell-end: The penis of ’80s heart-throb Mick Hucknall is to be honoured with a blue plaque, it was announced yesterday.
The flame-pubed sexual organ, which is thought to have been inserted into more than 3,000 women during the last 43 years, has been dubbed ‘a British institution well worth commemorating’ by senior members of English heritage. Viz magazine
J K Rowling is wrong: a woman can have a penis. Stella Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow, news 29 May 2022
No, it’s a fucking urban myth, like ghosts or large penises. What We Do in the Shadows s3e6: The Escape, Laszlo
The first problem is zero gravity or more accurately micro-gravity. The second problem is high-energy radiation ... According to at least one astronaut being in space produced what he called the Viagra effect ... NASA flight surgeons believe the redistribution of blood in micro-gravity is the cause. The Universe s3e4: Sex in Space, History 2008
A new anti-impotence drug just hit the market and doctors are already having a tough time keeping up with the patient demand for Viagra. Storyville: Keeping It Up: The Story of Viagra, TV news, BBC 2023
Viagra was a second sexual revolution. ibid. woman
As a lot of people, the whole world, knows I cut his penis off. There’s no way for me to candy-coat it. I just said it, right? I Cut Off His Penis: The Truth Behind the Headlines, ITV 2024
It’s 30 years since Lorena Bobbitt went on trial for cutting off her husband’s penis. But her case was just one of many. ibid. caption
Once upon a time in a city far far away [Salt Lake City, Utah] there was a man who built a multi-million-dollar business. The Great Erection Deception: The Stiff Night’s Story, ITV 2024
‘I never thought that I would be a criminal.’ ibid.
What happens when you cross a Mormon, a vegan, and an erectile dysfunction supplement? The answer is the jaw-dropping true story of Stiff Nights: Male Sexual Stimulant. There was a time when Stiff Nights was perhaps Viagra’s biggest rival. ibid.
Someone died. Someone went to jail. And someone did a runner. ibid.
They call him the Eunuch Maker: he castrated paying customers, sold or ate their body parts, and caught it all on camera. There’s a whole subculture of men out there who … True Crime Recaps: The Eunuch Maker, Youtube 2025
London, 2017, 999 call: The person had an accident with a kitchen knife. So he’s cut himself really bad. His groin. I don’t know exactly what happened. The Eunuch Maker I, CI 2025
‘He enabled the fantasies to be made real.’ ibid. comment
A subculture of mutilating, genitals severed, body parts traded and even eaten. And videos of it livestreamed to paying customers. ibid. Marcel’s commentary
Finsbury Park, North London: a group of men were arrested and charged for castrating and mutilating other men. ibid.
Who do our bodies belong to? And what can we do with them? ibid.
A man called Marius Gustavson. Who was he? And why did some people regard him as a hero. ibid.
At the heart of this case was a mystery: why would anyone choose to become a eunuch. ibid.
Far from being an historical curiosity, eunuchs exist today. ibid.
Behind the slick venner, things were going disastrously wrong. ibid.
The newspapers called him a cult-like leader, a sadistic monster. But others who knew him saw him differently. This is the extraordinary story of the eunuch maker. The Eunuch Maker II
He became the leader of an underground movement with followers worldwide. ibid.
The evidence they gathered including hours of video recordings made over seven years. Someone had the difficult job of watching it. There was evidence of dozens of castrations. ibid.
He was charged with multiple counts of grievous bodily harm. In the 12 months after Gustavson’s arrest, police identified and charged a further 9 accomplices. ibid.
One case kept coming up: R v MaCarthy: its controversial verdict would be key to the outcome of the hearing. Mac McCarthy was a body modification artist who practised under the name Doctor Evil.
Tatooist ‘Dr Evil’ jailed for performing ear and nipple removals: Brendan McCarthy also carried out tongue splitting procedure. ibid. online article
‘Their consent was invalid. The judge sentenced me to 60 months.’ ibid. Dr Evil
The judgment that bears his name confirms that consent is no defence to a charge of harm. It meant that a guilty verdict was almost inevitable. ibid.
Gustavson’s botched operations had nearly led to the deaths of three men. ibid.
Marius Gustavson was sentenced to Life in prison and ordered to serve a minumum of 22 years, longer than many convicted murderers. His followers also received heavy custodial sentences. ibid.