Phallacies
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The penis. Does size really matter? Is the male organ simply a tool for sex, or is it a phallic symbol worthy of deification? To what extent is men's preoccupation with their penises responsible for the aggressive, militaristic, and violent nature of our society? These are some of the questions that this ground-breaking, but non-titillating, film covers.
Anthropologists and historians find the phallus at the center of many ancient traditions and cultures. Greeks and Romans once adorned their pottery and other household items with images of the penis, regarding it as a potent symbol of fertility and longevity. In India today, we visit an old Hindu temple whose walls are sculpted in explicit scenes of erotic arts, with the penis prevalent. Pulling back we see that the entire temple is composed of upward thrusting phalluses in a glorified expression of sexuality through art and architecture.
In most eastern cultures the penis retains its symbolic representation of love and procreation, while in the west the organ has attained a very different status. Through interviews with experts and movie excerpts we see how machismo and the penis are intimately connected in our culture. Men's new body awareness has given the hidden appendage an awkward responsibility. We have come to gauge masculinity by the inch, and some will go to unusual lengths to insure they measure up.
Frank discussions with a number of men, and their mates, about sexual performance are presented. We meet Ian and Joan, seniors, who openly demonstrate how a garage mechanic's vacuum-pumped invention has brought the magic back into their bedroom. We hear Allard and Joyce describe their willing participation in the early clinical trial of a resurrected heart drug which found new purpose in correcting erectile dysfunction. Viagra went on to become the fastest, most successful selling drug ever created.
Also covered is a surgical procedure for a man who thought his penis was too small. Even though the follow-up therapy required the use of an 8-lb weight, he claims his happiness has been increased immeasurably.
Myths and misconceptions are often born from the concealment of facts. This program brings the penis front and center for an unfettered study of the male organ's place in history, art, religion, and contemporary life.
NOTE: Not surprisingly, full frontal male nudity is shown in this program. This film is not in any way titillating...though it's often amusing!
'Beautifully shot and edited, the film seamlessly weaves a connection between the cultural, medical, social, and personal aspects of the phallus...With its even-handed approach, the commentaries by experts and laypeople alike, and the scholarliness of the film, Phallacies is ideal for classroom room and discussion group use.' Karen Rhines, Dept. of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
'An interesting historical and contemporary look into the male penis...This film offers something for anyone interested in the topic. It would serve any college library collection well, but more specifically, a health sciences collection. Highly Recommended.' Leslie Wolf, University at Buffalo Law Library, MC Journal
'A sassy, cutting exploration of our too common fallacies about masculinity and maleness. And the sextremities some men will go to in coping with their 'too small size' and flagging potency.' Robert T. Francoeur, The Position
'An engaging and provocative documentary.' Michael Wiederman, Review Editor, Journal of Sex Research
Citation
Main credits
Suzuki, David T. (host)
Mathur, Vishnu (film director)
Mathur, Vishnu (film producer)
Gordon, Karen (screenwriter)
Other credits
Edited by Thomas Cooper; photographed by Neville Ottey; original music, Carlos Lopes.
Distributor subjects
Anthropology; Biology; Conflict Resolution; Gender Issues; Gender Studies; Health; Human Sexuality; Humanities; Mental Health; Psychology; Religion; Social Psychology; Sociology; Values; Women's StudiesKeywords
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The following episode
of the nature of things
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explores the contemporary
and historic nature of
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male sexuality and contains mature language
and nudity viewer discretion is advised.
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Associated with being a man.
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If they can\'t do that for
whatever reason I feel
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that they seem to think that
that makes them less of a man.
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Our fill so cost is 65% of men
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Believe their penis is
small and something like
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35% of men believe their penises too small.
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And told me that I fall about
ever since I was 1617 years old.
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I really wanted it. There
were some sort of word.
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I ever build a penis growth and she never
pursued the reasons for the problem
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or the size of cheap doesn\'t really
understand why I\'m doing this algorithm.
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If something gets screwed up North
and it will just do this acid.
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This is probably what brings risks
on drinking and my whole life
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As long as men have been worried
about it women had been
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telling them that penis
size isn\'t important.
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But still men worry sometimes
to the point of obsession.
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Well now the truly tormented
can do something about it.
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Penis lengthening surgery is available
to men who are willing to take the risk.
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But will this fix the
problem is the question
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really about size or is it
about the way we define
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masculinity or as anthropologists
Helen Fisher theorizes did
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evolution simply hard wire the preoccupation
with the penis into the male brain.
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Both sexes carry tremendous
amount of luggage than the past
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For millions of years men and men had
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high levels of testosterone
designed undoubtedly not only
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to direct them in courtship but also to defend
a group attack enemies fell large animals.
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And indeed men still carry all
of those drives in their brains.
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We have very close relatives and by
watching their behaviour we do have
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a pretty clear idea of what
our ancestors were probably
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like maybe 456 million years
ago and they built them trees
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Certainly they were sexual creatures.
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The female had a period of
heat or estrus that irregular
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monthly menstrual cycle vector
in the middle of their mouth.
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Nothing is recycle a female
undoubtedly came into estrus or
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heat and began to copulate with
various males in a social group.
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And males always obliged.
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As Darwin said if you
have four children and I
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have no children you live on and I die out.
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So passing your genes into the next
generation is an important thing to do
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that evolutionary impulse to survive probably
manifests itself in a competitive drive
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inside of men even today during
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our long hunting and gathering passed
women indeed were economically powerful.
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They\'re commuted to work to do there
gathering of vegetables and fruit.
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They came home with much
of the evening meal.
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They left their children in daycare.
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Undoubtedly their sexuality
was respected was
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the beginning of farming women\'s
social and economic equality.
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Waned they became subordinate to men when
they were keeping stock and growing crops.
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You discover very rapidly obviously that
that your sheep do not become pregnant.
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If you don\'t keep around with them.
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And so the connection can can
be Maitreya clearly then
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This connection was more than just
the biological penny dropping.
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It changed the world
completely and forever.
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Man now believed that women
were just vessels for
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their seed and the symbol
of this life giving
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force was the penis to the ancient
Greeks and Romans mortals had a penis.
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But the phallus was a symbol of fertility
and luck dominance and protection.
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I think the idea of a fertility
generally has a hugely important part
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of life something essential
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for for the continuance of life from visited
not only human beings but of animals
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And also have plots of crops.
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This is absolutely fundamental and the way
it\'s expressed in different societies varies.
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But that is absolutely true in in Roman
society that fertility was important.
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And therefore sexuality which is necessary
for reproduction had a magic about it.
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In the same way we use for
leaf clovers the phallus
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decorated household objects
like wind chimes beer mugs and
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pottery representations of male organs were
not instantly seen as directly asexual and
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the way that we would today
they served all sorts of
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purposes many of them to
do with religion. And and
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with the whole concept of
fertility without people
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immediately relating them to
the idea of sexual activity.
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Ultimately the phallus lost it\'s real
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And insignificance in the West but not
in the east art critic Gaia tree Sinha.
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Shiva is the God who is paid to for
cosmic issues of life and death.
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Now he is known as the destroyer
He seals literally the two
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ends human cycle which is birth and death.
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But he also is the great one that is
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worship for procreation for the
continuity of life for protection.
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Shiva is represented by
the male phallic symbol.
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And this is accessible and
comprehensible to everybody.
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He is worship with the
simplest and the smallest
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of offerings that milk honey
and again more and more flat
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in the worship of the kingdom
for the greenie or the
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household or the woman
household also praise
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for the longevity of her husband.
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This is the great Candida Yamaha
tempo which is dedicated to Shiva.
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This is a place of worship but it is also
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a unit would celebrates the high
art of sculpture and dance.
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So it\'s a holistic view just as the Hindu has
the holistic philosophical view of life.
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Even the architectural unit is not just a
simple place of worship or ablaze residents.
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It integrates the ads.
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In the Hindu way of life
the erotic is a fine art.
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It is not only sexual transmission.
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It is what surrounds the idea of sexuality.
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The sophistication of
the mind through poetry
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through literature and through the
presentation of the human form.
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The first response of the British
archaeologists who discovered
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these temple was that these are images of
unbounded and inexplicable neuroticism.
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But then in the Hindu view of
life this is a part of the cycle.
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This is a part of the some scatter of life.
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If there is book D which is
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pleasure in worldline materiality
and worldly pleasures then
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it is followed by Mukti reaches freedom
or renunciation from all these aspects.
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So these temples if they represent
exoticism like so many other
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Indian art do it is because the erotic
is a part of the continuum of life.
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It is what keeps the lifecycle going.
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It is a part of the nature of procreation.
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There\'s a spirit of celebration here.
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If there is a spirit of celebration
when they\'re going to war
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there is a spirit of celebration
in the act of worship.
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And certainly there is a spirit
of celebration in the act of sex.
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Now these together make it a complete view
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Of how life is to be lived
it is not guilt ridden.
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It is not ashamed.
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And it is not demeaned or tentative.
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It is feed. Historians and
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scholars agree that the East and West have
different philosophies about lovemaking.
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The East sees it as an art.
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The western approach is
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more scientific but University of Arizona
professor and author Peter layman
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says there is one very
important similarity.
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Treating them as two entirely
separate traditions.
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In fact over obscures what for
me is an interesting connection
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Within both traditions which is that
there\'s a strong emphasis placed
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on the centrality and the
importance of the penis
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and penis size within
both those traditions.
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While the image of the phallus is common in
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some cultures in the West showing
the penis is still a taboo.
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We want to believe that the fallacies
is this awesome this awesome thing.
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And if we show or talk about the penis too
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much that risks making it rather
ordinary and commonplace.
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And that does not help all mystique.
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Tony rotunda has written about
the history of masculinity
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Modern masculinity really starts in the
years before the Industrial Revolution.
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It begins with people moving to cities
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and the beginning of modern
modern market free market.
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It begins with the rise of democracy and
really the beginning of individualism.
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It\'s at about the turn of the century
that men become much more interested
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in what their body is how it functions
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what their inner instincts and
passions are telling them to do.
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Under the fig leaf men are
always thinking about
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their bodies in their penises but
in terms of what they can talk to
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each other about publicly and what
can be shown said publicly it\'s
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the beginning of a revolution is
another change that happened.
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Historians have started to call
it a body image revolution
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in the 19 seventies which affects men
I think even more than than women.
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It\'s the beginning of
the fitness revolution.
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It\'s the beginning of big
profits in treating baldness.
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Treating sexual dysfunction that
beginning of plastic surgery for men.
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The growing preoccupation
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Nobody tells us about where
man who was head of.
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The new masculinity looks a lot like
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the old definitions of femininity
that women complain objectified them.
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When I was a child the
most terrifying thing to
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me was riding my bike and
falling on that crossbar on
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my testings right but it was more than
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just the pain as an adolescent a greatest
fear was that something would happen to me.
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So that I would lose my maleness.
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Men are really tied up right in the
crotch like that\'s where it\'s all
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about performance size all of
them women very very different
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Oh I\'m sorry yeah abstract masculinity
may come from a Greek word for battle.
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Or may come form from a
Spanish word for machete.
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But it is not a kind and gentle thing.
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I know what you think it any
buyer six shot so only five.
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What to tell you the truth
And all this excitement.
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I\'m kind of lost track myself.
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Buddy in his support for a magnet
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the most powerful handgun and the
world would blow your head clean off.
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You\'ve got to ask yourself one question.
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Do I feel lucky well do
you have doc I\'m Sam
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Stonewall Jackson was trash himself.
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Gym. And all the rest of them are amps.
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Youtube know Don lasagna
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Not
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our
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masculinity
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in
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The popular in traditional
sent has very little to
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do with the ability to create
a relationship with anybody.
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It has to do with
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the singular isolated solo suicidal
process of proving how tough you are.
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Frank Pittman is an Atlanta
based psychiatrist and author.
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He uses the classic weathering heights
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to illustrate a part of the masculine myth.
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Kathy was one of the most dangerous
creatures and literary history.
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This ultimate romantic is
telling heath Claire who was
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her stable boy actually
make the world stands
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still he\'s going to make everything step
and stands still and never move again.
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Make the more is never changed.
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You and I never changed
more than I don\'t use.
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The hell of it is poor.
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He\'s clearly trying to please
this demanding romantic woman
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It\'s going to make every effort
to make the world stands still.
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And then he will make every
effort to meet her needs to
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live up to her romantic fantasies to
be whatever damn fool thing it is.
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She think she needs for man to be runaway.
Bring me back.
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Pack this fellow off.
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I\'m going. I\'m going from here from
this country wrote throw him out.
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But I\'ve been back in his house one
day just leaden I\'ll pay you out.
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I bring this house down
in ruins about Joe heads.
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That\'s my cuts on you
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And he will exalt himself and
maybe die in the process.
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But we are afraid to say you make the world
stands still got as much power as I do.
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It\'s Dr. Pittman advocates and approach that
discards gender definitions altogether.
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But the connection between
power size and the macho.
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Phallic ideal is reinforced in
concrete and iron all around us.
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You see macho in architecture that
sort of sticks itself uncompromisingly
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into its environment and forces
itself upon the world around it.
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That ignores virtually
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All the rules of climate gravity and
whatever else you may have to assert
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itself cluttered much
Architecture started with
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the erection of the Eiffel Tower in
the late 18 hundreds in the Paris.
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Today are big business towers and tourist
attractions and speak for themselves.
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Cn Tower the world\'s tallest
free-standing phallic symbol
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announces Toronto\'s presence on the world.
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By by saying look you know
ours is bigger than yours.
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In fact ours is the biggest There is Rs
is the biggest it\'s ever been built.
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Boyd those guys from Toronto there. So
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Please thank the Washington
monument stands for.
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Putting up the mighty monument
to yourself is really asking
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other people to bow in all to
the glory of your masculinity.
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Artists have painted and sculpted
the penis for centuries.
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Sometimes conforming to other times defying
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the prevailing cultures attitudes
about the body sexuality and chain.
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Even today artists run
up against our taboos
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As defined shackle makes these sculptures
in his Hamilton Ontario studio.
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Chaco finds his work make some
art dealers uncomfortable.
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If we are going through
the art history it\'s not
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a strange thing to make
penis or vagina or breast.
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It\'s it\'s a basic thing.
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This is a male and female figure and show it
strongly who is the mayor and who is female
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So really big super buddies
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carried more strong emotions.
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So I started to make
simple fingers like this.
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Every man is or how is part of
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his psyche alongside buried
00:19:03.970 --> 00:19:07.179
in attached to focused on I don\'t
know what the right word is.
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His penis it\'s very very important.
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I mean it\'s a great thing.
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It\'s a great gadget.
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It sir it looks nice.
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It gets big. It feels terrific
00:19:16.859 --> 00:19:18.874
It\'s fascinates the girls.
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It does everything that nothing else in the
body can possibly do you bet it\'s important.
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The painters demonstrates to you and
everybody else your emotional state.
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It\'s the most honest part about.
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We\'re capable of line.
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The penis is known.
00:19:36.095 --> 00:19:41.794
We love our penises not because
of what they do for women.
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But because of what they do for us.
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And I\'m one of those hidden camera shows
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That\'s wrong. Link when
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you can\'t just do that you can\'t just
roll on top of a man and yelled action.
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Frightened damn turtle. You scared him
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And there are lots of factors psychological
emotional psychosocial factors that
00:20:52.790 --> 00:20:59.194
could impinge upon erectile
function relationship issues.
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Problems at work financial
problems difficulty
00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:06.724
with children et cetera
et cetera et cetera.
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In the olden days we used to think
that the vast majority of cases of
00:21:10.445 --> 00:21:15.499
headaches difficulties where due
to emotion are appropriate.
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We know now that
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At least half of the causes are
00:21:20.540 --> 00:21:26.464
real physical difficulties and they
run a variety of causes anything
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the most common one prolly our vascular
problems and vascular problems
00:21:30.620 --> 00:21:36.049
are due to diabetes or
arteriosclerosis hardening of
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the arteries people who
smoke people who have
00:21:38.840 --> 00:21:42.169
high levels of cholesterol
the arteries of the peanuts
00:21:42.170 --> 00:21:45.469
and the arteries of the heart
the coronary arteries at
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about the same size that
it behave similar way.
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And if one process is affecting one
it will be affecting the other.
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Generally speaking many men have problems
getting an erection from time to time
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Incredibly only about 5% of those with
chronic impotence asked for help back here.
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Men are very reluctant
00:22:09.515 --> 00:22:13.654
to talk about the fact that they\'re
having difficulty with her actions.
00:22:13.655 --> 00:22:15.739
They\'re embarrassed by it.
00:22:15.740 --> 00:22:19.549
They they think less of themselves.
00:22:19.550 --> 00:22:25.444
And if they talked to somebody that
person will think less of them.
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There\'s this mythology out there that
when you reach a certain age you can
00:22:30.800 --> 00:22:35.809
expect your erections
to cease and that\'s it.
00:22:35.810 --> 00:22:37.819
And that\'s the end and
there\'s nothing that one can
00:22:37.820 --> 00:22:40.189
do and there\'s nothing that one should do.
00:22:40.190 --> 00:22:44.914
Which of course is mythological hogwash.
00:22:44.915 --> 00:22:50.689
You can have erections or it\'s possible
to have erections until death.
00:22:50.690 --> 00:22:55.174
The ability to talk about this issue is key
00:22:55.175 --> 00:23:00.750
in and Joan lions treated DNS
problems in a practical way.
00:23:02.290 --> 00:23:07.084
When my reaction wasn\'t quite so good
we would discuss it and Coleman.
00:23:07.085 --> 00:23:09.589
There was no question of hiding it.
00:23:09.590 --> 00:23:12.679
So it was rather mutual decision.
00:23:12.680 --> 00:23:16.429
Well I think we ought to do something about
this which we did and we didn\'t see it as
00:23:16.430 --> 00:23:20.389
a problem something that we could
put right this does lymphocyte.
00:23:20.390 --> 00:23:22.969
I\'ve been home fairly permanently
00:23:22.970 --> 00:23:28.594
That\'s the vacuum pump and that\'s
connected this to the vacuum pump
00:23:28.595 --> 00:23:34.954
was invented by an American garage mechanic
who patterned his device on a tire pump.
00:23:34.955 --> 00:23:40.774
And then onto this end
important this ring on.
00:23:40.775 --> 00:23:45.930
I\'ll talk about that in a moment
that stretches over there.
00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:50.404
Now the purpose is of course
the penis goes in there
00:23:50.405 --> 00:23:57.394
so it can pump very gently to little
bumps not very much like that.
00:23:57.395 --> 00:24:00.379
And a penis grows.
00:24:00.380 --> 00:24:02.884
And when he is reached
00:24:02.885 --> 00:24:06.859
well you can vary the size
depending on your mood.
00:24:06.860 --> 00:24:09.889
Then what would be a normal
size they recommend.
00:24:09.890 --> 00:24:13.939
They recommend in fact that you shouldn\'t
it is not a painless expander.
00:24:13.940 --> 00:24:16.159
That\'s the point about it. It\'s not a yes.
00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:19.309
And so if I can cast my mind back to
00:24:19.310 --> 00:24:22.954
the dim distant past I think
about what my reaction was.
00:24:22.955 --> 00:24:26.344
And I get the same achieved that length.
00:24:26.345 --> 00:24:31.039
Then having got the erection
flip that over there over
00:24:31.040 --> 00:24:37.489
the penis and the blood has been
sucked into the penis stays there.
00:24:37.490 --> 00:24:40.969
Hey presto there it is
be a bit embarrassing
00:24:40.970 --> 00:24:45.199
perhaps when you are not an
independent relationship
00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:48.094
Trying to encourage
relationship to have to produce
00:24:48.095 --> 00:24:52.984
the vacuum field therapy that
we might be able to think.
00:24:52.985 --> 00:25:00.985
She would be the list that
sugar Joyce and allergy have
00:25:03.170 --> 00:25:08.269
a typical story their sex life
changed drastically after Ballard
00:25:08.270 --> 00:25:13.999
had major surgery in midlife for
my sex drive went downhill.
00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:17.944
And I were having problems
maintaining and erection.
00:25:17.945 --> 00:25:22.039
He didn\'t like the idea is that you had to
just throw his hands up in the air and this
00:25:22.040 --> 00:25:27.409
seemed to be the only thing we could do
00:25:27.410 --> 00:25:30.109
Just in my own mind I call it.
00:25:30.110 --> 00:25:34.084
I was too young professor which
we\'ve had hoped to pasture.
00:25:34.085 --> 00:25:36.694
I started to feel it was all my fault.
00:25:36.695 --> 00:25:43.879
I\'m that I started to feel well if it\'s not
my fault would get back to the same thing.
00:25:43.880 --> 00:25:49.039
We\'d better get to adopter and
find out what they have to say.
00:25:49.040 --> 00:25:54.364
I probably looked embarrassed felt that
they can\'t do anything about it anyway.
00:25:54.365 --> 00:26:01.519
So after about two minutes into
00:26:01.520 --> 00:26:05.344
going to see doubt them around
as you make your salary
00:26:05.345 --> 00:26:09.574
was turned off by conventional
treatments at Queen\'s University
00:26:09.575 --> 00:26:15.199
He agreed instead to participate in trials
that were aimed at finding an erection pill.
00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:19.024
I tried three or four different
planes over over the period of
00:26:19.025 --> 00:26:23.389
two or three years and nothing worked
and he\'d go in and figure well.
00:26:23.390 --> 00:26:26.824
Tonight you\'re feeling in
the right kind of mood.
00:26:26.825 --> 00:26:34.504
Maybe this\'ll be the naive you know that\'s
all just been a big exercise nothing.
00:26:34.505 --> 00:26:37.864
And then you\'re back to square one again.
00:26:37.865 --> 00:26:41.779
And they were saying they were you know
new things coming out periodically.
00:26:41.780 --> 00:26:43.099
So I should give me a call.
00:26:43.100 --> 00:26:46.099
I\'m always willing to be the guinea pig.
00:26:46.100 --> 00:26:51.019
So anyway when they brought the Viagra
with they asked me if I\'d be interested in
00:26:51.020 --> 00:26:57.450
During the test time I\'m
sure he hit the jackpot.
00:26:57.730 --> 00:27:01.699
What do you hitting September the 14th
00:27:01.700 --> 00:27:09.700
1996 and I got in my reaction
it worked like magic.
00:27:13.090 --> 00:27:21.090
Now I just get spread out
things going on tonight.
00:27:22.520 --> 00:27:24.600
I love.
00:27:24.820 --> 00:27:32.820
Doing. The viagra gleaned is now
being seen around the world
00:27:33.380 --> 00:27:35.599
The pill that started its life as
00:27:35.600 --> 00:27:40.639
a failed heart medication became
the fastest selling drug ever.
00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:45.844
It represents a quantum leap forward in
the treatment of erectile dysfunction.
00:27:45.845 --> 00:27:51.874
Putting an end forever to the notion
that impotence is all in a man\'s head.
00:27:51.875 --> 00:27:55.414
One of my concerns is that
00:27:55.415 --> 00:27:59.509
doctors are going to be writing
prescriptions for Viagra patient comes in.
00:27:59.510 --> 00:28:01.024
I\'ll I can\'t get an erection.
00:28:01.025 --> 00:28:03.439
Okay if I Agra without having
00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:07.519
appropriate investigation beforehand
or without even knowing or are
00:28:07.520 --> 00:28:11.344
asking what other medication that man is on
00:28:11.345 --> 00:28:15.454
by accurate smooth enough for these
heck he doesn\'t increase sexual desire
00:28:15.455 --> 00:28:17.989
It doesn\'t work centrally in the brain.
00:28:17.990 --> 00:28:25.504
The mechanism of Viagra is almost
exclusively in the penis Viagra appeals to
00:28:25.505 --> 00:28:29.599
a very profoundly basic
part of the human male the
00:28:29.600 --> 00:28:34.684
tremendous need to perform in order to
spread their seed into the next generation.
00:28:34.685 --> 00:28:37.234
This is going to sweep the world.
00:28:37.235 --> 00:28:45.235
Overnight Viagra abroad impotence out of
the cultural shadows erection and potency.
00:28:47.015 --> 00:28:52.939
The ability to procreate children has been
connected in the male mind with size.
00:28:52.940 --> 00:28:57.634
And although these two in fact how much
net and nothing to do with each other
00:28:57.635 --> 00:29:01.680
And this is the myth you don\'t sing.
00:29:02.800 --> 00:29:10.800
Dance. Ob. Don\'t think I mean
nosy but what did either well
00:29:13.085 --> 00:29:16.140
there is this
00:29:24.970 --> 00:29:28.414
gentlemen lunch box
00:29:28.415 --> 00:29:28.670
as
00:29:28.671 --> 00:29:30.210
London
00:29:37.540 --> 00:29:40.309
and z over there
00:29:40.310 --> 00:29:47.539
Did he\'s bathroom ok I have
to ask the big question.
00:29:47.540 --> 00:29:51.169
I\'m not asking for it in
terms of centimeters but on
00:29:51.170 --> 00:29:54.709
a scale of small normal big where do you
00:29:54.710 --> 00:30:02.710
fall well I like to think myself regular
small quantities just equality.
00:30:04.115 --> 00:30:08.449
Regular Yeah normal yeah that\'s it.
00:30:08.450 --> 00:30:10.819
I\'d leave it to the audience.
00:30:10.820 --> 00:30:12.619
Would sit on the fence.
00:30:12.620 --> 00:30:17.419
Okay I\'d like to think of myself as
normal in every one of us our average.
00:30:17.420 --> 00:30:22.324
Yeah because then I\'m averaging
yeah averaged is small
00:30:22.325 --> 00:30:25.114
And that whole shies
thing has to be learned
00:30:25.115 --> 00:30:27.859
because when you\'re a kid how
do you know if you\'re big or
00:30:27.860 --> 00:30:30.379
small so what happens is you go to
00:30:30.380 --> 00:30:33.079
school and as Michael said you
can\'t be honest about it.
00:30:33.080 --> 00:30:37.159
So you have to be furred up say
like that even then I mean this is
00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:39.349
a totally different issue but I mean where
00:30:39.350 --> 00:30:41.839
I\'m bored I\'m bored in Wales.
I\'m not circumcised.
00:30:41.840 --> 00:30:44.539
So but I came here when I
was a kid I look around
00:30:44.540 --> 00:30:47.359
and I\'m like well mine looks
different and I don\'t
00:30:47.360 --> 00:30:51.229
want to look anymore because I\'ve
scared the pornographic penis
00:30:51.230 --> 00:30:55.609
presumes that the large penis is what women
need and want for their satisfaction.
00:30:55.610 --> 00:30:58.249
The medical profession presumes
that the average Pete is
00:30:58.250 --> 00:31:02.344
is what everyone has and
with women need and want
00:31:02.345 --> 00:31:05.179
for their satisfaction
and penis size jokes may
00:31:05.180 --> 00:31:08.479
clear that actually what
is very deep throughout
00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:10.954
the culture is that small penises
00:31:10.955 --> 00:31:15.124
are embarrassing that they\'re
laughable that your pity oval.
00:31:15.125 --> 00:31:22.069
And what I frequently use as a simple example
to show people in movies how this works is
00:31:22.070 --> 00:31:25.834
an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie
called True Lies in which
00:31:25.835 --> 00:31:30.304
there\'s a used car salesman and he\'s
pretending to be a government agent.
00:31:30.305 --> 00:31:32.374
He\'s a pretender to masculinity.
00:31:32.375 --> 00:31:34.830
What are we talking about here
00:31:41.050 --> 00:31:44.569
in that scene you kind of encapsulate
00:31:44.570 --> 00:31:49.624
the cultural assumption that the powerful
body of an Arnold Schwarzenegger
00:31:49.625 --> 00:31:56.044
is this powerful masculine
phallic ideal naval lint.
00:31:56.045 --> 00:32:00.000
I have a woman to get laid.
00:32:01.060 --> 00:32:08.554
I got a little decades but this man who\'s
this pathetic pretender to masculinity.
00:32:08.555 --> 00:32:11.659
He has a small opinions and
we\'re supposed to accept
00:32:11.660 --> 00:32:15.484
that as an explanation for why he behaves.
00:32:15.485 --> 00:32:23.485
The way he does. If you spoke to a lot
of man and they were honest with you
00:32:26.120 --> 00:32:30.319
I think they put all feel pretty much the
00:32:30.320 --> 00:32:35.100
same that there is a penis envy.
I mean you want.
00:32:35.500 --> 00:32:43.500
You want to bake one. Penis envy is not
just a Freudian concept applying to women.
00:32:44.300 --> 00:32:48.064
I don\'t even know that it\'s an
accurate concept when applied to women
00:32:48.065 --> 00:32:52.594
but it is a very accurate concept
when a plot two teenage boys.
00:32:52.595 --> 00:33:00.595
Psi says matter to males of any race
or age seems to be a sensitive issue.
00:33:01.100 --> 00:33:04.159
So I definitely think it\'s thinner.
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:06.319
So probably matters more
to the guys on the girl.
00:33:06.320 --> 00:33:10.080
I click we automate. I mean that\'s a woman
00:33:12.370 --> 00:33:17.884
If someone has order kinesthetic feel
more powerful splits wherever they can.
00:33:17.885 --> 00:33:25.399
Possibly five awarded penis may be
agreeable to repurpose scroll for for me.
00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:27.019
Whereas if I had a small penis maybe she
00:33:27.020 --> 00:33:29.029
wouldn\'t walk up and walk
and relationship with me.
00:33:29.030 --> 00:33:31.399
But universal in childhood.
00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:37.984
To see the big penis as granting you
more authority than the small penis.
00:33:37.985 --> 00:33:42.139
Me little boys grow up with little peanuts.
00:33:42.140 --> 00:33:47.370
While their fathers have big She belongs.
00:33:47.560 --> 00:33:51.274
And the father has authority over the boy
00:33:51.275 --> 00:33:56.209
The average penis size in terms of
length is about six inches width.
00:33:56.210 --> 00:33:58.969
I don\'t really know an exact amount.
00:33:58.970 --> 00:34:02.209
But I know that quite often
00:34:02.210 --> 00:34:05.584
poor in terms of length and I\'m
about to pour in terms of width.
00:34:05.585 --> 00:34:08.059
And even if I was my perception of
00:34:08.060 --> 00:34:12.469
it is almost as important or
more important than reality.
00:34:12.470 --> 00:34:16.234
Greg is a businessman in his late twenties.
00:34:16.235 --> 00:34:20.764
His obsession has led him to the
Manhattan office of urologist.
00:34:20.765 --> 00:34:22.639
Dr. Douglas Whitehead.
00:34:22.640 --> 00:34:27.139
I did a lot of research
over the years of inclusion
00:34:27.140 --> 00:34:31.699
that doctor that I\'m dealing
with now as the best method.
00:34:31.700 --> 00:34:33.244
And I\'m gonna give it a try
00:34:33.245 --> 00:34:35.974
Let me go over this way. They were like.
00:34:35.975 --> 00:34:43.174
This is not all men know this but actually
half of the penis is inside the body.
00:34:43.175 --> 00:34:47.944
And the penis is held up to this pubic
bone by it was suspensory ligament.
00:34:47.945 --> 00:34:53.539
And that creates sort of a v.
And at the surgery what we
00:34:53.540 --> 00:34:59.029
do is we make an incision hair in the pubic
hair line and release this ligament.
00:34:59.030 --> 00:35:01.534
So a little bit more of the penis hangs
00:35:01.535 --> 00:35:05.644
outside. We use the
stretching device afterwards
00:35:05.645 --> 00:35:10.219
which actually very very gently stretches
the penis and it does two things.
00:35:10.220 --> 00:35:12.949
It maintains what we got at surgery.
00:35:12.950 --> 00:35:16.219
By releasing this ligament keeps it out.
00:35:16.220 --> 00:35:20.644
And it actually stretches over
a period of time the penis.
00:35:20.645 --> 00:35:24.274
So the stretching device is
an integral part of this.
00:35:24.275 --> 00:35:27.499
I know what I can\'t at
surgery and your commitment
00:35:27.500 --> 00:35:31.294
is to use the stretching device afterwards.
00:35:31.295 --> 00:35:37.050
So healthy penis but it\'s
just not Mazzara\'s work.
00:35:37.660 --> 00:35:41.829
Very carefully about Rutgers or Boyd.
00:35:41.830 --> 00:35:43.939
Personally most people
report really foreign
00:35:43.940 --> 00:35:46.114
And we shouldn\'t even
consider something like this.
00:35:46.115 --> 00:35:50.749
If I don\'t I\'ll probably always wonder
00:35:50.750 --> 00:35:52.579
about it and recreate it
and know that I\'m still
00:35:52.580 --> 00:35:55.729
young person thinker
toggling I really wanna do.
00:35:55.730 --> 00:36:02.119
And if it works which are pro I
think it will be a happier person.
00:36:02.120 --> 00:36:05.209
Hopefully after this we\'ll have
conversations with my with
00:36:05.210 --> 00:36:10.530
my female friends just drove
neuron Marina 12 inches.
00:36:10.630 --> 00:36:15.739
Richard had Dr. Whitehead\'s
procedure six months later.
00:36:15.740 --> 00:36:18.559
He\'s so pleased with the
results that he\'s willing to
00:36:18.560 --> 00:36:21.814
talk to us because he hopes
it will help other man.
00:36:21.815 --> 00:36:26.239
I think the most painful part of the whole
thing was having the bandages taken off
00:36:26.240 --> 00:36:32.329
And if I had known beforehand I could
00:36:32.330 --> 00:36:35.689
have shaved myself because it\'s like having
00:36:35.690 --> 00:36:40.504
one heck of a waxing and
when it all comes off.
00:36:40.505 --> 00:36:46.639
But other than that there\'s discomfort was
the effect immediate and obvious though yes.
00:36:46.640 --> 00:36:50.554
Yes there\'s still you know there was
still swelling and all of that.
00:36:50.555 --> 00:36:56.944
So I might have gotten a little
more excited than I should have.
00:36:56.945 --> 00:37:02.974
Still the long-range effects
have been very satisfactory.
00:37:02.975 --> 00:37:08.209
So can you give us an idea of the actual
amount of enhancement you want are we talking
00:37:08.210 --> 00:37:11.779
And ensure yes an inch longer.
00:37:11.780 --> 00:37:15.799
I\'ve probably an inch and a half longer
actually in the placid state has it
00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:20.460
also had a psychological effect
of enhancing your libido.
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No no it just makes me
feel better about myself.
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Surgery is stage one just
as important is stage two.
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Where the patient wears a
weighted stretching device so
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that\'ll have eight pounds 80 pounds but it
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comes apart so that you can start with two
then five then eight work up to eight.
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This goes on to gain us cement that over.
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This takes out the air creating a
vacuum really hold it on there and then
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you most of the furniture
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no does not know it
doesn\'t it doesn\'t hurt.
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You don\'t hardly even feel it.
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But Richard how you end up not with having
something that it\'s that thick and very low.
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I agree I had the same question.
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I thought this is going to be
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Horrifying but it\'s not at all you know we
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interviewed a man who said that he\'d never
been mocked because he was too smaller.
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Never had complaints from partners.
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And yet he felt that he was
small and wanted to be bigger.
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So what we\'re dealing with here is a
fundamental psychological problem.
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He patients that want
enhancement fallow plast you
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invariably her normal or
slightly above normal.
00:38:52.390 --> 00:38:57.249
And this has to do with their own perceived
image if they would like to have
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a larger and a longer penis chest for
psychological and cosmetic reasons.
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A lot of physicians urologists
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included feel that this is
unnecessary and shouldn\'t be done.
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They feel if you\'re not
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Saving a life then you know
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the practice of medicine is not being
put to the use it\'s supposed to be.
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But I think you know from the standpoint of
what it can do for a person\'s self esteem how
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it can make them feel better that all plastic
surgery has a place in the medical field.
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Here on the banks of the sacred river Ganges
in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi in India.
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People wash to cleanse
themselves obscene. Varanasi
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Where men come to fulfill the final
stage of life as described in
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the ancient Hindu scriptures that
hermitian Masters in India which
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were written from about the first century
onwards enunciate the four stages of life.
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This is part of the meal
Hindu would divide his life.
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The first would be how much area where
he is dedicated to his studies.
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The second stage of the
greenhouse fascism degree has
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dashed anime is where
he\'s enjoined to marry.
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The type stage is called the van plus
nationalism which is really a state of
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some withdrawal to a more philosophical
and more contemplative fields of life.
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And the final is Sun yes which is
in fact a preparation for moksha
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For denunciation where you do a Wii with
00:40:38.600 --> 00:40:43.069
every kind of material comfort because
it is no longer your necessity.
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We detach yourself from materiality and
therefore lead a more self-sufficient.
00:40:48.905 --> 00:40:51.034
And a more fulfilling life.
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Gnh were non-tariff has chosen
this date of abstinence and
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contemplation known as Xiaowei.
00:41:07.780 --> 00:41:15.780
Government scale body guide
hallways and Joe regime
00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:20.439
In Canada Harper and delegate.
00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:24.414
So sa sal tank headquarter which has asked
00:41:24.415 --> 00:41:29.270
chess are preparing produce
gave us and gasoline.
00:41:29.550 --> 00:41:36.549
In guidebook bachelor bachelor\'s
though like ET but the knee region
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di Hammarby in March of high lama
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Contemporary thinkers don\'t believe
that a man needs to retreat.
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They say it\'s time to let go of our
stereotypes about gender and masculinity.
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Looking at the penis as a
symbol of power I think
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creates far more problems than it
solves for men and women alike.
00:42:29.045 --> 00:42:35.929
For men in particular I think it creates
it creates problems with sexuality.
00:42:35.930 --> 00:42:41.599
It encourages men to look
at genital intercourse
00:42:41.600 --> 00:42:49.600
As an assertion of power rather than a
form of pleasure or personal expression.
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Men like women are human beings.
00:42:54.290 --> 00:42:58.879
With emotions with
feelings with aspirations
00:42:58.880 --> 00:43:05.539
with with intelligence with creativity
with the ability to do things.
00:43:05.540 --> 00:43:13.540
And to reduce a man to a penis is certainly
not doing a man any service whatsoever.
00:43:13.640 --> 00:43:17.959
And it\'s that kind of thinking
that perpetuates the idea
00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:23.869
that penis size and one\'s
manhood and personhood
00:43:23.870 --> 00:43:25.954
have a relationship.
00:43:25.955 --> 00:43:30.349
Most of the awful things that men
have done throughout history.
00:43:30.350 --> 00:43:35.629
Most of the awful things
that men are doing now are
00:43:35.630 --> 00:43:40.669
just some pitiful little boy
who lost pecker measuring
00:43:40.670 --> 00:43:45.889
contests at 13 trying to do something
that will make him feel like a man.
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Now. If we can know the absurdity the
00:43:50.690 --> 00:43:57.754
funniness of our penis fixation and
our preoccupation with masculinity.
00:43:57.755 --> 00:44:00.049
If we can see it as the joke that it
00:44:00.050 --> 00:44:04.789
appears that we can rely on and
then we can become comfortable
00:44:04.790 --> 00:44:06.709
And we may actually do
some good rather than
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holding to purchase a transcript
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