The only serious English literary term, yard (exactly
equivalent to _virga_), as used by Chaucer--almost the last great English
writer whose vocabulary was adequate to the central facts of life--has now
fallen out of literary and even colloquial usage.
Pierer and Chaulant, in their anatomical and physiological
_Real-Lexicon_ (vol. vi, p. 134), give nearly a hundred synonyms
for the penis. Hyrtl (_Topographisches Anatomie_, seventh
edition, vol. ii, pp. 67-69), adds others. Schurig, in his
_Spermatologia_ (1720, pp. 89-91), also presents a number of
names for the penis; in Chapter III (pp. 189-192) of the same
book he discusses the penis generally with more fullness than
most authors. Louis de Landes, in his _Glossaire Erotique_ of the
French language (pp. 239-242), enumerates several hundred
literary synonyms for the penis, though many of them probably
only occur once.
There is no thorough and comprehensive modern study of the penis
on an anthropological basis (though I should mention a valuable
and fully illustrated study of anthropological and pathological
variations of the penis in a series of articles by Marandon de
Montyel, "Des Anomalies des Organs Genitaux Externes Chez les
Alienees," etc.
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