Glob-a-log

Well, this is still the age of Freud, so I suppose everybody has heard of the term ‘penis envy’.

Now, here’s a guy who has truly cornered that market - since his collection of penises could well be said to be the envy of the world:

Sigurdur Hjartarson’s Icelandic Phallological Museum boasts 261 penises. Open from May to September, the entrance to the museum is marked by a tall brown phallus near the door and a penis-shaped sign over the front porch. Mr Hjartarson’s collection started as a hobby when he was given a bull’s reproductive organ 24 years ago. It now includes samples from 90 species – ranging from a 1.7 meter (5ft 6in) specimen of a sperm whale to a 2mm hamster penis bone which has to be viewed through a magnifying glass.

But homo sapiens is not yet represented among the stuffed, dried and pickled samples that line the walls of the museum’s inconspicuous brown building in the quiet fishing village of Husavik. This may soon be rectified, according to four certificates on display in which a German, an American, an Icelander and a Briton promised to donate their organs after death. The American, Stan Underwood, 52, went so far as to supply a description of his penis, nicknaming it “Elmo”, along with a life-size plastic mould.

According to Mr Hjartarson, about 6,000 visitors saw the collection last summer - 60 percent of them women.

That does make you wonder though, doesn’t it: that there are more women than men who come to see these hacked off ’samples’.

If you are a male supremacist you might argue that all those women come to pay homage to and kneel down before these male appendixes. Men of a more rational frame of mind might not be able to swallow such a cock and bull theory all that easily though.

I’m not saying every woman is a Bobbit-in-waiting but since we do still live in a world where the macho man’s inner dreams are widely and luridly displayed on all the advertising billboards, it might be that quite a lot of women would enjoy to walk through a penis museum - and to have a giggle at how the cock of the roost is being displayed in all its shrunk, stuffed, dried and pickled glory.

(More sex museums HERE)

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