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1 Erika 04.14.09 at 9:52 am: Ok, to answer your question, I think, and from one side (because there are some representations of fertility from the female perspective in other cultures) – the penis is the symbol of fertility in most western cultures because of the understanding of how conception happened. For most of history (at least in the western world between the 2nd and 17th centuries) there was almost no understanding of the woman’s role in conception beyond that she was the ‘vessel’ that carried the child. Since dissection was a no-no there was very little familiarity with the insides of the human body – therefore there was little knowledge of the egg or the uterus or the fallopian tubes which meant that the most outward sign of fertility was the penis and sperm. It’s what people could see, so that meant that it was what they knew. Yes, in the second century they knew that ovaries existed (female testes), but it wasn’t until 1666 that it was discovered that they played a role in egg formation – but the whole process of fertilisation took a few hundred years more to iron out. Anyway, that is a small piece of the puzzle.
Of course, the phallus is also a symbol of power and male dominance, and if you look at some old pics of codpieces it will soon become clear that throughout history the penis has been an outward display of a man’s prowess.

And I totally love that David Sedaris story, I first read it on the GO train and could not help but laugh out loud!
2 Sabine 04.14.09 at 1:23 pm: I totally love the idea of ovaries being considered “female testes.” Like, they’re not good enough to just be ovaries. No, they have to be the female version of something on a man. LOL!
3 Erika 04.14.09 at 1:55 pm: Yup, some scholars say that the female anatomy was simply believed to be the male anatomy inverted (they follow the one sex body model; it is refuted by those of us who believe that the two sex body model was more in keeping with the understanding of the body at the time, despite what the names might be)…as in don’t run too fast or your penis and testes might ‘fall’ out. There are all kinds of great stories from the middle ages of ‘women’ who became ‘men’ when their testes fell out. There is even one of a nun who was running in a field and ‘all of a sudden’ out fell man parts….I think we all know what that was about.
They were both called testes, but there was not a theory of ‘good enough’ because it was thought that they performed the same function. Hence the terms were male testes and female testes, not just testes and female testes.