Phallacy Life Lessons From The Animal Penis Emily Willingham by Emily Willingham 9780593087183, 0593087186 instant download after payment.

The fallacy sold to many of us is that the penis signals dominance and power. But this wry & penetrating book reveals that in fact nature did not shape the penis--or the human attached to it--to have the upper...hand.

Phallacy looks closely at some of nature's more remarkable examples of penises & the many lessons to learn from them. In tracing how we ended up positioning our nondescript penis as a pulsing, awe-inspiring shaft of all masculinity & human dominance, Phallacy also shows what can we do to put that penis back where it belongs. Emphasizing our human capacities for impulse control, Phallacy ultimately challenges the toxic message that the penis makes the man & the man can't control himself. 

With instructive illustrations of unusual genitalia & tales of animal mating rituals that will make you particularly happy you are not a bedbug, Phallacy shows where humans fit on the continuum from fun to fatal phalli & why the human penis is an implement for intimacy, not intimidation.

Emily Willingham is a journalist & science writer who earned a PhD in biology & completed a postdoctoral fellowship in urology, both after taking a bachelor’s degree in English literature. She is coauthor of The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child’s First Four Years, & her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Aeon, Undark, San Francisco Chronicle, & many other outlets. She is a regular contributor to Scientific American.