Playboy After Hours
June, 1999
The pen is mightyBefore Lorena Bobbitt turned her husband into lunch meat, The New York Times had printed the word penis only three times in 20 years. Author Maggie Paley uses this example of the word's coming out party as an opportunity for extensive exploration of the male organ in The Book of the Penis (Grove). Though she sometimes writes as if half her potential readers don't own one, she generally hits the subject on the head—particularly in her discussions of history. Some examples: A gavo...
