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., _Archives d'Anthropologie Criminelle_, 1895),
and it would be out of place here to attempt to collect the
scattered notices regarding racial and other variations. It may
suffice to note some of the evidence showing that such variations
seem to be numerous and important. The Arab penis (according to
Kocher) is slender and long (a third longer than the average
European penis) and with a club-shaped glans. It undergoes little
change when it enters the erect state. The clothes leaves it
quite free, and the Arab practices manual excitement at an early
age to favor its development.

Among the Fuegians, also, according to Hyades and Deniker (_Cap
Horn_, vol. vii, p. 153), the average length of the penis is 77
millimeters, which is longer than in Europeans.

In men of black race, also, the penis is decidedly large. Thus
Sir H.H. Johnston (_British Central Africa_, p. 399) states this
to be a universal rule. Among the Wankenda of Northern Nyassa,
for instance, he remarks that, while the body is of medium size,
the penis is generally large. He gives the usual length as about
six inches, reaching nine or ten in erection. The prepuce, it is
added, is often very long, and circumcision is practiced by many
tribes.

Among the American negroes Hrdlicka has found, also (_Proceedings
American Association for the Advancement of Science_, vol. xlvii,
p. 475), that the penis in black boys is larger than in white
boys.

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