Mark Simpson on those ‘Massive Cock’ docs A long, long time ago, I appeared on a documentary called The World’s Biggest Penis. Although this will surprise some of my critics, I was not the subject of the doc. Nor was I demonstrating. I was merely a talking, er, head. Remember when there was such… Read More »The World’s Biggest Fetish
By Mark Simpson (The Guardian, 8 Aug 2007) The Phalliban, America ‘s killjoy campaign against the male body’s, er, maleness, strikes yet again. The 2008 Fire Department of New York Calendar of Heroes, the eleventh in series of snaps of buffed young firemen stripped to the waist which produces mass… Read More »Firemen’s Big Hose Sets NY Ablaze
If Viagra has turned the penis into a ‘puncture-proof balloon’, does that mean it’s not funny anymore? (First appeared in the Independent on Sunday, 2002) Investigating the penis can be an eye-watering business. Examining the urethra of an impotent young man, using a long nickel-plated probe called a ‘No 25 Explorer’, a… Read More »Gagging For It: A Ticklish History of The Penis