Ask A Genius 817: Following Davidson – More Icelandic Dick
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2022/11/15
[Recording Start]
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I got a really weird introduction to this. When I was running for Secretary General of Young Humanist International in 2019 in late May early June, I won; a bunch of people didn’t go to the Whale Museum in Iceland, they didn’t go to the volcanic vents or volcano events museum, they went to the penis museum in Iceland. I didn’t know this was a thing and they sent some pictures and on some of the displays, it’ll be in a case and it’ll say ‘Penis donated by Tom Mitchell’ or whatever and on the display it will say audio presentation. [Laughing]
Rick Rosner: What’s the presentation?
Jacobsen: I don’t know. I have no idea. [Laughing] I’m going to Google it.
Rosner: Well I assume these are mostly weird animal penises like I guess pigs have curly penises.
Jacobsen: Yeah. Oh sorry, it’s audio tour, Iceland. So at the Icelandic Phallological Museum, that’s what Google says, it’s open every day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. It looks like it’s in downtown Reykjavik. It’s at Hafnatorg 101, Reykjavík Island. There’s a bus that says 101 in Reykjavik, everything’s like that. it’s like a big city that’s a small town.
Rosner: Yeah, it sounds like a really cool place to live.
Jacobsen: You and I should go there.
Rosner: Yeah.
Jacobsen: It contains a collection of more than 200 penises and penile parts of almost all land and sea mammals that can be found in Iceland. So you will see a whale penis there, different whale penises.
Rosner: Okay there’s a Legend, the John Dillinger that came from the death of John Dillinger who was, I think ambushed leaving a movie theater. He was a gangster in the 1930s and the legend is that when you get shot as you die you get a huge hard on because I guess the morgue picture that somebody smuggled out for the newspapers showed him under his sheet and he was tented out but obviously it wasn’t his dick, it was something else under the sheet.
So, on Twitter somebody tweeted at me, a lady, saying “Are you the Rick Rosner who was in West Hollywood at this hotel? We talked about CHiPs and Erik Estrada.” And I wrote back, “No, that’s the other Rick Rosner. The Rick Rosner who created the TV show CHiPs but he’s a really nice guy” and we got to talking or tweeting back and forth of each other a little bit and the other Rick Rosner is a very friendly guy, kind of adventurous, and would make all sorts of friends. I could tell this lady trans and I just went ahead and followed her and then I checked out her Twitter feed to see what she was tweeting and who she was re-tweeting and apparently she belongs to a group of trans people who have enormous penises; they’re hot ladies with big old penises.
This is a thing in Japanese anime called Futanari which is hot girls with big dicks, comic strips because that’s filthy, it’s pornography where two girls like each other and then they start making out and then one of them has a penis and they have sex. I didn’t know that this was kind of a real thing though I kind of guessed it because I’m writing a book, a novel set in the near future and the main character has a girlfriend who’s a hot lady who gleefully has a huge dick. Having Trans people in your story is kind of like a fashionable thing to do right now. I kind of wanted to take it one step further but at the risk of being cheesy but now I know there’s a community of hot ladies who celebrate having just giant penises and it’s serendipitous because at some point maybe the book will be far enough along that I can go to this lady and say “Hey, can you say whether I got any of this stuff right?,” because trans stuff is tricky. If you just guess at it you’re going to get a lot of stuff wrong and possibly in an offensive way.
But anyway this whole thing got me thinking about penises and experienced viewers of pornography. When I was a kid pornography just was not very readily available. You were super excited if you found any. My friends and I, at least once dumpster dive for porn outside of a fraternity at the end of the school year figuring the Frat Bros might have Playboys that they’d thrown away, which they had and we found a few and these were highly cherished and passed around because there just wasn’t porn. But the porn at the time, it was a huge event. In about 1972 or maybe 1973, it was the first time that a Playboy showed a centerfold with pubic hair and it wasn’t until then everybody had been shaved; it’s just that they hadn’t shown anybody’s pubic region for the first 18 years of the magazine but they were in kind of a battle with Penthouse magazine. Penthouse was showing more than Playboy, so Playboy finally had to show a girl’s pubic area.
I didn’t see hardcore pornography for about another year and that stuff was really sad; the people looked kind of ugly and miserable and it was just looked like a terrible enterprise and was not appealing at all except for it showed sex. And then it’s just much different from today where whether they want to or not, probably every kid by the age of 12 has seen boners because just they’re all over the place on the internet and often on Netflix. Netflix usually doesn’t show boners for pornographic purposes but they might show a dick for comedic purposes. Everybody’s seen fucking everything.
If you follow a gentler slope into pornography, you know I started with a naked lady playing cards. Somebody found or had on the playground, that was just topless ladies in the 1950s. Once you’ve seen some naked lady porn, you generally move on to porn with people having sex and after you’ve seen enough of that, seeing a boner you associate it with a pleasurable pornographic experience because that boner is going to end up in a lady and that’s just dirtier porn. Porn needs to be transgressive. Christians like to present sex as something that can just love between two people who love each other and are married to each other. Even Christians get up to naughtiness or maybe they get up to more naughtiness, I don’t know but I don’t I feel like transgressive-ness is just a part of sex.
So you need the penises in there because it makes the sex dirtier. Same with the cum shot, it just makes things filthier. It shows that the sex was real and nobody who’s made making the porn can pretend it’s just for artistic purposes just the way you could with just beautiful naked lady pictures. So, even if you’re heterosexual, you’re okay to have penises flying around as long as they end up in a lady or have a lady doing something with them. A penis is kind of essential for dirty porn. I mean you can have lesbian porn that can be reasonably dirty but really if you’re going to be having heterosexual porn where the penis goes in is a surefire way to make it sufficiently pornographic.
And then I see all these ladies with giant penises and it’s just a weird thing that you’ve got a hot lady and you’ve got the penis, it’s pretty transgressive. Now I wrote a book more than 20 years ago where I tried to make it transgressive figuring. I mean there used to be a thing in books where books became notorious for being dirty, like Portnoy’s Complaint was a famous Philip Roth book of the 1970s where the main character was a Jewish teen who jacked off a lot or I guess then continued to jack off into adulthood or it just had some sex in it and nobody, no legit author had really written about jerking off before and that was part of what made the book notorious beyond its literary merit.
And so I tried to do the same thing in the 80s and 90s writing a novel which I never really tried to get published after some initial attempts because my TV career happened. But the idea was the same that I put some stuff in it that was really dirty thinking that the dirtiness might help the book, might give it a boost if the quality of my plotting and writing was otherwise lacking but the time for that may have already been over and I just haven’t seen a lot of that in books lately. I guess some books have some sex but nobody cares about transgressive sex in literature anymore.
I thought this would be a more interesting talk than it turned out to be with more insight. But in my book which I’ve tried to make a little transgressive anyhow, the book I’m writing now, the main character has a girlfriend who gleefully has a penis. The girlfriend has sex with people besides the main character and the main character is okay with it because the main character is handicapped in a very unusual way that kind of makes the main character think that he can’t insist on monogamy. And also the main character is getting laid with other people. Neither of them is monogamous and the shit they get into the girlfriends screwing around being non-monogamous helps with the main characters screwing around.
The girlfriend is very attractive, its gone way out of her way to look like a super duper hot girl; various surgeries and keeps in shape and meticulously done makeup, the clothes that are body conscious and the main character is just like the dick is not that big a deal. The girlfriend doesn’t want to put her penis in the main character. So that’s not an issue and it’s just a whole thing and it feels like that there won’t be a lot of stuff that’s this extreme because the couple, they’re a little bit psycho in terms of being very dedicated to sexual adventure. But I do feel that like for most Trans people, the configuration of their genitals is something that people who date these people just deal with and it’ll be something that’s even more accepted in the future.
I looked at the statistics because I was arguing with Lance, I brought this up before. The Conservatives like to say that Trans is a mental disease that makes you chop off your genitals and the argument against aid that’s just a shitty argument. And one thing that makes it shitty is that only about one half of one percent of Trans people mess with their genitals and I feel like that statistic, it could very well drop in the future as people become more and more okay with just keeping their genitals the way they are because genital surgery is just awful. It’s painful, it takes all sorts of maintenance; I guess often lifelong maintenance if you get a vagina. The final result of people often find less than satisfactory just in terms of how it is. The Trans person who’s gotten the surgery is not dissatisfied having gotten gender conforming surgery though they wish the surgical result was better. Or I would think that in the future there will be more fixes that make gender conforming procedures a little more satisfactory but in any case a teeny percentage of people mess with their genitals and most of these people have partners. Everybody’s just kind of I feel okay with it. So that’s all I got about all this stuff.
[Recording End]
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