Priapus Gallinaceus: The Role of the Cock in Fertility and Eroticism in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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"Priapus Gallinaceus: The Role of the Cock in Fertility and Eroticism in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages" (1981, Studies in Iconography) is a much-cited essay by Lorrayne Baird.
The essay cites "Omne animal post coitum triste praeter gallum mulieremque" (Every animal is sad after sexual intercourse except cock and woman), referring to la petite mort.
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References
- "The Penis Possessed : Phallic Birds, Erotic Magic, and Sins of the Body, ca. 1470-1500" is an essay by Anthony Colantuono, published in The Body in Early Modern Italy.
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Examples of phallic birds
- Bird with phallus-head, a Greek vase painting.
- Soter Kosmoi, a bronze bust of a human torso with the head of a rooster. Au lieu of a nose or beak, the rooster features a large erect phallus.
- Un priape marchant sur des pattes de coq, an engraving of a flaccid phallus, standing on rooster's legs.
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