# Does a pig have a corkscrew-shaped penis? Or, wankers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [September 1, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835 "2011-09-01T12:51:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rickymouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@Rickymouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rickymouse)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/21 "2011-09-12T15:17:45Z")
I’m not really interested in checking out a male pig to see what it possesses. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/22 "2011-09-12T21:34:31Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > ‘Jacker’ is used to a certain extent over here in the colonies, 😃 just not with sexual undertones. I’m certain you’re familiar with the term ‘carjack’, aren’t you? (ie: To steal someones car while they’re in it. Such as, at a stop sign or red light.) The term ‘to jack’ or ‘jacked’ is pretty common street slang for robbery or theft. > And ‘frigging’ is not all that uncommon either. (And it’s used exactly like your example.) It’s a slightly more polite way of saying ‘fucking’, is all.😃 With the song example given, ‘frigging’ is more self love than loving another, though when used as an ejaculation (heh) as in “this _frigging_ thing won’t work” it is a simple replacement for ‘fucking’, as you say. I am ill and grumpy and at work, so I’m not picking up humour very well. What does car jacking have to do with sex? ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/23 "2011-09-13T11:17:41Z")
Interesting that nobody has mentioned _wang_ or _wanger_, which both mean _penis_ (in this context). ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/24 "2011-09-13T12:09:40Z")
Presumably he meant to say [wanger](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wanger). Just a slight typo, k instead of g. And the spell checker failed to pick it up. Of course, Cecil never makes mistakes, so the error must have been made by his editor. Edit - I’d swear that Floater’s post wasn’t visible when I started typing mine. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/25 "2011-09-13T17:33:46Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > I wonder if ‘jerk someone off’ has a similar meaning, or used to? It’d make the mild insult ‘you jerk-off!’ be a little more colourful. Yes, “jerk off” has the meaning of masturbation. Calling someone a “jerk-off” carries that connotation. I’m not certain the etymology of the word “jerk” - if it derived from “jerk-off” or has a different origin, but it does not carry that meaning now. > [@maggenpye](#): > > I am ill and grumpy and at work, so I’m not picking up humour very well. What does car jacking have to do with sex? Nothing especially. I assume his smiley face was in reference to “the colonies”. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/26 "2011-09-13T21:16:05Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Nothing especially. I assume his smiley face was in reference to “the colonies”. Ah. To paraphrase Churchill; separated by a common colonial history and language. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/27 "2011-09-14T05:20:17Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Yes, “jerk off” has the meaning of masturbation. Calling someone a “jerk-off” carries that connotation. I’m not certain the etymology of the word “jerk” - if it derived from “jerk-off” or has a different origin, but it does not carry that meaning now. > > Nothing especially. **I assume his smiley face was in reference to “the colonies”**. (bolding mine) Annnnd, we have a winner! Give the man a cigar! 😃 (No offense meant gentlemen, one of my oldest friends, best dive buddy and the greatest ‘wing man’ I’ve ever known, is from Great Britain.🆒) > [@](#): > > Yes, “jerk off” has the meaning of masturbation. Calling someone a “jerk-off” carries that connotation… First off, I am not a linguist, etymologist or teacher of any kind. But, FWIW and IMHO… In a very convoluted way, I guess you could connect calling someone a ‘jerkoff’ with masturbation. To elaborate, a jerk off is someone that is wasting time (just, _ **not** _ sexually). So to connect that with masturbation… wasting time = wasting one’s seed (sperm). In my neck of the woods though, calling somebody a ‘jerkoff’ usually implies that the person is a ‘slacker’ and that they’re ‘jerking off’ or avoiding/shirking work. Hey, I said it was _very_ convoluted. I wasn’t kidding. The terms jacking off/jack off and jerking off/jerk off are interchangeable, the definition (sexual or nonsexual) is determined by the context in which it is used. This may also be dependant upon geographical location, as slang (colloquiallisms) can vary tremendously from one part of the country to another. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/28 "2011-09-14T06:27:52Z")
Gentlemen? Ahem (checks) and a kiwi chick, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/29 "2011-09-14T07:27:31Z")
> [@Kirk\_Gunn](#): > > Consider “Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory”: _“Wonka” is just a variation on “Wanka” ._ Freud, Jung, and all the Mind-Miners would have a field day. Especially with being a “wanka” (i.e., “gangsta” is just another way of pronouncing “gangster”), the reference to the “willy”, (which everyone knows is a “cute” li’l name for penis), and the objective reference to the goal of The Chocolate Factory, a.k.a. The Hershey Highway. > So, to recap: SOMEONE is “wanking willy” (i.e., masturbating) while thinking of a sexual object, “The Chocolate Factory”, a euphemism for anal sex. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/30 "2011-09-14T07:49:01Z")
Does a pig have a corkscrew-shaped penis? Not as far as I can remember. They’re just “regular.” (Did you think this because they’re often depicted with corkscrew tails? Which is not quite true; they’re more like a loose curl.) But a tom cat does. (Told to me by a “large animal” vet—cows, horses etc. Who is a woman, BTW) That’s why you hear (female) cats squalling in the night. Would you want to be assaulted with such a thing? ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/31 "2011-09-14T08:13:18Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > But a tom cat does. (Told to me by a “large animal” vet—cows, horses etc. Who is a woman, BTW) That’s why you hear (female) cats squalling in the night. Not quite. The penis of the cat is barbed, not curled. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/32 "2011-09-14T21:20:32Z")
> [@maggenpye](#): > > Gentlemen? Ahem (checks) and a kiwi chick, thanks. \ I beg forgiveness for my dreadful mistake. :smack: I meant no offense, dear lady. Please show mercy, and pardon a poor, pitiful noobs ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/33 "2011-09-14T22:48:56Z")
Hah, it used to happen alot IRL when I was young and skinny and a bit of a feminist, I got over it decades ago. Noob? Join date 1999? Hah again. It slipped past earlier, but I think Peter Morris’ ‘wanger’ idea should get more attention. ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Cheer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fish_cheer/32/17179_2.png) [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/34 "2011-09-14T23:45:46Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > Does a pig have a corkscrew-shaped penis? > > Not as far as I can remember. They’re just “regular.” Having personally handled one (oh the pleasures of vet school), I can attest that they indeed do. [noparse][http://bedandbreakfastwinchester.com/files/2011/02/1297444488-73.jpg[/noparse]](http://bedandbreakfastwinchester.com/files/2011/02/1297444488-73.jpg%5B/noparse%5D) Shows a pig’s penis; probably depends on where you work whether that’s OK. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/35 "2011-09-22T09:19:06Z")
> [@Fish\_Cheer](#): > > Having personally handled one (oh the pleasures of vet school), I can attest that they indeed do. > > [noparse][http://bedandbreakfastwinchester.com/files/2011/02/1297444488-73.jpg[/noparse]](http://bedandbreakfastwinchester.com/files/2011/02/1297444488-73.jpg%5B/noparse%5D) > > Shows a pig’s penis; probably depends on where you work whether that’s OK. Empirical evidence, that’s what I like to see! So it’s only the end bit that’s corkscrew-shaped. Also, length for show, girth for woooaah. Sorry, piggy. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Stowed\_Bob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stowed_bob/32/3312_2.png) [@Stowed\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stowed_Bob)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/36 "2011-09-22T09:50:18Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine\_Blue-bill](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Blue-bill) I thought you were going to link to the video of the duck getting an erection labeled as an “explosive eversion”. Probably NSFW www .youtube. com/watch?v=qwjEeI2SmiU May not be the biggest phallus to body ratio, but the unraveling still impresses and shames. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/37 "2011-09-22T13:18:17Z")
On the etymology of the word jerk… If I could hazard a guess: [The jerking motion (somewhat safe for work)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I-4XS3XtZQ) Jacking is similar, if one has ever seen a car jack in operation at any rate. Also, “jacked” can be a synonym for “physically fit”, which I’d like to know the etymology of. I’ve heard “jilling” is a female equivalent. Also, ymmv on to the validity of “wank her”, “wank her off” or any alternative (“finger her” may be suitable, depending on context - though not “I gave her a finger”, nor “fingered her off”). For example, “Rebecca Loos wanks a pig” (as she stated “I gave it a wank”, thus “I gave him/her a wank” probably being appropriate) was encountered at some point. Though I suppose the collective unconscious probably wants to forget about that. I suppose it would depend on the line of business where one would have to encounter the terms regularly. For some reason I’d assume that most manuals of style would avoid the tricky business entirely, which could be awkward when one pauses in regaling certain events at a cocktail party with international guests. One wouldn’t want to embarrass oneself in front of an English boss, say. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/38 "2011-09-22T21:09:42Z")
You’re suggesting chatting with your boss about autoeroticism and worried that your _gammar_ may cause embarrassment? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/39 "2011-09-22T23:48:02Z")
I always keep my _gammar_ covered up when there are international guests around. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835/40 "2011-09-23T00:48:59Z")
:smack: Send Gammer back to the old folk’s home and sort out the grammar.:smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-a-pig-have-a-corkscrew-shaped-penis-or-wankers/594835.md?page=3)