I forgot to explain the significance of graham crackers and corn flakes along with masturbation.
Kellog, and I am assuming Graham, believed that if sent to bed with a stomach full of corn flakes and warm milk, or I suppose graham crackers, that it would make one too lethargic to have a nice wank with oneself.
I have eaten corn flakes, and although the big rooster on the box brings no sexual thoughts, it has never stopped me from… well, anyways…
As adequate as the Graham cracker/masturbation explanations are, I can’t believe nobody’s linked to the** Cecil** column on the subject. So to give the Original Great Poster his due,
Is it true graham crackers were invented to cure the dread fever of lust?
A good friend of mine (generally conservative, 44 years old, happily married, father of two, police officer, sometimes church choir director, and a very decent guy) has 4 piercings along the underside of his. I think 2 are rings and 2 are barbells, though I haven’t seen for myself. He says it works great. His wife has both nipples pierced. He started on this penis-piercing project at about 40, I think. For what it’s worth.
Another friend, female, had a boyfriend with one piercing on his penis. She says it worked fine too, but the jewelry sometimes ripped the condom.
i arrived at this thread after the link was deleted.
and it sounds so disgusting i just HAVE to see this!
can someone email it to me?
Conchairto@yahoo.com.au
Actually the source of my information was not Cecil (although a damn fine read it was) but a book called Porn Row by Jack Weatherford. Its an anthropological study of Washington DCs porn industry and how the practices there relate to sexual practices around the world. I highly recommend it, but good luck locating it as it is out of print. If you see it in a used book store, snatch it up! Its a real page-turner!
Before you get all excited about the possibilities of using Graham crackers or Corn Flakes to substitute for Lust, consider that the modern products on our supermarket shelves would’ve been condemned by Messrs. Kellogg and Graham – they’ve got WAY too much sugar. Kellogg’s brother is suppposed to be responsible for adding sugar to the corn flakes, something the Kellogg who ran the sanitarium at Battle Creek despised. Graham’s crackers would, by all accounts, have made a lousy S’More.
So while it’s barely possible that I might consider today’s corn flakes and graham crackers a substitute for sex, there’s no way the original product would have been. Take away my sex and my sugar? What were these guys thinking?
I arrived after the “visual aid” link was removed, but that’s OK, I have an idea what it would have looked like. One day while wandering the web I saw some photos that were truly amazing. One in particular, I looked at it and went “huh - I’m glad they labeled that, otherwise I wouldn’t have guessed human and male.” Looked sort of like some weird, fleshy orchid. My second thought was - how do you have sex with that? Use an adapter of some sort? Or it is just an object to be admired? 
Another picture I looked at, my thought was “If they were just going to wire everything back together, why cut it apart in the first place?”
Slightly less extreme penis modification would allow for intercourse. There were several Australian aborigine tribes that practiced “subincision”, splitting the penis from tip to base along the underside. Once healed, this is supposed to result in a wider penis that women were supposed to like - “specially textured for HER pleasure” I guess was one selling point. One side effect was that the men were no longer able to aim their urine stream and pissed squating like the women once this was done. The sources I get this from also have said that, while most initiation rituals required stoical silence on the part of the initiate, for this one the young man/boy was allowed to scream all he wanted and was generally held down by a number of older men while the operation was performed. So I guess it was really really horribly awful painful. Anyhow, entire tribes would require this prior to marriage for a man, so I guess it didn’t prevent sex and reproduction.
Still, at some point modification is going to start interfering with the functioning of the penis as either a sexual or excretory organ. I have also heard of men having their urethras re-routed because their penis has been so extensively modified. I’m not too clear on what that means and I’m not sure I really care to know in detail.
There are some very weird people out there.
I sent the link on to my SO (didn’t want it on my computer ya know). he replied:
thankyew, thankyew, we’ll be here all next week, try the veal.
Well I missed the link, and wouldn’t follow it from here anyway. But I’ve seen photos of those kind of extreme peircings before, and none of them pierce the corpus cavernosum, the spongy tissues that engorge to make the organ turgid.
So yes, these organs are often fully functional.
However, finding a suitable and willing partner may be a problem.
And I’ve seen photos of women who have multiple piercings in the labia and clitoral hood… some with so many that you could lace them up like a boot.
Imagine what it would sound like if one of those girls got together with one of those guys!
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It’s not the color red that attracts the bull. Bulls are colorblind. It’s the movement.
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RE/Search did a book called Modern Primitives that covered this subject in excruciatating detail. With color pictures.
I found one even worse, more like what some of you have talked about. The caption on it is “Lobster Claw”, though I dunno if that is the usual name for it.
Anyone who’s interested can e-mail me.
lordy lordy.
stoid
Anyone seriously wondering what some of these penis modifications are, why men do it, and how the modifications affect function should browse http://www.bmezine.com. It is one of the most extensive body modification sites that I am aware of. It covers pictures, personal experiences, interviews with heavily-modded people/practitioners, etc. As well, it has links to other related sites and a body modification FAQ.
It answers all the questions I’ve seen asked here.