Phallic (or vaginal) imagery in pop culture images

You just made me remember, the cover of Grateful Dead’s Aoxomoxoa album. Specifically, the skull and “crossbones” at the bottom.

Locally known as the “penis on the plains”.

I don’t see anything funny other than what’s obvious about a man with a huge beard…

Here (skip to 19:30).

There have been plenty of phallic and yonic monsters in SF film. The H.R. Giger-inspired Alien is definitely phallic, and Predator has that vertical yonic mouth, which makes the Alien vs. Predator films distinctly sexual. But they were beaten to the punch by a pair of outrageously sexual phallic and yonic aliens fighting in the 1960 film Battle Beyond the Sun.

This movie started life as a Russian space film. Roger Corman got hold of it, recut it and added scenes. One scene added – By Francis Ford Coppola! – was a fight between two more than vaguely sexual monsters.

I’m amazed they got this past the censors. When I first saw these scenes (for no good reason, Corman used them behind the credits for his first remake of Not of this Earth – the Traci Lords 1988 version) I almost lost it.

Have a look:

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Here’s the opening to Not of this Earth (1988). The shots behind the credits are all from earlier, unrelated Corman films. The monsters you’re looking for start 38 seconds in.

Scroll down to the bottom of this page to see a clip:

Aaaand, speak of the dic–I MEAN, the Devil…the Erie County Fair in western New York just came up with a doozie!.

The Ypsilanti water tower.

Also, many years ago I saw an album cover that featured a collection of shrubs that were shaped, colored and trimmed to resemble an explicit scene of vaginal penetration. Can’t remember who the band/musician was, though.

Ypsilanti is a semi-college town and everybody just calls it “the Dick”.

#39: Philly also has Sparks Shot Tower. Yes, phallically-shaped, but with the addition of a conical forcesk-, er uh, cap on the top. :wink:

#46 & 47: Who knew there’d be a yuggggggggge representation of a variety of fungus sometimes referred to as Dog Penis?

The University of Rochester Rush Rhees Library, aka The Nipple of Knowledge.

I’ll see you U of R spiky “Nipple of Knowledge” and raise you one MIT Great Dome Mamma Maxima Scientia

http://web.mit.edu/alum-burtonconner/Site/History/Entries/2011/2/1_NightLife_and_SHenanigans.html

http://tech.mit.edu/V110/N40/hacks.40a.html

But Boobs, though lots of fun, aren’t phallic or vaginal.

I always thought the eye of Sauron was a bit…unsubtle.

D’oh!

Ah, I just thought about another LP cover with phallic, ahem, allusions, Prince’s Lovesexy. Here’s a funny blog post about it. And Exapno, don’t dare tell me that “flower” isn’t a dong ;):D.

Hmmm… how can I be the first one to come up with Type O Negative’s “Slow Deep and Hard” album cover? It has both of the OP’s criteria in one.

I see imagery everywhere in that cover. Everywhere I tells ya!

They keep happening even today; The original Trump-Pence logo (which lasted about 30 hours before it was replaced).

For what it’s worth, the female equivalent to phallic is “yonic.” Maude Lebowski would approve of calling it vaginal, though.

I think a lot of depictions of Lovecraftian monsters have some of both. This also includes monsters and aliens from various horror movies.

In Stranger Things, the monster is basically a vagina faced demon. And it’s drawn to blood. Paging Freud.

I never understood that reaction to the logo. Sure, the T is going through the P so there’s penetration of sorts… and, yes, Pence is getting screwed on this partnership… but neither letter looks much like a sexual organ. It’s like another poster said - if anything vaguely long and anything vaguely round are going to be called sexual imagery, we’ve gone too far.

“Everything’s either concave or -vex,
so whatever you dream is something with sex.”

Nobody has mentioned Joe Camel yet? I won’t bother with a link. Just Google image search on the name.